Shelton/Hartman/Gunnarson Trio: Aram Shelton (Dragons 76, Grey Ghost), Chicago's Michael Hartman (TV Pow, Kuro Neko Music), and Steini Gunnarson (Son of Gunnar, Ton of Shel
) play improvised music on electronics and guitar. Quiet noises and noisey noises confronted by other sounds and silences.
"With all the squawks, rasps, and synapse-smacking harmonics of John Zorn and Albert Ayler, the San Francisco duo Ettrick wields saxophones like some kind of pan-dimensional alarm clocks—or, at the very least, malfunctioning dentist's drills. But like the best free jazz, there's a deep intuition and discipline at work within the band's music... To top it all off, the twosome splices bits of Orthrelm-level metal into the frenetic jazz..." -- The Onion AV Club (Boulder/Denver)
Clan of the Cave Bear (from the Cleveland area) sound like an electric guitar and a drum set living together in a truck hitting speed bumps occasionally, but not always. Sometimes the truck slows down for the bumps. or it may hit the bumps very hard.
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Cost: $6-10