West Oakland Sound Series [2201 Poplar Street Dresher Ensemble Studio Oakland]
RIC LOUCHARD is a Bay Area composer, pianist, improviser, writer and story teller. 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.

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.  More...