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Rent Romus
Nu-Jazz / Screamo / Experimental

"saxophones, electronics, voice, accordian"

EL CERRITO, California
United States

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Last Login:  7/6/2008
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   Rent Romus: General Info
Member Since4/20/2006
Band Websiteromus.net
Band MembersLords 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

Ravenous, Explorer-Nabbing, Townsfolk-Reaping Ogre from the Mysterious Underground Sanctuary
Get Your Monster Name

InfluencesComposed music is just someone elses improvisation... Insipiration:
Albert Ayler, Arthur Blythe, C. J. Reaven Borosque, Merzbow, Ernesto Diaz-Infante, Diamanda Galas, Tom Waits, Eddie Moore, Lisle Ellis, Stand Getz, Glenn Spearman, Eric Dolphy, Booker Little, Tom Nunn, Thollem Mcdonas, John Tchicai, sirens & screams 6th & Market San Francisco, Randy Yau, Vortacella, strong winds off a cliff
Styles:
No holds barred music that cuts away the ropes of control and systems.


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Culture Of PainRent Romus
"Coagulation Not Cash" (mp3)
from "Culture Of Pain"
(Edgetone Records)

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BloomBloom
"Stamen" (mp3)
from "Bloom"
(Edgetone Records)

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Guinea Pig Out of Town (Live at The Hotel Utah)Rent Romus
"Red Leather Lounge" (mp3)
from "Guinea Pig Out of Town (Live at The Hotel Utah)"
(Edgetone Records)

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Record LabelEdgetone Records, Jazzheads
Type of LabelIndie





   Upcoming Shows ( view all )
Sep 18 2008 8:00P
ResBox @ The Steve Allen Theater at The Center for Inquiry-West Hollywood, California
Oct 8 2008 8:00P
Meridian Gallery w/Bloom (Steven Baker, Thollem Mcdonas) San Francisco, California

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   About Rent Romus
RENT ROMUS is a force spanning over twenty years of original improvised music, D.I.Y. music production, performance, and curation. He is heavily involved in stretching past the confines of standard music forms performing his original compositions in a wide variety of experimental musical settings as well as presenting and supporting the local artist community at large with his grass-root philanthropic vision for total artistic self expression and freedom from generic branding. From his very beginnings as a student of Jazz, studying under the tutelage of Stan Getz, Bruce Foreman, Dizzy Gillespie, and drummer Eddie Moore he found himself drawn to the outer realms of music. In 1986 at the age of 18 he founded the progressive jazz sextet Jazz On the Line, as a vehicle for his original compositions. They produced several projects, including In the Moment with Chico Freeman in 1992. In 1997 Romus had the honor of recording with tenor sax master John Tchicai. Tchicai is best known for his work with the NY Art Quartet, NY Ear and Eye Control, and his recordings with John Coltrane and Albert Ayler. In 2001 Romus re-opened his avant, free music label Edgetone Records where he released three CDs; Avatar In the Field, PKD Vortex, and Guinea Pig Live at the Hotel Utah that reflected his love for interweaving science fiction, horror literature, improvisation, Finno-Ugric traditions, socio-political themes, and the inspiration of Albert Ayler in his music. In 2003 he along side Ernesto Diaz-Infante founded The Abstractions, who released three recordings during their time together. Since then then Romus' ongoing free improvisational/experimental projects have included the Bloom Project with pianist Thollem Mcdonas and drummer Jon Brumit where they have released two CDs and toured through out the US Midwest. The Lords of Outland in the meantime have mutated through many incarnations and released Culture of Pain in 2006 and most recently in 2008; You can sleep when you’re dead! The core group consists of drummer Philip Everett, bassist Ray Schaeffer, and noise pedal artist C.J Borosque. As a producer and artist business activist Rent Romus founded Edgetone Records a new music label since 1991. In his early days as a concert producer he was the Executive Director of Jazz in Flight in the late 90’s as well as the Director of Promotion for the SFAlt Festival 2002-2004. Starting in 2000 he founded Outsound.org under which he is the Executive Director and lead curator of The SIMM Music Series at the Studio 6 Musicians Union Hall, and the famous Luggage Store Gallery New Music Series in San Francisco. In 2002 he founded The Edgetone New Music Summit, a national experimental music festival held in the greater San Francisco Bay Area every summer.


BANDS

Lords of Outland
Romus' vision of art takes the darkness and light of his own persona with that of the group members and translates it into musical combinations. Through the use of electronic & acoustic instrumentation, Romus composes his music to elicit a “feeling” as opposed to just simply entertain. The sound performed by the Lords of Outland follow a gut level harshness building upon a sparse structure while utilizing free improv. Noise and everything inbetween. In short, Romus takes a grunge attitude or bull-in-a-china-shop direction.

'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

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Rent Romus's Friends Comments
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No More Twist!





Jul 5 2008 9:48 PM

hi Rent!
Thanks for adding us!
Dan Godston





Jul 3 2008 11:22 PM

Rent,

How's your summer going? Do you have any tour plans in the works?

Dan
Murphy





May 5 2008 3:54 PM

ayuh ayuh.
ayuh ayuh.
ayuh ayuh.
ayuh eh.
ayuh eh.
E. Doctor Smith





May 1 2008 3:11 PM

"Who is the man, that'll risk his rent for his brother man?! RENT!! That Rent Romus is a bad mother - Shut your mouth!! I'm just talkin' 'bout Rent..."
la rebelión de los antioxidantes





Apr 29 2008 1:52 PM

Hello.Thanks for the add and your music.All our force.
Greetings from Barcelona
DG





Mar 25 2008 8:09 PM

Rent,

Looking forward to your next trip to the Midwest!

D
Boneyard Butchers





Mar 18 2008 1:54 PM

Thanks for the add!! ~Boneyard Butchers~
Thanks man!
Nonconformist Muffin


Is Online


Mar 10 2008 12:43 PM

Thanks for the b-day wish! NorCal Noisefest documentary is done, just putting the eyebrows on it! Hope all is well!
E. Doctor Smith





Feb 27 2008 3:06 PM

Rent, I just spoke to Andrew last night and I am disgusted, mortified, embarrassed and ashamed that I missed your "Lords of the Outland-Sleep When You're Dead" CD release show with Eddie the Rat!! Please forgive me and add me to your mailing list.

Humbly yours, E. Doctor Smith
malakia





Feb 19 2008 12:59 AM

thanl4theadd!
Mike





Feb 14 2008 12:53 AM


Mr. Rent Romus,
Thanks for adding me.
Your impressionistic music
is very interesting.
Best regards,
Mike
Swanwelder





Feb 11 2008 11:51 AM

You are a thoughtful and imaginative monster on the winds. great work!

best-

daryl shawn
Mike Crain





Jan 17 2008 12:20 PM

Hey thanks for the Add!!!! Great stuff!!

Peace.
Eddie the Rat





Jan 6 2008 8:00 PM

Happy Birthday, you 'ole sonic dog, uuuuu...

-Eddie
OGOGO





Jan 5 2008 11:18 PM





Is it a BLACK door?

Is it a METAL video?

No, it's Rent Romus-Man!

More DEATH than a ready-salted Culture of Pain,

able to bait The Lords of Outland

with JAZZ calendars in a single neanderthal..

igOr OGOGO

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UEM





Dec 25 2007 12:55 PM

Merry Christmas!
Bill

Beat Freisens Spelunkenorchester





Dec 14 2007 12:51 PM

very interesting the music. thank you for adding and sharing music. wish the best, your Speluneknorchester
C J Borosque





Dec 5 2007 12:14 PM

Mokum and Yooper





Nov 6 2007 2:06 AM

You betcha!

Val Mih





Oct 30 2007 8:22 AM

Thanks for the add and introduction to DCT's music project! Look forward to hearing you LIVE again very soon, I hope!
Val
Polly Moller & Co.