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Percussionist, drummer, and composer Ches Smith is really a forward-thinking, genre-bending musician having a bent toward experimental and avant-garde improvisation. Created in NORTH PARK, Smith was raised within the Sacramento region, where he became thinking about music in his teenagers, playing with a number of punk, metallic, and avant-garde jazz …

Ikue Mori is a key person in the downtown music picture since moving to NY from Tokyo in 1977. She started her profession playing drums for the seminal “no influx” group DNA, which she produced with guitarist Arto Lindsay and keyboardist Tim Wright. Following the short-lived but extremely influential group …