event The Builders And The Butchers
Also Playing: John The Savage and Crane Your Swan Neck
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Sun Aug 9
8 pm
The Builders And The Butchers, John The Savage, and Crane Your Swan Neck at RSR StageRSR Stage 1206 Regent St., Madison, WI
The Builders And The Butchers’ name alone implies a sound from another time, a time when men tilled the soil from sunup to sundown. Soaked heavily in a traditional folk influence using banjos, mandolins, and plenty of disjointed percussion, the band’s gospel songs tell stories of life, death, and all the hard labor between. At some points, lead singer Ryan Sollee’s piercing croon is strangely reminiscent of Michael Stipe, creating an interesting contrast to the band’s rustic and tattered sound. Milwaukee’s John The Savage combines “exotic” instrumentation—meaning trumpets, cellos, and anything else more associated with high school music programs than rock bands—with Michael Skorcz’s eccentric, love-’em-or-hate-’em vocals. Skorcz’s circus-barker growl fits the cinematic sweep of the music, which veers impressively from New Orleans funeral marches to James Brown funk grooves. John The Savage released Kitchen Voodoo last year.
The Builders And The Butchers’ name alone implies a sound from another time, a time when men tilled the soil from sunup to sundown. Soaked heavily in a traditional folk influence using banjos, mandolins, and plenty of disjointed percussion, the band’s gospel songs tell stories of life, death, and all the hard labor between. At some points, lead singer Ryan Sollee’s piercing croon is strangely reminiscent of Michael Stipe, creating an interesting contrast to the band’s rustic and tattered sound. Milwaukee’s John The Savage combines “exotic” instrumentation—meaning trumpets, cellos, and anything else more associated with high school music programs than rock bands—with Michael Skorcz’s eccentric, love-’em-or-hate-’em vocals. Skorcz’s circus-barker growl fits the cinematic sweep of the music, which veers impressively from New Orleans funeral marches to James Brown funk grooves. John The Savage released Kitchen Voodoo last year.
Updated 03/23/2011
