SIMM Series
Musicians Union Hall 116 9th St @ Mission SF
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Outsound Presents
7:30pm
William Winant (drums+percussion)
Jacob Felix Heule (drums)
Liz Allbee (trumpet)
Kanoko Nishi (piano, possibly koto)

8:30pm
Noertker's Moxie
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute
David Beck - baritone sax
Bill Noertker - contrabass

The music of improvising drummer and multi-instrumentalist Jacob Felix Heule spans the spectrum from overwhelming brutality to reductionist austerity. Since 2004 Jacob has been a member of the brutal improv/acoustic grind duo, Ettrick, which toured the U.S. for the third time in April 2008. He has also toured the US and Europe with Gowns, and plays drums on their forthcoming Southern Records Latitudes Sessions album.

Liz Allbee is a voracious musician whose work spans many genres, including new music, improvisation, electronic composition, Asian folk and pop, noise, minimalist, free jazz and experimental rock. She has played with a wide array of musicians, including Anthony Braxton, Wadada Leo Smith, Cecil Taylor, Hans Grusel, Birgit Uhler, Alberto Braida, Fabrizio Spera, Gino Robair, Yugen Noh Theater, SFSound, and with members of Caroliner, Sun City Girls, and Rova. She lives in Oakland, CA.

William Winant ..."one of the best avant-garde percussionists working today" according to music critic Mark Swed (Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal), has performed with some of the most innovative and creative musicians of our time, including John Cage, Iannis Xenakis, Keith Jarrett, Anthony Braxton, James Tenney, Cecil Taylor, George Lewis, Steve Reich and Musicians, Jean-Philippe Collard, Frederic Rzewski, Ursula Oppens, Joan LaBarbara, Oingo Boingo, and the Kronos String Quartet.

Kanoko Nishi is an improvising performer, currently residing in Oakland, CA. she has worked both as a pianist for contemporary and new compositions, and as a collaborator with various musicians, dancers, poets and visual artists, improvising on her second instrument, koto (Japanese 13-string zither).
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To celebrate his 48th birthday, once again Bill Noertker spent a week composing a new suite, "seven songs in seven days". Joining him to perform this suite are his friends Annelise Zamula and David Beck.

Zamula and Noertker have enjoyed a musical partnership spanning three decades. They first met in the 1980s art rock band Bardo. In 1989 they co-founded the After the End of the World Coretet. Since 2001 they have performed together regularly in Noertker's Moxie. As Noertker says, "without Zamula, there would be no Noertker's Moxie."

Saxophonist Annelise Zamula has toured extensively in Europe and the United States with the Seattle-based Billy Tipton Memorial Saxophone Quartet. Back in the SF Bay Area, Zamula has performed with jazz, swing, blues, rock, and classical ensembles over the last three decades, honking her sax in clubs, cafes, concert halls, churches, and on local radio and television.
Currently she plays with Big Lou's Polka Casserole, the MoodSwing Orchestra, the Berkeley Saxophone Quartet, the After the End of the World Coretet, the Montclair Women's Big Band, and Noertker's Moxie.

David Beck is primarily a sculptor and he brings a sculptor's sensibility to the saxophone. His latest piece, MVSEVM, was commissioned for the 2006 reopening of the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington DC.



Cost: $10 general / $8 student

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