RareNoise’s mission is to detect and amplify contemporary trends in progressive music, by highlighting their relation to the history of the art-form, while choosing not to be bound by pre-conceptions of genre. It seeks to become a guiding light for all those enamoured by exciting, adventurous and progressive sounds.

Steph Richards is an experimental trumpet player and composer based in New York City.

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Traveling the spaces between new music, improvisation and performance art, trumpeter and composer Stephanie Richards examines the physical, visual and auditory interactions of live music performance. As reflected in her recently commissioned works, Rotations for twelve choreographed musicians and carousel organ and Trading Futures for six hundred choreographed found sound surfaces, Stephanie's theatrical tendencies often result in compositional collaborations of sound, sight and movement.

Stephanie has become a prominent voice in experimental improvisation, collaborating with artists such as improvisational pioneers Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, John Zorn and Anthony Braxton, composer Helmut Lachenmann and performance artists Mike Kelly and Yoko Ono.  As a founding member of Asphalt Orchestra, created by the new music collective Bang on a Can, Stephanie has worked with David Byrne, St. Vincent, Susan Marshall, Tyondai Braxton among others, and has also performed alongside Kronos Quartet, The Pixies, Kanye West, A-Trak and Common.

Championing new music, Stephanie has premiered her own works from stages as varied as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center to smaller iconic stages at the Blue Note and The Stone. While her performances survey a panorama of musical genres ranging from free improvisation, jazz, hip hop, punk and contemporary classical music, it is the collaboration with space and surface that unifies Stephanie’s creative pursuits. She holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music, McGill University, California Institute of the Arts and has held residency at Stanford University. A recent addition to the faculty of music at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), Stephanie also encourages the performance and commissioning of jazz and new music as Vice-President of the Festival of New Trumpet (FONT).

Singer, Songwriter and Bassplayer ROSKO GEE was a Member of STEVE WINWOOD's famous Band TRAFFIC. He played on several Albums for the German avantgardeband CAN.

His versality and virtuosity is highly regarded and valuated by many famous musicians like PHIL COLLINS, MARIANNE FAITHFUL, AL DI MEOLA, TRILOK GURTU, STOMU YAMASHTA, STEVE WINWOOD, which he accompanied in the studio as well as on tour.

His new Album "My Name Is Fear" combines elements of Jazz, Soul, Popular Music, Worldmusic and Modern Classic with magnificent Poetry. This as a new element must be heard.

Rosko Gee - vocals, bass
Josef Ferger - keyboards
Thomas Klees - guitar
Uli Kraemer - drums
Jorge Meneses - percussion

"The music we make is a reflection of our time. The past we dare not forget and the future, that - that we must lean to. Our duty to those who come after us and the richness of our lives today. We try to give from what we get." 
 
Cult & Dare from Record Label perfectzeromusic.com

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