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Lords of Outland

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Released: Sep 25, 2006

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Lords of Outland
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New Light w/ Thollem Mcdonas
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Embers w/ Feu Folliet
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Chandelier
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Dali Lawnd (feat. Rent Romus)
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General Info

Genre: Experimental / Jazz / Other
Location San Francisco, California, Un
Profile Views: 28583
Last Login: 9/14/2011
Member Since 4/20/2006
Website http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LnJvbXVzLm5ldA==
Record Label Edgetone Records, Jazzheads
Type of Label Indie
Bio
.. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. Rent Romus is an American saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, music and performing arts producer, and community leader living in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is heavily involved in exploring past the confines of standard music forms of composition and improvisations in a wide variety of musical settings. He is also focused in presenting and supporting the local experimental and avant-garde community. From his very beginnings as a student of Jazz while being exposed to the twilight tutelage of Stan Getz he found himself drawn to the outer realms of music. From 1986 to present day Rent Romus has recorded and released twenty two recordings as a leader featuring a cross section of new up and coming musicians as well as seasoned veterans of the improvised arts which have included Jason Olaine, Steve Rossi, Chico Freeman, John Tchiai, Jonas Müller, Stefan Pasborg, Toyoji Tomita, Dave Mihaly, Bill Noertker, CJ Borosque, Philip Everett, Ray Scheaffer, Paris Slim, Jesse Quattro, Scott R Looney, Bob Marsh, Jim Ryan, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Tobias Fischer, and most recently Thollem Mcdonas to name a few. As a producer and artist business activist he runs Edgetone Records a label for all forms of improvisation and experimentation. He is the founder and Executive Director of Outsound Presents under which curates The SIMM Music Series at the Musicians Union Hall on alternate Sundays as well as the long standing Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series every Thursday both in San Francisco, and The Outsound New Music Summit (formerly the edgetone new music summit), a national experimental music festival held in the greater San Francisco Bay Area every summer in July. .... ..BANDS...... Lords of Outland .. The Lords of Outland are a loose collective rotating ensemble for the sonic escapades of saxophonist, producer Rent Romus. The Lords of Outland began in 1993 after a bloodless coup by members a band he ran for ten years known as Jazz On the Line. The Lords released it's first album You'll Never Be The Same for New York based Jazzheads Records in 1995. Still beholden to the vapid decrepid ideals of the standard-jazz-mindset, Rent entered a group video to the then micro-fledgling BET Channel's National Network Show, "Jazz Central" as part of the Jazz Discovery program. As Rent watched the jazz judges sit and stare at the camera as they tried to say something "nice" about the Lords' version of Eric Dolphy's 'Out to Lunch' submitted alongside the smooth and silky Pat Matheny he knew he was meant to bludgeon the status quo. Since then the Lords' roster has changed numerous times, releasing five albums with each incarnation more terrible then the last, wreaking havoc on the ears of unsuspecting victims chasing away the once plump jazz fans of days past. As the years sloshed ahead through a decade sonic conservatism Rent discovered he and the Lords had fallen into a realm known to some as "Black Metal FreeJazz". This odd sub-genre seems to have metamorphosed from the need of a new generation to navigate it's urge to play band instruments and still mosh in a complete abandon. This incubation and virulent growth of such a community has spurred Rent's most recent releases with the Lords named aptly Culture of Pain and You can sleep when you're dead! featuring his current line-up of the most sonically disturbed of sound artists CJ Borosque, Philip Everett, and Ray Scheaffer.. .. ..'Bloom'.., a spirited and colossal collaboration between pianist Thollem Mcdonas, multi-saxophonist and electronician Rent Romus, instrument builder Steven Baker, and drummer and found-object player Jon Brumit. The CD features free group improvisations as well as interpretations of numerous textual and graphical scores offered up by Mcdonas and Brumit. The entire album is an organic construction and expression of solos, duos, and trios combining disparate and divergent stylistic histories with a sense of refreshing immediacy, intensity, and spontaneous inventiveness. .... QUOTES.. "...his (mostly) gentle phrasing underlining a potential, yet still non-existent rebellion while transmuting the predominant tides into deformed film-noirish soundtracks, with rain pouring down on the trash amassed in dark alleys." .. Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes, Rome, Italy "Rent remains a force for me, his restraint as powerful as his melodic attacks.".. Thurston Hunger, KFJC 89.7 FM Los Altos, CA.. “Swings like death and hell.” .. Jack Lind, Det Fri Aktuelt, Copenhagen, Denmark.. “...a ferocious improviser.” .. San Francisco Weekly.. “...dynamic, and monstrous.” .. Sam Prestianni, Oakland Montclarion.. “Overall, Romus' performance was raw and full of musical vigor, which inspired a higher order and left the audience with a smitten effect. .. Thorbjorn Sjogren, Politiken, Denmark.. “Romus has been central to the creative music world of the West Coast for a number of years, and he keeps stretching the boundries of originality with each new release.” .. Frank Rubolino - onefinalnote.com/Cadence ............I created my own profile using ..nUCLEArcENTURy.COM.. and you should too! .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Members
Lords of Outland CJ "Reaven" Borosque - pedals Ray Scheaffer - elec. bass Philip Everett - drums, elec, percussion Rent Romus - horns, voice, elec Tri-Cornered Tent Show Ray Scheaffer - elec. bass Philip Everett - drums, elec, percussion Rent Romus - horns, voice, elec Andre Custodio - electronics Dina Emerson - voice Bloom Thollem Mcdonas - piano Jon Brumit - drums Steven Baker - bellows, etc Rent Romus - horns, voice, elec .... .... ......Get Your Monster Name......
Influences
Composed music is just someone elses improvisation... Insipiration:.. CJ Borosque, Merzbow, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Diamanda Galas, Tom Waits, Eddie Moore, Lisle Ellis, Tom Nunn, Thollem Mcdonas, , sirens & screams 6th & Market San Francisco, Randy Yau, Vortacella, strong winds off a cliff.. Bretheren in Tone: Albert Ayler, Arthur Blythe, Thomas Chapin, Eric Dolphy, Chico Freeman, Stand Getz, Oliver Lake, Booker Little, Jim Pepper, Glenn Spearman, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, John Tchicai.. Styles:.. No holds barred music that cuts away the ropes of control and systems..... .......... ......Rent Romus............ "Avatar In The Field".... (mp3) .. from "Rent Romus' Lords of Outland, Avatar In The Field" ....(Edgetone Records)........ ..Buy at ....Rhapsody...... ..Stream from ....Rhapsody...... ..More On This Album........ ......Rent Romus............ "Dissent Ascension".... (mp3) .. from "Rent Romus' Lords of Outland, The Pit" ....(Edgetone Records)........ ..Buy at ....iTunes Music Store...... ..Buy at ....Rhapsody...... ..Stream from ....Rhapsody...... ..More On This Album........ ......Rent Romus............ "Gasburger Sheep Slaughter House".... (mp3) ..from "Rent Romus' Lords of Outland, You can sleep when you're dead!" ....(Edgetone Records)........ ..Buy at ....iTunes Music Store...... ..Buy at ....Rhapsody...... ..Buy at ....Napster...... ..Stream from ....Rhapsody...... ..Buy at ....Puretracks...... ..Buy at ....Amazon...... ..Buy at ....mTraks...... ..More On This Album.......... ......Rent Romus............ "Culture Of Pain".... (mp3) ..from "Culture Of Pain" ....(Edgetone Records)........ ..Buy at ....iTunes Music Store...... ..Buy at ....Napster...... ..Buy at ....Rhapsody...... ..Stream from ....Rhapsody...... ..Buy at ....Puretracks...... ..Buy at ....Amazon...... ..Buy at ....GroupieTunes...... ..Buy at ....mTraks...... ..More On This Album.......... ......Bloom............ "Stamen".... (mp3) ..from "Bloom" ....(Edgetone Records)........ ..Buy at ....iTunes Music Store...... ..Buy at ....Rhapsody...... ..Buy at ....Napster...... ..Stream from ....Rhapsody...... ..More On This Album........ ......Rent Romus............ "Red Leather Lounge".... (mp3) ..from "Guinea Pig Out of Town (Live at The Hotel Utah)" ....(Edgetone Records)........ ..Buy at ....iTunes Music Store...... ..Buy at ....Napster...... ..Buy at ....Rhapsody...... ..Stream from ....Rhapsody...... ..Buy at ....Puretracks...... ..Buy at ....Amazon...... ..Buy at ....mTraks...... ..More On This Album........
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