Strange objects

Ok, Carlo Mombelli and the Prisoners of Strange just wasn’t for me. Thick electric bass, mostly ostinati, now and then leaving that for jazz rock licks, over that some sub Jon Hassell trumpet sound (I’m not talking about the playing, I didn’t have sufficient patience to analyze that), plus the band’s only asset, Siya Makuzeni on trombone and vocals. Well, I can’t stand scat even if it’s Sarah Vaughan, so I jumped ship and went to the sidelines. (But, if you view the pic above, the strange, which the musicians felt prisoner to, are indeed slightly unsettling.)

Concerts in the Dark is a series that unfortunately overlaps with the program on the main stage. You get seated in the dusk, so you can still see the shadow of the guy who shifts position creakily across of you. Behind a partition, a musician is mixing you sounds in surround. Some pretty cool folk involved. I caught Thomas Köner’s set. Very suggestive, this would go well with the existing footage of Shackleton’s antarctic voyage in slomo.

Tomorrow they will have John Wall, so I guess I must leave you alone with a concert stream or so. Let’s see. Now, for Steve Lehman …