Memory is an enigmatic filter. It’s our link to our own personal histories, and yet it’s wildly elastic, bending and stretching with our innermost emotions. To reflect on childhood we recall events, places, people, and our own experiences not as they actually were, but according to the imprint they made on our unconscious – memories of childhood are cartoon-like, warped visions that swell, flex and deflate, like a face drawn on the surface of a balloon. And yet, they make us who we are.
Read MoreWe are so honored to be featured at the South Pasadena Eclectic Music Festival and Art Walk. They've given us a whole stage to present three of our artists, and we couldn't be more thrilled to have the Alexander Noice Sextet, Cathlene Pineda Quartet, and Gavin Templeton Trio presenting their brilliant music. We're also so excited that Eron Rauch, our art and design director, has created an amazing 30-foot installation for the Orenda Stage! Additionally, our founder and musical director Daniel Rosenboom will be presenting a set on the main stage at 6:00pm. And the best part of all this is that it's free and open to all!
Read More"I do a lot of sketching. Always have... Over the past year or so a new theme emerged in my sketches - my ideas were getting thicker, denser, more complex, more layered, more distorted, perhaps even more angry. But also extremely vivid, strong, alive, vibrant. They were all about 'more is more', so I called it my 'maximalism'..."
Read MoreIn this day and age being a successful artist is to be essentially a CEO of his own artisan brand, or what The Atlantic's William Deresiewicz calls a "creative entrepreneur." This Creative Entrepreneur-ing Officer must be inherently self-motivated, he must have solid organizational skills, and above all, he must be a visionary, one who can imagine the unknown and unrealized and make it an actuality. It is this third thing, the gift of vision, which has no greater host than trumpeter and composer Daniel Rosenboom, which has driven him to create the Los Angeles-based label Orenda Records, while at the same time compelling him to create a series of riveting albums of original music, including his latest daring offering, the live double album Astral Transference & Seven Dreams.
Read MoreLA's new destination for ambitious genre-defying artists has already released twelve stunning albums in 2014 by artists like The Daniel Rosenboom Quintet and Septet, Cathlene Pineda, Falsetto Teeth, Jonathan Rowden Group, Gavin Templeton Trio, Walsh Set Trio, Jon Armstrong Jazz Orchestra, The Matthew Yeakley Group, Michael Mull Octet, and DR. MiNT, and we're kicking off 2015 with a bang! Come celebrate our first anniversary with two nights of amazing music at LA's premiere jazz venue, Blue Whale.
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