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Paul Metzger
Also Playing: Starless And Bible Black and Spiral Joy Band and Odist
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Sun Nov 8
9 pm,
Paul Metzger, Starless And Bible Black, Spiral Joy Band, and Odist at The Frequency
Minnesotan stringed-instrument alchemist Paul Metzger is best known for taking the banjo out of its usual plucky groove and stretching it into chiming, slow-building, often improvised solos. Most striking is his 12-string banjo, which he plays with a bow to create impressively rich drones, and fingerpicks to form knotted melodies that wind around their own mysterious rhythmic axes. This has made for a surprisingly varied body of work, which maintains an air of mystic quietude up through this year's live album Anamnestic Tincture. Going even deeper into the dark forest of acoustic experimentalism, Virginia's Spiral Joy Band resourcefully tortures banjos, guitars, fiddles, harmonium, assorted percussion, and flute to summon dense drone-creak hoedowns.
The Frequency 121 W. Main St., Madison, WI
Minnesotan stringed-instrument alchemist Paul Metzger is best known for taking the banjo out of its usual plucky groove and stretching it into chiming, slow-building, often improvised solos. Most striking is his 12-string banjo, which he plays with a bow to create impressively rich drones, and fingerpicks to form knotted melodies that wind around their own mysterious rhythmic axes. This has made for a surprisingly varied body of work, which maintains an air of mystic quietude up through this year's live album Anamnestic Tincture. Going even deeper into the dark forest of acoustic experimentalism, Virginia's Spiral Joy Band resourcefully tortures banjos, guitars, fiddles, harmonium, assorted percussion, and flute to summon dense drone-creak hoedowns.
Updated 11/04/2009
