Photo by James Dong StringQuake is a trio featuring Amelia Romano on harp, Misha Khalikulov on cello, and Josh Mellinger on percussion. They play music from a lot of different places and cultures, and with groups who do that it gets tempting to call it "world music".  Resist the urge! While they certainly play music from around the world, they've successfully avoided the anonymous character that necessarily comes from democratically sampling surface details of traditional musics.  Moreover, the players are also educators, teaching these various kinds of music in San Francisco, and their knowledge of them runs deep.  They specifically make [...]