| 2006 Live Music |
[Dec. 31st, 2006|10:51 am] |
Top 5 shows this year:
5. 4/25 Marassa Duo @ Lily Pad
See my short review here
4. 3/24 Auktyon @ Somerville Theatre
See my short review in Russian here
3. 12/12 The Ex @ Middle East Club
Terrible support band (Aloha) and great live performance from one of the world's criminally underappreciated bands. Wall of two-guitar noise that makes sense - and a Hungarian folk song to boot!
2. 1/27 Jah Wobble and The English Roots Band @ Middle East
English folk songs getting dub treatment from the bass guitar master!
1. 7/17 Slim Cessna's Auto Club @ Middle East
A country band with punk rock energy. Tight musicianship and overall fun. Shame it was an underattended show at the MidEast upstairs.
Disappointment of the year: Reverend Glasseye. After a great 2005 - winning the WBCN Rumble and releasing the terrific 'Our Lady of The Broken Spine' what does Adam do? Fire the band, assemble brand new musicians and play with the stripped-down sound. Sorry, a girl on electrified harmonica is not the same - dark salvation music needs a sax! |
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| Marasssa Duo |
[Apr. 27th, 2006|05:48 pm] |
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The percussionists were great. They played marimba, vibraphone, steel drum, congas and other percussible objects, some of which I don't know the names to. Thrown in with originals were numbers by Gillespie, Corea, Metheny and Coltrane (that one is the best)! Very interesting and unusual.
First, the door to the street was open, so the sounds of cars and passerbys were mixing with the marimba; I wanted to start clapping on the metal chairs as well, but refrained. Later someone closed the door, and the sound became tamer (after all, they call themselves "chamber music"!), but it was good nonetheless. New Yorkers, you gotta go to their show tomorrow:
http://www.jdapercussion.com/groups/marassaduo.htm |
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| Перкуссия завтра / Percussion Tomorrow |
[Apr. 24th, 2006|01:46 pm] |
Звучит интересно, может, соберём ЖЖ-шную компанию?
http://www.lily-pad.net/archives/2006/04/25/index.html#002371
$5 James Armstrong and Nicholas Papador, percussion
The Marassa Duo brings together a wide variety of percussion styles and musical genres into a concise and unified whole. The group’s original programming provides a unique chamber setting that includes elements of traditional concert music, world music, mallet percussion, contemporary classical and jazz. The duo combines the talents of James Armstrong, a performer specializing in Afro-Cuban and West African folkloric music and Nicholas Papador, a performer specializing in marimba as well as contemporary and orchestral concert music. The result is a ground breaking and exciting chamber music that opens new musical worlds to its audiences.
The duo takes its name from the Marassa Twins, divine twins of the Haitian Vodou tradition who speak to us of twin souls that find each other lifetime after lifetime to interact as their karma dictates. Also exemplifying the belief of opposition and duality within the mortal world, the Marassa Twins constitute one of the more perplexing entities of the Haitian religion, beginning with the point that there are sometimes three of them. As anthropologist Maya Deren wrote, "In Vodoun, one and one make three." The Marassa are immensely powerful and are often interpreted as the “affirmation of cosmic unity."
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