7:30pm: Oogog
8:30pm: Noertker's Moxie
Noertker's Moxie:
Annelise Zamula - tenor sax, flute
Dave Mihaly - drums
Bill Noertker - contrabass
www.noertker.com
In 2001, Noertker formed his own group, Noertker's Moxie, as a forum for his thematic compositions. He has been writing suites of music inspired by visual artists such as Paul Klee, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, architect Antoni Gaudí, poet Rainer Maria Rilke, sculptor David Beck, and others. Since 2001, he has composed over 100 pieces of music.
On Sunday he will be joined by his long time musical co-conspirators Annelise Zamula and Dave Mihaly. They will be performing songs inspired Kandinsky, Golden Gate Park, Gaudí, snorkeling, Rilke, and Richard Misrach's photographs
Oogog:
Jon Russell, clarinets/saxophones
Ryan Brown, electric guitar
Damon Waitkus, electric bass
Josh Campbell, piano/keyboards
www.myspace.com/oogog
Oogog plays rock chamber music, with healthy doses of jazz and experimental improvisation thrown into the mix. While they're all conservatory-trained composers, they've performed in everything from symphony orchestras to rock bands, jazz bands, klezmer bands, bluegrass bands, and experimental free improvisational groups. Their music is high energy, visceral, propulsive, and intricate, with grooves that are just slightly too off-kilter to dance to, melodies that are slightly too ornery and surprising to hum along with. They combine the structure and precision of classical composition with the vitality of rock and the exploratory spirit of experimental music. Their music simultaneously inspires the mind to think and the body to move.