Recording: The Knot

Artist: The Knot

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Array Space (MFS 10th Anniversary Celebration: A Night of Improvised Music), February 10, 2019.

The Knot - [excerpt]

Every year around Valentine's Day, I tend to remember that it's this blog's anniversary. Then I check back to that first entry, see I'm already a day late, and go on with life. This year, I was thinking about it well ahead of time, and seeing that big, round (and mightily unexpected) tenth anniversary approaching, it seemed befitting to do something a little special. That ended up being a pair of shows, conceptually split into "improvised" and "rock" nights.

For the former, Somewhere There helped out by lending me their regular second Sunday of the month slot at Array, and from there, it was just a matter of winnowing it down from the dozens of people that I wanted to ask to play. There are a lot of projects get shuffled into zombie mode — not dead, just shifted into the inactive pile as other artistic endeavours (or, just life) get in the way. Sometimes it just takes a "hey, whatever happened to...?" kind of conversation to stir something back up, and looking around for a special "reunion"-type set for this show, I managed to get The Knot back on stage.

This duo for acoustic (and often prepared) improvising cellos from Tilman Lewis and Nick Storring were regulars on the scene a little while back, but besides a tape a couple years ago there hasn't been much activity. But right from the start, the pair fell into some nice zones bowing (and not bowing) their cellos, gliding from rough skronks to double-barrelled pointillistic plinks.

[Nick Storring will be guesting with the Two Ted Country Blues (Allison Cameron/Kurt Newman) at The Tranzac next Wednesday (April 17th).]