Showing posts with label ben frost. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ben frost. Show all posts

Sunday, November 17, 2019

Recording: The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 7

Artist: The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 7

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Music By Harry and Furlong Season 2 Spectacular!), September 25, 2019.

The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 7 - [excerpt]

This self-declared spectacle — which came complete with celebratory cupcakes — was an anniversary party for Andrew Furlong and Harry Vetro's Tranzac residency. As usual, each of them put together an ensemble to play a set. Vetro's shifting ensembles are regularly dubbed a part of his "Search For Eternal Happiness", and this large group brought together most of the players who came together at the series' first outing. This part of the search was less "composed" than some, but there was still the strong shared sense of a game plan, with the crew managing to hold onto a reasonably-layered structure and not just pile sounds on top of other sounds, raising up to a swell worthy of a birthday party.

The full ensemble was:

  • Harrison Argatoff (sax)
  • Madeleine Ertel (trumpet)
  • Ben Frost (flugelhorn)
  • Kaelin Murphy (bass trumpet)
  • Patrick Smith (sax)
  • Meghan Gilhespy (vocals)
  • Nick Donovan (drums)
  • Patrick O'Reilly (guit)
  • Harry Bartlett (guit)
  • Caleb Klager (double bass)
  • Harrison Vetro (drums)

[Music By Harry and Furlong will continue at The Tranzac on Wednesday, November 27th, with sets from Harry Vetro's Drum Trio (Harry Vetro, Nick Donovan, and Miles Fuller) as well as a duo of Andrew Furlong and Kurt Newman.]

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Recording: Ben Frost

Artist: Ben Frost

Song: Sola Fide*

Recorded at The Garrison ("Wavelength 624"), October 24, 2014.

Ben Frost - Sola Fide

Having read about Frost in Musicworks and selectively sampled some of his work online, in my mind I was expecting something a bit more, well, fusty than the industrial-strength push that rumbled the audience members from some specially-brought-in extra bass subs. Offering a commanding profile through the strobelit haze (looking something like a top-knotted post-apocalyptic bike courier), Frost brought the whitenoise dronethrum of his recent A U R O R A album to pulsating life.

* Thanks to a commenter for pointing out the title to this one.