MUSIC
B Y B R E T T C A M P B E L L A N D E W S TA F F
INSTRUMENTAL
OCTOBER
KIKAGAKU MOYO PERFORMS FRIDAY,
OCT. 14, AT SAM BOND’S GARAGE
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great jazz keyboard-and-drum duo arrives at Sam Bond’s Garage Oct. 13: Matt
Chamberlain is well known for drumming with jazz stars like Bill Frisell, Herbie
Hancock and Brad Mehldau, along with pop singers like David Bowie, Fiona
Apple and Morrissey. He and keyboardist Brian Haas, who leads the groovy
Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, deliver strutting 21st-century jazz-funk on their new
album Prometheus Risen.
And the following night at Sam Bond’s, Oct. 14, has some interesting multi-instru-
mental psychedelic noise all the way from Tokyo with Kikagaku Moyo, a band name that
translates to “Geometric Patterns.” The cool quintet, including a sitar player, is touring
for its 2016 release House in the Tall Grass; local dream-psych band Snow White opens.
Tsunami Books hosts a full evening of rootsy Americana Oct. 16 with singer Nell Rob-
inson and the Jim Nunally Band with Pete Grant on pedal steel, Jim Kerwin on bass
fiddle and Jon Arkin on percussion — it’s been deemed a “mega concert” by booker Mike
Meyer. Robinson has been described as a modern-day Patsy Cline while San Franciscan
Nunally sang and played guitar with the Grisman Bluegrass Experience for more than 13
years.
Meyer has another big event planned, at least in the world of traditional music — he’s
bringing in traditional music leader Jeff Warner for a house concert Oct. 20 at 755 River
Road (contact mmeyer@efn.org for details). Warner’s repertoire includes songs from lum-
ber camps, fishing villages and mountain settlements of 19th-century America, and with
this folk arsenal Warner has toured nationally with the Smithsonian Institution.
October also boasts a few classical gems: On Oct. 16, Oregon Bach Collegium brings
Portland early music masters Cascadia Viols and singers Tim Galloway and Kerry Mc-
Carthy to sing and play gorgeous consort music by the great English Renaissance com-
poser William Byrd. The same day, Cascadia Concert Opera presents its Opera Fest at
First United Methodist Church with arias and ensemble works from famous operas and
musicals. On Oct. 17, Chamber Music Amici plays a Mozart string quartet and Brahms’
big Piano Quintet in F at Wildish Community Theater.
MATT CHAMBERLAIN PLAYS THURSDAY,
OCT. 13, AT SAM BOND’S GARAGE
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