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Pac and Seep

Pac and Seep is the duo of drummer/artist Jon Bafus and reeds player Randy McKean. Their music mixes improvisatory abandon with rhythmic …

Goggle Saxophone Quartet

Goggle

Goggle consists of four accomplished composer/performers who have worked for years together, inspiring and challenging one another deeply in terms of innovation …

Pluck Vim Vigour

The Northern California folk-prov trio Pluck Vim Vigour channel sweeping mountain vistas and sprawling urban splendour into eclectic panoramas best viewed from …

Gargantius Effect

The Gargantius Effect is the brainchild of Murray Campbell (violin, oboe and electronics) and Randy McKean (reeds).  Like the Stanislaw Lem story …

Wild Horsey Ride

Randy McKean’s Wild Horsey Ride

One evening in summer 2012, Wes Steed recorded Randy McKean skronking away in a small locked room in Steed’s house in Sacramento.  …

Sawbones

Maxima Kahn and Randy McKean met in a writing workshop seven years ago, shortly after McKean relocated to Grass Valley from New …

Zap!

Zap!

Zap! is the collaboration between the multi-faceted reeds of Randy McKean and the live electro-acoustic manipulations of David Dvorin. Using the framework …