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05/29 Friday
7:00 PM RAIL, Transparent Flesh of Present Time and Pete Fosco
Transparent Flesh of Present Time (7 - 8)
Jon Libscomb - guitar/voice
Ethan Snyder -drums
Casimir Liberski -piano
Transparent Flesh of Present Time is the charging restless mute unvoiced road keening in a seizure of tarpaulin power into the pencil traceries of our faintest wishes. A dooming howl of the exhausted and dieing America. We hope to disrupt the bunch of fat and thin schizophrenics running the planet. All compositions are improvised and recorded live. No overdubs.
www.myspace.com/transparentfleshofpresenttime
RAIL (8-10)
Andy Allen- Saxophones/synth
Russ Flynn- Electric Guitar/Synth
Peter Krag- Fender Rhodes/Organ
Pete Negroponte- Drums
"Excellent Brooklyn-based rock/jazz quartet led by guitarist, Russ Flynn and admittedly influenced by Jim Black's Alasnoaxis. Russ Flynn is a new musician in town and just left us with this fine new disc from his quartet. Although there is no bassist on this disc, the quartet sounds fine just the way it is. "Ana Crusis" has a great groove and a most memorable melody. There is a most hypnotic bassline at the center, perhaps played by the guitar or keyboard. Drummer, Peter Negroponte, is powerful and propulsive, odd that I haven't heard of until now. Russ has written some wonderful jazz/rockin' songs that occasionally sound like Radiohead, a major influence on Jim Black's Alasnoaxis. Solos are spirited but often short so that the songs themselves shine through. Mr. Krag mostly plays fuzzy electric piano or organ and always sounds great playing his rambunctious and intricate parts. There is something joyful about this music that makes me smile and want to dance around. One of the things that I dig about this disc is that even without taking too many solos, Russ Flynn, always comes up a variety of interesting ways to play his guitar, his tone is always changing to play the different parts of each song. He does take a couple of great solos, but this is not what this disc is about. Quite a crafty disc without any of those show-off-your-chops type of jazz wanking." - BLG (Downtown Music Gallery, NYC)