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Live Audio: So Percussion @ Metro Gallery (2009.10.28)

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Metro Gallery
Baltimore, MD
October 28, 2009

Band:
Josh Quillen
Adam Sliwinski
Jason Treuting
Eric Beach

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Taper: Jeff Mewbourn (jm292@yahoo.com)

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Stream and download individual tracks after the jump.

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  1. Music for Pieces of Wood* (by Steve Reich)
  2. Extremes (by Jason Treuting)
  3. Drumming (by Steve Reich)

Notes:
Lineup:Holofcener-Zeiders>Gestures>Microkingdom>So Percussion>True Vine Trio
Show presented by Aural States
*with Adam Rosenblatt
Sound: Adam Cooke
SUPPORT LOCAL MUSIC

Video / Photos: So Percussion – Steve Reich’s Drumming Part 1


So Percussion Perform Steve Reich’s Drumming Part 1 from Polygon Tree Productions on Vimeo.

So we’ve got a show coming up with So Percussion on Oct 28th. Here’s a sneak peek. The So guys were down teaching at Peabody in late September and took some time to shoot a performance of Steve Reich’s Drumming Part 1 in a Percussion studio with us and Polygon Tree, curator behind the web-show An Hour of Kindness.  Enjoy and be amazed.

I also took some photos of the shoot:

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Sound Off!: Spectre

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MP3: Spectre – Blazed feat. Sensational

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MP3: Spectre – Valour

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MP3: Spectre – Fracture

I haven’t taken rap, or hip-hop for that matter, seriously since I first heard “Get Low,” penned by some disillusioning bastard with a mixing program. So, needless to say it’s been years. Friends of mine would play their favorites in an attempt to convert me, all usually trashy jams you hear on Hot-99.5 (ruining the taste of high school students, one single at a time), which didn’t help in the least.

That’s the backstory of how I came to loathe the genre as a whole, just so you’re aware of my rap/hip-hop/R&B credentials before I go into this any further. But to be fair, I had an open mind to rap, believing somehow that it can express notable emotion in its own way. I just assumed that such art was almost unobtainable without some sort of black-market inside source so I never attempted to find it. Years later, this guy named Greg asked me to check out an artist named Spectre.  He sent me his 2003 album, Psychic Wars. This is where my viewpoint on rap and hip-hop shifted for the better. This is the art I was hoping existed, but never quite found.

Spectre, otherwise known as Skiz Fernando, is a Harvard-educated rap artist that runs his own “Crooklyn”-founded, Baltimore-based label called Wordsound. His default setting is sinister: a dark, contemplative tone that calls for chills on all occasions. And it works.

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BAM! BAM!

BAM (also known as Brooklyn Academy of Music) is holding their 2nd annual Brooklyn Next Fest from February 15-24. The festival is tasked with the unenviable job of celebrating that stagnant music scene up in Brooklyn (sarcasm).

Notable performers include the excellent White Rabbits, Tunde Adebimpe and Kyp Malone of TV on the Radio, epic heartbreakers the National, My Brightest Diamond, country-folk artist Laura Cantrell and a healthy dose of electronica from Excepter.

Check the official site here for more info.

And as usual, some vids/tunes after the jump for your perusal.

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Excepter – “Rock Stepper”

The National – “Fake Empire”