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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. Romus also runs a new music distribution network for independent artist run record labels called UIRC (Ultra Independent Recording Coalition) currently available online as well as the Artistic Director of the Outsound Presents...The Edgetone Music Summit, a national music festival held in the greater San Francisco Bay Area every summer.
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.

Rent Romus, photo Peter B Kaars
photos by Peter B Kaars
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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.

"Romus' sax rekindles that flame egregiously, thematic sketches becoming instant excuses for the instruments to coalesce into a gruelling mass of Pollockian sonic painting that plumps on the brain and self-adjusts until your synapses are completely disjointed."
Massimo Ricci, Touching Extremes

"Rent Romus and his Sax are the rudder, guiding the way....his frenzied summersaults lead the band ever upwards towards the sky."
Tobias Fischer, Tokafi

"Romus has been central to the creative music world of the West Coast for a number of years, and he keeps stretching the boundries of originality with each new release." - Frank Rubolino onefinalnote.com/Cadence

"The center piece of the band is Rent Romus with his fantastic sax work, and like his contemporary Zorn, Romus has a long history in the music scene as well as in the established cultural art world working and collaborating with talented musicans."-Jackalblaster

 

 

 



 Bloom Project, Prismatic Season
Bloom Proejct
Prismatic Season
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Rent Romus' Lords of Outland - You can sleep when you're dead!
Rent Romus'
Lords of Outland
YOU CAN SLEEP WHEN YOUR'RE DEAD!
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Bloom
Bloom Proejct
Blooms
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Rent Romus' Lords of Outland, Culture of Pain
Rent Romus'
Lords of Outland
CULTURE OF PAIN
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Reverberations from Spring Past
Reverberations from Spring Past
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The Abstractions
The Abstractions
NOVO NAVIGATIO
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The Abstractions, Ars Vivende
The Abstractions
ARS VIVENDE
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Music at Half Speed
The Abstractions
SONIC CONSPIRACY
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C.J. Reaven Borosque with Lords of Outland The Metal Quan Yin
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Rent Romus
PKD VORTEX
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OUT OF PRINT

Guinea Pig
OUT OF TOWN
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Rent Romus'
Lords of Outland
AVATAR IN THE FIELD
A Tribute to
Albert Ayler
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OUT OF STOCK
Rent Romus - John Tchicai
Rent Romus'
Lords of Outland
Adapt...or DIE! with John Tchicai
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Rent Romus' Lords of Outland You'll Never Be The Same
Rent Romus'
Lords of Outland
YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME
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Life's Blood Trio
Rent Romus'
Life's Blood Trio
BLOOD MOTIONS
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AS A SIDEMAN

The Foolkiller
Tri-Cornered Tent Show
THE FOOLKILLER
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C.O.M.A.
C.O.M.A.
California Outside Music Associates
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TCTS, Legion of Dagon
Tri-Cornered Tent Show LEGION OF DAGON
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Forward Energy
Jim Ryan's Forward Energy CONFIGURATIONS
Double CD Set
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Moe!kestra!
Moe!kestra!
TWO FORMS OF MULTITUDES: CONDUCTED IMPROVISATIONS
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