Sleepers Awake

February 12, 2008 on 8:04 am | In Happenings | No Comments

So sorry long time no rant, but we are, albeit at least somewhat involuntarily, investigating the possibilities inherent in inherence, i.e. the aesthetics of disappearance you might say — that is to say the threshold of the invisible holds a mighty temptation for we Zen Nihilist sociable misanthropes. But a Cthulu-esque emergence from our slumber has resulted in a minor flurry of mid-February activity. Thus:

Wednesday, February 13, Nightlight, 9:30: Crowmeat Bob and the Slawfoot Stumpers, with Beat Circus and Kristy Kruger.
My own ragtag ensemble will be in the middle spot between a couple of class acts.
We’ll be doing some songs and improvisations. With Bradley Cook on double bass & vox, Aaron Smithers on jug & hubcap banjo, Tatsuya Nakatani on percussion, and myself on guitar & vox & reeds.
Beat Circus looks darned interesting. Weird Amercian gothic, they call it. From Boston. Lots of instruments. And I just now discovered they played on WXYC last night. Hope you caught it.
http://beatcircus.net/
Kristy Kruger’s a fine country music singer from Dallas. She’ll be going on first at about 9:30.
http://www.kristykruger.com/home.htm

Friday, February 15, Marsh Woodwinds (707 N Person St), Raleigh, 8 pm, 5 bucks: Tatsuya Nakatani solo and with Carrie Shull and Crowmeat Bob, and the Atomic Rhythm All Stars.
Tatsuya is a virtuosic extended-technique percussionist. Like Stockhausen’s Mikrophonie with jazz/improv sympathies and Tibetan bowls and stuff. Do yourself a freakin favor.
http://www.hhproduction.org/TATSUYA_NAKATANI_WORKS.html
The Atomic Rhythm All Stars are a new Raleigh jazz group that does the old-timey thing, music between the wars and suchlike.
They’ll open up and then Tatsuya will play a solo set and then he’ll be joined by we locals.
I’m serious. Come check him out.
Just a block down from the Krispy Kreme.

In other news, the Polyphonic Perversity radio show has moved again to Sundays, noon to 2 pm, on WXDU(.org). I alternate now with Joey. My jazz spot reamains 6-8 pm Thursdays in alternation with Andy.
I’ll be doing the Mondo Mundo world music program from 1-3 on the 16th.
And I’ll be having Dexter Romweber on the Mystery Show at 10 pm on the 24th to spin some of his favorite old records.

–Robert