Outsound Presents7:30
Mutant TrioJohn William Gordon - electric guitar
Ryan Lukas (and Gabe Davis and Jeff Chambers) - acoustic bass
Rick Rivera (and Rob Rhodes) - drums
8:30
BlenderHeadLorin Benedict voice, Matt Nelson tenor sax, Nate Brenner bass, Eric Vogler guitar, Sam Ospovat drums
The Mutant Trio recipe: Combine your favorite classical track with one Sex Pistols track then subtract 5 likability points; let ferment for 12 hours before stirring in some old fusion and 4 cups of Thelonious Monk extract... wring in 8 drops of old blues then refrigerate for 2 hours... scoop off the fat from the top and put in down your shorts...contemplate your blind faith...change shorts...learn melodic minor then unlearn it...throw in 3 colors of your choice...bake for 45 minutes at 950 degrees or until carbon. Feed to pigeons on your favorite statue.
John William Gordon grew up and resides in the San Francisco, California Bay Area. He started playing guitar at age 14 after becoming obsessed with recordings of Mahavishnu Orchestra. In college he fixated on the music of Charlie Parker then Thelonious Monk. Many jazz, free, rock, punk and classical players inspire him. He still plays in a pianoless Monk cover band. Along the way he studied guitar with Harry Andrew (a graduate of New England Conservatory) and Adam Levy (long before his stint with Norah Jones) and learned much in Attila Zoller’s Vermont workshops with Jim Hall and others.
A quintet of improvising musicians attempting to play music that is (just slightly) too hard for them, in order to push the limits of their collective capabilities. Most of the musical excursions involve complex elements in the rhythmic domain as well as unorthodox/isorhythmic formal structures. The material is abstracted much of the time to keep the listener (and themselves) guessing. Blenderhead draws variously from the traditions of jazz, European improvised and contemporary classical music, and popular forms.
Cost: $8/10