Slow & Steady Presents: Late Aster & SLUGish Ensemble @ Bandcamp Oakland - Sept 29th

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Slow & Steady Presents: Late Aster & SLUGish Ensemble @ Bandcamp Storefront Oakland - Sept 29th - doors at 7PM

Late Aster was formed when Aaron Messing (trumpet) and Anni Hochhalter (French horn) moved to San Francisco in 2019 and released its first EP, "True and Toxic," in 2021 via Bright Shiny Things. The San Francisco Chronicle called the record, “as impressive a local debut as I’ve heard this year... you’re guaranteed to hear unprecedented sounds in Late Aster’s very cool collisions of brass instruments and electronic sounds.” Their performance at Bandcamp Oakland will be in celebration of their new EP "Light Rail Sessions" via Slow and Steady Records/Bright Shiny Things.

Led by composer Steven Lugerner, SLUGish Ensemble performs inventive music that blurs the lines between pop, rhythm & blues, jazz improvisation & minimalism. A vehicle for his low end work on bass clarinet and baritone saxophone, SLUGish Ensemble grew out of Lugerner’s years in San Francisco soaking up the striking orchestrational concepts of the 1970s minimalist classical movement combined with what he calls “heavy West Coast-sounding hardcore-math-alt-rock.” Their performance at Bandcamp Oakland will be in celebration of their new Slow and Steady Records album, "In Solitude."