Being a “slacker” doesn’t have to be a bad thing. Both Stephen Inglis and Cindy Combs have been playing Hawaiian slack-key guitar for years and it has served them well. Stephen & Cindy are currently doing a concert/workshop tour together and will stop in at KZSC to join “Wiki Wiki Wednesday” host Lani B. on August 11th at 8 AM. Be sure to tune in and escape to the islands; no one will accuse you of slacking off.
KZSC Welcomes Memoryhouse, Baths, Mountain Animal Hospital, and Brown Irish this Friday, July 30th at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center in Santa Cruz! This is going to be a stellar show that you do not want to miss! Memoryhouse is an up-and-coming dream-pop act out of Canada that mixes ambient loops, breezy samples, and synths in their music. Joining Memoryhouse are Baths, a one man wonder out of Los Angeles who uses playful instrumentation and lush melodies to create a unique sound. Also joining these two amazing acts are local favorites Mountain Animal Hospital and Brown Irish . Sounds like fun, right?
Bethany and Amanda comprise Pocahaunted. They look so happy – kinda like The Carpenters (if Richard was a girl and who knows) – however most of Pocahaunted’s music is buried in a murkier, ambient sort of dark primitive experimental sound. Bethany describes it as, “Talking Heads meets Cocteau Twins thrown into a blender after smoking a lot of weed.” Karen, are you listening? Fresh from L.A. Pocahaunted comes to The Crepe Place in Santa Cruz this Tuesday, July 27th at 9 PM.
Plan ahead, heads. They have the KZSC stomp of approval. (more…)
Ya see what I did there? That was a Kubrick reference, which means that I am a witty fellow. Worship my prowess.
To begin, my name is Dan Davis, and as of several months ago I became the Jazz and Blues Director here at the ever lovely re-purposed music room known as KZSC Santa Cruz. Due to mounting pressure, I was told that I must create a blog post or face a severe flogging.
So good jazz news, we have an add this week that I am incredible excited about, Mr. Takao Iwaki. Maybe it’s just a personal issue, but I feel that it’s really easy to play the Sax in a way that drains it of its fun and sensual properties. This guy does it right, and I am so surprised that this is his first release. According to the promotional stuff they sent me, he has been leading groups since ’98, and he is currently working gigs on cruise liners. I just can’t say enough about how phenomenal his work is, and not just his control of the instrument, but that he composes all but one track on the album by himself.
We just got this record in from Crustacean Records:
It’s the new release from Screamin’ Cyn Cyn & The Pons, “Damn Girl.” Behind the plastic-gem bedazzled gold acrylic nails is a band that appear not to take themselves very seriously. If they are serious about anything, it’s penning irreverent and offensive songs that poke fun at just about everything: trophies, hairdos, and cats that dig pop culture icons. This record may not be for everyone–our world music director describes it as “painful.” Hey, sometimes punk hurts, but this punk tickles. Check out the lyrics to track eight, “POTO”:
