FRIDAY NOVEMBER 6th - 7pm - Tickets are $10
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Jude Brothers is a folk derived singer-songwriter from Arkansas, with a penchant for whimsy and tender heartedness. Brothers’ distinct writing style is marked by congenial contrasts: passionate & playful, calculated & relaxed, approachable & quirky.
Their lyrics communicate a simultaneous existential dread and intoxicating thrill of living and loving, a practice in raw and shameless vulnerability shared through song. All of this is transmitted through nimble vocal frolicking- a shapeshifter voice crawling, leaping, pirouetting through a mystical landscape of their own creation.
.....Let’s say you are in a forest, and you don’t know how you got there. A strong voice lilts from an autumnal quiet to a riveting loud stream to sing you the spell of their story. Is it a mockingbird? The spirit of an ash tree? A mischievous, but benevolent forest sprite?
Nay! Tis but your new friend, Jud. Or Jude. Or Judith. With harp, guitar, and sometimes tenor banjo in tow, this freaky little Ozark bard comes bearing gifts- songs from somewhere between the real and the ethereal landscapes of their life.
Austin Cash is an Arkansas born and bred ambient americana musician. Inspired by greats such as Steve Reich, John Fahey, and Brian Eno, Cash began composing music in his later teens growing up in Bald Knob, Arkansas. With a keen observation of Southern Minimalism, his adept musical style helps any listener understand the particular, complicated, ornery, and beautiful heart that is The Ozark Milieu.
We tend to wish for stories with words, to guide us into a narrative that we can then project upon. This is extremely common for Americana, and yet Austin Cash methodically, charmingly, and insightfully asks us with his compositions to allow a yarn to be created while witnessing it, a pure act of listening and gilded restraint.
Johnny Bell is a Northern New Mexico-based musician whose work explores the banjo as a vehicle for expansive, progressive instrumental music. Working from within the lineage of American Primitive music but drawing equally from heavier experimental influences, Bell juxtaposes traditional technique with acoustic drone, recursive patterns, and layered sonic textures, foregrounding the banjo’s darker and more resonant possibilities.
Chaz Knapp - If you thought Fleet Foxes’ White Winter Hymnal evoked the feeling of deepest winter, you should check out this beautifully odd and solitary project from Arkansas-based multi-instrumentalist Chaz Knapp to hear how it’s really done. Chaz is a traditional instrumentalist and field recorder, whose Microfolk series highlighted him as a musical collagist. Winter Music contrasts Microfolk (which was recorded in the summer heat) in that Chaz took his instruments to various locations in the rugged terrain of Northwest Arkansas in the depths of winter, recording with tape loops and improvisations while his fingers froze and his nylon string guitar neck shrank in the cold.
The result is something of a remote and isolated audio diary, as much documenting the playing of Chaz as the sounds of the environments he brings in, from rushing water to whistling winds. Chaz’s nylon string guitar creates gentle chord brushes alongside the natural sounds, and his world-weary voice combines nicely with the soft strings, suggesting vulnerability and being at the mercy of the elements. wm jan23 24(i) is a nice example of this, with the sounds of the river at the forefront and the delicate guitar work nestled behind.
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