event Free Moral Agents
Also Playing: Zechs Marquise and The Penfield Mood Organ
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Joe Engle
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Sun Nov 15
9 pm
Free Moral Agents, Zechs Marquise, and The Penfield Mood Organ at The Frequency
What do The Mars Volta members do when they're not pursuing the band's mystically tinged prog-freakery? To judge by the sounds showcased in their solo projects, they pursue other routes into mystically tinged prog-freakery. Keyboard player Isaiah "Ikey" Owens and his other band, Free Moral Agents, harness unwieldy twinkles of electronic noise, Mendee Ichikawa's melodic vocals, and a hint of Mars Volta's desert-acid-trip guitar style, generally indulging more of a shadowy pop sensibility. Mars Volta multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, meanwhile, leads his own band Zechs Marquise into sprawling, improv-based fusions of jazz and rock that resemble Santana sitting in with Can.
The Frequency 121 W. Main St., Madison, WI
What do The Mars Volta members do when they're not pursuing the band's mystically tinged prog-freakery? To judge by the sounds showcased in their solo projects, they pursue other routes into mystically tinged prog-freakery. Keyboard player Isaiah "Ikey" Owens and his other band, Free Moral Agents, harness unwieldy twinkles of electronic noise, Mendee Ichikawa's melodic vocals, and a hint of Mars Volta's desert-acid-trip guitar style, generally indulging more of a shadowy pop sensibility. Mars Volta multi-instrumentalist Marcel Rodriguez-Lopez, meanwhile, leads his own band Zechs Marquise into sprawling, improv-based fusions of jazz and rock that resemble Santana sitting in with Can.
Updated 10/20/2010
