Music Box Series presents:
Blue Cranes & Gojogo
- When
- Tue Nov 25, 2008
- Where
- Climate Theater
- Time
- 8 pm - 10 pm
- Cost
- $7 - $15
- Tags
- Music, Live Music Bars, Theater, Theater Houses
Description
(jazz, Portland) Like some David Lynch-style basement jazz hallucination, the Blue Cranes' music is the type of experimental, sometimes insane, but always invigorating experience that's hard to shake. The Portland quintet understands jazz is alive and well—but also that it was never something to be defined in the first place. The Cranes treat music as the broad, blank canvas it is, splattering it with color, bizarre time splits, soothing melodies and frightening bursts of brass while forging an original soundscape that would make a by-the-books beatnik jazzhead's beret spin.Indian chamber jazz - that's what I call it. Here's another description: Pitched somewhere between the chilly post-rock chamber music of Rachel's and the joyful faux-Gypsy romps of A Hawk and a Hacksaw, the debut album by instrumental quartet Gojogo is an uncategorizable delight.
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