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Artist<\/b>: Andr\u00e9 Cholmondeley\nVenue<\/b>: The Mothlight<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Thursday, Feb. 6, 8 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $5
\nAndr\u00e9 is something of a renaissance man. His myriad musical activities include leading a Frank Zappa tribute band (Project Object), working as guitar tech for Steve Howe of Yes, and \u2013 in his rare down time between extensive work travel \u2013 local gigs in which he’s as likely to whip out a guitar and peel off insane solos as he is to crank up some glitchy analog synths \u2013 the wires-and-plugs kind, with and without keyboards \u2013 and create spontaneous, improvisational works. This gig is a celebration of his 55th<\/sup> birthday. It’s impossible to know just what to expect, but it will certainly be fascinating and out-there. Here’s an interview I did with Andr\u00e9 in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n
<\/a> If you’re in and\/or around Asheville, N.C. in the next 30 days, you’d do well to catch these shows. Artist: Andr\u00e9 Cholmondeley Venue: The Mothlight Date: Thursday, Feb. 6, 8 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18265,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,39,40,42,44,59,62],"tags":[4076,191,4080,4005,2833,4092,4081,4109,2173],"class_list":["post-18259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avant-garde","category-indie","category-instrumental","category-jazz","category-live-shows","category-punk","category-rawk","tag-30-days-out","tag-andre-cholmondeley","tag-isis-music-hall","tag-kamasi-washington","tag-mike-dillon","tag-rich-nelson","tag-the-mothlight","tag-the-one-stop","tag-the-orange-peel","cat-7-id","cat-39-id","cat-40-id","cat-42-id","cat-44-id","cat-59-id","cat-62-id","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18345,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18259\/revisions\/18345"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/30do_mikedillon.jpg\")
Artist<\/b>: Mike Dillon Band
\nVenue<\/b>: The One Stop<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Sunday, Feb. 9, 9 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $10 advance \/ $13 day of show
\nThe vibraphone isn’t the first instrument that comes to mind when one thinks of aggressive punk. But Dillon plays the vibes in such a manner, and he calls his music \u201cpunk jazz.\u201d Combining impressive chops (the jazz part) with unbridled energy (the punk side of the equation) he creates something fresh, new and exciting. I covered his album Functioning Broke<\/i> in 2016; here’s that review.<\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/30do_kamasi.jpg\")
Artist<\/b>: Kamasi Washington
\nVenue<\/b>: The Orange Peel<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Saturday, Feb. 15, 9 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $29 advance \/ $32 day of show
\nSpeaking of innovators, Kamasi Washington is easily one of the most important figures in jazz today. With a sweeping vision that encompasses much more than jazz, he draws from nearly every musical idiom imaginable, creating music that’s breathtakingly cinematic in its scope. Sometimes it’s warmly accessible; other times the music is forbiddingly incomprehensible. It’s all worthwhile, but the best entry point may well be his 2017 EP The Harmony of Difference<\/i>. Like much of his work, it’s a ambitious conceptual piece. But it’s tuneful as hell, too. Here’s an essay I wrote about Kamasi Washington. <\/a><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/02\/30do_richnelson.jpg\")
Artist<\/b>: Rich Nelson Band
\nVenue<\/b>: Isis Music Hall<\/a>
\nDate<\/b>: Wednesday, Feb. 26, 8:30 p.m.
\nDoor<\/b>: $10 advance \/ $12 day of show
\nBy day, he’s a fine artist working in portraiture and landscapes. But in the evening Nelson straps on his trusty Gibson SG (yeah, I know it’s a Les Paul in this photo) and makes original music that displays his immersion in the balanced hard\/melodic music of his native Motor City. Nelson’s latest album Twenty Twenty Hearing<\/i> was just released; here’s a review of it<\/a>. An archival interview feature will be posted next week here on Musoscribe as well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"