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Living the Still Life
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Gemini Wolf will play the next installment of Still Life. “It’s music that I think has a sense of adventure and exploration about it,” says Vettese of the series.
Every band that’s ever played an opening slot has paid its dues in front of hostile crowds, lumped onto a bill that their music simply doesn’t fit. That situation is at least doubly uncomfortable for ambient and experimental musicians, whose use of concentration and silence can’t hope to drown out unruly, impatient audiences.
John Vettese hopes to avoid that situation with his new, bi-monthly “Still Life” series. “I’ve been going to shows for a number of years, seeing musicians playing in weird settings with three other bands that sound nothing like them,” says Vettese, a local music journalist and?DJ. “I wanted to create something that brought these styles to a more accessible space.”
Vettese defines Still Life’s musical palette broadly as encompassing ambient and experimental music, name-checking influences from Brian Eno to Sigur Ros. After debuting in October at the First Unitarian Church, it returns this Friday with Eno-esque ambient soundscape artist Tadoma (aka Data Garden Records’ Joe Patitucci), experimental dance duo Gemini Wolf and Gina Ferrara, who melds acoustic percussion with electronics, keyboards and samplers.
John Vettese hopes to avoid that situation with his new, bi-monthly “Still Life” series. “I’ve been going to shows for a number of years, seeing musicians playing in weird settings with three other bands that sound nothing like them,” says Vettese, a local music journalist and?DJ. “I wanted to create something that brought these styles to a more accessible space.”
Vettese defines Still Life’s musical palette broadly as encompassing ambient and experimental music, name-checking influences from Brian Eno to Sigur Ros. After debuting in October at the First Unitarian Church, it returns this Friday with Eno-esque ambient soundscape artist Tadoma (aka Data Garden Records’ Joe Patitucci), experimental dance duo Gemini Wolf and Gina Ferrara, who melds acoustic percussion with electronics, keyboards and samplers.
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