[NewMusicEvents] New Experimental Music Series @ The Compound Gallery

[Jim Ryan]

New Series . . . Starts Feb. 24  8pm with:
Lords of Outland and The Spirit Moves Us
The Compound Gallery, 6604 San Pablo Avenue, Oakland 94608
  . . . read on . . .

The Compound Gallery, jimzeen productions (that's me Jim Ryan), and 
Outsound Presents are sponsoring a new experimental music series that opens 
at the "Compound Gallery"  http://thecompoundgallery.com/ in Oakland on 
February 24th  at 8pm.

Concerts will take place at The Compound Gallery, 6604 San Pablo Avenue, 
Oakland 94608, California at about 8:00 pm on the fourth Tuesday of the 
month through May 2009.  If all goes well the concerts may continue 
throughout the year.  The idea is to present unfamiliar, original, weird, 
and astonishing approaches to musical performance as art rather than 
entertainment (this is not to deny that the shows might be 
entertaining).  Music, the most conservative of the arts, gets short shrift 
when moving beyond mind-numbing clichés requiring no special attention from 
the listener. This series will offer sounds you have not yet 
heard.  Although there is no admission charge, we ask for 
contributions.  Ten dollars is suggested give what you can, no one turned 
away -- eighty percent goes to the musicians, the rest is for 
expenses.  There is parking on 66th St. next to the Gallery which is also 
accessible from downtown Oakland and Berkeley by the 72 bus line.  The 
first Concert on Tuesday 2/24/09 features:

Rent Romus' Lords of Outland : broke from its 'straight-ahead' straight 
jacket in 1993 and through a series of transmogrifications morphed into 
something some people call "Free Jazz Black Metal."  Culture of Pain and 
You Can Sleep When You're Dead! are recorded results of this alchemy.  You 
can find these life-threatening CDs on 
<http://www.edgetonerecords.com>www.edgetonerecords.com.  The 'Lords' 
feature Rent's saxophone mastery and a current line-up of sonically 
disturbed sound artists Everett heinous percussion, and Ray Schaeffer evil e-bass.

The Spirit Moves Us : a recently formed trio of veteran improvisers flowing 
to the East Bay from the mid-west (Detroit, Chicago, Indianapolis, & St. 
Paul) through r&b, jazz, and avant experimental groups.  Eastbania has been 
home to them for many years now, and they have worked together frequently 
in various configurations.  Spirit on percussion is considered by local and 
national aficionados as an original master of the genre.  Bob Marsh on 
cello has brought the instrument to an awesome freshness and versatility, 
and Jim Ryan has performed regularly throughout the country and locally 
with his Forward Energy bands www.myspace.com/forwardenergy .  For CDs by 
these players, go to <http://edgetonerecords.com>edgetonerecords.com

  " " Coming up on March 24th " " The Scott R. Looney/Scot 
Gresham-Lancaster Duo & The Dryer/Heule/Lindsay Trio.

THE FOUR-MONTH PROGRAM

·         February 24th, 2009 8:00pm  (Free Form Jazz)

o   The Lords of Outland
·    The Spirit Moves Us
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·         March 24th, 2009, 8:00pm (Electronics & Soundscapes)
o   Scott R. Looney & Scot Gresham-Lancaster
         http://www.scottrlooney.com/ http://www.o-art.org/Scot/
      Dryer/Heule/Lindsay
         http://heule.us/ideaofwest/
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·         April 28, 2009 8:00pm  (High-Energy Meeting of Styles)  2 Sets
o   The Thing " Mats Gustafsson (Sweden) Reeds, Ingebrigt H. Flaten 
(Norway)    Bass, Paal Nilssen-Love (Norway) Drums
         http://www.paalnilssen-love.com/band_thething.html
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·         May 26, 2009 8:00pm (Conservatory free-form from Norway)
o   Streifenjunko Duo " Eivind Loenning trumpet, Espen Reinertsen sax&flute
         http://www.myspace.com/streifenjunko
o   TBA


Jim Ryan
550 24th St.  Ste 1014
Oakland, CA  94612
510-645-1894
www.bayimproviser.com/jimryan
http://www.myspace.com/forwardenergy
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/ryan.html
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Jim Ryan
550 24th St.  Ste 1014
Oakland, CA  94612
510-645-1894
www.bayimproviser.com/jimryan
http://www.myspace.com/forwardenergy
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/ryan.html 
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