Animals and Giraffes CD release party
animals and giraffes celebrates the release of live @ medicine for nightmares (Evander Music, 2023) with a concert featuring
Kyle Bruckmann and Alexandra Buschman-Román, who appear on the album; and special guests Chris Cooper,
Tom Djll,
Danishta Rivero, and
Zachary James Watkins. Musician/composer
Phillip Greenlief and writer Claudia La Rocco created animals and giraffes after meeting at Headlands Center for the Arts during their 2013 residencies. An ever changing ensemble dedicated to interdisciplinary improvisation, has performed at such venues as The Lab (SF), Pieter (LA), Reed College (Portland), Amalgam Presents at Café Mustache (Chicago), and the Chocolate Factory Theater (NYC). In 2017-2018, a&g was ensemble in residence at the Center for New Music, hosting monthly happy hours with musicians, visual artists, writers, and dancers. The group has three albums: July (Edgetone Records, 2017), featuring a who’s who of Bay Area improvisers; Landlocked Beach (Creative Sources, 2018), a live broadcast with Jon Leidecker on Over the Edge at KPFA FM; and animals & giraffes live @ medicine for nightmares (Evander Music, 2023), with
Kyle Bruckmann, Alexandra Buschman-Román, and Adriana Camacho.
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
The premiere, at the 2013 Outsound New Music Summit, of Wrack ...Awaits Silent Tristero's Empire (made possible by the Chamber Music America New Jazz Works commissioning program).
Tender Buttons at Second Act, SF, 2016; live video processing by Bill Thibault