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| Gutbucket at Zeitgeist Friday, 9 June 2006 Gutbucket (Ken Thomson - sax / Eric Rockwin - bass / Ty Citerman - guitar / Paul Chuffo - drums) will play at Zeitgeist in Cambridge, Ma. The seven-year-old New York quartet is not only equally comfortable playing in front of 900 sweatily pogo-ing teenage skate-punks, a crowd of stoned jamband freaks, or on an anarchist German art collective houseboat, but most importantly, their music fits right in. Flitting from hard rock to Latin to thrash to klezmer and back, often within the space of a few bars, the group veritably attacks their music with the kind of ferocity usually reserved for punk, despite having earned their jazz bona fides. Though the band might seem rooted in the genre exploding of avant-squonk (their 2001 debut, InsomniacsDream, was released on the Knitting Factory house imprint), their shift to louder sounds began with their controversially-titled Dry Humping the American Dream (released in 2003 in Europe on the legendary Enja label and in 2004 in the US with Sludge Test on Bang on a Can's acclaimed Cantaloupe label). There have been specially prepared collaborations with Bang on a Can family friends, Ethel, a string quartet with a predilection for distortion pedals; there have been live volleyball games; there have been blindfolds; and there have been Dixie cups filled with rice and passed to enthralled crowds. "We like having [musical] conversations with each other and seeing where that goes, " Rockwin says. "But we like engaging the audience in that conversation, too." write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |