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449B 23rd St. Near 19th Street BART Oakland
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RAWA Benefit Series with David Slusser; Tomes/Thuja; The Abstractions

Thuja's amorphous layers of piano, organ, guitar, accordion, percussion, and electronics swirl together into woodsy environments of sound, reinforced by natural phenomena such as snapping sticks or scraping rocks.
http://www.furious.com/perfect/jewelledantler.html

Composer and sound designer, David Slusser plays horns and electronics in a deliberate, challenging way. He has worked often as a music editor for directors Francis Coppola, George Lucas and David Lynch. He has composed for documentaries and public radio, as well as his jazz group Rubber City.
http://www.bayimproviser.com/artistdetail.asp?artist_id=63

The Abstractions play an exciting noisy jazz, with a rotating ensemble of electronics, horns, wild screeching vocals that is anything but subdued. “…sound-shaping on a really big canvas, sort of like Pollock with microphones instead of brushes…extreme freejazz and left-field eccentricity ”
RKF, Dead Angel

"The Abstractions see life through darkly clouded glasses. Their deviate perceptions polarize expectations and form sides of lovers and haters..."
Frank Rubolino, All About Jazz

Ominous rumblings from an alternate dimension. This is music for those inhabiting the outer realms of reality. If you think you're normal, be afraid. Be very afraid.” -Jon Worley
Aiding & Abetting
http://www.edgetonerecords.com/abstractions.html

About RAWA
Unfortunately, the defeat of the Taliban does not spell equality for Afghan women, nor freedom, nor human rights, nor democracy. With their blatant misogyny and oppression, the Taliban became a convenient and easy target for many. But the oppression of women that was the impetus for the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA)'s founding 26 years ago still remains as do many of the perpetrators of Afghanistan's 25 years of war and violence. Even today, in a supposedly liberated Afghanistan women are in prison for trying to marry the man of their choice, for seeking a divorce from an abusive spouse, for having been raped, for failing to listen to the male authority figure in their home; girls schools are being firebombed; in many places formal and informal edicts and threats are restricting girls and women from work and school. Clearly, RAWA's continued outspoken demands for political and social change, as well as their direct service to women in need, are still necessary. Through our moral, material and financial support, lending our voices to our Afghan sisters’ brave and ongoing struggle is as vital as it ever was.

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