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anthem II
I am pleased to report that America is alive and well.
I spent the weekend in Minneapolis, checking this show of experimental psychedelic and folk music.
Lots of standout sets, including scouring noise from Wolf Eyes and Heathen Shame, blissful acoustics from Ben "Six Organs of Admittance" Chasny and Joshua Burkett, and drone sets from Double Leopards (who recently passed through Imaginary Year) and Charalambides (who will be returning to Chicago to play a show set up by two associates and me this August).
But perhaps the highlight of the show was the performance of Michael Yonkers, a fiftysomething guy who began his career over thirty years ago by modifying guitars and making crude synthesizers out of test-tone generators ripped out of cheap department-store sound toys. Every youngster in the room snapped to attention as Yonkers played a set of fucked-up blues on his sawed-down guitar, accompanying himself with a voice all blackened energy, part Lou Reed and part Satan. And the expression on his face was one of pure joy, the look of a crank who finds that his time has unexpectly arrived.
And that's America to me. Peace. Labels: music_commentary |
Tuesday, July 09, 2002
8:04 PM
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