August 13
Asian
Crisis Release at 180 Capp
featuring Asian Crisis, Genny Lim, Teri Untalan, and special guests
Photo courtesy of Asian Crisis.
Musical ensemble Asian Crisis is out with a new CD, and KSW is
hosting the release event at our new home! Join us to celebrate
this incredible new CD with music and merriment at the very first
KSW event at 180 Capp. Featuring performances by Asian Crisis, Genny
Lim, Teri Untalan, and musical guests, as well as CD signings and
sales. Refreshments available.
Date: Saturday, August 13, 2005
Time: Doors open 7.30pm; Program begins 8pm
Location: 180 Capp Street, @17th Street (San Francisco)
Cost: $8 - 12, sliding scale.
About Asian Crisis
ASIAN CRISIS emerged in1998 from community jam sessions held in Oakland’s Chinatown. Its goal has since been to create compelling new music that contributes to a pan-Asian/Asian Pacific American political consciousness. Current instrumentation and repertoire is inspired by the musical traditions of Asia, including India, Korea, Thailand, Laos, Japan, Okinawa, China, and the Philippines, as well as American musical forms such as jazz, R&B and funk.
Asian Crisis is:
Art Hirahara – piano, percussion
Jason Jong – taiko, gu, percussion
Francis "Kiko" Lacsamana – suaranay, kubing, electric bass
John Kim – changgu, puk
Masaru Koga – flute, saxophones
Meena Makhijani – tabla, percussion
About Genny Lim and Teri Untalan
GENNY LIM is a native Chinese American poet, performer, playwright and educator. She has been featured on the American National Public Broadcasting television series, The United States of Poetry, San Francisco Chinatown, and a half-hour documentary feature, Genny Lim: The Voice by David Moragne.
Her play Paper Angels, aired on PBS’ American Playhouse, and her 1980 co-authored historical anthology, Island: Poetry and History of Chinese Immigrants on Angel Island, drew international attention on the issue of institutional racism against U.S. immigrants. Lim’s historical play, Bitter Cane, about the struggles of Chinese sugar cane cutters on a Hawaiian plantation,has been performed in the U.S. and Beijing, China.
Lim has also performed in numerous concert performance collaborations with jazz artists such as Max Roach, James Newton, Jon Jang, John Santos and Herbie Lewis. Her work has garnered her awards and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, Haas Family Foundation and San Francisco Art Commission. Lim has been featured at the San Francisco Asian American Jazz Festival, Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival, Houston International Art Festival, San Jose Jazz Festival and San Diego Street Scene Festival.
Lim is featured as a vocalist and poet on Jon Jang's Soul Note CD, Immigrant Suite and on Devotee with Francis Wong. Her upcoming CD, “Child of Peace,” will be released this year. Lim teaches at an alternative university, New College of California in San Francisco and at Naropa Institute in Oakland.
TERI UNTALAN is a singer, songwriter, and violist, who recently released her debut self-titled solo album in April 2004. Not a month past its release the CD made the playlist for KAOS 89.3FM in Olympia, WA, and 2 cuts ("I'm Taken" and "The Wedding of Heidi & Jason") are being played on KFSR 90.7FM in Fresno, CA, as well as getting support from KPOO 89.5FM in San Francisco. Playing throughout 2002 & 2003 in the Bay Area (The Hotel Utah, The Makeout Room, SomArts, Romeo 5, The Bazaar Cafe, Galeria de la Raza, Pusod Gallery... ), as well as in Portland & New York, some of Teri's more recent credits include two viola tracks on guitarist Buckethead's album "Colma" (Cyberoctave Records), and singing/writing on Westside Chemical's electronica album, "Black & Blue" (Stray Records). Active in the Bay Area for the last several years, she's performed everything from folk & pop-rock to experimental; from jazz & classical to electronica. Recently she stretched her talents doing voiceover for the noisy toothfairy on Sony Pictures 2003 release "Darkness Falls". Spending a lot of the last few years focusing on her jazz noir group The Lush Life Players, which includes producing their 2001 CD, "Siren Song", Teri now looks forward to touring in support of her new album. She can also be seen occasionally backing up local songsmith, David Hopkins, and playing in the high-octane improv group, MoeKestra! Visit Teri at teriuntalan.com.
