A wild and wooley live set featuring some great SF Bay Area and Sacramento improvisors. Mika Pontecorvo set this up as a feature of one of his Hardly Strictly Personal festivals. As stated previously, these were fun affairs and I loved being involved with them. You know, for the community and all. For real. For the community.
The core of Cosmists, Andrew Joron and myself, enhanced by CJ Borosque and Sheila Bosco. This band kind of whimpered to close in 2017 or so. One of the members of the group cut all ties to me in early March of 2020, stating that I was a dishonest person. That hurt, but it gave me pause for reflection, and prepared me for many more losses within the next couple of years. One has to learn how to let go. Those music festivals that Mika Pontecorvo organized at Berkeley Arts Festival Building and other spots sure were fun though.
Listened to this clip yesterday and loved it. Especially when Carlos shouts out in musical delight. Ear Spray was fun for me too.
These two tracks were supposed to go up at Bandcamp, but that never happened. Putting them up at Archive.org because why not. Good times that happened a long time ago now.
Scarp designed this post, not sure if he drew the image. Black Cat Bar was a watering hole habituated by a lesbian clientele in Sonoma County. Not sure how Barney Cauldron ended up playing there, but I do recall having a good time. Now, you can too, with this audio.
These two tracks did not make the cut to the Tuned Mass Damper Bandcamp page. Wha? Guess it was Max's editorial decision. They can live on in another part of the 'net. Rock on.
Archival weirdness from a short lived project. Recorded in Berkeley, 2013. Fun while it lasted but it had to be blown up I guess.
