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Tuesday, May 7
The Electric Nature | Mezzanine Swimmers | Somthing
Doors 7:30 pm, $10 at entryThe Electric Nature is noise/psych/improv group from Athens, Georgia that’s led by Michael Potter on electronics and in this iteration features Zoots Houston on pedal steel and effects, who have out out more than a dozen releases.
“Those with a serious working interest in the Athens sub-underground will associate these names with a variety of bands: Future Ape Tapes, Leisure Service, Smokedog, Wet Garden, as well as a couple of labels … In this instance, what they want are two side-long squalls of sound, so good they have an almost Japanese cast to their improvisational distentions. Despite their parallel intensity, the essential natures of these sides are disparate & distinct.” —Byron Coley
Rounding out the bill is the intrepid dance collage of Mezzaine Swimmers and Somthing, a new Detroit psych band with some familiar faces.
Sunday, May 12
Jim White and Marisa Anderson
Doors 7:30 pm, purchase advanced ticketsThe collaboration between renowned drummer Jim White and acclaimed guitarist Marisa Anderson is a natural union of two of the most intuitive players and listeners working in music. White and Anderson are each very in-demand as collaborators in no small part because of their mastery, versatility and highly expressive playing. The duo have each amassed an impressive body of work, and remain at the vanguard of their practices due to an insatiable curiosity and delight in exploration of new avenues of expression. Their 2020 debut The Quickening exemplified that daring spirit as an exercise in trust: two musicians who had never performed together before committing those first moments in time to record. 2024’s Swallowtail is a deepening of that trust, White and Anderson completely immersed in the moment, each attuned to the other fluidly moving as wind and water.
The duo avoids preconceived movements, instead focusing on their musical conversation. As Anderson puts it, “The ideas aren’t the music, they are the pathway into the musical possibilities.” Their trust in one another and skillful interplay create an effervescence throughout the album. There is an organic ebb and flow to the duo’s motions that brings a sense of serenity and ease to spontaneous transitions, each swell and retraction sounding as free as it does inevitable.
Monday, May 13
Bitter Wish | Pantos Collapser | Italian Surf Academy
Doors 7:30 pm
$12, purchase advanced ticketsFormed in Philadelphia during the Covid days of fall 2021, Bitter Wish is a psychedelic power trio comprising guitarist John Comune, bassist Clint Takeda (Bardo Pond/Double Wig) and percussionist Scott Verrastro (Kohoutek/Heavy Lidders). While the band doesn’t stray far from its Bardo Pond and Kohoutek roots, they incorporate more repetition and minimalism into their fuzzy vibe.
As Italian Surf Academy, Marco Cappelli (guitar), Damon Banks (bass), Davod Miller (drums) play a surf version of Spaghetti Western, Horror and B movies and vintage soundtracks The group was formed by Cappelli after long conversations with Marc Ribot about the roots of the electric guitar “sound”. Although several classic themes are rearranged and de-constructed, the music is fresh and unpredictable.
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