Friday, Dec. 18, 2009
Prestige Atlantic Impulse
Tonight @ Sugar Maple, 8 p.m.
Affirming Victor DeLorenzo's status as perhaps the most musically
adventurous of all the Violent Femmes, the drummer's new project,
Prestige Atlantic Impulse, is an experimental jazz trio worlds removed
from the Femmes' signature folk-punk. Though that "experimental" tag may
alienate those already disinclined to jazz, Prestige Atlantic Impulse's
concoctions are direct and immediate, with the curiously gritty bass
sounds of Jason Wietlispach (the host of a modern classical music show
on WMSE) juxtaposing against the frantic, Grant- Green-on-uppers guitar
work of Alex Stewart. Tonight the trio plays one of its free monthly
gigs at the Sugar Maple.



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