{"id":21136,"date":"2019-01-22T12:50:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T12:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tabsout.com\/\/?p=21136"},"modified":"2019-01-22T15:49:52","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T15:49:52","slug":"tabs-out-bloor-drolleries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tabsout.com\/?p=21136","title":{"rendered":"Tabs Out | Bloor \u2013 Drolleries"},"content":{"rendered":"\nBloor \u2013 Drolleries<\/span>

\n 1.22.19 by Ryan Masteller<\/a><\/span>\n\n\n\n

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Bloor! I\u2019m not gonna lie, that\u2019s the exact sound I make when I spew<\/a> all over the place. But this isn\u2019t about me or the awful noises I make or the awful things that come out of my body or the awful mess I usually have to clean up afterward. This is about Bloor, an NYC trio that has, over the past few years, been honing their own set of stinking blurts and blasts while stunned audiences sit in shock \u2026 until they\u2019re finished playing at least, then those audiences erupt into glorious applause. Pro tip: this is exactly what you want an audience to do after you\u2019ve finished playing them some of your music.
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Saxophonist Sam Weinberg (W-2) is behind Bloor, and he\u2019s joined by guitarist Andrew Smiley (Little Women, Feast of the Epiphany) and drummer Jason Nazary (Little Women, Anteloper). Together they rip through the Bloor playbook, which here consists of ten tracks with names like \u201cBast,\u201d \u201cDefacer,\u201d and \u201cLiber Scivias,\u201d all of which sound like ways to strip meat from bone. And that\u2019s sort of what listening to Bloor feels like, like you\u2019re heading face-first into some sort of industrial meat processor and you come out the other side with mostly bones showing. Taking cues from Arthur Blythe (to whom \u201cSplice\u201d is dedicated), Harry Pussy, Sonny Sharrock, and certainly the rest of the Astral Spirits<\/a> roster, Bloor dismantles the ideas of traditional jazz and experimental music and repurposes bits of them for their own monstrous Frankensteinian creations. Always unnerving, never unnerved, Bloor make restlessness sound like the next frontier in philosophical composition \u2013 just how thoroughly can one band explore the rocks and crags and fissures of its potential?
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Also, \u201cDrolleries\u201d refers to the \u201csmall creatures adorning the margins of 13th-15th century illuminated manuscripts.\u201d That\u2019s seems so weird and yet so appropriate somehow, like those little creatures were running around on the instruments and magically making them play with their passage.
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\u201cEdition of 150 tapes with ORANGE tape shell. Design by Jaime Zuverza.\u201d It will NOT make you bloor or blurt or spew or whatever. Release date is January 25 on Astral Spirits. Please hurry!
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