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Zoyres

About Me

Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment is an Eastern European hybrid group currently working around the San Francisco Bay Area playing music and promoting their recently released cd, "Biserka!". They've played at venues such as The Make-out Room, Papa Toby’s Revolution Café, Amnesia, Ashkenaz, and Hotel Utah. In addition, they’ve performed with artists such as DJ Socalled, Brass Menagerie, Karl Blau, Edmund Welles, Graham Connah’s Sour Note 7, Dan Cantrell, Pickpocket Ensemble, and The Blues Roots among many others.

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 05/09/2006
Band Website: zoyres.monopod.net
Band Members: Jon Russell, clarinets and sax; Mike Perlmutter - saxes and clarinet; Liam Staskawicz, trombone; Eddie Pollard, drums; Josh Sirotiak, tuba
Influences: John Zorn, Masada, Ben Goldberg, Dave Douglas, Naftule's Dream, David Krakauer, Tim Berne, Hochman's Orchestra, Klezmer Brass Allstars, Don Byron, Louis Sclavis, Chris Speed
Sounds Like:
Balkan meets klezmer meets jazz meets rock meets wild improvisation. Put in a jar, and ferment.Zoyres with Seth Augustus at Climate Theater
Record Label: INDEPENDENT
Type of Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Vast expanses between musical approaches

In just over a week's span, Zoyres had the opportunity to reach deep in our musical pockets and approach our canon of music from very different dynamic perspectives. At the Red Poppy Art House we rein...
Posted by on Tue, 09 Jun 2009 16:01:00 GMT

Good Press

Zoyres recently garnered a good write-up in the East Bay Express.here's a link to the articlehttp://www.eastbayexpress.com/music/zoyres_eastern_eu ropean_wild_ferment/Content?oid=898405
Posted by on Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:58:00 GMT

Pickle recipe - yum!

The pickles I make are lactofermented.  This recipe comes from Sandor Katz's Wild Fermentation book. ingredients:3-4 lbs. unwaxed cukes.3/8 cup of salt (un-iodized and without any weird anti...
Posted by on Sat, 13 Sep 2008 02:46:00 GMT

CD release party Thurs Sept 11 with Xtra Action, Edmund Welles, & pickles!

Zoyres CD release party is this Thursday!Rickshaw Stop155 Fell St, SF - $15 9pm Edmund Welles10 pm Zoyres Eastern European Wild Ferment11 pm Extra Action Marching Band Free homemade pickle with CD pur...
Posted by on Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:14:00 GMT

Independence

Hope everyone's enjoying their 4th of July. We're each taking some sort of vacation this week, from Balkan Camp in Mendocino to soaking up some southern heat in Mexico. On the musical front, our indep...
Posted by on Sat, 05 Jul 2008 04:11:00 GMT

Where is Zoyres now???

Zoyres has been working on some new material lately, interspersed with a few shows here and there. Our live show on KFJC went well, albeit a bit on the late side. You can listen to the interview in ou...
Posted by on Sat, 02 Feb 2008 21:45:00 GMT