Drunken Fish = Sounds and Words with C.J. Reaven Borosque &
Jim Ryan . . . this is a recently formed duo designed to express the multi-faceted talents of these performers.
Forward Energy = Ryan, Romus, Looney, Marshall, Orr . . . Forward Energy was founded in 1998 and had it’s first gig at Radio Valencia in San Francisco that year. The group has gone through several incarnations employing top Bay Area musicians including: Eddie Gale of Cecil Taylor’s Unit Structures fame, Alicia Mangan an extraordinarily advanced tenor player, and
Scott R. Looney. Forward Energy has played up and down the West Coast as well as in the Midwest and New York City. The current formation includes founder
Jim Ryan (who played on Steve Lacy’s weekly jam sessions in Paris during the early 70’s) on flute, saxes, and trumpet, and original member
Scott R. Looney on piano. Scott received his BA in music from Coe College, Iowa and an MFA from Cal Arts. He has been a pillar of the experimental music community since the late 90’s. The group also includes
Rent Romus on alto, soprano, and c-melody saxes. He studied with Stan Getz and is a power both on his horn and as an organizer and promoter of the Bay Area experimental music community. Eric Marshall is a regular bassist with Eddie Gale’s groups and he works in all genres of the jazz idiom. Percussionist
Timothy Orr studied with Ed Blackwell and plays all styles from zydeco to free jazz. Recordings of Forward Energy can be found on www.edgetonerecords.com/ryan.html and also at www.cadencejazzrecords.com/albums/?album=786497526925 Cadence Jazz Records 1162.
Butoh Bob audible movement in sonic clothing, and the Emergency String Xtet with Adria Otte, Angela Hsu, Jeff Hobbs violins,
Doug Carroll cello,
David Michalak lap steel guitar. The ESXtet has been performing throughout the bay area for about eight years, and has, over the past several years incorporated Butoh dance.
Cost: 8-13
Videos featuring musicians playing at this event
Green Alembic at Berkeley Arts 5-17-14
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