A 10-piece band playing original compositions influenced by Afrobeat, Afropop, highlife, reggae, and ska

Cory Wright - tenor sax
Aaron Bennett - tenor sax
Michael Zelner - alto sax
Dan Plonsey - baritone sax, compositions
John Shiurba - guitar
Karl Evangelista - guitar
Lynn Murdock - keyboards
Steve Lew - bass
Michaelle Goerlitz - percussion
Jason Levis - drums

Steve Adams and John Hanes came together to form their laptop electronics duo after extensive careers in other areas of music. Steve is a renowned saxophonist and long-time member of the Rova Saxophone Quartet. John is a widely respected drummer, active in jazz, rock, blues and experimental music. Both came to electronic music as part of their ongoing search for new approaches to their music. When they first started making electronic music together, they found that their approaches fit together effortlessly. 
Their aesthetic shows the influence of their broad range of musical experience, so there is no area or genre of music that they avoid. The use of recordings of the human voice in both speech and song is a frequent element, as is the use of loops both obvious and disguised by processing, as well as a wide variety of other sounds from the realistic to the outlandish. 
They have found that free improvisation works well as a format for their music, allowing them the freedom to explore widely divergent areas of sound while letting their innate musicality shape and structure the piece. Their pieces often are shaped by various restrictions and disciplines, and are informed by their extensive history in instrumental performance, composition and improvisation.
credits


BC3o (Suki O’Kane, Andy Cowitt, and Michael Wertz) were formed as a Big City Orchestra cover band in 2016 to play music on KFJC radio. the "Library" pieces were realized using six of the Digital Talking Book Players at the San Francisco Public Library for the Blind and Print Disabled. The other pieces were created during dinner, around a table.

no matter. try again. fail again. fail better.

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