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On sale now from BC Records!:
The Beth Custer Ensemble — Roam CD $12
Clarinet Thing — Cry, Want CD $12
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Contact:
bethcuster bethcuster com
www.myspace.com/bethcustermusic
+1.415.305.3242 |
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GIGS!
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Thursday, November 10, 2011, 8pm
(doors at 7:30pm)
The Beth Custer Ensemble
preceded by:
Trio Garufawill
Eda Maxym and the Imagination Club
Brava Theatre
2781 24th St, San Francisco
January 1st, 2012, 4pm
Clarinet Thing
Chez Hanny
1300 Silver Avenue, San Francisco
NEWS!
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11 April 2011
The wonderful KALX radio show of Anthony Bonet promoting my Beth Custer Ensemble show in Alameda and my premiere of Youth Fully with
Left Coast Chamber Ensemble. Download it here.
December 4, 2010
The Beth Custer Ensemble is taking My Grandmother back to Georgia next week. The Republic of Georgia, that is!
October 21, 2010
New York Times: “The Hot New Sound on the Scene? Oh, Yes, It is the Clarinet.” Article features Beth Custer and Ben Goldberg, among others. Read it here.
July 27, 2010
Composer Beth Custer of Eighty Mile Beach drops by the Mountainchill.com studio to talk about her music, a new album from her ensemble, and working with with Fred Frith. Listen here.
June 25, 2010
Extensive interview with Beth Custer on Anthony Bonet's show on KALX. Go Left Festival, Club Foot Orchestra, My Grandmother, Trance Mission, Frith/Custer/Fajt, etc. Listen/download here (MP3, 45MB, 49 minutes).
March 9, 2010
Beth Custer is a panelist on a special "music" edition of the TechnoGirlTalk podcast. Listen here.
October 11, 2009
“Beth Custer doesn’t make it easy for music critics, who are by nature prone to convenient categorization. But for listeners, especially those as adventurous as the composer-vocalist-clarinetist herself, there’s no need for categorization with her ensemble’s latest album, ‘Roam,’ whose title summarizes the dizzying stylistic variety of its 12 cuts. The title song evokes the traditional strains of the classic ‘Caravan,’ while ‘Jackrabbit’ (among the seven songs featuring lyrics by playwright Octavio Solis from their collaborations ‘The Ballad of Pancho & Lucy’ and ‘June in a Box’) bounces to a rockabilly rhythm, and ‘God Made Night’ keens like a lonely country waltz. Custer, who celebrates the CD release January 5, 2010 at Yoshi’s San Francisco, contributes her own unvarnished vocals and brilliant clarinet work, as well as lyrics for the five other songs on the disc, which were composed during residencies at the Montalvo Arts Center in Saratoga and Civitella Ranieri, Italy.”
—David Wiegand, San Francisco Chronicle |
