Orange Room and RTFM Records present: An intimate evening concert with Daniel Berkman, Steve Lawson & Tom Lattanand.

Join us for a lush, intimate evening of looped and unlooped, acoustic and electric strings - guitar, kora, and bass - with three very special musicians: World renowned looped fretless bass player Steve Lawson, multi-instrumentalist and avant-garde looped kora player Daniel... [read more]

Orange Room and RTFM Records present: An intimate evening concert with Daniel Berkman, Steve Lawson & Tom Lattanand.

Join us for a lush, intimate evening of looped and unlooped, acoustic and electric strings - guitar, kora, and bass - with three very special musicians: World renowned looped fretless bass player Steve Lawson, multi-instrumentalist and avant-garde looped kora player Daniel Berkman, and intricate, multilayered solo guitar player Tom Lattanand.

Doors at 7:00, show at 7:30. Sliding scale $5-$20 donation. Cash bar.

Steve Lawson (UK) has beaten a decidedly individual path through the thorny scrubland known as the music industry. He's eschewed a career of simply being the bassist by utilizing a multiple overlaying technique known as looping - Lawson becomes his own backup band. Deeply inspired by guitarist greats like Bill Frissel and Robert Fripp, Lawson uses a digital looper to lay down layers of overdubs in real-time, adding guitar-like lines on the effect-modified upper strings of his six-stringed instrument, as well as using other effects to create lush chordal pads. http://www.stevelawson.net/

"Steve's complex array of sound and rare, intimate touch are rapidy turning him into one of the most influential bassists in the world" Bass Guitar Magazine

Daniel Berkman is a San Francisco based composer, multi-instrumentalist and innovator of the kora (a 21-stringed harp/lute from West Africa), using electronic devices and loop boxes to transform his kora in real time in live performance. Daniel also plays guitar, handsonic, and piano and is a featured electronic artist on RTFM Records under the moniker “Colfax”. Daniel has also composed many eclectic scores for choreographers and dance companies in San Francisco, notably Sarah Shelton Mann, ODC, Company Chaddick, Lizz Roman and Dancers, Kunst-Stoff and others. http://rtfmrecords.com/artists/daniel-berkman/

Tom Lattanand's dynamic, multilayered, and percussive solo guitar playing creates a sound much bigger than one might expect. His guitar compositions are both intricate and high energy, while drawing from a wide range of musical styles. A member of the Oakland based band Ettie Street Project, Tom also adapts their music into his solo set. http://tomlattanand.com/