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Eugene Thompson

Eugene Thompson began his career in Austin, Texas, as a singer and hip hop deejay, scratching and cutting for the T.N.T. Crew and the funk band Slackface, a local phenomenon that played concerts with Fishbone, the Butthole Surfers, and T.S.O.L. 

He moved to Colorado where he expanded his songwriting and musicianship on keyboards, then to Los Angeles, there incorporating bass guitar.

Still in L.A., Thompson is sought after as a sound mixer and engineer on a multitude of television, film, and commercial projects, including clients such as Wicked Wicked Games and CSI: Vegas.

reese johanson

I am a de-disciplined storyteller.

As a performing artist collaborator you may experience poetry, music, theatre, composition, ritual, installation art, dance, video projections, technology, nature, sustenance, community, and audience participation in my work.  

I have  orchestrated my creative journey, 

cobbling together a vast, non traditional pedagogy and career.  It has been wild, gritty, full of freedom and play with few boundaries. 

As I age mortality sits with me, manifesting human stories.  

Stoo Odom 

New Orleans bassist/ composer STOO ODOM inhabits the murky world of psychedelia, jazz, and noise, and is best known for his rock/psych work in the Graves Brothers Deluxe, Thin White Rope, and Subarachnoid Space. 

Odom has collaborated internationally with members of Acid Mothers Temple, the Boredoms, and '60's icons the Monks. After 17 years in San Francisco, he returned to New Orleans in 2013 and now performs solo and with the Sleazeball Orchestra, Obliquestra, Scully's Rough 7, and uncountable others. 

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Odom's New Orleans and Mississippi roots, Maple Leaf Bar upbringing, San Francisco immersion, and a propensity for getting bored easily are foundational in molding a non traditional spoken word, jazz, avaunt-psyche rock artist, ideally "crossing James Booker with Nurse with Wound." 

Stoo Odom, a fixture on the New Orleans music scene, is a nimble fingered bass man and composer in the suis generis genre of stand up bass songster.  

Interviews with 

Cree McCree, OffBeat Magazine, 

and Shawn Donohue.  Glide Magazine

Rob Cambre

Guitarist Rob Cambre has been active as player & organizer for over 25 years, spanning a wide array of musical approaches from total free improvisation and harsh noise to ecstatic free jazz, subtle acoustic explorations, accompaniment to dancers and poets, to post-punk rock and rootsier songwriter-driven rock'n'roll.  

Over those decades he logged in significant time with the bands BONES, The New Orleans BINGO Show, Ratty Scurvics' Black Market Butchers, R. Scully's Rough 7, and currently Malevitus.  As an improvisor he has worked with scores of local, regional, national, and international musicians of notoriety, including such luminaries as Edward "Kidd" Jordan, Peter Kowald, Nels Cline (Wilco), Mars Williams, Tatsuya Nakatani, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth), Hamid Drake, Paul Lovens, Helen Gillet, Simon Berz, and many others.  In addition to playing countless gigs and occasional festival appearances, Cambre has organized concert series with Anxious Sound and others and appeared in films.

(Photo Credit:  Michael Dominici) 

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David Kunian OffBeat Magazine.   

Jonathan Tabak OffBeat Magazine.

Michael Patrick Welch Antigravity Magazine

Phil deGruy 

 Visionary New Orleans native Phil deGruy has taken the bold initiative of adding 10 harp strings to a 7-string guitar to come up with his custom-made ‘guitarp.’ 

With this unconventional instrument and a highly unorthodox approach to the fingerstyle jazz tradition and genres well beyond, deGruy is able to emulate the expansive harmonic palette of his major influences, guitarist Lenny Breau and pianist Bill Evans, while staking out his own new territory as a modern guitar master. 

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Matt Resnicoff put it best in the liner notes to deGruy’s 1995 solo debut, Innuendo Out The Other: “Philip deGruy is the Victor Borge of the electric guitar, but only if Victor were as good as Art Tatum and as hilarious as, say, Lenny Bruce on a particularly outraged afternoon.” 

Guitar Player magazine put it more bluntly: “deGruy is one of the finest players ever.” Expect everything from the graceful melodicism of Debussy to inventive interpretations of John Coltrane, Duke Ellington, Jobim, Gershwin, the Beatles, Bill Evans and beyond, all delivered with the masterful command of a Joe Pass and just a touch of N’awlins-bred irreverence. 

 Fernando Lima 

( born 13 June 1985 - Amparo -SP- Brazil)

... a naturalized American musician. 

A Drummer, song writer and singer, Fernando resides and perform as a professional percussionist in New Orleans, LA, since 2012.

Fernando pursues music by emphasizing use of creativity on its own created musical communicative tools very much Influenced by Brazilian Jazz and MPB, Classical Music, Jazz Fusion, Rock, World Music and Videogame Music. 

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Will Coviello Gambit Magazine

Jay Mazza OffBeat Magazine

WWOZ "Amigos du Samba"