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On sale now from BC Records!:
The Beth Custer Ensemble — Roam CD $12
Clarinet Thing — Cry, Want CD $12
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Contact:
bethcuster bethcuster com
www.myspace.com/bethcustermusic
+1.415.305.3242 |
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GIGS!
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September 11
Clarinet Thing
Capp Street Music Center
544 Capp Street,
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 647-6015
September 16th, 8pm
The Beth Custer Ensemble
142 Throckmorton Theatre
Mill Valley CA 94941
Tel. 415-383-9600
October 17th, 2pm
Jazz @ Intersection Presents
Clarinet Thing
Koret Auditorium
DeYoung Museum
San Francisco
October 23
SF MOMA and SF Cinematheque present
The Beth Custer Ensemble
Premiere live original scores to Alexandre Hammid films
Details TBA
NEWS!
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Aug 23, 2010
KICKSTARTER PROJECT
Help me upgrade my studio:
July 27, 2010
Composer Beth Custer of Eighty Mile Beach drops by the Mountainchill.com studio to talk about her music, a new album from her ensemble, and working with with Fred Frith. Listen here.
June 25, 2010
Extensive interview with Beth Custer on Anthony Bonet's show on KALX. Go Left Festival, Club Foot Orchestra, My Grandmother, Trance Mission, Frith/Custer/Fajt, etc. Listen/download here (MP3, 45MB, 49 minutes).
March 9, 2010
Beth Custer is a panelist on a special "music" edition of the TechnoGirlTalk podcast. Listen here.
October 11, 2009
“Beth Custer doesn’t make it easy for music critics, who are by nature prone to convenient categorization. But for listeners, especially those as adventurous as the composer-vocalist-clarinetist herself, there’s no need for categorization with her ensemble’s latest album, ‘Roam,’ whose title summarizes the dizzying stylistic variety of its 12 cuts. The title song evokes the traditional strains of the classic ‘Caravan,’ while ‘Jackrabbit’ (among the seven songs featuring lyrics by playwright Octavio Solis from their collaborations ‘The Ballad of Pancho & Lucy’ and ‘June in a Box’) bounces to a rockabilly rhythm, and ‘God Made Night’ keens like a lonely country waltz. Custer, who celebrates the CD release January 5, 2010 at Yoshi’s San Francisco, contributes her own unvarnished vocals and brilliant clarinet work, as well as lyrics for the five other songs on the disc, which were composed during residencies at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga and Civitella Ranieri, Italy.”
—David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle |
