“When the pandemic hit the East Coast and venues shuttered their doors, Better Human scaled back out of necessity, playing virtual sets in a solo or smaller band configuration with Wexler taking over lead vocals. New single ‘Complete,’ released on Halloween, bears the marks of this transition without sacrificing any of the band‘s core sonic DNA.”
Stretching into corners of the emotional mind… it’s without a doubt that Root writes his truth, a kind of truth that some people can spend all their lives trying to avoid confronting, while others find their own honesty in his.
Folks can tune in (for free!) for a three-day streaming event this upcoming August 21-23, 2020 for a weekend filled with musical performances from both the local and world-renowned jam bases, a variety of workshops, and keynote speakers. Streams will feature closed-captioning, American Sign Language Interpretation, and other embedded accessibility tools.
“I think everyone has the power to imagine great music, but moving it out of your mind and into the physical world is a great process. Usually within that process, my ideas morph into their own entities, which is exactly what happened with Relaxylvania.”
Consider the Source’s latest full-length makes up for their four-year gap in studio releases with a meaty, seventy-plus minute offering of highly inventive multisectional instrumental epics.
Gnomon, The Clock Reads’ second LP, is an excellent primer on their unique sound and personality as a band. The instrumental jazz quartet makes use of two guitarists along with bass and drums, a relatively unusual configuration that raises challenges ably met by the ensemble.
“Here, the lack of a conventional harmony instrument allows the trio to communicate their ideas with nothing more than the unadorned essentials: rhythm, bass, and melody. The musicians deploy the full extent of their resources to ensure the listener never feels that absence. The focus, energy, and precision of the ensemble’s interplay and the fluency of their improvisation provide plenty to occupy a listener’s attention.”
Solar Circuit’s jamtronica fusion entrances audiences in an all-out dance party. If you like getting down to dirty, intergalactic untz, then do not miss this act. There are roughly 20 chances to see them while on this four-month bend.
As a whole, Orphic Grimore is an unabridged depiction of the duality that Medusa’s Disco straddles. Bringing high energy rock-n-roll into its world of dark and peculiar, Medusa’s tones and words ooze with emotion.
“People can get lost in a jam and fall back on just knowing how to play scales, but if you don’t listen, it doesn’t work. Music is a conversation.”