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Re: BAY AREA new music scene
At 7:04 PM -0700 4/11/06, loop.pool wrote:
>D: There was a gig in 1993 (I think) in which I found myself on stage
>between Henry and the saxophonist David Murray - two veritable fire
>hydrants of music - hanging on for dear life. That was a blast!
>
>R: Again, what an amazing experience that must have been.
I've got it on CD. if anyone would like a copy, email me your
address and I'll burn you one.
>D: We need to find a scene that supports precisely our weirdness
>quotient!
>
>R: Well, funny you should mention it.
>
>Are you familiar with AmyXs work? her husband, Herb Heinz's music?
>Do you know the SF band, Eddy the Rat? Niki Selkin's work? Peter
>Whitehead's work? eve someone big like the Sleep Time Gorilla
>Museum.
>
>They are all bay area people doing unusual pop music that is
>decidedly out of the box.
I know nothing of these artists. I will look for 'em.
Do you know Mushroom? I have their most recent CD and like it a lot.
It feels to me like pretty improvisational stuff, but I could be
wrong.
>I've been thinking that someday I should put together an
>experimental pop festival here in Santa Cruz and over at an art
>gallery
>in San Jose. Would you want to participate?
Sure! If you don't mind having a sort of country-folk songwriter
with loops in the middle of it.
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