Edgetone Records/Jimzeen Productions PRESENTS:
Jim Ryan’s Forward Energy CD Release PartyConfigurations 2002 double CDFree Admission, Food, Music
Donations & Cake Accepted
All Welcome
The Forward Energy Trio and Forward Energy Jam
Trio
Jim Ryan reeds
Scott R. Looney electronics
Spirit percussion
Jam Session
Some of the above + Peter Valsamis drums,
Bill Noertker bass,
Rent Romus saxes, and others from the FE 2002 double CD release
It's a Party! • Jim's famous chili & salad + cake?
(bring pastry)
The fabulous new double Forward Energy CD recorded this year has just been released on Edgetone Records. It will be on sale at this event. Featured on the CD are:
Jim Ryan alto, tenor & flute
Eddie Gale trumpet
Adam Lane & Damon Smith contrabass
Alicia Mangan tenor sax
Scott R. Looney piano keys & electronics
Rent Romus alto & soprano sax
John 'Waveman' Gruntfest alto
Donald Robinson,
Spirit, & Peter Valsamis percussion.
Derk Richardson writing for The Bay Guardian, SF Gate.com says, "In Forward Energy music you hear honest, detailed, and sometimes extreme articulations of the raw life force."
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Green Alembic at Berkeley Arts 5-17-14
Yves Charuest, Agusti Fernandez, Nicolas Caloia & Peter Valsamis
Live at Cafe Résonance, Montreal, Quebec
Scott R. Looney, Lisa Mezzacapa, and Donald Robinson at Berkeley Arts Fest space - May 31, 2014
A montage of the free music group the Lords of Outland from their live presented as part of The Tenderloin Museum’s Sounds of the Tenderloin live music series at the Tenderloin National Forest in San Francisco July of 2022
Featuring Rent Romus on alto/soprano saxophones, Ray Schaeffer on bass, Anthony Flores on drums, and Philip Everett on