This
album channels music for organ, classical guitars,
strings, and Indonesian gamelans through electric
guitars and classic vacuum tube amplifiers. The
result is an extraordinary blend of art music
and post-rock, achieved by eight classically
trained guitarists who reclaim the electric guitar
and transform a variety of art music genres.
"These artistic possibilities
are increased exponentially when
one combines art forms, as the LAE8
and world arts and culture MFA candidate
Cari Ann Shim Sham are doing in the
form of Project Berd.."
"Count the Los Angeles
Electric 8 among the ranks of gifted
electrists aiming to restore our
faith in its wild side, but with
discipline and music stands in tow."
Ken
Rosser's performance resume ranges from
John Cage, Billy Higgins, Bennie Wallace
and Vinny Golia to the Elvis Schoenberg
Orchestra Surreal, with appearances at
the Monterey Jazz Festival, The Frankurt
Jazz Festival and the International Reggae
Festival in New Orleans. Ken is also
actively involved in the World Music
scene. He teaches private guitar at GIT
in Hollywood, CA.
General admission is $10 with dinner ($12 show only). Seating is limited and
we expect the concert to sell out so please purchase in advance or call SOhO
for reservations: (805) 962-7776.
A big thank you to all who made it to our
2008 performances. We were thrilled to play
another sold-out show for our season-closer
at the Electric Lodge. At present, we're
planning our 2009 season and working on our
next album, currently in the mixing stage—we'll
keep you posted. For now, we leave you with
this short documentary on the group from
the World Festival of Sacred Music Performance.
Created by Adam Mcfaddin Ballard, for the
World Festival of Sacred Music - Los Angeles
2008. LA Lens on Sacred Music.
Los
Angeles Electric 8, the world's only
electric guitar chamber octet performs
their final show for the season.
This unique evening features a world
premiere of Phil Kline's "96 Tears," written
for eight sustaining electric guitars,
a modern emulation of 16th century
viol consorts. They will also perform
selections from the "Well Tempered
Clavier" by J.S. Bach, "Octet,
Op.11" by Dmitri Shostakovich,
a selection from "Quartet for
the End of Time" by Olivier Messiaen,
Italian Renaissance pieces by Gabrieli
and Taeggio, Indonesian gamelan styled, "Balinesa
El Canto de los Changos" by Randall
Kohl, and the ethereal "Domino
Figures" by Wayne Siegel. This
show is not to be missed!
Or call for reservation,
seating is limited: (310) 823-0710.
JohnPaul is off to Rio de Janeiro
to
explore Brazilian
guitar styles
Wedensday, November 12, 2008 Please join us for two
very exciting shows this weekend.
On Friday, we will perform at the
hip cabaret Café-Club Fais Do-Do
in the heart of Los Angeles' mid city
district. Fais Do-Do offers fine soulful
Cajun cuisine and an entrée
into a diverse music, theatre and dance
scene.
Honorary ninth member, drummer Daryl Anderson, will join the group for Frank
Oteri's microtonal rock suite. The elegantly ambient Agness Twin will open
for our two full sets.
On Saturday, we will perform at Fishbon
in Santa Barbara. Reminiscent of the
19th century Parisian salon, Fishbon
believes in the power of collaboration
between artists, scientists, engineers,
writers, performers and participants
to create compelling aesthetic experiences
that would have been difficult to achieve
in isolated individual working environments.
Please come and support this charitable
organization.
We hope to see you there!
Scroll down to Rona's Favorite Picks and Thank you Rona!:Click
Here to read.
Monday, October 20, 2008 Website
Updates
Hey everyone, we udated our repertoire section
with samples of our new pieces
(and some old) from recent performances.....
In case you are curious to what they sound
like if you missed some shows. We also
updated our photos section,
which took forever. See you soon :)
We are pleased to announce that we'll
be sharing the stage with our friends Edmund
Welles, the bass clarinet quartet. Edmund
Welles is not to be missed. The innovative
Bay Area quartet plays what they call heavy
chamber music, mixing old-school metal
with chamber arrangements. We'll be playing
pieces from our new set that we premiered
to a sold-out crowd at the Armory Center
for the Arts. (Thanks everyone for such
a great turnout!) We will also be premiering
some new music you didn't hear at the Armory.
In addition, if you missed the Armory show,
we play two full sets alone at the acoustically
stunning Church of the Epiphany in Oak
Park the following Sunday. We'll premiere
a few new pieces there as well.
Friday
/ October 10, 2008 / 9:00pm
Los Angeles, Eagle Rock / Zomzy
Studios
Saturday / October 11, 2008 / 8:00pm
Long Beach / {open}
"an extremely exciting album,
not to mention enjoyable to listen to,
and gives one the feeling of being on
the ground floor of something fresh and
new."
Come to the Armory Center for the Arts,
where we will offer a distinctive interpretation
of sacred music for this year's World Festival
of Sacred Music. We will recast a number
of sacred and devotional works from their
original instrumentation—adaptations
of traditional Indonesian gamelan, chorales
by Bach, Messiaen, Villa-Lobos and more.
Sunday / Septemeber 21st, 2008 / 7:00pm
Pasadena/Armory Center for the Arts
Read the rest of the album review on Aiding and Abetting:Click
Here.
Tuesday, September 2, 2008 Los Angeles Electric
8 on KPFK!
Listen to a recording of World Festival of
Sacred Music Director, Judy Mitoma on "Global
Village Tuesdays with Betto Arcos." They
talked about our upcoming performance in the World Festival of Sacred Music....
They are awesome people!.
Original Broadcast: Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008, KPFK 90.7 Los Angeles CA
Click button to listen to our selected
excerpt (or download the whole show, click
here)
"... Los Angeles Electric 8 made a very good
start in introducing electric guitars into
the classical music milieu."
Read
the rest of the album review on Psyche
Music:Click
Here.
Thursday, July 31, 2008 Album
now available on iTunes
For
those of
you who
don't need
to hold the awesome CD in your hands with
awesome
cover artwork
by Brooks
Salzwedel,
the album
is now
available
on iTunes: click
here
The Los Angeles Electric 8 is featured
on "Friends
of RHR Thursdays" every
Thursday in July on redhookradio.org.
Listen in for tracks from the debut album
mixed in with other great music. For a
link to Red Hook Radio Click
Here.
This month on Friends of RHR:
Los Angeles Electric 8, Porter, Guillermo
E Brown, Shake Zulu Overdrive, The
Mackrosoft, Cheebacabra, Black Sea,
The Happy Talk Band, Prototokyo, Rats
With Wings
Pandora, Radio from the Music
Genome Project, Click
Here
Thursday, May 8, 2008 Los Angeles Electric 8 on the Radio!
Listen to a recording of Ben Harbert on "Global
Village: Music From Around The World and
Around the Block with John Schneider." They
talked about the new album and the Microfest
concert.
Original Broadcast: Thursday May 8th 2008,
KPFK 90.7, Los Angeles CA
