This Thursday night in Sacramento -- no fires this time.

Reconnaissance Fly will finally take the stage this Thursday night in Sacramento, at Shine Coffeehouse, 1400 E Street #A.  Last time we were there, on April 3rd (exactly three months previous), we arrived to find the building next door on fire, fire trucks and dozens of firefighters, black smoke belching and flames leaping skyward.  The block was cordoned off and there would be no gig that night.

Fortunately the coffeehouse escaped unscathed and the FUTUREWANG! series went on.  We are rescheduled for July 3rd, and we're going first, around 8:20 pm.  It will be glorious.

Reconnaissance Fly and Ghost in the House in the same show!

Looks like I will be pretty busy on the day of the 2nd Annual Richard Waters New Music Festival, June 14th.  The festival will run from 2 - 10 p.m. at Berkeley Arts and feature musicians from the greater Bay Area. Admission is free (donations accepted). 

The lineup is:

Rent Romus & Heikki Koskinen

Music For Hard Times

Get Your Bad Self Ready!

Ron Heglin & Katt Atchley

Reconnaissance Fly

Eric Glick Rieman & Bryan Day

Full Disclosure Big Band

Jon Raskin

The Emercency String Ex-tet

The Richard Waters Orchestra - Tom Nunn, Bart Hopkin, Gary Knowlton, Lee Charlton, Karen Stackpole +

Grosse Abfahrt

Doug Carroll

Ghost in the House

Visit: http://www.bayimproviser.com/EventView.aspx?e=11561 to view all details.

IMPERIAL ORDER reviewed in the Berkeley Daily Planet

Jubilith Moore and I represented Theatre of Yugen at the Contemporary Diasporas Festival, reviewed in the Berkeley Daily Planet.

"Theatre of Yugen's artistic director Jubilith Moore performed with musician Polly Moller an improvisation, in brilliant costume from the Noh stage, from the story to ancient play, 'Semimaru'—exceptional voice, gestures, movement and flute, as a disturbed princess, wandering the hills near Kyoto, hears a flute and finds her blind brother—turned out of the Imperial court to die—playing it in a hut." - Ken Bullock

Contemporary Diasporas Festival, May 9th

Jubilith Moore and I will be representing Theatre of Yugen on May 9th, in the Contemporary Performance Diasporas Festival hosted by Inferno Theatre Company.  

Theatre of Yugen Artistic Director Jubilith Moore and Associate Ensemble Member Polly Moller come together to create the ancient original improvisation IMPERIAL ORDER, inspired by the Noh play, Semimaru.  What is right and what is its reverse? How many souls travel this mountain pass?  How is a flower on the branch separated from its fragrance?  After traveling the wind, can the falcon find its falconer?  What hurts more, the leaving or being left?

Of course you want to know everything -- and you can find the full schedule of performances and purchase tickets on Inferno Theatre’s website:  http://infernotheatre.org/

It will all happen at South Berkeley Community Church, 1802 Fairview Street in Berkeley (entrance on Ellis) conveniently located four blocks from the Ashby BART station.

Reconnaissance Fly reviewed in All About Jazz

This will be 3 good reviews in a row.  We can probably assume the album is pretty good...
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Reconnaissance Fly reviewed in Avant Music News

Just in time for our gig tomorrow at Duende, Oakland, here's a review of our new album Flower Futures in the redoubtable Avant Music News.