West Oakland Sound Series
2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland
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RIC LOUCHARD (with Lisa Mezzacappa + Jordan Glenn + Joshua Marshall)
Bjll Dingalls (Tom Djll + Bill Hsu + Matt Ingalls)

RIC LOUCHARD is a Bay Area composer, pianist, improviser, writer and story teller. His stories strive to find the universal in the very personal. His music is emotive and, well, romantic, or at least on the Dionysian side of the fence. It tends towards chromaticism, atonality or quirky tonality. Motivic with sometimes complex rhythms. His musical roots are European classical tradition, improvisation, and all the music we’ve all been hearing the last 70 years. Ric is delighted – really delighted - to be playing with Lisa Mezzacappa, bass, Jordan Glenn, drums, and Joshua Marshall, saxophones. Ric played these pieces with this same quartet 5 years ago and has always wanted to revisit the music, make some revisions, and play and record them again with these fantastic musicians. He is thrilled it is happening.

In the blur between acoustic and amplified, synthetic and analog, "algo-rhythm" and improvisation, clarity is forged anew only if you look ahead. Swinging serious sonic sledgehammers for a threefold lifetime now, Bjll Dingalls [Tom Djll (trumpet & electronics) + Bill Hsu (electronics) + Matt Ingalls (clarinet & electronics)] lay the railroad into terra incognita.

Cost: $10-$25 sliding scale

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