Hello everyone.
Hope the weather is nice where you are because it has been absolutely beautiful
up here. The sun is out and so are the leaf peepers. But I am not here to pontificate
about the fall foliage, I am here to talk about the abundance of music in
Burlington. Today, its all about Night 2 of Matt Hagen’s Shocktober Music
Series, The Return of Brainscapes, Oct 10th, 2019.
Brainscapes is
another one of Matt’s musical projects. According to my research, it usually is
Matt and the super talented Bob Wagner, both playing guitar. This time they
were augmented by (I didn’t get there last names, sorry) Ari on keyboards and
Dan on bass. It pretty much was all improv. They played straight through for
about 55 minutes. No way to really keep a setlist. They didn’t even have any
type of percussion going on until about 20 minutes in when Ari started dropping
some dope beats.
I hate to call
it Pink Floydesque because anything spacey can be described as that. So let’s
say it was propulsive, ambient, tripped out rock. Matt made use of his pedal
board. Bob added some sublime ohh’s and ahh’s. Matt also played a theremin for a little bit. Never seen one played live,
so I can cross that off the list. They wore squids on their heads because why
not.
Another awesome
night of music and one step closer to that sweet, tasty loaf of bread. Next
week, Angels Bones and the Filthy Fist.
Dave Kemp
BA American Studies
PhD Rock and Roll
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