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Fri.: TOWERNHEREHOUSE ~ilncke!s subiect lo conveniente claw Trance Mission Running Smoothly ed BY DERK RICHARDSON little island in the Indian horns and Balinese flutes. Trance Mission's debut CD, Trance Mission performing two Ocean, somewhere between Afri- "In the world of the music recorded at San Francisco's Mobi- songs by Young American Primi- WOAl TO THE CHROMCLE ca and the Indian subcontinent." tive, backed with YAP doing TRIED business, where everything needs us Music and produced by Oliver E to pin- It's difficult to locate a hypo- to be compartmentalized into DiCicco, recently was released by techno versions of two Trance point on a globe thetical geographic hub for this whatever markets, it's very diffi- San Francisco's City of Tribes Mission pieces. Trance Mission "Iwhere our music quartet - whose members hail cult to think of us in any of those Records, the ethnic ambient mu- also will be producing its own comes from," says Stephen Kent, from England, Canada, New categories," says Kent, huddled in sic flip side of Zoe Magik, a house full-length video in a style Beta the didgeridoo player in Trance Hampshire and New York,.by way an apartment near Dolores Park and techno music label. There is a Custer calls "techno-wave psyche- Mission, one of San Francisco's of Uganda, Java, the Australian with the other members of Trance perceived affinity between delic." newest additions to the burgeon- outback and Carnegie Hall. And Mission - clarinetist Beta Custer, Trance Mission's acoustic extrapo- Ten years ago, it was fashion- ing realm of world-music fusion. it's almost impossible to label the percussionist John Loose, and lation of exotic international tra- able to talk about the double-edg- "We figure it must be an unnam- group's music, an improvisational "microchip and windmeister" Ken ditions and the frenetic synth-and- ed cerebral-and-visceral appeal of ' amalgam of aboriginal drones, Newby. "I believe that can work drum-machine-driven ecstasies of early world-beat experiments by Trance Mikion performs Wednesday polyrhythmk percussion, chan- to our advantage, because this techno - one that will be under- Byrne and Eno and others - the at Yoshi's, 6030 Claremont Avenue, tlike vocals, and the looping, music can appeal to a very wide scored when City of Tribes releas- way they stimulated both the Oaw. aerial acrobatics of clarinets, toy range of people.' es a 12-inch dance disc with- -- brain and the booty. Trance Mis- 'sion aims higher. ~~cordingto 1 Ken Newby, who moved here from Vancouver last last spring to The Creator Of The htReturns To Bring You The Last 11 solidify the band's lineup, Trance Mission's founding aesthetic owes heavily to the cultures of India, Africa or Indonesia, where "those distinctions between mind and body don't hold. For them," New- by explains, "it's all just music, it's all one deep experience, a kind of holistic listening." Trance Mission began taking shape last year after the British- - bred and globe-trotting Kent set- tled in San Francisco and beean jamming with Custer, a composer and improviser best known for Thinking globally and making music locally, Trance Mission creates a robust, earthy and . GOES eminently IAsOMELL~'~..~Idanceable music

iSEAN S CUNNINW PROUUCIION JASON GOES TO HEU-IHE FINAL FRIUAV sim, JOHN0 l8MAV KARI KEEGAN ERIN GRAY that even its AM SMITH SIEVEN CUlPidTEVtN WHllAMS S' WllllAM OIL1 BROOKE WHEEIER sÂ£OEBURA HAYN-CASS "MRY MANFREOINI TOAVID HANOMAN 'IF JAY HUGUElYn* AOAM MARCUS "'SUEAN LOREYAJAY HUGUEIY membersfind '-lo '-lo 'TSEAN S tUNNINEHAM '""i!AIJAM MARCUS --%' NEW UNECINEMA Isurprising her clarinet work in Clubfoot NEW STRAND Orchestra. Kent (who lived for S $ F 742-8200 MarkeV7tlr 821-2227 some time in Africa and served as 18WG~3ly* 752-5100 the musical director of Australia's Today: 1:00, 3:00, Today: 11:35, 1:45, 555, Today: Circus Oz)had been traveling with 500, 7:00 &9:OOPM. 1 6.00, 8:lO & IO:2QPM. I 1-00& 7:OOPM.. his other band, Lights in a Fat ALSO PLAYING AT THESE SELECT BAY AREA THEATRES AND DRIVE-INS City, with Newby and percussion- DALY CITY San Jose - AMC Saratoga 6 Theatres ist Eddy Sayer. Now based here, Daly City - Geneva Drive-in Sunnyvale - AMC Sunnyvale 6 Theatres Fat City is organized around Kent's didgeridoos, the sacred EAST Milpitas - AMC Milpitas 10 Theatres BAY aboriginal instruments made from SHOWS DAILY AT: SHOWS BAIL f AT: 1 Berkeley - United Artists Cinema San Jose - Capitol Drive-in 12:45,4:00, 12:30, 3:45, 12:30, 1:30,3:45, 4:30, Hayward - United Artists Hayward PENINSULA eucalyptus branches hollowed out 7:30, and 10:45 PM 7:M. and 1O:OO PM 7:00, 7:40, 9:50, 10:30 PM by termites. Pinole - Century 10 Redwood City - United Artists Redwood MOW PLAYIHG AT THESE SELECT BAY AREA THEATRES AND DRIVE-IHS HO PASSES: - Oakland - Century Complex San Mateo - GCC Hillsdale Cinema But the didge's drones, made DALY CITY EAST BAY Berryessa, Century 10 Geneva Dl Livermore, Vine San Jose, Capitol Dl Dublin - GCC Dublin Place So. San Francisco -Century Plaza 8 and manipulated by a variety of EAST BAY Pleasanton, Galaxy Morgan Hill, Cinema- Fremont - GCC Fremont Hub Burlingame - Burlingame Drive-In humming, growling, mouthing Oakland, Grand Lake Â Oakland, Coliseum Dl Gilroy, Valley Oakland - Coliseum Drive-In NORTH COUNTIES and circular breathing tech- Pinole, Century 10 Union City, Union City Dl MSRIH C#NTt Hayward, Festival Concord, Solano Dl Novato. Rowland Plaza Union City - Union City Drive-in Fairfield - Chief Cinemas niques, are surprisingly adaptable Martinez, Contra Costa PBWISUIA Larkspur, Festival Vallejo - AMC Valkjo Plaza 6 PETALUMA to a range of musical contexts. Redwood City, Century Park 12 MAROSA, UA Movie Fremont, Cinedome Antioch Stamm Petaluma -Washington Square After Kent and Custer started up Oakland, Century Burlingame, Burlingame Dl PETALUMA, Petaluma 8 - Emeryville, UA Emery Bay $AN JOSE FAlRFlELD, Solano Mall Concord - Capri SANTA ROSA regular didge and clarinet duet Orinda, Onnda San Jose, Century 21 NAPA, Cinedome Santa Rosa - United Artists Coddingtown improvisations at Radio Valencia, VAilEJO, Cinedome SAN JOSE San Jose- Century Almaden NOVATO they invited percussionist John San Jose -Meridian Quad Novato - Rowland Plaza Loose into the fold. Loose had NO PA5SES OR DISCOUNT TICKETS ACCEPTED FORTHIS ENGAGEMENT moved here eight years ago, after deserting the East Coast classical Trance people here who are more focused combination creates this huge, Mission, on how the human race makes it wide band of music that blows me from left: harmoniously into the future." away. We haven't yet achieved Loose, Kent, "We live in this remarkable the levels of either deep listening Custer, time," Newby adds, "when there Newby - is no more separation between It's almost cultures. Everyone in the world Wehaven't yet impossible to knows about everybody else, and achieved trance, but label the now, more than ever, we need to group's think about connecting up in a you go somewhere mu+ global kind of situation." with this music;* Thinking globally and making music locally, Trance Mission cre- where? I don't think ates a robust, earthy and eminent- we know9' ly danceable music that even its members find surprising. "Be- tween the four of us, we make this or trance, for which we have the thick, vital sound," Kent marvels, tools. But you go somewhere with "and all we have are some hand this music. Where? I don't think drums and some horns. But the we know where that is." Â

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scene for a life in world music. A member of the unique Renais- sance-meets-late-20th-century pop PATRICK SWAYZE trio Blue Rubies, Loose plays I& tablas, dumbek, kalimba, frame drum, hammered dulcimer, drum kit and other percussion. Eventually, Newby began com- muting from Canada to play with the ensemble, adding Trance Mis- sion to his other projects - a solo CD, "Ecology of Souls"; multime- dia collaborations with his wife, dancer Lorraine Thomson; and performances with Berkeley's Gamelan Sekar Jaya- "The life of the band so far has really been a series of explosions," Kent explains. "Every time we've come together there's been a major jump.. Now we hope to extend it into a lifetime." "Well, at least a couple of years," Custer says, laughing.

CCORDING to the Trance Missionaries, it's no coinci- A dence that their band should take hold in the multicul- turally conscious Bay Area, home to such other ethnic cross-pollina- ting bands as Altazor, Ancient Future, D'Cuckoo, Full Moon Fair, NOW PLAYING Mango Jam, Pele Juju, and Third Ear. "It's very appropriate that this group is gelling in and ema- Presented In Dolby Shows daily at: 12:00, nating from this area," Kent says, Stweo -Shows daily at: , 3:35,7:10,8:45 and "because here you have two dif- 12:20.2:35/5:15,7:45 10:10 P.M. Bargain ferent but essentially connected and 10:30 P.M. matinees daily 'ti1 2 P.M. schools of thought - the high -ALSO PLAYING AT THESE SELECTED BAY AREA THEATRES AND DRIVE-INS - SAN FRANCISCO Livermore, Vine San Jose, Meridian Quad technology of Silicon Valley and Daly City, Geneva D/1 Union City, Union City D/1 Campbell, U. A. Pruneyard the whole new-age thing that calls EAST BAY Oakland. Coliseum D/i San Jose, Capitol 0/1 ALSO STARTS FRIDAY, AUGUST 27 AT THESE SELECTED THEATRES Pinole, Century 10 Concord. Solano D/l Morgan Hill. Cinema 6 into question entire ways of being. BAYAREA Berkeley, United Artists Berkeley PENINSULA Gilroy, Valley Lights in a Fat City stayed here EAST BAY EAST BAY MARIN Emtyille. United Artists Emery Bay Â¥S S F , Century Plaza 8 MARIN * Oakland. Piedmont San Mateo, GCC Hillsdale Novato, Rowland Plaza because this was a place where Hayard, FÂ£STIVACINEMAS Antii, CAMPANIL Novoto, ROWIAND PlAZA Fremont, GCC FREMONT HUB PENINSULA Oakland, Century Redwood City, United mists NORTH COUNTIES somebody working with those NORTH COUNTIES Hayward, United Artists Hayward Burlingame, Burlingam D1l VaUep, Cinedm Pleasonton, GA!AXY 8 Rtd~~dCiy, CENW PARK 12 Sonto Rosa, kKESm Â Newark, Cinolome 7 West SAN JOSE Petalttma, Cinemas Pet- sensibilities could actually live Dandk, RACKHAWK 7 So. San Froncim, CENTURY PLAZA 8 petolum, * Dublin. GCC Dublin Place San Jose, AMC Dakndge 6 Santa Rosa, U A. Coddinflown and not just be banging your head Berkley, SHAlTUCK SAN JOSE fl~LuMcNEMs San Ramon, Crow Canyon San Jose, AMC Saratoga 6 Fanfield, GCC Solano Mall Martinez. Contra Costa Cinemas 0 San Jose, AMC Sunnyvale 6 &pa. Cinedome against the wall, which is how it Martinez, CONT6A COSTA San ~oie,CENW Fairfield, CHIEF .X Antioch. Brenden 12 40San Jose, Centuty 10 Berryessa Â Vacawlle, Galaxy 8 Pinole, CENW 10 Mountain View, CENTURY 10 Vamille, GAW felt in Europe: America has a lot -Prta~ted.~~ d eDOfmJ@ XTHXSoimd- of bad karma accumulated over Oakland, CENTURY , hi>Jose, CENTURY 10 BERRYESSA Valleio, AMVAUEK) PtAZA SPECIAL ENCASEMENT NO PASSES OR DISCOUNT COUPONS ACCEPTED 500 years, but I think there are