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Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann at SJZ Break Room
Courtesy of Massimo Chisessi | Posted on April 19, 2023
Where
SJZ Break Room
310 South First St.
San Jose, CA
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When
Fri, May 12, 2023
8:00 pm
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Musicians
Sam Wilkes
bass, electricJacob Mann
keyboardsAbout
Two luminaries of the New Weird Los Angeles — the experimental, genre-encompassing underground — Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann chase the music to the ends of the earth on their album, Compositions of Sam Wilkes & Jacob Mann.
Compositions captures the creative flow of two consummate musicians. Most of the record’s sessions (Sam and Jacob call these “four-to-five-day summits” in an apartment studio, occasioned by “blasts of inspiration”) began with improvisation, and roughly half of the final material was composed with Wilkes and Mann squaring off, playing a Yamaha DX7 and a Roland Juno 106, alternating leads; acting as two co-pilots with no set course....