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...surprise, perhaps, that his early works are as sadistic as a triple root canal. In The Past and the Punishments, a collection of Yu's short stories, a young girl is eviscerated by cannibals. Elsewhere in the anthology, a murderer is himself dissected by blas? organ harvesters. Yu meant to critique a Chinese society whose capacity for cruelty can still astonish, but even his avant-garde peers were a bit put off. "I can't imagine what kind of brutal tortures patients endured under his cruel steel pliers," the author Mo Yan once wrote...
This NYC instrumental bass-drum-organ trio delivers tunes just complex enough to be interesting and just simple enough to be good. 9:00 PM. $9; 18+. Middle East (Upstairs), 472 Mass...
...slow yet loud and angry tunes of Bongzilla lash at the country’s current marijuana laws in their third release, Gateway. Denmark-based On Trial, armed with their third album titled Blinded By The Sun, evoke the psychedelic 60s through the use of the organ and the sitar. 9:00 p.m. $9; 18+. The Middle East Upstairs, 472 Mass. Ave., Cambridge...
...expression within the “constraints” of hip-hop. From the opening shouts of “GhettoMusick,” it’s clear that his Speakerboxxx is a force to be reckoned with, with its frantic bassline accompanied by wailing synths and piercing organ. His flow is as smooth as ever—witness “The Way You Move”, which starts “ready for action, nip it in the bud / we never relaxin’ Outkast is everlastin?...
...poorly executed drum and bass remix that leaves us dying for Coltrane’s version. But most of the time André stands unparalleled in the musical landscape. “She Lives in My Lap,” boasts live bass and watery organ against a drunken wheezing loop and André’s scratchy voice. Over jazzy brushed snares and live piano, “She’s Alive” spins a haunting falsetto yarn about a young single mother...