Welcome to the website of recording artist PC Muñoz.
2017 Events
Friday January 13, 2017 PC on "The History of Funk" with Rickey Vincent kpfa.org
94.1 FM
10pm-12am PC will be a guest on Rickey Vincent's legendary radio show in the second hour.
Monday January 16, 2017/MLK Day
STAND! A Day of Art and Solidarity: Performances, Workshops, and more
School of Arts and Culture at MHP
1700 Alum Rock Ave
San José, CA
Event: 10am-2pm
Performances: Noon
FREE admission; register here. PC will join SJ-based rapper/impresario DEM ONE for a special pop-up performance.
Saturday April 22, 2017 Kelly/Szemela/Muñoz Trio
Red Poppy Art House
2698 Folsom St
San Francisco, CA 94110
8pm
$20-$25 PC joins the jaw-dropping string section of cellist Alex Kelly and violinist Matthew Szemela for an evening of "marinated electric" chamber music--don't miss the debut of this trio!
Full info here.
May 12-14 and 19-21, 2017 Premiere of new compositions for dance Robert Moses' KIN presents TRICK BAGS/TRAP DOORS/PAINTED CORNERS
choreographed by Robert Moses, Terence Marling, and Latanya d. Tigner.
Fridays and Saturdays 8pm, Sundays 4pm
Tickets info here, or call 415-826-4441. TRICK BAGS/TRAP DOORS/PAINTED CORNERS is Robert Moses' Kin's most controversial work in years. PC recorded all new, never-before heard compositions for specific portions of these powerful performances.
Saturday May 20, 2017 SPECIAL HAPA MARROW MATCH BENEFIT PERFORMANCE OF "HALF-BREED"!
Center for New Music
55 Taylor St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
8pm
$10 public/FREE for C4NM members Don't miss this one...a special benefit performance of HALF-BREED with LA-based violinist Yvette Holzwarth. Proceeds from this show go to Hapa Marrow Match, a new local non-profit with a goal of registering more multiracial individuals on the National Bone Marrow Registry. Read about the complex and unique needs of multiracial individuals with blood disease on the HMM site.
Sunday May 21, 2017 Emergence Conference: Whole Person, Whole Impact
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco
3200 California Street
San Francisco, CA 94118
10am - 5pm PC will accompany hip-hop artist/arts educator Demone Carter for his unique keynote at this conference for emerging arts professionals. Tickets available here.
Tuesday June 13, 2017 Book release event for Spring Mother Tongue
Well-RED at Works/San José
365 South Market Street
San José, CA
Doors 6:30pm, event 7pm-9pm
$2 admission, no one turned away Release event for new collection of poetry edited by 2016-2017 Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Arlene Biala; includes PC's piece "One Day I Will Know My Name." Books available for sale at the event. Works is on the Market Street edge of the San Jose Convention Center,
just to the right of the parking garage entrance.
Sunday July 23, 2017 PC on "No Pigeonholes" with Don Campau kkup.org
91.5 FM
3pm-5-pm LIVE PC will be a guest on home taping/indie music legend Don Campau's eclectic radio show "No Pigeonholes"; interview and new music, live from KKUP's studio in San José!
Sunday July 23, 2017 LitLumpiaFest 2
School of Arts and Culture @ MHP
1700 Alum Rock Ave
San José,CA 94116
Event 4-6pm PC will join Silicon Valley Artist Laureate/South Bay hip-hop royalty DEM ONE for the closing song at this celebration for Santa Clara County Poet Laureate Arlene Biala!
Wednesday August 9, 2017 PC on KALW's "Fog City Blues" kalx.berkeley.edu
91.7 FM
9pm-11-pm LIVE In advance of the upcoming UnderCover series of SFJAZZ performance, PC and other participating artists will join host Devon Strolovitch for an interview and brief live on-air performance.
Saturday August 19, 2017 UnderCover Presents Miles Davis' Bitches Brew
SFJAZZ Center, Miner Auditorium
201 Franklin St.
San Francisco, CA 94102
7:30pm
$30/$40/$60 (click above link to purchase tickets) PC is one of four artists set to boldly re-imagine this highly influential and controversial Miles Davis album for UnderCover Presents' Summer 2017 concert series at SFJAZZ. Broun Fellinis, Kev Choice, and Alligator Spacewalk round out the bill, with each artist taking one side of the original vinyl issue. PC's custom ensemble for this evening will be like NOTHING you've heard before!
Thursday September 28, 2017 LSG Creative Music Series
Luggage Store Gallery
1007 Market St.
San Francisco, CA
8pm
$6-$15 sliding scale PC will play the Bay Area's longest standing experimental music series in a special duo context with guitarist-sonic explorer Karl Alfonso Evangelista. Sahba will open.
Saturday October 7, 2017 Ira Kamin vs. PC Muñoz III: The Rumble in the Jumble!
Bird & Beckett Records & Books
653 Chenery
San Francisco, CA
4-6pm
Sliding scale donation Third in a series of duo battles with free jazz pianist Ira Kamin, at this Glen Park venue known for championing local jazz of all stripes.
CONTACT
For mailing list sign-up and performance, production, instruction and workshop facilitation inquiries, contact PC directly: pc at pcmunoz dot com
For promo photos, interview, and licensing inquiries, contact Alicia Ruiz: stickandmuse at gmail dot com
BIO/LATEST PROJECTS
In May 2018 San Francisco recording artist/drummer/iconoclast PC Muñoz will return with Physical Science, his most provocative and musically adventurous collection yet. "Ricochet" and "Who Will Bury Me?" are the first tastes of the collection, which features several tracks originally composed for Trick Bags/Trap Doors/Painted Corners, the 2017 home season production for renowned dance company Robert Moses’ Kin. Characterized by the free jazz frenetics, electronic textures, and deft poetics first explored on PC's 2017 single "Rugged Individual" (which is included on the new album), Physical Science promises another sonic leap forward for this continually evolving artist.
PC Muñoz's genre-defying projects are stylistically broad and deep, revealing a sonic explorer equally at home with contemporary classical, funk, hip-hop, folk, world music, poetry, free jazz, art installations, and modern dance productions. His singular compositional and performing style bridges the gap between jazz-informed improvisation, aleatoric processes of the avant-garde, and the insistent rhythms of funk music. Muñoz's partnership with composer/cellist/longtime Kronos Quartet member Joan Jeanrenaud has yielded three highly acclaimed projects: the GRAMMY®-nominated Strange Toys, the iTunes-charting Pop-Pop, and the art-inspired Visual Music. A frequent collaborator, PC has also recorded and/or performed with rock legend Jackson Browne, dream-pop poet/chanteuse Ingrid Chavez, Prince and the Revolution synth wizard Dr. Fink, the late Kulintang master Danny Kalanduyan, sonic surrealists Broun Fellinis, woodwinds renegade Kyle Bruckmann, Oakland emcee/pianist phenom Kev Choice, vocalist Jennifer Kreisberg of the legendary Native American group Ulali, Emmy-winning composer/virtuoso Van-Anh Vanessa Vo , jaw-dropping cellist Alex Kelly, drumming great Scott Amendola, and countless other musicians and recording artists.
PC's notable multidisciplinary collaborations include ongoing iterations of the multiracial identity exploration piece HALF-BREED, the award-winningIr-Rational, 2012's Fall of a Sudden project in Hong Kong, 2008's public art installation Light Haiku with kinetic sculptor Chris Eckert, 2005's award-winning project Twenty Haiku, and ongoing performances with Vadim Puyandaev and Erika Tsimbrovsky of Avy-K Productions.
PC began his career in the early 90s as an R&B/Gospel drummer and indie producer, while teaching elementary school by day. In 1998 he launched a solo artist/label entrepreneur career, releasing his acclaimed debut solo disc, The Trouble I'd Bring You on his own label, Beevine Records. Beevine also released 2002's CMJ-charting A Good Deed in a Weary World, 2004's Golden State mash-note California, and 2005's Twenty Haiku. In 2005, PC delved further into production and artist development, co-founding the unique record label/private recording studio entity Talking House Productions with Seagate CEO Steve Luczo and 5 close music industry colleagues. The Talking House facility was later re-christened Studio Trilogy and hosted everyone from Bay Area emerging artists to pop mega-stars like Lady Gaga, T.I., and will.i.am. PC now works out of various studios in the Bay Area.
PC is a current Board Governor for the SF Chapter of the Recording Academy. Academy members may connect at the GrammyPro site; interested music professionals should visit grammypro.com/join to learn about joining and read PC's past blog posts for the chapter.
SELECTED PRESS QUOTES
"PC Muñoz is an artist that knows no boundaries. His output straddles myriad genres, influences and art forms. From funk to classical, pop to hip-hop, experimental to jazz, globally-renowned artists in all these realms consider Muñoz a first-call percussionist, producer, composer, and songwriter. He's also an artist with a deep social conscience -- one who who uses music to connect cultures and communities together." Anil Prasad, Innerviews
"There's a reason why we keep bringing PC Muñoz and his ensembles back to perform year after year. PC is a musical mastermind with an agenda: exploring the totality of funk and blues, and digging into the locations where they intersect other parts of the culture in the most compelling ways. At a recent show, they electrified the crowd by walking that elusive line between laser-focused intricacy and the loose, rangy freedom of the groove. Stripped down yet never simple, his work decodes the world's secret messages and delivers them to the gut, the heart, and the mind." Sean Carson, Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive
"Dark, sexual, sensual, confessional, and confrontational--all at the same time...a poet." Performing Songwriter
"Somewhere between hip-hop attitude, Minneapolis nasty and Latin Rock playa chops, PC Muñoz has an instantly compelling sound that defies definition..." Rickey Vincent, author of Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of the One, and host of KPFA's "The History of Funk" radio show
"(PC Muñoz) is truly a modern musician, equally at home with a live band, playing the most organic of instruments...or hunched over a computer, making beats and working magic with ProTools..." Tom Chandler, East Bay Express
"Great work. It's all too rare to hear someone breaking new ground in the pop field." John Zorn, Composer/Iconoclast
"... PC Muñoz consistently redefine(s) himself, sailing effortlessly across artistic categories..." Marian Liu, San José Mercury News