SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St @ Mission SF
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7:30pm Scott Looney - hyperpiano
8:30pm Noertker's Moxie - CD release for the Antwerp Diaries - Annelise Zamula - woodwinds; Eli Knowles - drums; Bill Noertker - contrabass, compositions

Edgetone Records celebrates 35 years on planet Earth with a series of showcase performances in the San Francisco Bay Area.

In 1991 saxophonist Rent Romus launched his independent label Edgetone Records. Originally it was a vanity label to support his recordings, but in the year 2000 he decided it should become an entity to support original music crossing the boundaries of genre focused on D.I.Y. (do it yourself) artists looking for a ground base and label identity.

Noertker's Moxie
Bassist/composer Bill Noertker journeyed to Antwerp to visit a friend. In the course of his travels, he acquired a blue ukulele and kept an audio journal of tunes composed on this Blukulele. Upon his return to San Francisco he shared these ditties with his friends, woodwind player Annelise Zamula and drummer Eli Knowles, and through a musical trialogue they brought the Antwerp Diaries to life. Join them and experience an Antwerp of the ears—a parade of giant puppets, exhilarating encounters on a busy thoroughfare, an enjoyable meander through the maze of the old city, the sweet melancholy of departure.
In 2001, Bill Noertker formed Noertker’s Moxie as a vehicle for his art-inspired compositions.
Since then, he has composed over 200 pieces of music and has released twenty albums on the Edgetone Records label, including five extended suites: Sketches of Catalonia; The Blue Rider; The Druidh; Tricycle; and In Billville.


Scott R. Looney
has been interested in the creation and performance of compelling sounds across a broad spectrum of contemporary, improvised, and experimental music. Starting out young as a solo improviser playing by ear, he eventually widened the scope of his interests to jazz and the many points beyond in his studies of electronic and modern classical music. He has studied composition and improvisation with Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Morton Subotnick, and Frederic Rzewski, obtaining his MFA in Composition from California Institute of the Arts.


Tickets at the Door
$15-25 suggested donation

Cost: $15-25 sliding

Audio samples in which musicians at this event play: