Rent Romus is a force spanning over twenty years of creative improvised music. He is the current director and producer of Edgetone Records, curator of the Luggage Store Gallery Series, and the SIMM Music Series at the Studio 6 Musicians Union Hall, both located in San Francisco. Rent Romus has produced countless shows, events and festivals featuring experimental, avant garde, freejazz, experimental, electronica, and noise artists from within the Bay Area and all over the world.

From his very beginnings as a student of Jazz, studying under the tutelage of Stan Getz, Bruce Foreman, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Martin, and drummer Eddie Moore he found himself drawn to the outer realms of music. In 1986 at the age of 16 he founded the progressive jazz sextet Jazz On the Line, as a vehicle for his original compositions. They produced several projects, including In the Moment with Chico Freeman in 1992. In 1997 Romus had the honor of recording with tenor sax master John Tchicai. Tchicai is best known for his work with the NY Art Quartet, NY Ear and Eye Control, and his recordings with John Coltrane and Albert Ayler.

Since then Romus' ongoing free improvisational/experimental project the Lords of Outland have mutated through many incarnations. Most recent they have included collaborations with drummer Philip Everett, bassist Ray Schaeffer (of Tri-Cornered-Tent-Show), and noise artist C.J. Reäven Borosque, as well as free-jazz legend Jim Ryan etc. He is also founding member of The Abstractions, who released three recordings during their time together. Although his past is in jazz, he has expanded into other realms of improvisation and sound exploration, including electroacoustic instruments. His fascination for experimental music is cross-genre and all encompassing.

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