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8 Spotlight Santa Cruz Sentinel Friday, Sept. 30, 1983 Music Henry breaks the rules law fcjk li yr yft 1 particular project, the line-up is now fixed, but it is by no means a democracy. "Laswell and Be inborn are Material, it's not a cooperative group at all." He continues to play with his own "sort of" rock 'n' roll group "Marrying for Money," which also includes John and Hilary Stench (famed rhythm section for Pearl Harbor and the Explosions, among others) "I'm completely free to do whatever I want," he said. Kaiser's main Intent is not to get bored, hence his interest in totally improvised music. "The only rule is that there are no rules," he said.

Kaiser said his music is "non-idiomatic" in that it resists classification as rock, jazz, classical or otherwise. At the same time it is not what one might consider "fusion" music. Kaiser's interest is in the "completely undiscovered space" which may be found between the genres. Kaiser's current output is representative of his wide range. Material plans to release a series of "dance" singles, one of which includes an appearance by Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top in addition to Kaiser's guitar work.

He has just completed an album he calls "the best record we've ever made" with Korean classical musician San Wan Park, which combines Western music and traditional Korean sounds. Saturday, Kaiser will be appearing at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center with percussionist Charles K. Noyes (who appeared on the first Material album "Memory and trumpet player Lesli Dalaba (once the president of the Inv provisers Network, an artists support group in New York City). Also on the bill is the SCRAMS (Santa Cruz Renegade Artist and Musicians Society) Free Orchestra, a community-based orchestra interested primarily in improvisation and performing works by its members SCRAMS is made up of members of various local bands such as Gorgo and the Stance. Kaiser will be performing with his digital guitar processing system, a sophisticated alternative to the guitar synthesizer approach which provides a more "organic" sound.

"It's a way to get a lot of flexibility and a lot of sounds out of the guitar." Crowds who enjoyed Frith show at the Kuumbwa will find this one equally compelling. By LEE SHERMAN Sentinel Correspondent BEING ABLE to do whatever one wants musically and still eat is an enviable position for any musician, but it is something Henry Kaiser manages to pull off with seemingly little effort. Kaiser has performed on some 30 albums, playing with almost everyone involved in the world of improvised music. These musical loners seem to gravitate toward one another in an almost magnetic way, creating a small but busy circle of avant-garde musical activity. Kaiser's recorded output includes a whole range of things from the more conventional to the brazenly experimental.

He got started on this strange path several years ago when he was asked to play guitar for the British progressive group Henry Cow. "I beard stuff like Fred Frith and Derek Bailey, all the weird stuff and wanted to make music like that," he said in a recent Sentinel interview. Frith had in turn, heard of Kaiser and when Henry Cow's bass player left, Frith opted to bring Kaiser in on guitar and take on the bass playing role himself. Kaiser learned all of the experimental techniques of Derek Bailey, extending them with his own more rock-oriented approach. He further collaborated with Frith on a record called "With Friends Like These" and has recently completed a followup, "Who Needs Enemies?" "It's going to shock everybody," Kaiser said, "They probably expect some album of weird, funny guitar sounds.

It is like we made a record of polkas. We didn't but it's like that." Kaiser expects to continue to do the unexpected, wary as he is of getting caught in any kind of musical trap. "People do get set expectations but by doing all these things I hope to keep confusing people. I'm just doing what I feel like doing musically." Fortunately for Kaiser, his con-, siderable talent is much in demand. He is Henry Kaiser appears Saturday Whereas in the past Material was a flexible ensemble with various musicians floating in and out to suit the needs of a now a member of the New York-based avant-jazz band Material, whose co-leaders, bassist Bill Laswell and mad scientist Michael Beinhom, brought him in to complete the group's first offical membership roster.

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