Ethiopian jazz, roots and funk music has enjoyed a well-deserved appreciation in the West for the last two decades, due in part to several reissues and compilations from the ’60s and ’70s making their way to the right record collectors and tastemakers. Qwanqwa is a quintet from the nation’s capital of Addis Ababa, and represents […]
Die Geister Beschworen
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Music Tonight: Friday, Oct. 20
Tengger is a traveling family band with roots in Japan and South Korea. The name comes from the Mongolian language, meaning “unlimited expanse of sky.” Which fits the droning and gorgeous sound castles built by this family of three, including the young son Raai. The group will be making a roost at the Miniplex tonight, […]
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Music Tonight: Thursday, Nov. 17
The Outer Space is hosting an outré show of psyche-folk wanderings. Local bard Oryan Peterson-Jones, who’ll be hosting a birthday show this Saturday at the Griffin (more on that later) brings his act Die Geister Beschwören to share the stage with Nevada City touring acts Scott Hawkins and Sammy Fields. I caught Sammy at a […]
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The Lost Year
Sometime in the first three months of 2020, nearly every musician in Humboldt County played their last live gig. It’s difficult to pin down the exact date of the general venue closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic but St. Patrick’s Day is a good hinge, a pivot point where venue owners and employees had to […]
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PG&E WTF
I’m hastily typing this out a few days earlier than usual because I’m trying to beat the clock on PG&E’s incoming Saturday power austerity, which I am sure you will have all been heartily inconvenienced by as of press time. I’d like to say that this sort of thing is unexpected and will likely be […]
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Hail, August
OK, here we go. This Setlist week sees the transfer of days from one Roman emperor’s month to another’s. From the hot and chaotic days of Julius Caesar’s July to the more august days of — well — August, the month of a much longer-lived Caesar. History, namesakes, birthdays, gemstones and zodiacal creatures aside, there […]
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Music Tonight: Saturday, July 28
The Sanctuary’s artist in residence is Oakland’s Eva Restad, the central performer and creative force behind The Church of Color and Light. Tonight at 8 p.m. at the Sanc’, Church of C and L presents a performance of the ritual piece “IRRA” ($5-$20 sliding scale). Accompanying music will be provided by local sound-scaper Oryan Peterson-Jones, […]