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Last updated: Sunday, April 22, 2012

Two Plonsey recordings have just been released:

  1. New Monsters, is the first recording by a quintet formed by bassist Steve Horowitz that plays all Plonsey compositions. Here's an interview with me and Steve in Sensitive Skin magazine about the band.

    Reviews of the CD:

  2. A new cassette of music for clarinet and boot: Plonsey and Robert Horton has just been released on the Full of Nothing label: This Humanly Mess. This is the third recording I've released with Robert Horton as: The Imperfect Masters.

Saturday, May 5, 2012

New Monstrosities (Monsters) of Jazz at:
Berkeley Arts Festival
2133 University Avenue (between Shattuck and Oxford)
8PM
$10--20 donation.
Also featuring: Scott Looney/Marc Eneidi Group

Read all about Dan Plonsey in an article by Andrew Gilbert in the East Bay Monthly.

For details about any of these events, see: More details of upcoming (or past) Dan Plonsey events



Available now from: UNlimited Sedition: The newest recording by Daniel Popsicle, Music of El Cerrito Volume 2B: Wise King Taken by the Foolish One
A two-hour-long 2-CD piece in 26 sections, this is the second p art of the Kingdoms Diptych. More information: Full Press Release, information about the Kingdoms Diptych and the collection of Wi se King essays.

There are also two recent limited edition releases of Plonsey's music:

  • Music of El Cerrito, Volume 8: "Jazz" at Yoshi's (digitalis, foxglove 086; released September 30, 2005).
    The music on this CD is culled from a performance by a 20-person version of Daniel Popsicle at Yoshi's, September 30, 2002. The concert was presented under the auspices of Jazz in Flight.
  • Imperfect Masters:No One Knows Why
    This CD is the second CD documenting my collaboration with my friend and neighbor, Robert Horton, who is a mainstay of the El Cerrito scene, Ludwig/Jordan axis.