San Kazakgascar
San Kazakgascar is a Sacramento-based band that formed in 2006. Core members Jed Brewer and Greg Hain have worked with several players such as Anthony Occipinti, Rachel Freund, Chris Hall, Paul Takushi, Linda Michelle Hardy, Mike Woo, Tony Passarell, Matt Kretzman, Sheila Bosco, Ethan Port, Brian Lucas, Robert Kennedy, Colleen Kelly, James Jaroba Barnes, John Cypher, Jeff Tobias, Rusi Gustafson, and others. The Kazakgascar sound is made on an art-punk/surf/drone/psych foundation and accented with Central Asian/Eastern Europe flavors.
News
Our latest album, Too Many People, is now available on LP, CD, & digitally. Order it here. Read a recent review of it at Raven Sings the Blues.
Check out our drone recording Long Tones of August on Trouble in Mind's "Explorers Series."
Limited Edition live tape on Pome Pome Tones, "Improvised Trio".
Upcoming Dates
Jun 17, 2025 - San Francisco at The Makeout Room
Jun 21, 2025 - Mt Hood Wilderness, OR (Jed solo - email for details)
Jul 19, 2025 - Oakland at Degrees Plato
Jul 26, 2025 - Sacramento at St. Pauls Episcopal with Abhishek Basu
Aug 14, 2025 - Sacramento at Crocker Art Museum "Endless Summer" Art Mix
Aug 20, 2025 - Orangevale at Faulkner House with Kelby Clark & Roger Kunkel
Recordings
- Greetings From Beautiful San Kazakgascar
- Idle Ships
- Drought Times EP
- Twice-Baked Coma EP
- Dog Planet split w/Master Musicians of Hop-Frog 7”
- First Nation Spy 7”
- Scar Tissue 7”
- Emotional Crevasse
- Long Tones of August
- Too Many People
Compilation Tracks
- "What Goes Around" - From Save the LoFi Seattle
- "Volcanoes" - From 2013 NorCal Noisefest
Press
Reviews: raven sings the blues, Dusted Magazine, Time Machine Productions, KFJC, Terrascope UK, Impose, The Active Listener, Space Rock Mountain, Seven Inches, Deaf Sparrow, Psychedelic Obscurities, Submerge, Sac N&R, Raised by Gypsies, Dead Formats, Tube
Interviews: The Blog That Celebrates Itself, Davis Enterprise
Contact
email: latherrecords AT yahoo.com