Events
El Borracho
February 17 – March 20, 2022
At the Old Globe, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.
In the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
El Borracho: by Tony Meneses
Directed by Edward Torres
David Israel Reynoso (Scenic Design and Costume Design)
Mextly Couzin (Lighting Design)
David R. Molina (Original Music and Sound Design)
Actors: Matthew Martínez, Zilah Mendoza, Jesse J. Perez
Raul is ill. He drinks, because he always drinks, just like el borracho on the lotería card. In his final months, Raul moves in with his ex-wife, who swore she’d never see him again, and their son, who’s longing to connect with his father at last. Developed as part of the Globe’s 2020 Powers New Voices Festival, the world premiere of Tony Meneses’s vibrant dramedy follows one family’s journey to come together so they can finally say goodbye. This beautiful, heartbreaking, yet hopeful comedy about family.
Quixote Nuevo
Quixote Nuevo
By Octavio Solis
Directed by Lisa Portes
Performances SEP 8 – OCT 3, 2021 | Regional Premiere
Streaming on demand beginning SEP 23
https://www.roundhousetheatre.org/On-Stage/Explore/Quixote-Nuevo
“Make room for Quixote Nuevo,” raves The Boston Globe. This inspired adaptation—set to the spirited sounds of Tejano music—reimagines Cervantes’ beloved knight Don Quixote as a brilliant, bilingual professor whose fantasies take center stage in a Texas border town. Along with his trusty sidekick, this modern-day Quixote journeys through the desert, tilting at patrol drones instead of windmills as he searches for long-lost love. With humor and pageantry, Quixote Nuevo breathes new life into one of literature’s most vibrant characters to ask the classic question: when times are tough, how do we keep dreaming?
Featuring Herbert Siguenza (Culture Clash) as “Quixote”
Music and Sound Design: David R. Molina
Co-song writer: Eduardo Robledo
Puppet and costume design: Helen Huang
Light design: Alberto Segarra
Set design: Milagros Ponce de León
Quixote Nuevo at Round House Theatre is a hit!
Critics and audiences are raving about Quixote Nuevo!
Quixote Nuevo
By Octavio Solis
Directed by Lisa Portes
Live Performances SEP 8 – OCT 3, 2021 | Regional Premiere
Streaming on demand beginning SEP 23 (Buy virtual tickets here)
“Make room for Quixote Nuevo,” raves The Boston Globe. This inspired adaptation—set to the spirited sounds of Tejano music—reimagines Cervantes’ beloved knight Don Quixote as a brilliant, bilingual professor whose fantasies take center stage in a Texas border town. Along with his trusty sidekick, this modern-day Quixote journeys through the desert, tilting at patrol drones instead of windmills as he searches for long-lost love. With humor and pageantry, Quixote Nuevo breathes new life into one of literature’s most vibrant characters to ask the classic question: when times are tough, how do we keep dreaming?
WASHINGTON POST CHOSES “TWO TRAINS RUNNING” IN THEIR TOP 10 THEATER PRODUCTIONS FOR 2018
A great end to 2018 and into 19! Our show Two Trains Running, produced by Seattle Rep and the Arena Stage in D.C., was recently chosen among the top 10 theater productions the US, in the Washington Post for 2018! So proud of our cast, crew, and most of all my director and dear friend Juliette Alexandra Carrillo. I wrote the music and did the sound design for the show. Out of darkness emerges light.
IMPURITAN FEATURED ON SPOTIFY!
Innerlight Presents & The San Francisco Psychedelic Collective has featured our Impuritan music on their Spotify playlists featuring many great bands from SF Bay Area and West Coast psychedelic music scene.
take a listen!
TRANSIENT AND RIRAERO AT LUGGAGE STORE GALLERY
The Luggage Store Gallery, 1007 Market Street, San Francisco, California 94103
8:00pm RiRaeRo
Ric Louchard, piano; Rachel Condry, clarinet and bass clarinet; Ron Heglin, voice, tuba and trombone
9:00 pm David R Molina’s Transient, featuring Thomas Dimuzio
RiRaeRo combines stories with improvised music. The stories tend to be very personal and the music has varying degrees of formal structure, and is also very personal. Maybe something like a soft conversation late at night in the dark.
Transient is David R Molina’s electro-acoustic, ambient, noise, sound art, free improvisation project. It can be solo or collaborative. For this concert he will be possibly be playing: pedal effects, Ableton Live, voice, guitar, invented instruments, and maybe Cello.
“Thomas Dimuzio is one of unsung artistic figures whose influence and abilities have substantially outstripped his visibility. Composer, multi-instrumentalist, sound designer, experimental electronic musician and recording studio owner, Dimuzio has been busy doing his thing(s) since the late 1980s with critically acclaimed releases issued by the legendary house of audio misanthropy, RRRecords and former Henry Cow drummer (and current Dimuzio collaborator) Chris Cutler’s well-regarded ReR Megacorp label. Equally fluent in a nearly every contemporary post-techno style, Dimuzio’s work clearly demonstrates an insider’s knowledge of older experimental musical forms such as musique concréte and electroacoustic, as well as contemporary ambient-industrial and noise. Thomas Dimuzio has performed and recorded as a solo artist and collaboratively with Fred Frith, David Lee Myers, Dan Burke, Due Process, 5UU’S, Matmos, Wobbly, and many others.” – Discogs
https://www.discogs.com/artist/76860-Thomas-Dimuzio
THE PYRAMIDS AN ANGEL FELL REVIEWS, AWARD NOMINATIONS, AND BEST OF 2018
Our Pyramids Album “An Angel Fell”, on Strut Records, burned up the charts in 2018! We have received rave reviews through out 2018, and continue to. I had the honor of creating this album with bassist Skyler Stover, drummer Johann Polzer, percussionist Bradie Speller, and violinist Sandra Poindexter in August 2017 in London. It was produced by Malcolm Catto of The Heliocentrics. I played guitar and assisted Malcolm with production. We just been nominated for best album of 2018 by Gilles Peterson for his Worldwide Awards!
NYC Jazz Record: Best Album of the year & Concert of 2018: http://www.nycjazzrecord.com/issues/tnycjr201901.pdf
The Quietus: #2 album of the year: https://thequietus.com/articles/25755-albums-of-the-year-2018?fbclid=IwAR24zZzWtxATVQYnZ9ws0AEBfcTyfWyOKIjyizRFSvOehg5SnUbXvlEB3BU
All About Jazz review of our show in Belfast Ireland: https://coloradosprings.allaboutjazz.com/idris-ackamoor-and-the-pyramids-idris-ackamoor-and-the-pyramids-by-ian-patterson.php?page=1&fbclid=IwAR3rgkfD1NUwJ4AaRKU71QoGZMTB2cZ9ZV2tKwRgoipqWIBupON6q79XJk4#.XBMpXGGZ2RQ.facebook
Gilles Peterson Worldwide Awards nomination: https://www.gillespetersonworldwide.com/about-2/
Worldwide Awards, London: Jan 19, 2019: https://dice.fm/event/g7ek2-gilles-peterson-worldwide-awards-koko