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10/5: Pushing Air at The Luggage Store
Come hear...
creative musician
~ Oluyemi Thomas
and
~ Pushing Air
live looping vocals
Thursday
October 5th
8pm
at
The Luggage Store
1007 Market Street
near 6th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 255-5971
$6-10 sliding scale
All ages welcome
Oluyemi Thomas was born in Detroit, Michigan. He studied at Washtenaw
College in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he received an Associate of
Science degree in Mechanical Engineering. While attending Washtenaw
College, he also studied music and the spiritual and physical nature
of sound & silence. Great love and respect for the Arts is regarded as
a gem to his parents who passed this on to him and his sisters and
brothers. In his childhood years his mother & father often listened to
the masters Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, Dinah Washington and
Billie Holiday. As a creative musician, performer, recording artist
teacher and engineer, Mr. Thomas seeks to express his abiding love for
the hidden power of Art. Oluyemi?s primary focus is to touch the inner
core of individuals, be it in a forum, radio, television, recording or
on the bandstand. For two decades he & his lovely wife poet Ijeoma
have been members of the music and poetry unit Positive Knowledge.
(Bass Clarinet/Saxophone) He may be heard on Music & Arts, Ear Light
Records, Eremite, Rastascan & BMG labels. His travels to Africa, the
Middle East & Europe are elements he brings to the mix. Oluyemi?s
experience in sharing musical language utterance include the great
Cecil Taylor, Wadada Leo Smith, Alan Silva, William Parker, Wilber
Morris, John Tchicai, Roscoe Mitchell and wonderful conversations with
Anthony Braxton and Charles Gayle. Mr. Oluyemi believes ?The
musician?s art is among those arts worthy of the highest praise?? and
?Music should lead to spirituality??
Pushing Air is a San Francisco-based, solo acapella, live-looping
project blending high-diva vocals, jazz-based improvisation,
beatboxing and extended vocal technique. Conservatory-trained and
bebop-schooled vocalist Diana Thompson writes and performs all parts,
from vocalizing drums and bass to singing lead vocals and harmonies.
Borrowing techniques from scat singing and extended vocal technique,
Diana uses non-English words and syllables to focus keenly on
entrancing groove-making. For more on Pushing Air, go to
www.pushingair.com
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Pushing Air
live looping solo acapella
www.pushingair.com
on MySpace at:
www.myspace.com/pushingair