Rent Romus

soprano and alto saxphones, composer

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. Rent Romus' ongoing free jazz/experimental project Lords of Outland has had many incarnations. But most recently included collaborations with drummer Philip Everett, bassist Ray Schaeffer (of Tri-Cornered-Tent-Show), and noise artist C.J. Reïven Borosque, as well as free-jazz legend Jim Ryan etc. He is also founding member of The Abstractions, who have released 3 albums thus far. Although his past is in jazz, he has expanded into other realms of improvisation and sound exploration, including electroacoustic instruments, in the trio Hideous Dream led by noise artist C.J. Reïven Borosque. His fascination for experimental music is cross-genre and all encompassing. "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

romus.net