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Weds, 11 Jun 2025 @ Solar Myth, Philadelphia.
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... techniques on the instrument. One piece in particular required him to circular breathe while playing an extended repeated phrase that was filled with octave jumps; it had to be exhausting. I have no idea if it was intentional, but on the tune ["Holotype"](https://danweiss.bandcamp.com/track/holotype), both in terms of timbre and overall approach ...
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I once read a review of David Lynch's "Eraserhead" saying that the best way to watch it was to understand that for Lynch, the focus was on staging and lighting design, not plot and character. During this show I had a simularsimilar thought about this collection of music, where the handling of meter and tempo are as much in the foreground as any of the pitch or harmonic concerns. Watching a band that can both be playing extremely loosely and still nail intricate details like the sudden section changes here will never not be thrilling.
2025-06-12 09:07:39
The trumpet player Peter Evans was new to me; I need to check his work out more deeply. Really interesting note choices throughout his solos, and he also brought along a bag of tricks that I'd put just on this side of being extended techniques on the instrument. One piece in particular required him to circular breathe while playing an extended repeated phrase that was filled with octave jumps; had to be exhausting. I have no idea if it was intentional, but on the tune ["Holotype"](https://danweiss.bandcamp.com/track/holotype), both in terms of timbre and overall approach to the piece, I was reminded of Markus Stockhausen's playing on an old ECM recording [Aparis](https://ecmrecords.com/product/aparis-markus-stockhausen-simon-stockhausen-jo-thones/). That may just be because I've been listening to a *lot* of Stockhausen in the last year or so.