Recording: Luge

Artist: Luge

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (TONE Presents), May 13, 2022.

Luge - unknown

A fairly joyous evening in the Southern Cross, with lots of friendly faces re-encountering each other at this one-off, pre-festival show being presented by TONE. (Sidenote: the TONE festival is returning, with shows mostly clustered next month, and it looks fabulous!) Closing out the night, Luge showed as much technical dexterity as the evening's other performers, but in the service of locked-in arrangements rather than free exploration. If anything, this crew sounded even more precise than I recalled, so some of the pandemic downtime must have been spent in the rehearsal space. That said, they found some room to unclench a bit on some of the new material, like this one that leads off with an uncharacteristically-relaxed groove before tighening up and heading into a gallop.

^* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!