"I discovered this on an out of luck night, cold Monday to be exact, no good places to go, driving around and I happened to drive by and see Caffe Trieste on Gough and saw it SUPER PACKED.
Chances End is a guy named Ryan Avery that plays the Violin and mixes with electronic beats and some tango in between. All the music is produced by him, except obvious extracts from Piazzola, but he plays live! It was his CD Release event, place was full, people happy drinking Argentine and Italian wines and paying obvious attention to the show. After a couple of songs people started getting up and dancing tango along with his music. It was beautiful.
"I also bought the Cd he was releasing, his second one. All in all his music was great and masterfully produced. If you want to check him out you can go to www.chancesend.com or myspace.com/chancesend
"If you ever have the chance to listen to him live you should definetly do it, it's worth every bit of your time. I'm glad I decided to cruise around on a Monday night, I found a great artist!!"
Caffe Trieste and Tango Revolution host an informal CD release party for Chance’s End! Come out for an evening of dancing and music and to support Chance’s End (Ryan Avery), San Francisco’s unique violin-electronica musician.
What: Chance's End CD release party for "The Outsider"
Where: Caffe Trieste(1667 Market Street @ Gough, San Francisco)
When: Sunday December 2, 5:30pm - 9:30pm
$5 suggested at the door
Event Schedule:
5:30pm Doors open w/Live Tango music
6-7pm Beginners Tango dance class by Sonja Riket (voted Best Tango Teacher, 7x7 Mag. 2006)
7:30-8pm Performance by Chance's End (Ryan Avery)
8-9:30pm Live Tango Jam with Tango Revolution musicians, open floor dancing, and "The Outsider" CD Signing (CD available for $15)
More Info: 415.661.1852- www.IntimateEmbraceTango.com
Tango Revolution is a program of Intimate Embrace Tango, which envisions Argentine Tango as a relational matrix of connection to ourselves, each other and the world. We organize classes, workshops, cultural, social awareness-and fundraising events around critical issues of our time. Come watch, listen or join in the dance! All ages are welcome, no dance experience or partner necessary.
To all my Colorado friends:
My good friend Sarah Fridrich is a wonderful singer/songwriter playing in Boulder, CO for the first time. If you're available this Thursday, I recommend checking her out!
What: Sarah Fridrich plays songs from her new 2007 EP
When: Thurs. OCT 18th, 7:30 p.m.
Where: S. 34th Street. Boulder, CO
***LIMITED SEATING, so please RSVP to <sarahffridrich@yahoo.com>
for full address and info***
Backed by Elizabeth Trice (Bass player/SingerSongwriter), Sarah will do an acoustic show hosted by local
Boulder jazz player/songwriter buddies Michael Yaussi and Colin MacGregor.
Light refrements and great acoustics in a cozy private home.
Suggested donations $5 to $15
Chance's End is being featured on XM Radio this Thursday (9/27) at 10pm EST, on the Radar Report (XMU, Channel 43). This is a NATIONAL radio show - believe me, I'm very excited!
For those of you without XM Satellite service, I've been provided with a code that allows you to receive XM for FREE for a few days. Go to http://xmro.xmradio.com and use code XMB4MD. All you need is an email (no credit card needed).
A rebroadcast of the show can be heard on Friday (9/28) at 2pm EST.
For those of you with XM Satellite service, be sure to tune in and tell your friends!
After months of toiling through the summer, The Outsider is finally released!
Acoustic 12 string guitar with violin lead and cello accompaniment. Recorded August 2004. Originally recorded for Catharsis Infinity (Watson&Company - 2003). Darren Uses a 1973 Martin D Series in standard tuning. Ryan Avery of Chance’s End plays the violin on this recording with Darren Curtis Skanson on 12 string guitar and Kevin Johnson on cello.
The Chance's End song "Production to Perfection" is being featured on this week's Bowed Radio podcast. Bowed Radio has been around for over 2 years, and features string artists of virtually all genres performing new and/or original music.
Please check out the podcast, and consider subscribing to the feed if you're into innovative string music.
http://amiestreet.com/chancesend
I have put up the entire Set Me Free album for digital download at AmieStreet. AmieStreet operates differently than other online music download sites: Songs start out free, and once a certain number of people download and recommend songs, the prices start going up (to a maximum of $0.99).
The beauty of the system is that music lovers who recommend songs early earn download credits if those songs become very popular. And since you only get a limited number of recommendations, it rewards the trend-setters who wade through the muck of free songs to root out the gems!
The Set Me Free album is currently available for download for $0.94 (as of 05/30/07). That's for the ENTIRE ALBUM! Hurry before it goes up!
The MusicLog review service has recently partnered with BandBuzz, the service that I use for some of my embedded music players around the site.
A couple of weeks ago, unbeknownst to me, they did a wonderful review of Going On from the Set Me Free album. Check it out:
At the very early age of 6, I was exposed to music. My parents, bless their hearts, provided me with violin lessons with Paul Rowinski, a local violin teacher in Boulder Colorado. These lessons continued all throughout my childhood up through high school. Add to that all the violins, bows and strings a young violinist grows out of, and you get a small fortune that was spent on my music education! Though I always appreciated the classical side of the violin, the younger side of me always wanted the violin to be something else: modern, hip, and cutting-edge.
So I began branching out into other genres of violin work. My stint in old-time country and bluegrass saw me finish in the top 10 one year at the Colorado State Fiddle Championships. Small stints with jazz, rock, and eclectic bands came and went, though nothing really solidified from these outings. For quite a few years I was a violinist for Darren Curtis Skanson (external link), a classical guitarist based in Denver, CO.
Throughout all of this ever since high school, I was half-assedly experimenting with combining electronic music and violin. Never realizing that I had a concept that could work, I naively neglected the positive comments from friends and collegues when I presented my violin-electronica experiments to them. Instead, I focused solely on the dancefloor electronic side, thinking that going mainstream was the key to success. I produced two full albums without any violin whatsoever before decidi
Finally, as I was producing
Set Me Free, I discovered for myself what everyone else had been saying all along - violin electronic music not only would work, but it would be the hook that sets me apart. Though Set Me Free was praised for its use of violin in electronic music, it has also been cricized for not going far enough. With that in mind, my work post-SMF has concentrated extensively on incorporating violin into mainstream electronica.
The intersection of violin and electronica is a vast uncharted area of music that I am poised to explore. Stay tuned...