RTP-area local music and culture

[Chris Rossi <nospam AT spacelabstudio.com>]

Thanks for the tip.  I managed to win tix from WXYC in the car on the 
way to the show.  Got there just in time for NOMO to start.  Couldn't 
have planned it any better.  They rocked then I went home and went to 
bed.  I picked up a copy of their second to last record but not their 
latest, latest.  Apparently everything they played was off the record I 
got.  Maybe they didn't have the personnel for the new stuff.  At any 
rate, great show.  Hardly anybody saw it, though.

The 506 is really starting to sound good, now, with the new sound guy. 
Don't know his name, but I've seen him around.

chris


grady wrote:
> Holy crap, I just got around to listening to some of the bands coming 
> through this week. Nomo (Monday, Local 506, with His Name Is Alive) are 
> freaking excellent gritty/funky large-band (well, 8 people, at least) 
> Afrobeat.
>
> The website says: "On New Tones home-made Detroit electronics and huge 
> horn sections blast big band funk and riotous jazz. NOMO’s roots are 
> firmly planted in the fertile soil of African polyrhythm and American 
> free jazz, and bandleader Elliot Bergman’s tracks draw inspiration from 
> cultures and generations wildly different than his home setting. . . .
> “The New Tones recordings are more intricate and nuanced than anything 
> we’ve released,” says Bergman. “The record features an arsenal of 
> homemade percussion including the “electric sawblade-gamelan”, “no-tone” 
> shakers, and the “Nu-Tone cymbals”,” he adds."
>
> http://www.nomomusic.com/newtones.htm
>
> It just hadn't occurred to me that HNIA would be touring with an 8-piece 
> Afrobeat band, but Warn Defever produced their new record, so there you go.
>
> I may have to haul my creaky ass down to the 506 (on a Monday, even) to 
> see this.
>
> Ross
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