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Rent Romus is a saxophonist/multi-instrumentalist, composer, bandleader, music producer, and community leader hailed by Downbeat as having "...a bold sound, unmistakable sincerity and conviction". A third generation Finnish American born in Hancock Michigan of the Upper Peninsula and growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, Romus' work on the saxophone has been dubbed “ferocious” by the San Francisco Weekly and “central to the creative music world of the West Coast” by writer jazz critic Frank Rubolino. From his very beginnings as a student of jazz while being exposed to the twilight tutelage of Stan Getz he found himself drawn to the outer realms of Sun Ra and Albert Ayler, as well as Arthur Blythe, Derek Bailey and Merzbow.
He runs the Lords of Outland a free jazz unit since 1994, the Life’s Blood Ensemble a contemporary original ensemble, and works with pianist Thollem McDonas in the Bloom Project, composer bandleader Heikki "Mike" Koskinen, the collective improvisation group The Ruminations and other various projects.
Rent Romus has recorded music exploring improvisation and composition in a wide variety of musical settings both as a leader and sideman which have included Chico Freeman, John Tchicai, Vinny Golia, Thollem McDonas, Heikki "Mike" Koskinen, Stefan Pasborg, James Zitro, Kash Killion, and Jon Bridsong to name a few.
He is the founder of Edgetone Records with over 30 years of independent music production, and performance experience as well as the founder and Executive Director of the non-profit Outsound Presents under which curates the bi-weekly music series known as SIMM at the Musicians Union Hall, the weekly Luggage Store Gallery Creative Music Series, as well as annual Outsound New Music Summit, the Bay Area's creative music festival held every summer in San Francisco.
Uplift
Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: An Offering; Before Everything Turns to Ice; Find a Gathering; Swing Before the Water Falls; And the Fires
are Stoked; Call of the Wild; Into the Great Beyond; Uplift; Feel the Ground; Swinging from Starlight; The
Great Gath Will Always Find Us.
Rent Romus, Tatsuya Nakatani: Uplift
by Glenn Astarita
Venerable woodwind ace, composer and fierce improviser Rent Romus has long been a cornerstone of the West Coast's avant-garde jazz scene. Tatsuya Nakatani, a Japanese-born percussionist and sound artist, is renowned for his innovative approach, wielding an arsenal of drums, gongs and indigenous instruments. He often crafts visceral soundscapes that dance between silence and chaos. Together, ...
Ghost Moon
By Rent Romus
Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Mutual Eclipses and Transits; 3.3336 Billion Miles; Waking Up; Hypothesized Exosphere; Knotted Time Slips; From Serenity Chasma to Mordor; Mutual Tidal Locking; Hydrostatic Equilibrium; Ghost Moon (Charon Base One); New Horizons; Vistors from the tenth space; Cryogeyser Garden; Dwarf Planet Shuffle; Nix, Hydra, Kerberos and Styx; The void his eyes, like hollow furnaces on fire.
Itkuja Suite, Invocations On Lament
By Rent Romus
Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Porun polku (Lament’s Journey);
Stands on Water, Falls on Land (Vedessä seisoo, maalla kaatuu);
Itkust iloon (Lament to Joy);
Runo onnesta (Lucky poem);
Olin kerran onnekas (I was once lucky);
Itku suistamolaisille siirtolaisuudesta (Lament on being a refugee);
Runkoteiran halla (Rungoteus) Rye Spirit;
Hear Me When I’m Lost (Kuule huutoni);
Suurimaa (Grand Country);
Intrinsic Light (parts I-II);
Shapeshifter.
here for the outside
By Rent Romus
Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: The call returns ;travelers in the dust ;in the middle of it all ;here for the outside
Baptismal
By Rent Romus
Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: V-V.; VI-V.; VII-V.; VIII-V.; IX-V.; XA-V;.XI-V.
The one time we met
Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Been Through ;Words You Feel 0;Everything Spring ;Miss You Dearly ;Birds of Prey
we are sparks in the universe to our own fire
By ruth weiss
Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2021
Manala
By Rent Romus
Label: Edgetone Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Maahinen (Gnome);
Loitsun lukema (Casting the Spell);
Tavoittelu (Quest);
Pohjoisen asukas (Hyperborean);
Journey to Manala part I;
Journey to Manala part II;
Journey to Manala part III;
True Finders;
Vipusen kurimus (Vipunen's Vortex);
Ilman lintu (The Bee);
