The second hour of Radio Active Lunch was filled with freestyle music from the Radio Active Lunch Orchestra (featuring Deborah Gillespie on Flout, Rick Birmingham on Violiscious, Mike Lutomski on Purrcussion, Peter Elliot Newman I - VI on Trout, The Invincible Vincestrumentalist Vince Tampio playing Miles, and RadmanX w/ special sauce) with special guest vocalist from the Hip Hop group Tri-Stayte including Mr SemSemu, Jay.Dot and others.

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The Radio Active Lunch Freestyl Orchestra gathers together again to see what musical madness they can muster up on the spot - a fully improvisational ensemble or your money back.

This weeks players are:

Christian Laura and Michael Lutomsky on Percussion'

Jesse Stormo on Bass

Rick Birmingham on Violin

RadmanX on Guitar

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While it is true that we tend to insist on completely freestyle music with out any preconceived ideas or structures, the Radio Active Lunch Freestyle Orchestra somehow had in mind a barn theme for this show. We hope you enjoy it. This episodes players are:

• Rick Birmingham: Elecric Fiddle
• Jesse Stormo: Bass
• Michael Lutomsky: Percussion
• Radmanx: Guitar

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Once again I was joined in the studio by members of the Radio Active Lunch Orchestra - Immaculate Misconception - performing their somewhat unique blend of freestyle improvisation - that is to say the musicians get together without preconceptions and rehearsal and play away with the intention of spontaneous composition. This day, in addition to the three main characters of RALFO were joined by the severely talented Rick B on electric fiddle and easy board. This was certainly one of the most coherent freestyle sessions we've offered.

In addition to the music, I was looking for a new element to add to the freestyle ensemble and decided to incorporate a form of teabagging in with the music turning it into a musical sporting event. Teabagging, not the traditional form of teabagging known to most as the type of sexual act, involves launching projectiles (i.e. teabags) at the musicians while they are playing. This adds an element of surprise and fear to the music that I think most musicians don't get to experience in their lifetime. Teabags do not bode well in a radio studio as the bag itself lacks structural integrity and electronic devices are not friendly with food matter and, thusly, we had other objects in the studio to launch at one another. Unfortunately, we were way too focussed on the music, but there are a couple of moments when you might here some odd noises indicating the potential flight of some object across the studio.

The Immaculate Misconception:

• Jesse Stormo : Bass
• Christian Laura: Percussion
• Rick B: Electric Fiddle and Easy Board
• Adam Roufberg : Electric Guitar 

The Radio Active Lunch Freestyle Orchestra played this day in celebration of Jesse Stormo's birthday - 30 successful revolutions around the sun on this planet we call earth.

Jesse is a singer, composer, and guitarist with Los Doggies and bass player extraordinaire and key player in the Radio Active Lunch Freestyle Orchestra . 

Christian Laura played percussion and yours truly on guitar. The first half are some wanderings in odd time signatures and the second half is the more traditional jam.

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Live, Improvisation music on radio active lunch with the ral orchestra "Immaculate Misconception"

Your expectations will only hurt you

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