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Oxbow, Frank Rosaly
Phone: 773-227-4433 or 866-468-3401
Price: $7
Last year Chicago drummer Frank Rosaly released a homemade three-CD set of solo music called Milkwork (Molk), where he used real-time processing and blurts of electronic noise to buffett and caress intricate, fluid patterns and grooves played on drum kit, gongs, and tuned metal bowls. Recently Rosaly told me he deemed the set a failure, and though I don’t agree, I certainly don’t mind that he’s trying again. A new disc called Milkwork is due in January on Contraphonic (he’ll have copies at this show), and in its neatly structured improvisations he focuses more closely on polymetric exploration, a la Milford Graves and Jerome Cooper, using his hands and feet independently to hold down as many as four different rhythmic threads—some metered, some with only a pulse, and some with neither. In the record’s latter half especially, Rosaly leans on his electronic rig—a combination of contact microphones, oscillators, effects pedals, and analog synths—to trigger squiggly figures and long tones that intersect with his drumming. Tonight he’ll play a solo set and then join a new quintet called Oxbow for a set of his compositions; its lineup also includes vibist Jason Adasiewicz, bassist Jason Roebke, and clarinetists Jason Stein, James Falzone, and Keefe Jackson, all on different horns. Josh Abrams spins. —Peter Margasak
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773-227-4433 or 866-468-3401
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the name Oxbow is already taken
Posted by Sweet Daddy Patty
on September 23, 2009 at 12:03 AM
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Is it ever!
http://www.theoxbow.com/
Eugene Robinson is not a man whose band's name you want to poach, even accidentally. Somebody better tell Frank.
Posted by Philip Montoro
on September 23, 2009 at 12:09 AM
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