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01/09/2023 - 02/22/2023

Tuesday, January 10
Tue 1/10 7:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Speak for Change: Mimi Tempestt // Mimi Tempestt is a daughter of California. Her works are aimed at disrupting stereotypical narratives and the iconography of black and queer people in media representations. Her debut album, Rough Diamond, was released in 2019. She graduated from Mills College with a ma in literature. Her debut collection of poems, The Monumental Misremeberings, is published with Co-Conspirator Press (2020). She is currently a Doctoral student in the Creative/Critical PhD in Literature at UC Santa Cruz.  More...
Thursday, January 12
Thu 1/12 8:00 PM Peacock Lounge [552 Haight]
Sholeh Asgary
Iranian-born interdisciplinary sound artist Sholeh Asgary's work implicate you in future mythological excavations, bridging large swathes of time and history through water, water clocks, crude oil, movement, light, voice, AM transmissions, frequency interference and language. For Asgary the environment and innate properties of everyday objects are the ether for direct communication.
https://www.sholehasgary.com/sound

Fletcher Pratt
Darkitecture of the mind's inmost spaces, that is Fletcher Pratt's speciality. Boundless in abstraction yet never disjointed, his sounds stretch like skin continuous across an impossible skeleton, inexorable in motion, shifting lithe and unseen. On this night, an epidermal split leaks that bone darkness into the light, the predator vein tapped as video, harvested in both digital and analogue synthesis.
https://soundcloud.com/fletcher_pratt

Kim Nucci
Electronics, voice, sax and live projections in the hands of Kim Nucci become implements for pondering the pedestrian cybernetic body, the snarl of human and machine, and the potentials of ritualism and trance in improvisation. Their interactive installations have involved architectural interventions, sculpture, arduino and other microcontrollers, idiosyncratic interactive design, painting and projections, while live improvisations extend even unto all humans present. Don't miss these many gifts unwrapped noisily before your very ears inside the Peacock Lounge.
https://kimnucci.com

Ettrick
Electronics free, apocalypse-ready, go ahead and cut the power because Ettrick will wrench the furthest possible sounds from their instruments through brute force, screaming through saxophones, and getting impolite with their drums. This show marks the ten-year anniversary of Jacob Felix Heule and Jay Korber's jazz/black metal drum and sax assault.
http://ettrick.org/

Monique (Fumi)
Something sudden this way comes.
https://www.youtube.com/@MoniqueBSF/videos  More...
Friday, January 13
Fri 1/13 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
Nathan Clevenger Trio + 2 -- CD Release Concert

This special CD release concert will feature evocative compositions composed for the Nathan Clevenger Trio and several pieces with "+ 2" - special guests Kasey Knudsen and Crystal Pascucci.  More...
Fri 1/13 8:30 PM Victoria Theatre [2961 16th Street San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2023
America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space.  More...
Saturday, January 14
Sat 1/14 7:00 PM Victoria Theatre [2961 16th Street San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2023
America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space.  More...
Sat 1/14 7:30 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
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Movie with Live Performances: 4 producers, 4 days, 4 unique landscapes, 4 solar-powered productions and a unique gathering in the desert.  More...
Sat 1/14 7:30 PM UMA Gallery [3630 Telegraph Ave Oakland]
Gliss Glass Gong with Karen Stackpole and Krys Bobrowski

Gong Master Karen Stackpole with inventor Krys Bobrowski create a deep sonic journey unfurling into an engaging and transcendent soundtrack.

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Sat 1/14 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Unfortunately, the Quinteto Latino concert this Saturday, 1/14, has been POSTPONED. We will announce when it gets rescheduled.

Quinteto Latino is flutist Diane Grubbe, oboist Kyle Bruckmann, clarinetist Leslie Tagorda, bassoonist Shawn Jones and Armando Castellano, founder and French hornist. (Season guest artist Jamael Smith replaces bassoonist Shawn Jones for this performance.) The quintet performs their latest commission, ""The Spanglish Dances"" by Victor Márquez-Barrios, ""Puzzle-Tocas"" by Gabriela Ortiz, ""multiple winds in the distance"" by Orlando Jacinto Garcia, and another QL commission, Felipe Nieto-Sáchica's ""C U Z A."  More...
Sat 1/14 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Dirty Looks: City of Lost Souls // this 1983 trans punk musical is the instant cult classic you’ve never seen! German film enfant terrible Rosa von Praunheim trained his lens on the trans and gender-defying Americans who sought refuge in Berlin’s 80s club scene, catching some of the most honest and alarmingly prescient intergenerational dialogues about trans life ever dedicated to celluloid in the process.  More...
Sat 1/14 9:30 PM Victoria Theatre [2961 16th Street San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2023
America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space.  More...
Sunday, January 15
Sun 1/15 7:00 PM Victoria Theatre [2961 16th Street San Francisco]
The San Francisco Tape Music Festival 2023
America's only festival devoted to the performance of audio works projected in three-dimensional space.  More...
Sun 1/15 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
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SIMM Series - Sarah Grace Graves/Lorin Benedict & Kim Nucci/Mitch Stahlmann  More...
Tuesday, January 17
Tue 1/17 12:00 PM Old St. Mary's Cathedral [660 California Street, San Francisco, CA 94108]
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The adventurous Beo String Quartet, noted for its sterling sound and experimental as well as classical performances will make their San Francisco debut with an exciting program featuring works by Beethoven, as well as contemporary composers Marc Mellits and Missy Mazzoli. This concert, presented by the noted Noontime Concerts, is part of the ensemble's five-city-California-tour.  More...
Tue 1/17 7:00 PM Make-Out Room [3225 22nd St SF]
Jazz at the Make-Out Room (formerly the Monday Make-Out) continues! A wily evening of cutting-edge jazz, free improvisation, and creative music.
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Doors: 6pm / Show: 7pm
No Cover/Donations Accepted

7pm Emplifier (Marcus Stephens - sax; Henry Hung - trumpet, a.o.)
7:45pm Isaac Schwartz (solo drums)
8:30pm Song & Dance Trio (Karl Evangelista - guitar; Jordan Glenn - drums; Cory Wright - sax)  More...
Wednesday, January 18
Wed 1/18 7:00 PM Gray Area Art And Technology [2665 Mission St. SF]
Live Improvised Soundtrack to the Films of Harry Smith and Jordan Belson
Will Epstein feat. Ben Goldberg, Michael Coleman, and Jordan Glenn  More...
Wed 1/18 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Skull Krusher, Diaspora Focii Trio + Feral Luggage Rhythm Section
Kersti Abrams, Jaroba, Mika Ponteorvo, Mike Villareal, Elijah Pontecorvo, Jon Bafus  More...
Thursday, January 19
Thu 1/19 6:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Tamara Duplantis: Creating Sound Art with GB Studio Workshop // In this hands-on workshop, learn a simple game engine and how to hack it to create musical work. GB Studio is a quick and easy to use retro game creator for your favorite handheld video game system. No programming experience is needed! Leave with your own unique musical software for both your computer and a Game Boy cartridge to take home.  More...
Thu 1/19 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street, San Francsico, CA 94109]
Residency Rewind: New Voices
Did you miss last year’s Audium residency shows? In anticipation of this year’s residency premiere, Audium is winding back to one year ago. This show is a limited rerun of the historic first residency, a reimagining of the space through immersive compositions of spatial sound.  More...
Thu 1/19 8:00 PM Ivy Room [860 San Pablo Ave Albany]
The SticklerPhonics - Scott Amendola - drums, percussion, electronics/Raffi Garabedian - tenor saxophone/Danny Lubin-Laden - trombone  More...
Saturday, January 21
Sat 1/21 4:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
A SENSE OF PLACE

Australian bass-clarinetist, Ros Dunlop, presents a program of audio-visual works by contemporary Aussie composers Margery Smith/Penelope Lee; Hollis Taylor; Felicity Wilcox; and Martin Wesley-Smith. These pieces explore the connections between sound, place, time and identity.  More...
Sat 1/21 7:00 PM Mills College at Northeastern University Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
For Other Minds’s 30th anniversary, pianist Marc-André Hamelin will perform Charles Ives’s legendary Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass. 1840-60,” with commentary by composer Kyle Gann, author of Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata: Essays after a Sonata (U. of Illinois Press, 2017).

Hosted by Charles Amirkhanian on Saturday, January 21, 2023 at Littlefield Concert Hall on the Mills College campus in Oakland, CA. The performance will be preceded by a reception at 6:00 pm celebrating the 30th anniversary of Other Minds.

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Sat 1/21 8:00 PM The Lab [2948 16th St SF]
Live Musical Performances by Ikue Mori, William Winant, Valentina Magaletti, and NOMON

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Sunday, January 22
Sun 1/22 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
THE MOSSWOOD IMPROVISERS GROUP performs R MURRAY SCHAFER'S graphic score, "minimusic" (1968) and a group improvisation.
Chris Brown performs a set of 20th Century Solo Piano Pieces
Arnold Schönberg - Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke, op.19 (1911, 5 minutes)
Morton Feldman — Last Pieces (1959, 10 minutes)
Thelonious Monk - Monk’s Mood (1947, 4 minutes)
Henry Cowell - The Hero Sun (1912, 4 minutes)
Ruth Crawford Seeger — Piano Study in Mixed Accents (1930, 1.5 minutes)
Chris Brown - Sparks (1976, 8 minutes)  More...
Sun 1/22 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
Trevor Dunn (contrabass) and Phillip Greenlief (woodwinds) celebrate the release Twenty Seven on Riverworm Records. The title of the new album reveals the years they have been playing together. Their work has always focused on spontaneous improvisation - a long-term conversation of imagination and the ingenuity of their approach to their respective instruments.

Sally Gates opens the show with the premiere of Thought and Terraform for solo guitar. ‘Thought & Terraform’ explores the hallucinatory nature of reality, deriving themes from surrealism, quantum physics, and science fiction. A work for solo guitar, these themes are developed and elaborated upon through improvisational passages.  More...
Sun 1/22 8:00 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
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Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble - New Music for a New Year!
This performance @ the iconic Bird & Beckett Books will feature new original music some of which will be debuted as part of a new recording project "In the Spirit".

Timothy Orr•drums/percussion, Mark Clifford•vibraphone, Safa Shokrai•double bass, Max Judelson•double bass, Heikki "Mike" Koskinen•e-trumpet/recorder, Joshua Marshall•tenor saxophone, Rent Romus•alto saxophone  More...
Thursday, January 26
Thu 1/26 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Residency Rewind: New Voices
Did you miss last year’s Audium residency shows? In anticipation of this year’s residency premiere, Audium is winding back to one year ago. This show is a limited rerun of the historic first residency, a reimagining of the space through immersive compositions of spatial sound.  More...
Thu 1/26 8:00 PM Noisebridge Hackerspace [272 Capp St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
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Resident is a monthly electronic audiovisual open mic event started in 2017. Resident is casual and cool, and the community you'll find is like no other for aspiring electronic musicians in the Bay. No judgments, no bullshit, just positive support and openness to new ideas.

Now in person at Noisebridge!! https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Resident_Electronic_Music

Setup for performers starts at 7pm, show starts at 8 pm.  More...
Friday, January 27
Fri 1/27 6:30 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St San Francisco]
!David Boyce presents GPS!  More...
Fri 1/27 7:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Allen Riley: Synchronization Station Workshop // Synchronization Station is a participatory performance created by Allen Riley that examines practices of synchronization among people and digital systems  More...
Fri 1/27 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Residency Rewind: New Voices
Did you miss last year’s Audium residency shows? In anticipation of this year’s residency premiere, Audium is winding back to one year ago. This show is a limited rerun of the historic first residency, a reimagining of the space through immersive compositions of spatial sound.  More...
Saturday, January 28
Sat 1/28 7:00 PM Audium [1616 Bush Street]
Residency Rewind: New Voices
Did you miss last year’s Audium residency shows? In anticipation of this year’s residency premiere, Audium is winding back to one year ago. This show is a limited rerun of the historic first residency, a reimagining of the space through immersive compositions of spatial sound.  More...
Sat 1/28 7:30 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Nathan Wheeler (New York)
San Kazakgascar (Sacramento)
Kae Wu / Jorge Bachmann / Kevin Corcoran (Taipei / San Francisco)

An bicoastal and international evening of electroacoustic drone, psychedelic post punk, and textural noise poetry at the bookshop on 24th street, a possibly overlooked epicenter of interesting happenings in San Francisco.  More...
Sat 1/28 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Rodrigo Barriga Ensemble + Myles Morgan // Exploring ensemble interaction and communication through the use of openness and structured improvisation.  More...
Sunday, January 29
Sun 1/29 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
The world-renowned cellist FRANCES-MARIE UITTI permieres PIOMBO, a new composition for solo 2Bows Cello by LUCIANO CHESSA.
Uitti and Chessa also perform QUEST[O] / Una meditazione (2022) for cello, piano and voices.  More...
Tuesday, January 31
Tue 1/31 8:00 PM The Knockout [3223 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
Grex, Gentleman Surfer, Nine Dog Dick

Fiery sounds from Nor Cal, featuring Oakland experimental duo Grex (Karl Evangelista + Rei Scampavia), Sacramento avant prog band Gentleman Surfer (Jon Bafus, a.o.), and free improvisation/noise group Nine Dog Dick (Matt Chandler + Doug Katelus + Jay Korber + Tom Weeks).  More...
Wednesday, February 1
Wed 2/01 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
Luggage Store New Music Series and Outsound Presents
Night of the Tenor
Kevin Robinson, Joshua Allen-solo tenor saxophone  More...
Thursday, February 2
Thu 2/02 7:30 PM Mosswood Chapel [3630 Telegraph Ave. Oakland, CA]
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UMA Gallery Oakland is very excited to present the multitalented NYC composer/artist/performer M. Lamar. Alumnus of both SF Art Institue and Yale School of Art Lamar has been presented internationaly, most recently at The Rewire Festival in The Hague. An operatic countertenor and pianist, Lamar is a wizard at extracting elements from folk lamentation, European opera and goth creating his own revolutionary style aimed for the deepest spiritual and moral transformation.
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Saturday, February 4
Sat 2/04 8:00 PM Mills College Littlefield Concert Hall [5000 MacArthur Blvd Oakland]
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Laetitia Sonami performs 100 Trillions, a world premiere, in collaboration with Paul DeMarinis and SUE-C.Sonami also performs a new collaboration with James Fei as part of the Sparrows and Ortolans duo, as well as a new solo work.  More...
Sunday, February 5
Sun 2/05 4:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
ANGELA EDWARDS (SHARKIFACE)
XOPHER DAVIDSON (ANTIMATTER)  More...
Sun 2/05 7:30 PM Temescal Arts Center [511 48th Street Oakland]
Doors That Only Open in Silence (open participation, non-hierarchical workshop in free improvisation)

The monthly series of improvisation research at Temescal Arts Center continues. Bring your instrument or come to listen. No advance notice needed — just show up. Small groups will be randomly assembled from submitted names immediately before each group plays. We try to keep transition time between groups at a minimum. Over by 10pm. Donations for the venue rental are encouraged.  More...
Thursday, February 9
Thu 2/09 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street, San Francisco]
Audium: New Voices II featuring the performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos & Ronald Peabody  More...
Friday, February 10
Fri 2/10 9:00 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
SOUNDBOX: PEKKA KUUSISTO & JESPER NORDIN - CONVERGENCE

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Saturday, February 11
Sat 2/11 8:00 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
NACUSASF PRESENTS “MUSIC AS WINTER FADES”
The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of NACUSA will present instrumental, vocal, and electroacoustic chamber music written by its members and performed by outstanding Bay Area’s musicians.  More...
Sat 2/11 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Tatsuya Nakatani: Nakatani Gong Orchestra // Tatsuya Nakatani’s non-traditional contemporary sound art project, the Nakatani Gong Orchestra (NGO)  More...
Sat 2/11 9:00 PM SoundBox [300 Franklin Street SF]
SOUNDBOX: PEKKA KUUSISTO & JESPER NORDIN - CONVERGENCE

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Sunday, February 12
Sun 2/12 6:30 PM Duende Restaurant [468 19th St Oakland]
Orchestra Nostalgico

On Sunday Feb. 12, Duende will host Orchestra Nostalgico for a night of fantastic music and a delicious pre-Valentine's Day dinner!

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Sun 2/12 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
Distractfold performs new works by Stanford graduate composers Celeste Betancur, Seán Ó Dálaigh, Lemon Guo, Kimia Koochakzadeh-Yazdi, Mike Mulshine.
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Sun 2/12 7:30 PM SIMM Series @ The Musicians Union Hall [116 9th St @ Mission SF]
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Outsound Presents the creative music of world touring percussionist Tatsuya Nakatani and the sterling voice of Dina Emerson meets the electronic universe of Philip Everett as Skullkrusher!  More...
Wednesday, February 15
Wed 2/15 7:30 PM San Francisco Conservatory of Music [50 Oak St. SF]
SFCM New Music Ensemble Concert  More...
Wed 2/15 8:00 PM Luggage Store Creative Music Series [1007 Market Street SF]
LSG New Music Series - Alphastare, Seymour Glass, Jorge Bachmann/Jaroba  More...
Thursday, February 16
Thu 2/16 3:00 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Feldenkrais for Improvisers Workshop with Meerenai Shim // movement workshop for musicians  More...
Thu 2/16 7:00 PM Audium Theater [1616 Bush Street]
Audium: New Voices II featuring the performances by Sharmi Basu, Alex Abalos & Ronald Peabody  More...
Thu 2/16 7:30 PM CCRMA [660 Lomita Dr. Stanford]
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CCRMA presents a live performance by Gabby Wen.
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FREE and Open to the Public  More...
Thu 2/16 7:30 PM Bird & Beckett Books and Records [653 Chenery St. SF]
Sticklerphonics! Scott Amendola/Lubin-Laden/Garabedian  More...
Friday, February 17
Fri 2/17 7:00 PM Adobe Books [3130 24th St SF]
Experimental Music Night  More...
Fri 2/17 7:00 PM Medicine for Nightmares [3036 24th St, San Francisco, CA 94110]
David Boyce & Friends, featuring Karl Evangelista/Lewis Jordan Duo

Boohabian multi reed player extraordinare David Boyce continues his semi regular Friday residency tonight. Each week David will be inviting different musical guests to join him in our galeria for a night of sonic sustenance and musical medicina. Tonight David will be joined by his very special guests Lewis Jordan and Karl Evangelista.  More...
Fri 2/17 8:00 PM California Jazz Conservatory [2040 Addison Street Berkeley]
JAMBAR Presents Charles McPherson  More...
Fri 2/17 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Roberto Fatal: Screening & Talk // Three films exploring Latinx Indigenous Mesrize identity, sexuality, the body and the cultures, desires and histories it contains.  More...
Saturday, February 18
Sat 2/18 3:30 PM Building 34 Mare Island [1024 Nimitz Building 34 Vallejo CA]
RE:SOUND :: MIGRATION

Come join us on Mare Island in Building 34 for an afternoon of sound & space with three performances by Bay Area artists.

joel st. julien

ceremonial abyss

greta snider + headboggle  More...
Sat 2/18 7:30 PM Center for New Music [55 Taylor St SF]
OORT SMOG & Zachary James Watkins
Oort Smog (Patrick Shiroishi & Mark Kimbrell) are celebrating the release of their second album, Every Motherfucker is Your Brother, with a tour of the west coast. Zachary James Watkins, an incredible sound creator, will be opening the show.  More...
Sat 2/18 8:00 PM CNMAT [1750 Arch Street Berkeley]
A collaborative performance with the Korean woodwind player Gamin.  More...
Sat 2/18 8:30 PM Indexical [Tannery Arts Center 1050 River St. #119 Santa Cruz]
Anna Friz & Gabriel Saloman + Cole Pulice // A concert that listens for risk and regeneration, drought and the hints of persistent moisture in burn scars  More...
Sunday, February 19
Sun 2/19 7:00 PM Mosswood Sound Series [3630 Telegraph Ave enter 2nd door on 37th St Oakland]
ALLEN + DUFF + BENEDICT + AHERN + CASINI
UENO + MEZZACAPPA + HEULE + COOPER + BRUCKMANN + INGALLS

Two vocal improv quintets making their public debut  More...
Wednesday, February 22
Wed 2/22 5:30 PM The Knockout [3223 Mission Street, SF]
Thomas Dimuzio, Caribay, Ava Koohbor: LCM Presents Vol 5  More...