[NewMusic] shiurba stewart sluss bruce and amar @ the hootenanny

[suki at zoka.com]

posting from the open mic comedy stage @ amnesia, a perfect place 2 reflect
about the ivy:

Lucio's Noise improv hootenanny and social clubs seem all grown up now,
metastizing raidly and this is how u no: there are non-music listeners
talking over the hoot.

What was once a low-key playground for, well, chaos now has structure,
perceptible high and low points,  bartenders reluctant to comp tens of
musicians (fuck!) and a maybe fatigued public, some of whom I've come to
know, a plus on the social club side.

In order:
John shiurba, who has a crazy emming effing pedal that everyone should
hear. This should have been a solo set but john axed me to play so I
brought a low tom and most everything from the open kitchen shelving. It
oscillated between small articulated things and very heavy things, the
latter holding promise.slusser joined in using the eponymous-o-matic and
that was totally activating.

Devolved to errol stewart who had contact mic clamped some guitar string
hair to the tuning pegs of his guitar that made a very good, and a way too
quiet sound. Talkers. Fie.

Then to bruce bennet Who had an idiomatic 6/8 bell pattern driving his
ensemble and a tupperware of halva I was never ready to eat.I tried 2 see
this in light of an earlier hoot wth boisen-hanes doing a high life thing
that had been provocatively compressed into a duo.Neither performance was
served by this. 

Slusser slussed. It hadn't occurred to me he was his own verb but it's
true. His playing made me pine for his earlier playing with Shiurban, like
an hour earlier.After his set I left the ivy to get some air.

Amar had been dovetailing, in true hoot fashion, into Slusser using a small
digitally-controlled, u know, like analog digit as in finger, that totally
appeared to me to be the big red shiny candy button of the outer space ren.
The important part is that he was artful and listening, and then artful
some more. Polly Moller on vocals and flute, text and tones, which had a
brittle energy and a persistent comet trail of danger.

School night, broke, had to pack up, go.

-s
 



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