{"id":159,"date":"2007-11-19T17:07:26","date_gmt":"2007-11-19T16:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=159"},"modified":"2022-05-18T08:35:51","modified_gmt":"2022-05-18T06:35:51","slug":"13-11-2007-sleepytime-gorilla-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=159","title":{"rendered":"13-11-2007 Sleepytime Gorilla Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><small><em>Date: 13-11-2007 Support: Carla Bozulich; Venue: P60 Amstelveen (NL)<br \/>\nBy: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tempelores.com\/?page_id=13#wouter\">Wouter\u00a0van de Kamp<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p>Again a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum review? Isn&#8217;t that band boring the hell out\u00a0of you by now? No, not at all. This is one of this bands that you either like\u00a0or not as you might have gathered from the previous reviews.\u00a0And they took their own support act with them: Carla Bozulich.<br \/>\nNow this was going to be a surprise-act for me with a lot of potential since\u00a0she&#8217;s also in the band called The Book of Knots featuring two members of Sleepytime\u00a0Gorilla Museum (Carla Kihlstedt and Matthias Bossi). The only expectation that\u00a0one can have is that it would be weird, odd, unusual and so forth.<\/p>\n<p>So there she was with her band. She herself as a vocalist and guitarist supported\u00a0by a drummer, a bassist, a cellist and a violinist. And I got exactly what I<br \/>\n\u00a0 expected. A slow, (almost) boring intro followed by a sudden burst of screams<br \/>\n\u00a0 and metal-like riffing and heaviness to wake you up. Unfortunately it drifted<br \/>\n\u00a0 off into relatively slow freejazz-like improvisation. Swaying from one emotion<br \/>\n\u00a0 to the other Carla&#8217;s compositions (if you can even speak of compositions, because<br \/>\n\u00a0 many seems to be just plain improvisation) never seem to be predictable. Just<br \/>\n\u00a0 when I started to doze off there was this postrock\/metal riff again. But that<br \/>\n\u00a0 did not last very long. Interesting music for sure, but not something I appreciate<br \/>\n\u00a0 seeing live. Especially not as a warm up for Sleepytime. But the somewhat small<br \/>\n\u00a0 audience seemed to be fine with it.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0 <\/center><br \/>\nMany people though seemed to be interested in Sleepytime only since the venue\u00a0was filled much more when they started. Starting off with Ambugaton they got<br \/>\nfull attention of all attendants. For those who already read the other reviews\u00a0it might be (more) interesting to tell somewhat (more) about their instruments\u00a0and compositions.<\/p>\n<p>The biggest eye-catcher is what they call the &#8220;sledgehammer dulcimer&#8221;:\u00a0a three meter long wooden plank mounted with piano strings, that they usually\u00a0\u00a0 play with drumsticks, but in one song it is played by just dropping a hand sized\u00a0piece of metal on it. Carla Kihlstedt plays a smaller version of this instrument, but most of all plays the violin and does a lot of vocals of all sorts (both<br \/>\nbacking and lead). Usually the violin is played with the bow, but for example<br \/>\nin their new song The Grey Old Heron she fingerpicks it like a guitar on her<br \/>\nlap. Furthermore she plays the bass mouth organ which has this very eerie sound.<br \/>\nThen we have Dan Rathbun. Besides playing the mentioned sledgehammer dulcimer<br \/>\nin several ways he also is the bassist and besides hitting the dulcimer he also<br \/>\nhits some other, mostly metal, objects and in their new song he plays the recorder.<br \/>\nThe singer is actually the most boring person, intrument-wise. He only has two<br \/>\ndifferent electric guitars (12-string and six-string) and he plays the recorder<br \/>\nas well. But he is not boring at all. Actually he is the main attraction of<br \/>\nthe band. He has such a diverse voice which he perfectly accompanies with diverse<br \/>\nmoves and facial expressions. Then there is the drummer playing of course&#8230;<br \/>\nthe drums. But also the xylophone. The xylophone (a second one) is also played<br \/>\nby the percussionist. He has an enormous amount of pots and pans so to say,<br \/>\nthat he uses as percussion instruments. Ranging from a bike wheel to a china-like<br \/>\nmetal plate. Furthermore he plays some sort of mini piano and the trumpet.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0 Composition-wise this band cannot just be put into one category. On first hearing<br \/>\n\u00a0 one might think this is just (although brilliant) improvisation, but after observing<br \/>\n\u00a0 properly this is not just some artists playing whatever they like and trying<br \/>\n\u00a0 to make it sound like a composition. This band explores the boundaries of songwriting<br \/>\n\u00a0 as a whole. Not limiting themselves to one or two genre&#8217;s. Not afraid of doing<br \/>\n\u00a0 what has never been done before, resulting in many surprises upon first listening.<br \/>\n\u00a0 Some songs only dawn upon you after you have listened them over and over again,<br \/>\n\u00a0 because of their complexity (Babydoctor, Phthisis, The Widening Eye), while<br \/>\n\u00a0 others are immediate hits (Sleep Is Wrong, 1997, The Grey Old Heron).<\/p>\n<p>So on to the show for a bit. Clearly they were in a good mood and felt like\u00a0entertaining the P60. Finally a non-seated concert of this band (contrary to\u00a0their previous to shows I saw in Bimhuis, Amsterdam). This of course enables\u00a0the visitors some (more) physical action. As Sleepytime was gratifying the audience\u00a0on great improvisations or maybe upgrades on their old songs the crowd was enjoying\u00a0more every minute. The interaction with them was brilliant. The very humoristic\u00a0singer got the crowd laughing many times, either by cool jokes or by his odd\u00a0gibberish that still seemed to have some sort of meaning. And when they left\u00a0at the end of the show the crowd screamed and whistled begging them for an encore.\u00a0<br \/>\nAnd of course we got what we wanted. Sleep Is Wrong had not been played yet\u00a0and they cannot leave without playing that one. And now the crowd gave everything\u00a0they had, head banging (think you are a headbanger or you are head banging and\u00a0chanting along and raising fists on the &#8220;Sleep Is Wrong&#8221;-part. What\u00a0an experience once again. Halfway this song the band pretends to be sleeping\u00a0making funny sleep sounds and snoring and consequently building up tension for\u00a0those who know what is to come. To make it even worse Nils breaks up the song\u00a0by thanking the crowd, introducing the band members and announcing there return<br \/>\nfor next summer, to the crowd. Everyone was enchanted by now and then there<br \/>\nwas this final severe convulsion of Sleepytime which was replied upon bu the<br \/>\naudience giving their last piece of energy they had in them followed by an enormous<br \/>\napplause and lots of whistling and screaming after the song had ended. Sleepytime<br \/>\nthemselves seemed to be liking this very much as well. Everyone went home with a great feeling of satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0 <\/center>\u00a0 <strong>Links:<\/strong><br \/>\n\u00a0 <a align=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/carlabozulich\">Carla Bozulich Myspace<\/a><br \/>\n\u00a0 Sleepytime Gorilla\u00a0Museum Official<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date: 13-11-2007 Support: Carla Bozulich; Venue: P60 Amstelveen (NL) By: Wouter\u00a0van de Kamp Again a Sleepytime Gorilla Museum review? Isn&#8217;t that band boring the hell out\u00a0of you by now? No, not at all. 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