Fresh Sounds in the Barrio: Minimalism but no salsa

The buildings that comprise Barrio Logan’s Bread and Salt were originally built as a bread factory, but Fresh Sound producer Bonnie Wright turned this venue into minimalist pâtisserie Thursday (Feb. 4) with Lisa Moore’s piano recital of Philip Glass and friends . . .

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On Structure: Percussion Without a Drum in Earshot

At Bread and Salt in Barrio Logan, that venue’s bold, brash current art installation is titled “Sight and Sounds.” Thursday’s Fresh Sound presentation of the percussion duo On Structure at Bread and Salt might have been easily titled “Sight, Sounds and Silence” . . .

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Industrial Toccatas in the Barrio

“Writing about music is like dancing about architecture,” a remark usually ascribed to the late rock music guru Frank Zappa, is a warning to that came to mind listening to the highly charged improvisations by keyboardist Thollem McDonas and percussionist Alex Cline at Fresh Sound in Barrio Logan . . .

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