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The Edge of Periphery (Live on KSDT Radio @ UCSD)

by Chiurazzi, Hirsch, and Ashes

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This live free improvisation is a teaser of things to come from this trio of San Diego experimental guitarists.

Randy Chiurazzi creates music in a very diverse plethora of genres and styles, from acoustic guitar pop rock singer-songwriter tunes to composed orchestrated electro-acoustic classically oriented works to children's music to alternative rock with his band The Social Orphans to his experimental solo guitar work with and without his Sound Music Suit and/or his Guitarbage Can. Chiurazzi toured with Robert Fripp and the League of Crafty Guitarists from 1985-1987. His musical education includes Scott Smalley orchestration workshop in Los Angeles, music composition studies with Leonardo Balada at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, and Duquesne University, Pittsburgh.

Meyer Hirsch was once a session baritone saxophone player based in Los Angeles. His sax playing can be heard on albums by Buddy Rich, Mongo Santamaria, The Beach Boys, and Joe Byrd and the Field Hippies among others. He quit music for several years to focus on visual and conceptual art including studies with Allan Kaprow. In the 1990s he returned to music, sonic art, and noise with his trio This Way Out, trading in saxophone for power tools, metallic percussion, homemade instruments, and heavily distorted electric guitar. His solo performances under the moniker Hirsch the machine Hirsch and with his groups such as Invalid Entry have been a ubiquitous feature of the San Diego experimental music scene ever since.

Abel Ashes moved to San Diego from rural New Mexico in the early 1990s and began performing his oddball outsider songs and instrumentals at open mic nights in cafes and bars, eventually joining forces with Meyer Hirsch in the third incarnation of This Way Out and then carrying on as an improvsational duo for several years thereafter. After recording his debut album in 2001, Abel left Southern California and his music career behind for several years due to reasons both personal and political, eventually making his way back to composing , performing and recording new music in recent years. Ashes has been living in Tunis, Tunisia (North Africa) for several years assisting his wife as she recovers from a near fatal automobile accident that left her paraplegic.

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released September 22, 2021
Randy Chiurazzi: guitar
Meyer Hirsch: guitar
Abel Ashes: guitar

Recorded live on KSDT Radio at the University of California San Diego in 2011.

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Abel Ashes San Diego, California

Born in a cult in El Paso, hitchhiked cross-country as a baby, grew up with mom in the shadow of the A bomb in New Mexico, vacations in San Diego with dad, played open mics with a fucked up old Stella, experimental music shows, lectures, open mics, and dead-end jobs galore, lived in LA and SF, 7 years in Kentucky, 4 years in Tunisia with my wife who was paralyzed in car crash, back in SD, CA now. ... more

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