SATURDAY AUG 27, 2016
529 Presents:
Tight Bros presents:
Ed Schrader's Music Beat
Suffer Dragon | Potted Plant | Salmon Shirt
Ed Schrader's Music Beat
Ed Schrader and Devlin Rice are Ed Schrader's Music Beat from the fair city of Baltimore MD. In 2008/09 many had seen Ed "live" with just a floor tom, one light, plenty of jokes, and commanding voice. This era often left people with a sense that they had just seen a man unhinged trying to tell them something sacred in the form of a song, or something, they weren't too sure what they saw. After a few tours on his own, in 2010 Ed asked Devlin to help him expand the songs with his limited knowledge of the bass guitar. Now the "live" show is one guy playing a drum with a light shining, singing his ass off and another dude with a bass, in the dark laughing at the other guy's jokes. This era (which still continues) tends to leave people with that same fascination of the sacred unhinged but now it seems a little less scary, more familiar and they can can bring their dates to see this "cool band that you might not have heard of".
This union shortly brought about the release of Jazz Mind on Load Records which featured collaborations with Randy Randall of No Age and Baltimore sound gurus Matmos. Jazz Mind captured the raw and jarring "live" show with songs that seem equally loud and destructive, pensive and haunting. Since the albums release the duo have been touring non-stop through North America and Europe, by themselves mostly but have also been seen in opening slots with Dan Deacon, Future Islands and hardcore luminaries Ceremony.
Party Jail picks up where Jazz Mind left off with a greater focus on making the listener aware that Ed Schrader's Music Beat are not nut jobs who just play their best guess at punk. They wish to reveal that they are secretly a band that write pop songs, whether you know it or not. (Photo by Alan Resnic)
Ed Schrader and Devlin Rice are Ed Schrader's Music Beat from the fair city of Baltimore MD. In 2008/09 many had seen Ed "live" with just a floor tom, one light, plenty of jokes, and commanding voice. This era often left people with a sense that they had just seen a man unhinged trying to tell them something sacred in the form of a song, or something, they weren't too sure what they saw. After a few tours on his own, in 2010 Ed asked Devlin to help him expand the songs with his limited knowledge of the bass guitar. Now the "live" show is one guy playing a drum with a light shining, singing his ass off and another dude with a bass, in the dark laughing at the other guy's jokes. This era (which still continues) tends to leave people with that same fascination of the sacred unhinged but now it seems a little less scary, more familiar and they can can bring their dates to see this "cool band that you might not have heard of".
This union shortly brought about the release of Jazz Mind on Load Records which featured collaborations with Randy Randall of No Age and Baltimore sound gurus Matmos. Jazz Mind captured the raw and jarring "live" show with songs that seem equally loud and destructive, pensive and haunting. Since the albums release the duo have been touring non-stop through North America and Europe, by themselves mostly but have also been seen in opening slots with Dan Deacon, Future Islands and hardcore luminaries Ceremony.
Party Jail picks up where Jazz Mind left off with a greater focus on making the listener aware that Ed Schrader's Music Beat are not nut jobs who just play their best guess at punk. They wish to reveal that they are secretly a band that write pop songs, whether you know it or not. (Photo by Alan Resnic)
Suffer Dragon
"Suffer Dragon is Adam Babar and Daniel Betts of Faun and a Pan Flute, which in a manner tells you much of what you need to know about the duo’s new project. Stylistically speaking, Faun and a Pan Flute have never been one to paint within the lines, so it makes sense that Babar and Betts would use this latest vehicle as an excuse to push their genre blurring even further. But where to exactly? For one thing, to territory far more chaotic and abstract. The group’s debut record, Good Golf, is a wild assortment of mathy guitar eruptions, jazzy interludes, frazzled noise experimentation and scattershot drumming that despite it’s fractured nature never feels forced or laborious. Lead single “That Shines” is one of the more straightforward cuts on the record, the closest thing the two come to settling into any sort of standard rock structure. But it’s still a bit of a mind fuck with the duo locked in orbit, teetering on the edge of a monster groove that never materializes. Instead it’s tension building on tension, stacks of fragmented riffs toppled over into something resembling a unified pattern. At the end of the day, Suffer Dragon might just be Babar on guitar and Betts on drums and keys, but they don’t allow their sparse lineup to keep them from crafting some remarkably inventive music. Listen below."
"Suffer Dragon is Adam Babar and Daniel Betts of Faun and a Pan Flute, which in a manner tells you much of what you need to know about the duo’s new project. Stylistically speaking, Faun and a Pan Flute have never been one to paint within the lines, so it makes sense that Babar and Betts would use this latest vehicle as an excuse to push their genre blurring even further. But where to exactly? For one thing, to territory far more chaotic and abstract. The group’s debut record, Good Golf, is a wild assortment of mathy guitar eruptions, jazzy interludes, frazzled noise experimentation and scattershot drumming that despite it’s fractured nature never feels forced or laborious. Lead single “That Shines” is one of the more straightforward cuts on the record, the closest thing the two come to settling into any sort of standard rock structure. But it’s still a bit of a mind fuck with the duo locked in orbit, teetering on the edge of a monster groove that never materializes. Instead it’s tension building on tension, stacks of fragmented riffs toppled over into something resembling a unified pattern. At the end of the day, Suffer Dragon might just be Babar on guitar and Betts on drums and keys, but they don’t allow their sparse lineup to keep them from crafting some remarkably inventive music. Listen below."