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May. 9th, 2006 11:41 amLast year at Cinequest I wrote this:
I don't listen to much electronica, but every once in a while something comes along that spins my head. Sometime in the last couple of years I was shopping at the Electric Fetus and heard a strange mix of synths, beats, exotica, jazz, and an occasional rap or accordion. It might have been "Playing Parties," and it was definitely Daedelus, whose MySpace page I just stumbled across. There are some lovely MP3s on Epitonic, too. (For those more clueful, apparently it's the sort of thing found on Ninja Tune, which is currently featuring something from his new album.)
Lisa Dewey, one of my favorite local musicians, is playing this Thursday at dinnertime at the Naglee Park Garage, a restaurant in San Jose. I haven't been to the restaurant, but it has historical ties to Fuel, the best club I ever saw in San Jose, so I'm fond of it already.
On Saturday I'll be at the Blue Rock Shoot in Saratoga for the "marimba-driven torch noir" of DeatHat. I'll be there because I'm the bass player, and also because I'll be playing a set of my own music. Possibly featuring the Austin Hatchet, which didn't get to come out and play at my last solo appearance.
The best thing I saw yesterday was Territory, about three people in an apartment in the middle of the night. It's adapted from a play, and it's one of those plays in which the night goes on and secrets are revealed, and maybe you can probably guess someof the secrets, but that's okay, it's not about where the story goes, it's about watching it get there, which it does with an energy and intensity absent from most play adaptations, and for that matter most movies. It probably helps that it was adapted and directed by the playwright, and features the theatrical cast. It probably also helps that they are really good.It's one of my favorite festival movies, and now it's available on DVD. Netflix has it, too.
I don't listen to much electronica, but every once in a while something comes along that spins my head. Sometime in the last couple of years I was shopping at the Electric Fetus and heard a strange mix of synths, beats, exotica, jazz, and an occasional rap or accordion. It might have been "Playing Parties," and it was definitely Daedelus, whose MySpace page I just stumbled across. There are some lovely MP3s on Epitonic, too. (For those more clueful, apparently it's the sort of thing found on Ninja Tune, which is currently featuring something from his new album.)
Lisa Dewey, one of my favorite local musicians, is playing this Thursday at dinnertime at the Naglee Park Garage, a restaurant in San Jose. I haven't been to the restaurant, but it has historical ties to Fuel, the best club I ever saw in San Jose, so I'm fond of it already.
On Saturday I'll be at the Blue Rock Shoot in Saratoga for the "marimba-driven torch noir" of DeatHat. I'll be there because I'm the bass player, and also because I'll be playing a set of my own music. Possibly featuring the Austin Hatchet, which didn't get to come out and play at my last solo appearance.
