saving face

July 24, 2009 on 1:24 pm | In Happenings | No Comments

Can we preserve our faces as the eyes of god grow bigger in the widening gyre?

Saturday, July 25, 8 pm, house show, 106 Williams St, Carrboro: Crowmeat Bob and Josh Zaslow.
I believe we’ll be playing separate and improvising together. Me on horns, Josh on guitar.

Friday, July 31, Slim’s, Raleigh: Some Girls
Yep. A late-70’s style Stones cover band. I’ll be portraying whoever the guy is that replaced Bobby Keys.

Saturday, August 8, 6 pm, Durham Arts Guild, 120 Morris St, Durham: Sun Ra tribute.
Things’ll actually begin at 5:00 when a costume and noise procession will make its way from Central Park to the D.A.G.
Then these folks’ll play an improvised set:
York Wilson - pedal steel; Steve Burnett - theremin, Paul Dean - Casio, 8 voice, 8 octave, toy synth sax through a chinese bull horn; Ben Riseling - reeds; Bo Newsome - oboe; myself on reeds; and possibly Carrie Shull - oboe and Sara Bell - banjo.
And the Triangle Soundpainting Orchestra will top it all off at 7:00.

Thank you for listening.
-Bob
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Planning for the Future

July 17, 2009 on 9:58 am | In Happenings | No Comments

Thank the stars we have insurance, that’s all I’m saying.

Friday, July 17, The Mansion, Chapel Hill, 7:00: Fuse Band.
An improvising ensemble of hard driving funk and jazz.

Saturday, July 18, House Party: 704 Sheperd St, Durham, 10:30 or so: D-Town Brass.
Here’s another chance to catch Andy Magowan’s crack 13-piece crime jazz big band. Hopefully there’ll be room for you to hoof along.
http://www.reverbnation.com/dtownbrass

Sunday, July 19: 10 pm to midnight, WXDU, 88.7, wxdu.org: Becoming Animal.
I’ll be spinning another Mystery Show, this time about people who are beasts of burden and prey.

Saturday, July 25, 106 Williams St, Carrboro
An improvised show featuring myself and resident guitarist Josh Zaslow. Probably others.
More info later.

Friday, July 31, Slim’s, Raleigh, 10:00: Some Girls
I’ll be playing sax again with this Rolling Stones cover band. Sorta mid-period / late-70’s, y’know, when they were still kinda cool.

-Robert
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