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⇢: First SunZurich in winter is often smothered in fog and low clouds for months on end. Prevailing winds from the north ram the clouds coming in from the Atlantic against the wall of the Alps, and there they stick. Gray day after gray day, in a gray city by a gray lake, split by a gray…
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⇢: Further into the CornerBeginning with last year’s Translation Has Failed album No Duality, Nathan Hubbard’s been on a tear releasing one album per month in the lead-up to his fiftieth birthday in May, ranging from free jazz to doom metal to music for large percussion ensemble, all reflective of “an overflowing archive and dreams of legacy,” as Hubbard…
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⇢: Darkness PromisesAside from Matt Wascovich, Scarcity of Tanks that night included Weasel Walter, Kid Millions, Jim Sauter of Borbetomagus, John Morton from the electric eels and Nick from Necking.
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⇢: BloodlinesEventually it became clear that they were leaving the mountain landscapes behind. Would they recognize them if they passed that way again? (Not that they had any plans to do so). They had folders full to bursting with souvenirs. “I can still see it in my mind’s eye…” ran the stock phrase. But why the…
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⇢: The Future Sound of RumfordJust shy of three decades ago: Lucas Abela’s first US tour, sharing the stage with Deerhoof and Crank Sturgeon at the legendary Geno’s in Maine. Abela had his first ever snowball fight, during which he pegged an unmarked police car with a snowball.
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⇢: 2025I started the year with no greater plans than a set at the Brown Building alongside Amy Cimini and Sean Jones playing my songs for voice and cello. Somehow that turned into a full twelve months of gigging and recording, the busiest year I’ve had post-lockdown. Below, the highlights (and lowlights):
