SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St @ Mission SF
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7:30 Kaiser/Looney
Henry Kaiser - guitar/electronics, Scott R. Looney - piano
8:30 Rent Romus' Lords of Outland
Philip Everett - drums, Ray Schaeffer - bass, Alex Cohen - guitar
Rent Romus - alto, soprano, c-melody saxophones, flutes

Grammy winner Henry Kaiser is widely recognized as one of the most creative and innovative guitarists, improvisers, and producers in the fields of rock, jazz, world, and contemporary experimental musics. The California-based musician is one of the most extensively recorded as well, having appeared on more than 250 different albums and contributed to countless television and film soundtracks. A restless collaborator who constantly seeks the most diverse and personally challenging contexts for his music, Mr. Kaiser not only produces and contributes to a staggering number of recorded projects, he performs frequently throughout the USA, Canada, Europe and Japan, with several regular groupings as well as solo guitar concerts and concerts of freely improvised music with a host of diverse instrumentalists.
Scott R. Looney has always been interested in the creation and performance of compelling sounds across a broad spectrum of contemporary, improvised, and experimental music. He has studied composition and improvisation with Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Morton Subotnick, David Rosenboom, and Frederic Rzewski, obtaining his MFA in Composition from California Institute of the Arts.


Saxophonist, composer Rent Romus started the Lords of Outland in 1994 a collective of like-minded musicians focusing on exploring improvisation, melody, noise, and sound art while acknowledging their jazz, rock, and blues roots. The group has developed original music ranging from unhinged free improvisation to thematic compositional suites inspired by abstract and socio-political poetry, science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
Throughout the the groups rich history it's core roster has changed numerous times featuring guests such as Vinny Golia, John Tchicai, Hasan Razzaq, LA Jenkins, and Josh Allen recording 11 albums and performing throughout the West Coast of the United States.
Rent Romus is a force spanning over 25 years of D.I.Y. music production curating over 80 shows a year for the new music avant garde and jazz communities as well as leading several groups from rolicking jazz to free abstract chamber music, to sounds tracks for film and dance. Ray Schaeffer has performed in a diverse array of ensembles from full orchestra to folk rock bands, and experimental improv groups going back to the 1970s. Philip Everett found his mettle in Bartok, Debussy, and Gershwin as well as New Orleans style 2nd line marches. Armed with an array of teachings Phillip, became the leader of various groups over the years starting in 1967 to present crossover experimental country, free jazz, and avant rock. When Collette McCaslin a.k.a. "CJ Borosque" isn't writing poetry, making videos, or painting abstract art, she's blening noise and melody through no-input analoge pedal systems and trumpet. Her fascinations include, art, cooking, sound, noise, sculpture (sonic and tactile), Installations, silent films, avant-garde films and videos, modern, impressionist and surrealist art, jazz, world and classical music.

Cost: sliding scale $10-20

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