PC Muñoz is a recording artist, producer, and writer based in San Francisco. "Dark, sexual, sensual, confessional, and confrontational--all at the same time” (Performing Songwriter), Muñoz’s singular music-making aesthetic bridges the gap between pop songcraft, free jazz, musique concréte, and the insistent rhythms of funk and hip-hop. An artist with a “deep social conscience...who uses music to connect cultures and communities together” (Anil Prasad, Innerviews), Muñoz's body of work includes GRAMMY®-nominated contemporary classical music with composer/cellist Joan Jeanrenaud as well as projects with rock legend Jackson Browne, Oakland hip-hop heavyweight Kev Choice, Dr. Fink of Prince and the Revolution, poet/chanteuse Ingrid Chavez, and countless others. Visit:
pcmunoz.com
Brian Walsh is a musician who is interested in sound and communication, regardless of genre. He specializes in performance on the clarinet and bass clarinet. He seeks to redefine the role of these instruments in contemporary classical music, jazz, and world music. Mr. Walsh is a graduate of the California Institute of the Arts.
Mr. Walsh frequently performs with such diverse groups as Wild up Modern Music Collective, gnarwhallaby, The New Century Players, The California E.A.R. Unit and is a member of Creative Underground Los Angeles. He also leads Walsh Set Trio, a jazz ensemble focusing on the performance of his own compositions. Performances have taken Walsh to Japan, Canada, Italy, England, the Netherlands, Iceland, and all over the United States.
As a member of the contemporary music ensemble gnarwhallaby, Mr. Walsh gave the premier of Nicholas Deyoe’s Lullaby 4 at Carnegie Hall. Their Carnegie Hall performance was described as “startlingly versatile” by the New York Times. Mr.Walsh was also recently a guest artist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s Green Umbrella new music series at Walt Disney Concert Hall.
Walsh has premiered pieces by Luigi Nono, Anne LeBaron, Girard Grisey, James Newton, Andrew Nathaniel McIntosh, Tom Johnson and many others. Past collaborators have included Peter Maxwell Davies, Meredith Monk, Gavin Bryars, Bobby Bradford, Nels Cline, Bright Eyes, San Fermin, James Newton, and Muhal Richard Abrams
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brianwalshclarinet.org
released April 16, 2020
Created out of thin air in the state of California
PC Muñoz - drumset
Brian Walsh - clarinet
Recorded by Willie Samuels and Brian Walsh
Mixed by Willie Samuels
Mastered by Jessica Thompson
Cover design by Hobke
Video footage courtesy Prelinger Archives; edited by Hobke and PCM