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Rent Romus' Life's Blood Ensemble at Musicians Union Hall
Courtesy of Rent Romus | Posted on August 4, 2017
Where
Musicians Union Hall
116 9th St.
San Francisco, CA
Map
(415) 575-0777
When
Sun, August 6, 2017
7:30 pm
At Door
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Musicians
Rent Romus
saxophone, altoTimothy Orr
drumsSafa Shokrai
bassJoshua Marshall
saxophone, tenorHeikki Koskinen
trumpetMax Judelson
celloTom Weeks
guitar, electricAbout
Life's Blood pay tribute as well as bring to light, reinvent, deconstruct, and breathe life into the deeper realms of their collective body of memory performing original music, as well as contemporary local and international composers. Created in 1999 by saxophonist Rent Romus while on tour in Northern Europe, the group currently features drummer Timothy Orr along with a rotating cast of guest performers from the San Francisco Bay Area.
Their latest album Rising Colossus released in 2016 "offers an incisive and often exhilarating glimpse at a scene that Romus has played an essential role in shaping. The LBE dives headlong into a disparate array of compositions, opening and closing the album with very different works inspired by epic tales..." (Andrew Gilbert SF Chron) ...