FundamentallySound Blog

In the last week I've been viewing the San Francisco electric/avant music scene through the eyes of musicians visiting from Amsterdam. And I like what I see. I'm reassesing all of my old stereotypes about what's going on here, I'd almost say there seems to be a kind of rebirth these days. From Blevin Blectum and her crew over in Oakland to the absolutely f*cking stunning new recording/installation/performance space that Naut Humon and the people from Recombinant Media Labs Compound are building downtown in SOMA (Tonight Naut said, "yeah, our first customer was Lou Reed. But we want to focus more on the edgy fringe type things"). Stuff is going on, people are going out to concerts, there's an excitmenet and energy. Somehow the bay area just keeps producing regardless of nonexistent funding and the mass exodus during the dot com boom. I don't need to explain it though, I'll just try to enjoy it while I'm here. Like tonight, getting to see Female (not sure if it's the right spelling, can't find it on google) from Norway play with Otomo Yoshihide and Ikue Mori was a real treat. And since nobody here (artists anyhow) has any money anyway, everything's free or cheap. Not bad.