Dance beneath aerialists, enjoy couple’s sea’s of emotions, engage your senses in sacred space.

MUSICIAL PERFORMANCES BY:

MIKHAL
THE GENIE
CC LUV
EMIUN
AIRE REDTREE
KALI STAR
KOZ N.Light.N.
LEAFYGREEN
VNDMG
SOUL SEEKA

LIVE PERFORMANCE by The Circus of Suspended Disbelief
Featuring….Aerial silks, hammock, trapeze & lyra, objection manipulation, storytelling , & FunStripping by members of The Exotic Tissu Ballet, The Mischiet Lab, & Nomadic Alchemy!
Featuring DESIGNS by Warrior Within Us, Kaytee Pupusza, & Iya!
+ Art Glass by LeafyGreen!!!

Enjoy a back room of BUFFERS, MASSAGES, SPECIALTY PERFORMANCES and SsssssSOUND! Relax in the confines of our sexy atmosphere….

Bring your accessories to share….

Soul Saving Photographers! Roving Coat Check!

$20/at the Door, PreSale Info to COME!

Supper Club SF
657 Harrison St
San Francisco, CA
94107
Neighborhood: SOMA
(415) 348-0900

join us as we come together to dream a beautiful dream…in a winter wonderland…where our dreams will kiss the sky… lighting will be in cool winter colours blue, purples, whites. giant dreamcatchers and snowflakes hanging from the 24′ ceilings, snow machines creating the winter wonderland feel.
Hosted by: Gené T the Accordian Maker
w/ Live Painting:
Jack Cox from Infinate Artisrty (live painting)
Rolando Barron ( Painting will be raffled off at the end)
Matt Tinney (live painting)
Circus Performances from Members of the Dreamtime Circus: Rasa Vitalia- http://RasaVitalia.com/
Mumito- hat manipulation Alex Corby- juggling
Madamn Burnz – aerial silks during The Genie’s performance
Keely Byries- aerial silks
Talia Lipskind- aerial silks
Bobbi Dulaney- Hoop Extraordinaire
performances by:
the Dreamtime Conclave Hoopers
DJs :
The Genie http://soundcloud.com/thegeniemusic
The Pirate (Raindance, Dub Pirates) http://soundcloud.com/pirateslaps
Anti-Bio-Tick (Connoisseur) http://soundcloud.com/anti-bio-tick
Question? (Camp Q Mark) http://soundcloud.com/question-4
Jai Soleil (Soleil Unité) http://soundcloud.com/jaisoleil
D8 – playing dancehall
and a bonus secret surprise guest dj…tba shortly…
video mixing by Variat Productions
http://www.facebook.com/VariatProductions
****FREE FACE PAINTING BY BRI CRABTREE****
extra supplemental sound and lighting, courtesy The Likquid Project
8p-2a / 21+ / FREE
with suggested $5-20 Donation
There will be a fabulous five dollar Dreamtime Circus Fundraising Raffle with tons of awesome prizes…
Dreamtime Circus
www.DreamtimeCircus.org
All proceeds from this event will benefit Dreamtime Circus programs and tours, bringing the magic of the circus to underserved communities in the Bay Area and around the world

learn more about the show here:

This is a short video my friend Pepe Urquijo made of me back in 2006 which was voted #1 on the Current TV website and aired on U.S. and U.K. National TV. The sound and video here are out of synch for some reason ever since it was re-uploaded and archived

If San Francisco were a bottle, then self-proclaimed “scratch guitarist,” The Genie, would be the mystical apparition in its belly, (sorry to play the name pun). His magical guitar style leaves you wondering, “How’d he do that?” At times it looks like he’s playing “Simon Says” or “Etch A Sketch.” He’s constantly manipulating buttons; flip flopping the guitar and pressing a pedal–with the expression of a seductive snake charmer on his face.
With nothing more than a milk crate, guitar and loop machine he produces a sound a bit like Santana on an acid trip in a field of sub woofers. If you haven’t seen The Genie, make sure you bring a rag to wipe the drool from your opened mouth.
Owl: Why the name Genie?
Genie: I appreciated what the genie represents on a symbolic level, the spiritual force that’s hidden inside of us that can either be accessed or remain imprisoned like a genie in a lamp. In that sense, I believe everyone has the power of a genie inside of himself or herself.
Can you grant wishes?
When I consider that doing what I’ve done with my music was my dream come true, I would say my wish was granted.
Kirk Hammet or Eddie V?
Kirk Hammet and Eddie Van Halen, along with Randy Rhoads and Slash were my initial guitar hero’s back when I was a teenager.
What does scratch guitar mean?
1) I make everything from scratch–I come to my shows with nothing pre-recorded and do everything live 2) In my shows I often mimic turn-tablism techniques, which are generally equated with scratching. Basically, from a musical perspective, I use the same syncopation techniques that scratch DJ’s utilize when I’m soloing, building songs live, or performing my version of beat-juggling.
How do you feel about the SF music scene?
I don’t think it’s the same city that produced Santana, Faith No More, Metallica, or Grateful Dead. I feel the scene to a degree reflects what San Francisco has become–extremely expensive, trendy, and gentrified.
What is more important-making money or making art?
In my life, I would say that making art is definitely the most important thing for me.
What equipment do you use?
Guitar: American Fender Strat Plus, Line6-DL4 Delay Modeler (my loop machine), Sansamp GT2 (direct box)
How do you name a song without lyrics?
To name these songs I basically meditated on the meaning and feeling I was trying to convey with the music, in a way that was apropos and memorable. In a way the fact that the songs have no lyrics makes the creative process cool because it forces text onto a textless format, which makes way for all sorts of interpretive possibilities for the listener.
What can we expect from the Genie in 05?
I’m currently working on a project with a local producer named Ryan (www.drysquid.com, www.opusfreqlabs.com) who has produced various releases with noted LA underground hip hop artists and has made headway in Japan and Europe. After that it’s back to Montreal in July to begin working with my producer DJ Horg, on my follow up solo CD, my first full-length album.

The Genie at Studio Z, San Francisco

http://www.theowlmag.com/features/582/

profiled in Guitar Player Magazine live looping article

The Genie at Amoeba In-Store SF Haight

“It conveys a profound solitariness, yet with the understanding that we’re part of something much bigger than our individual selves,” I told another guest at the time.

“You, my dear, are a Sufi,” he responded.

Back home many months later, I popped a CD into my own boom box and was taken back to that moment in Mahmoud’s apartment.

The cultural references were different. Others might call the music’s spiritual message by another name – referring instead, perhaps, to Buddhism’s tenet that “all is one,” or to American Indian spiritual beliefs that what we in the modern West call God can be found in the earth and sky and everything around us.

But listening to Luis Monterrosa’s songs, it was evident: he’s a Sufi too.

Monterrosa, who goes by the stage name the Genie, is quickly becoming an underground icon in San Francisco these days – playing at house parties, galleries, cafés, and wherever else they’ll give him a chance. His instruments: a guitar, a sampler, and a mic. His technique: scratch guitar, a term he made up to refer to his distinctive playing style.

“I make everything from scratch,” he told me. “Also, I’m emulating turntablism techniques.”

The Genie usually begins by beat-boxing into a mic and looping the beat into a sampler to set the percussive groundwork, then layering in a string of guitar notes. This becomes the musical base over which he plays slide guitar. His music comes off as a melodic fusion of hip-hop, Latin rock, and electronica, and, in the case of “Grenada,” even includes an element of Southern twang.

The result is mesmerizing and, somehow, profoundly human – as if he were giving sound to some intimate yet universal quality shared across time and cultural divides.

With diverse cultural reference points and without much left by way of family, the Guatemalan American Genie has developed a sense of interconnectedness that doesn’t rely merely on blood ties or a shared history. And while he’ll point to Prince, Metallica, and particularly Carlos Santana as his earliest musical influences, supplemented in recent years by local underground DJs (Shadow, QBert, Shortkut, and MixMaster Mike), his is much more than a mere patchwork of styles. It’s a reflection of his political consciousness, extensive travels (to Palestine, Colombia, and Brazil), and the lack of a psychological home.

In that sense, the Genie resembles a Mission District homeboy version of Manu Chao – a globe-trotting musical nomad influenced by a profound concern for social justice coupled with the insights garnered from experiencing different perspectives, sensibilities, and ways of life.

Also like Chao, the Genie launched his solo career playing at Metro stations – albeit in Montreal two years ago rather than in Paris during the mid-1980s. Then one day he spied a flyer for the Montreal DMC/Technics World DJ Championships turntable competition at the venerable Club Soda. “I just crashed it,” he recalled. “And someone who was supposed to perform couldn’t, so they were down for me to play.”

The Genie’s unique performance caught the attention of DJ Horg, one of the competition’s judges, who signed him on for a record deal. The result was Rebel Music (High Life Music), the Genie’s first album, which comprises seven original instrumentals.

Appropriately, the album opens with an excerpt from Frontiers of Fears and Dreams, Mai Masri’s 2001 documentary about two young Palestinian girls: “My dream is to one day find a lamp with a genie inside who would turn me into a bird so I could fly away,” Mona Zaaroura, a 13-year-old from the Shatila refugee camp in Beirut, Lebanon, says in Arabic.

Now the album’s made its way to San Francisco, and the Genie is celebrating with an album-release party at StudioZ.tv that includes collaborations with Afro-Brazilian contemporary choreographer Paco Gomes and local vocalist Panacea, as well as an invitation for local rappers to freestyle at an open mic at the end of the night.

“Watch, this vato’s gonna blow up in a year or two,” local Chicano filmmaker Pepe Urquijo told me after the Genie played a set in Urquijo’s living room during the latter’s birthday party back in 2002.

He was right.

But to the Genie, it’s not about that. It’s about consciousness – about recognizing that we’re all part of a greater whole, and struggling to create a more just, egalitarian, and humane world.

“I’m trying to reach people on an emotional level, more through their souls than through their brain,” he said.

The Genie plays, with David Molina and special guests, Thurs/29, 9 p.m., StudioZ.tv, 314 11th St., S.F. $5. (415) 252-7666.

(read original article here)
http://www.sfbg.com/38/44/art_music_monterrosa.html