A duet of David Leikam (moog rogue/piano) and Joe Straub (guitar/laptop) followed by a dynamic quartet of David Leikam, Joe Straub, Aurora Josephson (voice), and Phillip Greenlief (saxophone).
David Leikam Bio:
"diG your music. Eclectic ain't the word. Film noir multiverse ethnic blade runner desert world. Love it." - Nivek Ogre, ohGr/Skinny Puppy
David Leikam is a San Francisco-based creative arts composer, designer, improviser, and producer of the industrial jazz unit zBug. Being born with cerebral palsy affecting his body and speech has given him a distinct view into his art/music. Since his first solo piano recording in January 1988 with the now defunct San Francisco Bay Area improvisational arts/music collective, Friday Night Music; he has been compared and associated with such creative luminaries as Keith Jarrett, Brian Eno, Jimi Hendrix, Wadada Leo Smith, Kidd Jordan, Perry Robinson, William Parker, Eddie Gale, Warren Smith, Lou Reed, James Gurley, Muruga Booker, Robert Rich, and cEvin Key. He is largely a self taught multi-instrumentalist with a latter formal education in Audio Engineering (Live/Studio, RIT 1997) at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood, CA along with Music Composition (BFA 2001) and African American Improvisational Music (MFA 2006) studies at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts).
He is currently furthering his music theories of structured improvisational styles coined industrial jazz based on traditional music composition and performance area architecture. Some artists that he is looking forward to collaborate with this year are Eddie Gale, cEvin Key, Jean-Michel Pilc, Jon Raskin, Perry Robinson, John Santos, Pamela Z, and others.
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Joe Straub Bio:
Joe Straub is a composer, musician and sound artist from Los Angeles, California. He creates music and sound for live performance, recorded media and various combinations of both. His work includes pieces for concert performance, installation, CD, web, animation and film. He works both as a solo artist and in collaboration with many other artists and projects. He is currently based in San Francisco.
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Aurora Josephson Bio:
Aurora Josephson received B.A. in Music Performance from Mills College focusing on opera and improvisation, she has forged a bold vocal style that is uniquely her own. To unleash the limitless range of sonic possibilities in the voice, Josephson employs a variety of extended vocal techniques drawn from the worlds of contemporary composition, improvisation, and rock. Aurora has performed and recorded with improvisers/composers Martin Blume, Alvin Curran, Gianni Gebbia, Henry Kaiser, Joelle Leandre, Gino Robair, ROVA Saxophone Quartet, John Shiurba, Ches Smith, Phillip Wachsmann, William Winant and Pamela Z. And has recorded with art rock groups The Molecules and the Flying Luttenbachers, and appears on record labels including Balancepointacoustics, Cuneiform, Edgetone Records, Rastascan and Tzadic. She recently completed a series of performances with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company in the United States and Russia.
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Phillip Greenlief Bio:
”The Bay Area's do-it-yourself ethos has produced a bevy of dazzlingly creative musicians, but few have put the philosophy to work as effectively as Phillip Greenlief.” – Andrew Gilbert, San Francisco Chronicle
Since his emergence on the west coast in the late 1970’s, Evander Music founder Phillip Greenlief has achieved international critical acclaim for his recordings and performances with musicians and composers in the post-jazz continuum as well as new music innovators and virtuosic improvisers. His ever-evolving relationship with the saxophone unfolds with an expansive sound vocabulary, a deep regard for melody and form and a rollicking humor and wit that is not dissimilar to the Native American Coyote tales. He is composer in residence with Rough and Tumble and teaches music at San Francisco Waldorf High School and the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts.
Recipient of the San Francisco Bay Guardian Goldie Award
