Live Recommendation for Wednesday, February 22, 2006

BLOODY PANDA

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If I had to pick one show tonight it would definitely be Bloody Panda: and Floriculture at Tonic. Bloody Panda is either a metallic experimental band or an experimental metal band – whichever you prefer. With a whole lot more brains, taste, and musical sophistication than the recent crop of indie metalists and a whole lot more balls than your average art band, they have a lot more in common with either the sort of art-core lineage that has over the years frequently bridged New York downtown avant jazz forays into heaviness with Japanese masters of abrasiveness – which makes since because singer Yoshiko Ohara is from the Osaka art scene, Dan Weiss is an accomplished jazz drummer, Blake McDowell’s played with a slew of forward-thinking metal bands, and guitarist Josh Rothenberger and bassist Bryan Camphire double on synths and samplers. Pure tooth-grinding paint-peeling.

Weiss also play with openers Floriculture who are celebrating the release of their new CD Between The Lines. Led by composer/pianist Chris Maguire, Floriculture also features a notable downtown jazz players Chris Mannigan on alto sax and Trevor Dunn on bass.

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