My friends Mike and Elisabeth, among others, made a short DVD called The Pizza Guy. Check it out if you get a chance, some of the scenarios are pretty funny, basically they order pizzas and stage these elaborate scenes when the pizza guy arrives. I’m hoping that the World show on Sunday night in Kensington comes together. It’s Adam Forkner from Yume Bitsu and you can download a sample mp3. Saxon are in the Philadelphia gearing up for a little tour magic with some practicing today. :::scott:::
Month: March 2005
Tonight is the draft for the Burnt Toast Vinyl fantasy baseball league. There will be much trash talking. Willis inspired some weird rock/baseball combination team names such as Neutral Milk Dotels, NewBomb Turk Wendells, and the frightening Kieschnickelback. Make any sense to you? If so, you have my sympathies. Saxon Shore will be playing at MACRoCk in Harrisonburg, VA on Friday. I think I’ll be down to see the rock, hopefully see you there if you’re in the neighborhood. :::scott:::
I love instrumental music because it can paint an image of environment that lyrically based songs are often too confined to do. Saxon Shore’s releases have been song oriented, less free form and sprawling or free-jazz inspired than some other instrumental acts. Because of this emphasis, the songs use more traditional melodic tools in a verse chorus verse structure, repeating and returning to themes within a single song. The band has been moving in more electronically influenced sound through some of their performances and tours. This sound is most completely realized in the Luck Will Not Save Us from a Jackpot of Nothing. Here, the traditional bass, guitar, drums band formula gives way to the inclusion of layers of synthesizers and keyboards and electronically derived rhythms. The result isn’t immediately recognizable as Saxon Shore, but the song structure and melodic arrangements begin to reveal that identity. The sound is darker and bleaker, relying on more ambient and soaring sounds, but still accomplishing the song oriented instrumentalism goals. The layers and layers of sounds heighten the listening experience as my mind translates buy ed pills aural to visual images. Luck will Not Save Us from a Jackpot of Nothing shows this…