Harold Carr (bass, compositions) has performed and recorded with numerous artists such as Bobby McFerrin, Crystal Gayle, Lightnin' Hopkins, John McCuen, Steve Lacy, Catie Curtis, Matt Flinner, Alan Braufman, Gino Robair and Andrew Voigt. Harold has been a musician/poet-in-residence at the Banff Centre for the Arts in Canada, guest soloist at the Frutillar Music Festival in Chile, composer/soloist with the in Guang Zhou, China, invited poet for the Utah State Governor at the Governor's Mansion, commissioned composer/performer at New Music America and artist-in-residence at Zion Canyon Mesa.

He has worked with the Windolls Theatre of Images in Colombia, Hong Kong, San Francisco and Seattle. He has been a member of a number of popular Utah-based bands such as The Cowdaddies, Red Rock Rondo and blue haiku, the Emily Merrell Group, The Jarman/Kingston Quartet, Amnesia, Wood, the Mark Chaney Trio, and Te Azul.He currently works with Better off with the Blues in addition to freelance work.

Bruce Ackley (sax) is well-known in the free improvisation world, especially as a member of the ROVA Saxophone Quartet. He has performed with many others such as John Zorn, Henry Kaiser, J.A. Deane, Joseph Sabella, Stefano Scodanibbio, Miya Masaoko, Rohan de Seram, George Cremaschi, Garth Powell, Joey Baron, and Greg Cohen.

Andrew Voigt studied with John Adams, John Handy, Roscoe Mitchell and with the Japanese Imperial Gagaku Ensemble in Tokyo, Japan. He is a former and founding member of the ROVA saxophone quartet. Andrew has recorded and performed with Radu Malfati, Ed Herrmann, Anthony Braxton, J.A. Deane and others. He has been hosting the "Wednesday Night Band" for decades at Studio For in Oakland where he does recording in surround sound.

Flavia Cervino-Wood (violin) studied classical violin at the Conservatory of Music in Santiago and at the Universidad Católica de Chile. She moved to Brazil to join the band Grupo Agua, which toured South America and performed and recorded with Milton Nascimento. She moved to New York and performed with the Brockport Symphony. She then moved to San Francisco where she was active in the Latin music scene. She is a featured soloist with Sol y Luna along with Rebecca Mauleon and Michael Spiro. She has performed with Cecil Taylor, Marilyn Lerner and John Cage compositions with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company. In Utah she has performed and recorded with blue haiku, Red Rock Rondo (two time Emmy Winner) the Salt Lake Symphony, Hal Cannon, The Alan Michael Band, The Emily Merril Band, The Diamond Empire Band, Phillip Kuehn Orchestra and the John Batiste Orchestra.

Derek Coombs (piano) originally hails from Singapore, now based in Salt Lake City, Utah. He has performed all over Utah and surrounding states, from weddings to festivals, from galleries to warehouses. He is known for his energetic and grooving approach to not only Piano, but also Hammond Organ.
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25 years of sculpting soundscapes that dissolve the boundaries of auditory perception - a gourmet banquet for the third ear. Compositions caramelized dissonance glazed in universal abyss harmonics, each experimental trajectory fizz-candied into razor-sharp shards of destabilized madness. The deliciousness of working with these experimental sounds manifests as reality itself phases into criminally perfect audio ventures, creating exhilarating new senses... all served with the huge boon of maximum vegan gourmet pancakes - because what better accompaniment to top-notch sonic experimentation than flapstacks heating the creative edges???

Featuring the earstorms of:

Medicine Cabinet (Sac)
Voicehandler
Kyle Bruckmann
Dominic Cramp
Lime Eyelid
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Flutist Meerenai Shim will play an album release show for her fourth solo album, The Audacity. Meerenai will premiere two pieces by Brent Miller and Janice Misurell-Mitchell. Also on the program: “Whispers on the Wind” by The Honourable Elizabeth A. Baker and “Vermont Counterpoint” by Steve Reich.

The Audacity is Meerenai’s fourth solo album, and her first in ten years. She spent the last decade producing others’ recording projects and nurturing a micro record label, Aerocade Music, that is now a non-profit corporation.

The Audacity features multitracking and the use of the recording studio as a musical instrument. The compositions commissioned for this recording project also work well as pieces to be performed live. Brent Miller’s piece is for Korg drum machine and flute. Janice Misurell-Mitchell’s piece features the sampled lovely countertenor voice of Carl Alexander.
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Alex Heigl's solo guitar work fuses the pre-war country blues style of fingerpicking and its inheritors like John Fahey with complex spatial effects and electronics like synthesizers and drum machines. For this performance, his original compositions will be performed alongside audio and visual items from the Works Progress Administration's efforts to document the folk music of Northern California over 100 years ago.
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"The music of pianist and composer Motoko Honda is to mainstream jazz what Brahms’s music was to the neatly packaged forms of the Classical period.”
— Phillip Greenlief, Art Forum, Live at California Jazz Conservatory


“The audience of young lovers and experienced culture seekers hardly moved a muscle for an hour and a half. Apparently we can still concentrate when the occasion demands it.”
— Greg Burk, Metal Jazz, Live at Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

Motoko Honda’s Simple Excesses Quartet brings together four of Northern California’s most versatile and innovative musicians—Honda (pianist-composer), Cory Wright (multi-woodwinds), Jordan Glenn (drums), and Matt Small (bass)—in a bold and imaginative blend of classical chamber music, jazz, free jazz, and experimental sound. Their repertoire, built from intimately crafted compositions, unifies these diverse traditions into dynamic, often surprising musical journeys. With nuanced interplay, shifting textures, and spontaneous improvisations, their performances are as captivating for the performers as they are for the audience—like a soaring flight through ever-changing sonic landscapes.

Motoko Honda - Piano/Composition
Cory Wright - Multi-woodwind
Jordan Glenn - Drums
Matt Small - Bass
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Gourmet pancakes and exceptional sounds from California’s best featuring Andrew Wayne (Sac), Michael Gendreau, Fluorescent Grey, David Leikam, Doom Legs, plus more!?

NOTE: Stick around, at about 2pm or so we’re gonna show the latest, unseen, movies by Fluorescent Grey, maker of Th THNG, A Very Heavy Agenda, and American Anthrax (among other shorts).

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