Subterranean Arthouse 2179 Bancroft Way,
Berkeley CA
JANUARY:
Decoction Coffee + Analog ICM
Wednesday Mornings in January & February
at the Subterranean Arthouse
8am-11am
What do brass and vinyl mean to you?
To us, they mean an old-school great morning. This December we’re serving up South-Indian style brass-filter “decoction” coffee in traditional tumbler + davara (as pictured – a metal cup and saucer).
And at the same time, we’ll be hosting all-vinyl, all Indian classical music listening sessions. There’s some great old music on record, and you’ll get to hear some of it from 8 – 11am on these Wednesday mornings.
If this sounds like your kind of morning, you’re welcome.
Milk frothed by hand-pouring – local origin organic milk from Straus in Tomales Bay (Point Reyes). Coffee beans delivered by bicycle – fair-trade, organic, hand-picked, shade-grown.
Coffee served fresh on the hour at 8, 9, and 10am.
(Served in-between on an as-available basis.)
$3 – $5 donation per serving (sliding scale).
Conviviality and listening free from 8 – 11am.
RSVP not necessary.
* Served with milk and a pinch of sugar by default.
Sugar-free is possible, but milk-free is not. (Sorry. Also, no decaf.)
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JANUARY:
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Bayhill School Art Show
Friday, January 27th 6pm
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Sqwonk and Amy X Neuburg with the Solstice Vocal Ensemble
Saturday, January 28th 8:30pm
$15-30
tickets
video
Sqwonk explores the full range of the bass clarinet: from deep resonances to raucous wails. Grounded in classical tradition, but drawing from diverse sources such as klezmer, heavy metal, blues, minimalism, & free improvisation. Features Jon Russell & Jeff Anderle.
Avant-cabaret composer/performer Amy X Neuburg appears with the wonderful and versatile Solstice vocal ensemble to present her “Fill as Desired” (“Beliebig Füllen”) song cycle for female voices with live looping electronics. Sung in English, German and Czech, the songs are based on recipes that were collected by women in the Terezin concentration camp during World War II, cleverly layered with Amy’s own texts on fantasy as a means of survival. The music draws from Eastern European folk, German lieder, Weimar cabaret and the avant-garde, and features Amy as vocalist and looping electronics performer, recording and overdubbing eight voices into a thick multi-layered, multi-language chorus. The 10 songs reflect on complex subject matter with both heart-wrenching poignancy and surprising humor.
The award-winning Solstice ensemble is known for their brilliant renditions of a cappella world music, classical, pop, and everything in between. Amy composed the song cycle specifically for them. Solstice is Emily Bender, Becca Burrington, Lark Coryell, Krista Enos, Mari Marjamaa, Kim Warsaw, and Sara Webb-Schmitz.
“Fill as Desired” was originally commissioned by the Jewish Music Festival, where it was greeted with wild enthusiasm, and has since been staged at the Women on the Way Festival, the new Freight & Salvage, and other venues. A studio recording of the piece is in the final production stages.
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Butoh Salon night”
an evening of Butoh and Butoh-inspired performance
Sunday, January 29th 9pm
$10-15
first-Subterranean Arthouse Presents
second-A Series Of Circles-an evening of Butoh and Butoh-inspired performance
third- Featuring:Christina Braun with live music by Tom Nunn Martha Matsuda with live music by Mark Deutsch
Shelley Cook
Molly Barrons
Instrument inventor/improviser Tom Nunn offers a unique sonic imagery with his Skatchboxes and Lukie Tubes providing opposite extremes of articulated noise and hovering ghostly tones.
Tom Nunn has designed, built and performed with original musical instruments since 1976, and has built over 200 instruments. His instruments typically utilize commonly available materials, are sculptural in appearance, utilize contact microphones for amplification, and are designed specifically for improvisation with elements of ambiguity, unpredictability and nonlinearity. Tom has performed extensively throughout the San Francisco Bay Area for over 30 years, as well as in other parts of the U.S., Canada, Europe, and New Zealand, both as soloist and with other musicians. Tom also performs with T.D. SKATCHIT, RTD3, and GHOST IN THE HOUSE and has appeared on a number of recordings, including his solo CD, Identity (2007), T.D. Skatchit & Company (2009) and Skatch Migration (2010) (Edgetone Records). In 1998, he self-published WISDOM OF THE IMPULSE: ON THE NATURE OF MUSICAL FREE IMPROVISATION.
A lifelong dancer, Christina Braun’s choreography with collaborating composers has been presented regularly since 2002. She has performed with Katsura Kan, Koichi and Hiroko Tamano’s Harupin-Ha, and Mary Sano and her Duncan Dancers. Her project SF Butoh LAB organized the Asian Art Museum’s 2008 Butoh performance and the Butoh Dance Symposia of 2005 at San Francisco State University and 2009 at the San Francisco Main Library. Christina co-founded BUTOH San Francisco, producing the 2008 and 2009 festivals.
one-liner: Dance artist Christina Braun’s choreography with collaborating composers has been presented regularly since 2002.
Shelley Cook-Contreras is an internationally exhibited artist whose trans-media works encompass performance, video, installation sculpture, and drawings. Her past projects have been funded by the National Endowments for the Arts, the National Institute of Fine Arts, in Mexico, the National Fund for the Arts and Culture, FONCA; with the Rockefeller Foundation, and The California Arts Council. Her recent performance work investigates the flux between the sacred and profane. She thinks of these works as “activators”, providing a spark toward new awareness.
Title: Platform 8
Artist: Metropolitan Butoh
Bio: Molly Barrons is from Detroit. She received her B.A. in Dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Metropolitan Butoh is a vehicle for training, performance and community building.
Martha Matsuda fell in love with Ankoku Butoh (The Dance of Utter Darkness) in 1994, the first time she was exposed to its magic. Martha is grateful for having been able to train with some of the finest Butoh masters in the world and has performed in several ensembles — Metropolitan Butoh, SF Butoh Lab, and with Koichi and Hiroko Tamano-san’s Harupin-ha Butoh Troupe. She has performed at many indoor and outdoor Bay Area venues, in Mexico, and New York City. In 2002, she founded Jomon Butoh Troupe and has since performed a number of solos with Bazantar inventor and virtuoso musician Mark Deutsch.
Mark Deutsch is a world-renowned musician who invented the Bazantar (www.bazantar.com) in 1997, for which he was awarded a U.S. patent. Mark has been performing professionally since he was 12 years old, developing an ever-changing, improvisational style that incorporates classical and popular musical traditions from all over the world. As a lecturer and teacher, Mark is recognized for his theories on music, vibration and its effect on consciousness.
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FEBRUARY
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Marie Schumacher and the West Coast Players
Saturday, Feb 4th 8pm
$10-15
Award-winning songwriter, vocalist, guitarist, and pianist Marie Schumacher is celebrating the release of her fourth CD of original music, which integrates Latin jazz, R&B, modern rock, and Americana elements into her lyrical, finely-crafted songs. She will be performing at Subterreanean Art House (2179 Bancroft Way, Berkeley) on Saturday, February 4th, 8:00 – 10:30. Bay Area singer-songwriter Kevin Beadles opens.
Marie’s latest recording, Island Set Aflame, explores the themes of light and heat as sources of creativity, wisdom, and alienation. With a rich, nimble voice that emotes both vulnerability and conviction with ease and nuance, Marie’s songs take you on an expansive journey that is both introspective and visceral. You’ll be lulled into a deep, vivid, hopeful place by Marie’s singing and stories, and by the gentle grooves and lush textures of her masterful band, the West Coast Players, which includes Steve Gibson (Jolly Gibsons, Kevin Beadles Band) on electric guitar, John Foster (Kevin Beadles Band, Phat Lipp) on electric bass, Jon Arkin (Bill Chaplin, Randy Porter, Albino!) on drums, and Aaron Elliott and Steven Patton (both of Andrews Ave.) on backing vocals.
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“Under the Covers”
Friday, February 10th 9pm
$10-15
Local singer/songwriter/bassist Kate Burkart once again presents her “Under the Covers” showcase at the Subterranean Art House on Friday, February 10th. “Under the Covers” brings some of the Bay Area’s best musicians to one stage, each interpreting the songs of one of their favorite musicians in rotating sets. Audiences can always count on an eclectic and interesting musical experience…
This evening will include
Jesse Brewster covering Bob Seger,
Lindy LaFontaine covering Peter Gabriel and
Austin Willacy covering U2.
About the performers:
Jesse Brewster‘s sound fuses a Rock/Americana style he describes as “Tom Petty and Lynyrd Skynyrd get into a bar room brawl with Neil Young and John Mayer.” Jesse has maintained a busy tour schedule around the U.S., recently in support of his critically acclaimed new album, “Wrecking Ball at the Concert Hall”, released in 2011. “Brewster is a master of the tasteful tune, the surprising chord change, and the conscientious lyric.” -Marin Independent Journal.
http://www.jessebrewster.com/
A lustrous sheen of shimmering electronic orchestration frames the evocative voice of singer/
songwriter Lindy LaFontaine. “The piano is my tool, but because I’m interested in rhythm I
translate that to phrasing as a vocalist.” In March 2011, Lindy’s cover of “Low” by Cracker, won
Best Cover Song at the 10th Independent Music Awards. In addition to performing, Lindy is
also an accomplished vocal coach.
http://www.lindylafontaine.com
Austin Willacy is a critically acclaimed singer/songwriter who has toured the U.S., Europe, and
Japan with the House Jacks, a groundbreaking all-vocal rock band. He’s appeared in Rolling
Stone and has performed with Bonnie Raitt, Ray Charles, James Brown, and rising stars like
Jem, Rachael Vamagata, and Amos Lee. Austin has been touring extensively as a solo artist
since 2005 while continuing his domestic and international touring with the House Jacks.
http://www.austinwillacy.com/
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Sangati Center presents:
Carnatic Violin Concert with Anuradha Sridhar
Saturday, February 11th, 7pm
$10-15
sangati website
Anuradha Sridhar has been a tireless teacher, performer, and ambassador for Carnatic music in the Bay Area. Groomed in a milieu that traces its roots back to the most significant Carnatic composer of all time, Saint Thyagaraja, the strains of music have been handed down in her family like a precious heirloom, from generation to generation. Her grandfather, Lalgudi Gopala Iyer, was an innovative teacher and a versatile musician who showed musical agility over a range of instruments. Anu, who has vivid memories of learning sessions with him, is the daughter and disciple of his fourth child, Lalgudi Srimathi Brahmanandan, the reputed sister of violin maestro Lalgudi G. Jayaraman. For over two decades, the renowned brother-sister duo performed legendary concerts many of which, even today, evoke awe in music circles in India.
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Fredrik & Tall Timbers
Wednesday February 15th
8:30pm (doors at 8pm)
$10-15
Fredrik
The melodic, experimental folk three-piece consisting of one songsmith (F), one sound-painter (O) and one conceptual artist (A). All three of them mostly live and work in Malmö, Sweden and create music in a secluded 19th-century garden shack with the help of “darkness, voices, quiet instruments, curiosity, nightmares, melodies and terrible weather”, reportedly striving towards “impulsive beauty” and trying to avoid “rationalization, self-consciousness and irony”. Some people call their music surreal. A lot of people call the music soothing. Almost everyone says it makes them think of trees
Tall Timbers
4 piece instrumental ensemble out of San Francisco which features bass, drums, piano, and acoustic guitar!
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artist in residence program presents:
“Big Insides”
Friday Feb 17th and
Saturday Feb 18th
8pm
$10-15
“Big Insides” is an exploration into the vast wilderness of our dreaming minds. Our brains constantly create alternate realities, some of which linger for years, seeping into waking life. The edges of memory blur. What actually happened? What is fake? Embarrassing situations. Houses we don’t really live in. Close relationships to strangers. Visits from the dead. Fear that does not cease upon waking. Join us as we rummage around in the mess of sub-consciousness.
Directed by: Mary Lachman
Created and Performed by: Matthew Beals, Becca Dean, Ethan Cowen, Elizabeth McSurdy, Mary Lachman
Sound Created and Performed by: Eric Kuhn
Mary is local artist, who has been performing and creating work in the Bay Area for the past two years. Her current interest lies in how certain physical states can communicate emotion and sensation. She also is continually trying to figure out how to get under people’s skin and make them feel more deeply. She has had the honor of performing with TOXIC the Minna Harri Performance Set, Kathleen Hermesdorf/ la ALTERNATIVA, Sarah Shelton Mann, Abby Crain, and Laura Arrington. Mary is also in the process of making a second new film with the dance and film collaborative, “Slpicetress.” http://vimeo.com/17982502
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Emma Hill
Saturday February 24th
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Roger Riedlbauer guitar recital
Sunday February 26th 1pm
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Brooklyn-Bay Area creative jazz double header!
Harris Eisenstadt + Lisa Mezzacappa
Wednesday February 29th 8:30pm
$10-15
Harris Eisenstadt & Canada Day:
Nate Wooley – trumpet
Matt Bauder- tenor saxophone
Chris Dingman -vibraphone
Garth Stevenson – bass
Harris Eisenstadt – drums, compositions
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Lisa Mezzacappa’s Bait & Switch:
Aaron Bennett, tenor saxophone
John Finkbeiner, electric guitar
Vijay Anderson, drums
Lisa Mezzacappa, acoustic bass
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