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Rent Romus
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RENT ROMUS is a force spanning over twenty years of original improvised music, D.I.Y. music production, performance, and curation. He is heavily involved in stretching past the confines of standard music forms performing his original compositions in a wide variety of musical settings as well as presenting and supporting the local artist community at large with his grass-root philanthropic vision for total artistic self expression and freedom from generic branding. During the mid 80’s, Romus' sonic exploration sparked at the Stanford Jazz Workshop at Stanford University, where he was blessed with rare opportunities to experience and learn from Stan Getz (who was in his twilight years) as well as guitarist Bruce Forman, American icon Dizzy Gillespie, and beloved master drummer Eddie Moore. In 1984 at the age of 16, Romus re-organized and directed NAYJE (the North Area Youth Jazz Ensemble), a seventeen piece big band featuring high school and college bay area musicians. In the fall of 1986, while attending the University of California at Santa Cruz, he formed the group Jazz on the Line which for eight years became the focus for his compositions and productions producing three albums for this group including his critically acclaimed CD Jazz on the Line with Chico Freeman. In 1993 after a bloodless coup by members Jazz On the Line, The Lords of Outland were born as a loose collective rotating ensemble for Romus' sonic escapades. The Lords prototype was the RKZtet, which featur
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Lords Of Outland, Edge Of Dark
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Uplift
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Lords of Outland XV (the first fifteen years 1994-2009)
Rent Romus' Lords of Outland, The Pit
Itkuja Suite, Invocations on Lament
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Cimmerian Crossroads
Lords of Outland, Thee Unhip
Bloom
Blood Motions
Emergency Rental
Rent Romus' Lords of Outland, You can sleep when you're dead!
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