[NewMusicEvents] Tonight at 21 Grand - Shelton/Walter + Paper Legs + Sudden Oak

[Sarah - 21 Grand]

Monday, April 28 Ferocious Improv: Shelton/Walter + Paper Legs + Sudden Oak
8pm,$6- 10

21 Grand | 416 25th St. at Broadway | Oakland 94612

A meeting between two expatriate Chicago musicians Aram Shelton (reeds) and
Weasel Walter (drums). Although much of Shelton's documented work reveals a
careful deployment of minimalism and an introverted approach to arrangement
and melody, his frenetic alto sax playing on Walter's 2006 "Revolt Music" CD
alludes to some of the further possibilities of this unexpected union.
Utilizing knotty composed statements as a springboard for improvisation,
this performance promises maximum interaction.

Sudden Oak is the San Francisco duo of John Ward (electric guitar) and Matt
Erickson (saxophone) - "the resultant pile-up is a fucking blast, with John
drawing huge vectors of feedback and klang from his guitar with a weight of
ideas that crosses the post-Hendrix adrenaline mainline of Munehiro Narita
with the avant brut ality of Masayuki Takayanagi and when Matt's high,
metallic saxophone parts crown the whole deal with blups of severed
single-note ferocity it'll have you reaching for your Takayanagi/Abe discs
for a back-to-back blast."
 
Paper Legs is the nom de plume for the music of Trevor Healy and Brian
Osborne birthed in Brooklyn a few years back. Healy relocated to the San
Francisco area in 2006, yet the two maintain the name for their solo and
collaborative works. From the KZSU review "Low fi experimental, noise jams
with loops and drums and guitar. Moments feel like toy instrument sources,
others are clanging cacophonies."