NYC: Small Beast tonight and Israel pictures
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We're back! The tour was fantastic - great shows across Germany,
France, Switzerland... popping up to Denmark (We took a train ON a
boat...), and finished with our first show, ever, in Israel. (This
brings our "countries played" list to 20!)
Check out some pictures from Israel here (or on our Facebook):
http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=1636060
http://www.facebook.com/gutbucketnyc/
And we got some great reviews; Tel Aviv was a real "jazz" festival so
we were, well, a little different.
See below for some translations if you're curious!
We were working with about 9 new tunes, which we're very excited
about; and may be the groundwork for a recording later this year????
TONIGHT - Monday 2/8 - fresh off tour - We're at Paul Wallfisch
(Botanica)'s salon series in lower Manhattan again at the Delancey
called "Small Beast." It's a full night of music. FREE SHOW (and 2-
for-1 drinks if you want)... a great way to spend a Monday night in
NYC. We're on at 10:30. The Delancey is at 168 Delancey (right near
Essex/Delancey FJMZ)
Oh and one last thing - we're on TWITTER.
http://www.twitter.com/gutbucketnyc/
If arguments about food and hearing about our tour travels sounds like
fun - see you there.
Yours
Gutbucket
http://www.gutweb.com/
http://www.myspace.com/gutbucket/
http://www.facebook.com/gutbucketnyc/
http://www.twitter.com/clusterhocket/
Tel Aviv:
http://www.mouse.co.il/CM.articles_item,404,209,45225,.aspx
We saw a rare picture last night at the Cinematek in Tel Aviv during
the late concert of the quartet Gutbucket. This was a Jazz concert,
or at least it happened in the format of the TA Jazz Festival, but the
audience (mostly young people - also an exceptional picture for the
Jazz Festival crowd) was filled with not a few people energetically
bopping their heads back and forth, a move loved and known from
concerts of aggressive rock. This was definitely a Rock concert to
the same extent that it was a Jazz concert. Maybe we would call it
"distorjazz" (distortion Jazz).
To be more exact, we'll call it progressive distorjazz - a non-stop
flow of melodic fragments and diced rhythms, that moved in crazy
fragments between Jazz, progressive Rock, Indie Rock and even a bit of
Metal. One can declare with a level of absolute certainty that there
has never been a a Jazz concert like this here during which one hears
so many different "un-cooked" ideas (translation issue - the concept
of "ra'ayon lo mevushal" translates to this but the implication is
that it's a raw idea with lots of potential for tastiness when
cooking:) I counted at least 151 ideas. But if this fact gives off
the impression that this was a bad concert, please receive another
factor: doubtful that there has been a Jazz concert here that there
were so many different successful ideas. I counted at least 742.
Basically, this was a magnificent (lost in translation - the word the
writer used also means impressive, beautiful and great, in addition to
magnificent:) concert.
It was a bit odd to hear this incredible Brooklyn band - that exerts
with all it's heart the attitude, ethos, and even the humor of
American "Indie" - played in a concert hall that was "protected" from
the audience, distant and sitting. A club such as Levontin 7 seems a
more important stomping ground. But the members of Gutbucket
(Saxophonist Ken Thomson, Guitarist Ty Citerman, Contra-bassist Eric
Rockwin and Percussionist Adam Gold) did not let the un-optimal
conditions disturb them a bit. They gave "all they had" and produced
(translation note: also radiated and deriving pleasure) an intense
energy, fluctuating in the amount of crazy musical information found
in Gutbucket's music and translates to maybe a technocratic playing.
It was a sea of information, a sea of emotion - this was the
phenomenal equation that stood at the base of this concert. Blessings
(literal translation - it comes out less holy sounding in Hebrew and
mostly says that they did a great thing) to the management of the Tel
Aviv Jazz Festival for giving a stage to this group, so untraditional
and so delightfully refreshing/invigorating.
http://www.tapuz.co.il/blog/ViewEntry.asp?EntryId=1636060
“I Fell in Love”.
“These people make music that is so insane, stirring, inflaming, it
that it causes people to sit and stare with a silly smile on their
faces and sparks joy in their eyes…. The soloist Ken Thomson is a
bombshell of frenetic energy, like a human silver ball with a battery
of talent and charisma that would suffice for ten musicians. He
doesn’t stop for one second, shakes himself hither and yon, jumps,
runs, skips and dances- I never faced a photographic challenge like
this in my life. And along with these (gestures)he plays-and what
playing- making total magic on the saxophone, and breaking the hearts
of all the spectators in the hall. The other musicians with him (names
and instruments listed) don’t lag behind him in talent- they are all
accomplished, provocative and crazy- but they vacate the stage for him
in a justified assumption that there’s room for only one on the lamp
post, and not just any lamp post but on Reading itself. (Note: Reading
is the main electrical power station outside TA).
The crowd, wild and enthusiastic, didn’t allow them to descend (from
the stage). I have no idea how they succeeded in giving such a
beautiful encore after having expended so much energy. I expected them
to drop like flies, exhausted to the core. But they didn’t just give
an encore but conversed with the crowd in the vestibule and were
totally charming and relaxed. I am not ashamed to admit publicly that
I fell totally in love. And not just I. Everyone I spoke to after the
performance felt the same. Even the man with me, who loved the first
act (older musicians) and I feared that this act (Gutbucket) might not
“speak to him”, was enchanted by what he heard and saw. And if both
of us are enamored with the same ensemble then everything is fine;
what can go wrong now? Will we argue over who goes to bed first with
the CD?”