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INTENSITY. This was a night of intensity at the Middle East featuring Isis on tour with Jesu from Birmingham England on their first US tour in support of their latest CD Conqueror and Zozobra. Zozobra started the night with an intense manic set of loud deep thundering music. The deep harmonic sound penetrated ear, brain and body with overtones with lush rattling skullcracking overtones. It was as much felt as heard. Totally awesome. A band to watch for and listen to. Jesu came out with a different kind of intensity and although downturning the genral mood added a different kind of skull-penetrating drama to the night. Expectations were well met. A very bottom heavy dense sound. Isis was Isis, and how I mean this is that their show was its usual high calibre. The band shows a growing maturity that hones their intensity. The sound mix is more refined. You can hear the intricacy in even the heaviest loudest monents. There are contrasts, highs and lows, passages of incredible quiet beauty against assaults of pure sound and fury. Chaos under control, a paradox wrapped in an enigma. Intelligent visceral music. One of my favorite bands. And one hell of a night!
Caught the Red Sparowes with William Elliott Whitmore and Caspian at TT the Bear's in Cambridge MA on Thursday March 8th, one of the coldest damn nights of the year, but it was hot at TT's. Caspian led off with a great instrumental set. Their music tends to be in the same vein as Pelican and Sparowes with collective ensemble work, no soloing, and ebbs and flows of intense, lush multi-level, multi-textural music that alternating washes over and through and then rocks the hell out of you. They have a new CD coming out in April and if it is half as good as their show, it will be damn fine. William Elliott Whitmore came with one hell of a beautiful set of folksy, sometimes footstomping, always poignant, roots level, turn of the 20th Century style folk blues with a midwestern ambience. This guy is the balls! Besides a great rapport with his audience and a great sense of humor (Here's to all you "guyliner" bands–you know, the guys with eyeliner) and the deepest sense of real authentic American heartland soul I've heard in a long time, this guy can sing and play and by himself with just a banjo or a guitar can fill the house with sound and image and put you in a place and time most of us have never been. The man sounds genuine, no bullshit. At times he reminded me of early Tom Waits, and I mean that comparison in the best of terms, with all due praise to both gentlemen. Pick up a couple of his CDs and definitely, definitely catch him live if he comes your way. Finally, the Sparowes cames and gave a strong hour plus set of their music with an accompanying visual show. Always an intense and satisfying journey, you feel like you come and gone a long way over the course of the musical odyssey they take you on, and the hour goes too fast. It's over and they're gone. Whew!
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Been a little out of touch with my MOG for several reasons: 1) Going to a few shows, 2) Working on new music (I have a myspace page under the name "krisisthrill") and 3) Working a second job in the CD/DVD department of a Barnes and Noble. I'm going to try more conscientiously to keep up with my MOG, considering some of the cool comments I've gotten recently on a few of my posts. There are a few shows I'll comment on that I've seen and there are a few upcoming shows I'll mog more on including an upcoming Isis show and a Red Sparowes show. Also a lot of great new stuff out and coming out in the next months on CD. Please keep checking in.
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ooooh sounds like quite a show!!!! got any pic??