[NewMusicEvents] Sat. & Sun. at 21 Grand

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

 21 Grand is located at 416 25th St. (at Broadway) near downtown Oakland.
 http://www.21grand.org
 (510) 444-7263 
 Gallery Hours: Thursdays 4-8pm, Fridays 4-6pm, Saturdays & Sundays 1-6pm
All events are all ages unless otherwise noted | Wheelchair Accessible
http://www.myspace.com/21grand


Saturday, August 2  Remember the Toykillers + Oaxacan 8pm, $6-10
  The original toy killers consisted of Charles k. Noyes and Mark Miller
(both on drums), featuring various cohorts like Arto Lindsay, John Zorn,
Bill Laswell, Elliott Sharp,  (as Mark would say, "anybody who would lower
themselves to playing with us.") The band started as an improvised music duo
of clattering percussion, fireworks and noise before transforming itself
into a messy no wave band featuring the creme of the '80s NYC downtown
scene. Tonight's homage paying ensemble, features Miller and Noyes, with
Henry Kaiser (guitar), Allen Whitman (bass), Anantha R. Krishnan
(mridangam), and Chris Muir (Buchla synth). Flavorpill writes about
Oakland¹s Oaxacan <http://www.myspace.com/oax>  ³Oaxacan understands that
noise is a matter of texture and timbre not just plugging in your effects
pedals and turning all the amps to ten. Like kindred experimentalists Double
Leopards or Climax Golden Twins, Oaxacan prefer night swimming in murky,
inky pools of gauzy per cussion and reverb-drenched vocal abstraction.²

Sunday, August 3 Vinny Golia - Damon Smith - Weasel Walter trio + Alicia
Byer solo & with guests 8pm, $6-10
 Vinny Golia <http://www.myspace.com/vinnygolia&#160;&#160;> , the
internationally noted multi-instrumentalist, composer and bandleader has
become an important contributor to the vanguard of creative music. As a
composer he fuses the rich heritage of jazz, contemporary classical and
world music into his own unique compositions. Putting down the paint brushes
of a visual artist in 1971, Golia devoted himself full-time to music and has
since evolved into one of the world's most celebrated creative jazz artists.
At the forefront of improvised music, he plays twenty different woodwinds,
plus various ethnic aerophones. Golia performs a trio with Damon Smith
(bass) and Weasel Walter (drums). Local clarinettist, Alicia Byer opens the
show with solos and duos with other improvisers.