Action Research #141
Jeff Zagers
(Savannah, GA)
(Richly textured multi-instrumentalist songs ranging from
synth driven to sax driven & covering lots of other territory with finesse.
One of the Southeast's best underground soundmakers. New record out now on
Wharf Cat Records.)
Ben Varian
(Review of "Real Domestic Scene" on Patient
Sounds:
"When "normal" people try to make
"weird" music it's always a disaster. It sounds bogus at a 99.9%
rate. But when "weird" people pursue "normal" music...
Shit, kid, somehow it's consistently amazing. Ben Varian's take on pop music
leaves my brain throbbing. His ridiculous transitions from funky prom-riffs
into zoink behavior, all with tender loving vocals holding your hand and
massaging your thighs, possesses an evil brilliance. He brings you into states
of unusual comfortableness with some Jerry Paperish tunes as he croons over
electronic lounge numbers. Excreting a
kooky normalcy-- like listening to Billy Joel in a house that is being
fumigated-- as wayward key runs jitter and jive. You would feel at ease letting
this music pet-sit your pug for the week even though you saw it fly off in a
spaceship just last night." -- "Who Has Tapes Anymore?" column
of AdHoc ( http://adhoc.fm/tag/ben-varian/ )
Jake Tobin
(Bizarre & catchy off-the-path sax-filled pop. Review of
"Torment" LP: "Recorded alone over the course of a few months at
his woodland compound, Tobin’s songs display a white collar work ethic of
almost surgical precision. Here is guitar slanging and avian twittering,
drenched with lilting shrieks from a (possibly) stolen saxophone. Brassy drones
and stuttering keys occasionally drift in like clouds of airborne toner. These
are tunes for confetti-filled elevators or long drives to lunch dates with
corporate suits at drab cafes. TORMENT proves to be a caustic but also
compassionate take on pop, cutting the safety net out from the 9-5
malaise." (from https://jaketobin.bandcamp.com/album/torment )
ZSF
(acid damage & synthscapes from the man behind The
Viirus
Frog
(full spice saturation)
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Friday, April 3, 2015
A Space
Gainesville, FL
9:30pm
$5 please
Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/610367165773502
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