<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:18pt"><div style="text-align: right; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><img width="300" height="255" src="http://joelasqo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Custer-Lasqo-Dimuzio-solar-blue-1.23-300.jpg" class="attachment-900x9999" alt="Beth Custer -/+ Joe Lasqo -/+ Thomas Dimuzio @ Duende, Oakland, 15 May 2014" title="Custer-Lasqo-Dimuzio solar-blue 1.23 300"><br></div><div style="text-align: right; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;">Beth <b>Custer</b> +/- Joe <b>Lasqo</b> +/- Thomas <b>Dimuzio</b> @ Duende, Oakland, 15 May 2014</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51);"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Dear µsounders -</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">This is to let you know
about 2 shows starting from <span style="color: #ff3816"><b>this Thu, 15 May</b></span>, which you may find interesting if in the SF Bay Area, plus a video concert release.</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51);"><b>[1] MSP/Piano/+: w Beth Custer (clarinets/vocals) & Thomas Dimuzio (digital & analog electronics/synths), Gench Music Series @ Duende, Oakland: </b><span style="color: #ff3816"><b>this Thu 15 May, 9pm </b></span><span style="color: #000000">(2 sets)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family:
Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51);"><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">◉</span><span style="color: #000000"> </span>A remarkable night of electronic space exploration, reed/vocal virtuosity, and meta-rāga trance at the warm, hospitable, hip, and in every sense delicious <b>Duende</b></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">☞</span> Write-up, venue & show details, and images: <a
href="http://joelasqo.com/blog/2014/05/09/msppiano-w-beth-custer-and-thomas-dimuzio-in-solo-and-trio-form-thu-15-may-gench-music-series-duende-oakland-9pm-two-sets/"><span style="color: #2c2cfb"><b>here</b></span></a><b> </b><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">☜</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51);"><b>[2] Piano/+: w Jim Ryan's </b><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #659d3d"><b>Green Alembic</b></span><b>, @ Berkeley Arts Festival: </b><span style="color: #ff3816"><b>Sat 17 May, 9pm</b></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); min-height:
16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><img width="640" height="263" src="http://joelasqo.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Jim-Ryans-Green-Alembic-performs-in-the-sfSoundSalonSeries-at-Center-for-New-Music-San-Francisco-15-Apr-2014-1.02-640.jpg" class="attachment-900x9999" alt="Jim Ryan's Green Alembic performs in the sfSoundSalonSeries at Center for New Music, San Francisco, 15 Apr 2014 (L → R: Doug Carroll, Jason Hoopes, Joe Lasqo, Ron Heglin, Christina Stanley, Jeff Hobbs, Michael Cooke, Jim Ryan. Photos by Carly Hoopes)" title="Jim Ryan's Green Alembic performs in the sfSoundSalonSeries at
Center for New Music, San Francisco, 15 Apr 2014 1.02 640"><br></div><div style="text-align: center; font-size: 10px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #659d3d"><b>Green Alembic</b></span> in the sfSoundSalonSeries at Center for New Music, SF, 17 Apr 2014</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; min-height: 21px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">◉</span> <span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Multimedia expeditions into a world whose center is everywhere and whose limit is nowhere with Jim <b>Ryan's</b> sound, vision and poetry project, </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #659d3d"><b>Green Alembic</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">,</span> a<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">n “improvisational chamber super-group” </span><span style="color: #333233">(<a
href="http://sfsound.org/series/#2014.4.15"><span style="color: #000000">sfSoundSalonSeries</span></a> post</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Line-up: Jim <b>Ryan</b>: electric kalimba, flute, poetry, images, Doug <b>Carroll</b>: cello, Michael <b>Cooke</b>: bassoon & shēng (</span><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN'; letter-spacing: 0px;">笙</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">), Ron <b>Heglin</b>: voice & trombone, Jeff <b>Hobbs</b>: violin, Jason <b>Hoopes</b>: bass, Joe <b>Lasqo</b>: piano & small percussion, Christina <b>Stanley</b>: violin.</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">— + Set 1: <b>Triangle</b> (Jim <b>Ryan:</b>
saxes and flute, Jason <b>Hoopes</b>: bass<b>, </b>Mark <b>Pino</b>: drums)</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">☞</span> Write-up, show details, venue maps, and images: <a href="http://joelasqo.com/blog/2014/05/07/piano-w-jim-ryans-green-alembic-sat-17-may-berkeley-arts-festival-9pm-set-1-triangle-8pm/"><span style="color: #2c2cfb"><b>here</b></span></a><b> </b><span style="font-family: 'Hiragino Kaku Gothic ProN';">☜</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">+ Examiner.com review of our recent show in the sfSoundSalonSeries at Center for New Music: <a
href="http://www.examiner.com/article/c4nm-presents-an-evening-of-electronic-and-instrumental-free-improvisation"><span style="color: rgb(28, 102, 204);">here</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">[3] ► <b>VIDEO RELEASE</b> ◄ </div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing:
0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Thanks to the generosity of videographer Charles Smith, some wonderful live concert video has been captured, and here's a release of some of it from the 19 Apr show at North Beach's new hotspot </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #659d3d"><b>The Emerald Tablet</b></span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"> with German/Swedish avant jazz saxophonist and flautist Biggi <b>Vinkeloe</b>, </span><span style="color: #333233">feat. Donald <b>Robinson</b> (drums), Lisle <b>Ellis</b> (contrabass, acoustic bass guitar), Teddy <b>Rankin-Parker</b> (cello), and myself (piano, laptop, small percussion)</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(101, 157, 61); min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">— <b><i>№ tre</i></b> (14 min, Biggi on sax): <a
href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5npZBN1nVs"><span style="color: rgb(44, 44, 251);">link</span></a> (my favorite, featuring Biggi's Bangalore samples)</div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="color: #333233"><br>
</span>— <b><i>№ uno</i></b> (20 min, Biggi on sax): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rRfsRE8cfg"><span style="color: rgb(44, 44, 251);">link</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">— <b><i>№ due</i></b> (12 min, Biggi on flute): <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT8n6L-Jedg"><span style="color: rgb(44, 44, 251);">link</span></a></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">The luminous paintings of Monterey pines overlooking Baker Beach that you see in the background of these videos are part of the exhibit: <b><i>Nicholas Coley: New California Impressionism</i></b>, currently showing a<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">t </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px; color: #659d3d"><b>The Emerald Tablet</b></span><span
style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">.</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 50, 51); min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">=================================</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Hope to see you at these great shows!</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Joe Lasqo</span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://joe@joelasqo.com/">joe@joelasqo.com</a></span></div><div
style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial; min-height: 16px;"><br></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;"><span style="text-decoration: underline"><a href="http://www.joelasqo.com/">http://www.joelasqo.com/</a></span></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Show calendar & news: <a href="http://www.joelasqo.com/blog/">http://www.joelasqo.com/blog/</a></div><div style="font-size: 14px; font-family: Arial;">Weekly: Viracocha, 21st & Valencia, SF, 3-6pm, Wednesdays</div><div>
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