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Extended Organ is Joe Potts, Tom Recchion, Fredrik Nilsen, Paul McCarthy & Alex Stevens. Mike Kelley was a member of the group from 2000 until his death in 2012 & continues to be a contributing member by virtue of the sound recordings he provided to the group before his death; ‘In case I can’t make a gig, I can still play.’ Tom, Joe & Fredrik are founding members of the West Coast experimental art & sound collective known as The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS). The roots of the LAFMS trace back to 1972 when disparate groups of improvising sound experimenters in eastern Los Angeles discovered their mutual interest & banded together to design modes of self production & distribution of recordings & publications, helping to develop & propel the DIY movement. Paul McCarthy began collaborating with the LAFMS in the late ‘70s & has been an integral participating supporter since the mid ‘90s. Alex Stevens is an artist & musician who has been playing with the group since 2011.

Formed in 1994, Extended Organ produces a dynamic otherworldly ambience which can be simultaneously hilarious & ominously frightening. Joe Potts lays down a carpet of sound using & his self-engineered drone instrument, the ‘Chopped Optigan,’ over which Paul McCarthy performs vocal & guitar improvisations channeled & processed by Alex Stevens. Alex also adds his own keyboard triggered synthesized sounds. Tom Recchion, renowned as an inventor of homemade instruments, a free improviser, & an innovative composer of acoustic, electronic & tape music, performs an array of sounds folding lush beauty & horror sensibility into the matrix. Fredrik Nilsen plays an antique Rheem Mark 7 organ along with electronic sound & the aforementioned recordings provided by Mike Kelley. Mike Kelley’s assortment of sounds is unprocessed mouth generated tugs, gurgles & bubbling masterfully recorded in 2010 by Scott Benzel.

The performance will commence with a solo baby grand piano performance by Tom Recchion in which he plays the interior of the instrument. This will segue directly into the full group performance without interruption.