Camelot Lounge, April 14 9/10 A shattering champagne bottle signals the launch of a ship, and albums are usually launched by playing the music they contain. But what if one has multi-tracked oneself playing 52 instruments and one’s brother playing a further 11? This was Joseph Tawadros’s dilemma in launching…
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The Factory Floor, March 24 7.5/10 You could spend an entire weekend at a festival and hear less diverse music than was packed into this night. The combination of the Inuit-influenced Jerry Cans downstairs, then a dash upstairs to catch the last few songs and rampant surrealism of the Residents,…
The Metro Theatre, March 23 6.5/10 This may also work for the countless orchestras living in fear of their audiences dwindling to nothing: turn up the volume. Los Angeles tenor saxophonist Kamasi Washington plays a conventional enough brand of jazz, if deep-fried in funk, but by presenting it at full-blast…