Artist: Ava Mendoza
Song: The Shadow Song
Recorded at Collective Arts (Burn Down The Capital presents), November 3, 2024.
The autumn has brought a welcome cluster of shows from Tad Michalak's Burn Down The Capital promotional arm, mixing touring artists (many with a long relationship with BDtC) with local legends and emerging artists, many of them taking place in the cozy basement space at Collective Arts' taproom. (Important note: there's one last show in this burst coming up this Saturday.)
Guitarist Ava Mendoza was in town for a Tad Show earlier this year, backing trumpeter Nate Wooley in his Columbia Icefield project. This return saw her in a stripped-down solo performance, pulling out a mic stand and her pedalboards (including an expertly-deployed Red Panda Particle) out in front of the stage to engage directly with the crowd. Focusing on the brand-new The Circular Train album, this showed off both her songwriting depths as well as her guitar skills, bringing avant slice-and-dicing to bluesy forms, and stretching out the instrumentals without ever feeling uninterestingly chopsy.
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