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ITALIAN SURF ACADEMY makes an unannounced pitstop in Berkeley on its international tour ...
in a double bill with the Bay Area’s own IBIM LAB

1st set:
NYC guitarist Marco Cappelli (originally from Naples, Italy) leads a trio of whizbang Italian instrumentalists, plus VJ, in a set of freewheeling and irreverent arrangements of '60s Italian film music - spaghetti western, noir, horror and crime film scores by Ennio Morricone, Luis Bacalov, Carlo Rustichelli, Riz Ortolani, Piero Umiliani and Armando Trovajoli. Cappelli and his bandmates are the kind of 21st Century musicians who devour intricately composed material in all kinds of genres, and can also improvise, and shred, like the world is ending. Midway through a tour that has brought them to China, Japan and both coasts of the US, the trio+ visits Berkeley for special unannounced show in between tour dates.

Marco Cappelli, electric guitar
Luca Lo Bianco, electric bass
Francesco Cusa, drums
Andrea Pennisi, video projections

Video:
http://vimeo.com/47933217
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DiTNZshgfr0

“Think of Italian guitarist Marco Cappelli’s ITALIAN SURF ACADEMY as a mixture of Dick Dale and John Zorn, or perhaps a far-out musical crossbreeding of the Ventures with a mind-blowing, avant-garde jazz education. Whether you’re touring the seaside cobblestone streets of Calabria via Vespa scooter or surfing the swells of Manhattan Beach, balance is crucial. And in this heady amalgam of 1950s and ’60s American surf rock, psychedelia and folkloric Italian melodies, Cappelli and his Italian Surf Academy have embraced that concept wholeheartedly” - Downbeat Magazine

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2nd set:
IBIM LAB

For over a year master drummer Donald Robinson has led a weekly jam session/cabal called The Institute for Beautiful Improvised Music, dedicated to pure free jazz improv. After spinning out a number of superb duos/trios in 2013-2014, the jam has given birth to a new sextet, IBIM LAB:

Donald Robinson, drums
Ron Heglin, trombone/tuba
Joe Lasqo, piano/laptop
Collette McCaslin, trumpet/electronics
Rent Romus, saxophones
Jim Ryan, winds
Bill Thibault, video

Join this elite research team, whose previous breakthroughs included collaborations with everyone from Steve Lacy to Cecil Taylor to Glen Spearman, in their latest experiments with musical truth, and hear rarefied energies which have not been experienced since nanoseconds after the Big Bang.

Cost: $10-$20 sliding scale

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