Edgetone Records celebrates 35 years on planet Earth with a series of showcase performances.
Brett Carson’s Quattuor Elephantis, duoB, Matt Davignon

In 1991 saxophonist Rent Romus launched his independent label Edgetone Records. Originally it was a vanity label to support his recordings, but in the year 2000 he decided it should become an entity to support original music crossing the boundaries of genre focused on D.I.Y. (do it yourself) artists looking for a ground base and label identity.

Tickets at the Door and at Wyldflowr Arts

BRETT CARSON'S QUATTOUR ELEPHANTIS
Scott Siler - vibraphone; Karl Evangelista - electric guitar; Robert Lopez - drums; Brett Carson - keyboard/compositions
A project of pianist Brett Carson, Quattuor Elephantis represents an intelligible entirety, dynamic and volatile, perceived through the kaleidoscopic effluence of the Four Cosmic Pillars. A brew of primeval energy is parsed and made available for consumption. Four musicians navigating constructed worlds. Psychic debris accumulates in corners of sound-space and crystallizes into intricate compositional/improvisational structures. Creation appears to organize itself, only to return once again to the Void.

duo B
Lisa Mezzacappa - double bass; Jason Levis - drums
duo B. is an ensemble of acoustic bass and percussion that plays ethereal chamber music wrapped in dense improvised soundscapes. Percussionist Jason Levis uses gongs, Tibetan singing bowls, bowed cymbals, marimba and drumset to create lush, delicate textures and abstract noise grooves. Bassist Lisa Mezzacappa draws on a palette of sinister drones, punchy vamps and acoustic bass manipulations to weave storylines through gnarly rhythms, pointillistic shapes and ecstatic melodies. In addition to performing traditionally-notated original music and arrangements, the ensemble has also worked with graphic scores, improvisation games, text, tape music, film and visual art to create a new multidisciplinary chamber music hybrid. duo B.'s influences range from free jazz to dub reggae to contemporary chamber music, from Threadgill to Zorn, the Abyssinians to the Boredoms, Messaien to Grisey and back again. The band was formed in 2005 and has performed throughout the San Francisco Bay Area (where it was born) and beyond…

MATT DAVIGNON - drum machine
Since 1993, Matt Davignon has developed his own unique style of music, which focuses largely on textures, arhythmic patterns and musical imperfections. His first experiments as a teenager were constructed using 2 boom boxes, combining household objects, CD/tape samples and heavily effected improvisation on a variety of “real instruments”. Since then, he has spent time studying (in a non-academic sense) bass guitar, live sound collage, consumer-grade electronics, prepared acoustic guitar, real-time sampling/looping, experimental turntablism, and field recordings on handheld cassette recorders. Since 2004, he has been working almost exclusively with a drum machine. Instead of using it as a rhythm device, he plays the pads manually while processing the sounds through an array of effects devices and samplers, improvising music made of organic-sounding textures, hums, gurgles and crackles.

Cost: $15 Student/Senior $20 General

Edgetone Records Celebrates 35 Years!

Edgetone Records Celebrates 35 Years!