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Live, the band seems to respond to their music in an equally necessary fashion. The four core members of the Junkies--Margo and Peter Timmins, their brother, guitarist and songwriter Michael Timmins, and bassist Alan Anton--appear totally intent on communicating their music without any pomp and circumstance. Michael Timmins remained seated in the back of the stage for the whole show, the his face hidden for the most part by his long, brown hair. Similarly, Peter Timmins and Anton were conspicuous only because they were never in the spotlight...
...English bassist Barry Guy is a would master of "free music," music which relies on the individual musician to translate seemingly incomprehensible graphics from the score into music. On Valentine's Day (and the day before) Guy took up shop with the Harvard Jazz Band, having trekked across the Atlantic as part of the "Learning from Performer's program. He spent four hours over the two days familiarizing us with one of compositions ("Polyhymnia") and more generally with free improvisation...
...Boston-based band Helium. The various parts of Autoclave's sound--the instrumental overlaps, the soulfulness, the rapid riff-changing--are now split up among the bands its ex-members have formed: Helium songs are slow and cathartic Slant 6 song are speedy and compact, and Autoclave bassist Nikki Chapman's Rastro! is noisier than either other band. It's fair to say (and it's not a diss on Helium) that Christina Billotte's melodic sense must have been the dominant one in deciding what Autoclave tunes would sound like. The multi-layered Autoclave textures, the interplay produced...
...twenty years now,The Fringe has played a weekly Boston-area gig. The Jazz trio--sax man George Garzone, bassist John Lockwood, and drummer Bob Gullotti--first got regular at Michael's in 1974, when they were still fresh out of Boston's Berklee School of Music. The stayed there for seven years, before doing a year or so at the old 1369 in Inman Square...
...zine they write--are mostly concerned with 60s psychedelia and its 80s-90s direct descendants, of whom there are many more than you think. Graphics are elaborately medieval, etched, antiquated and well-crafted. The Loud Family, talented Australian songwriter and ex-punk Ed Kuepper, and the former bassist for the Jimi Hendrix Experience are featured items in the "latest" issue; the 7" record inside sounds good too. Look for it at In Your Ear, or send f2 to Nick Saloman, Woronzow Records, 75 Melville Rd., Walthamstow, London...