BLACK FOREST Karaoke w/KJ
Powers—9pm; n/c
THE COOLER Karaoke w/Caught
in the Act—9pm; n/c
COWFISH Local DJ Review—
9pm; n/c
HAPPY HOURS Mama Jan’s Blues
Jam w/Brian Chevalier—8pm;
n/c
HI-FI LOUNGE Funk Night—
10pm; funk jam, n/c
ISLAND HUT Karaoke w/Jared—
5pm; n/c
JERSEY'S Karaoke w/Sassy
Patty—8pm; n/c
LUCKEY'S Wednesday Night
Groove Sessions w/The Sunday
Bump!—10pm; funk, jazz, open
jam, $3
MAC'S Gus Russell & Paul
Biondi—6pm; jazz, variety, n/c
MAX'S Lonesome Randall—7pm;
rock n roll historian, n/c
MOHAWK TAVERN Karaoke w/
Caught in the Act—9pm; n/c
MULLIGAN'S PUB Open Mic—
8:30pm; variety, n/c
OLD NICK'S Eugene Order of Steel
Happy Hour Bout—7pm; n/c.
TENTS, The Shifts, Connor & My
Friends—9pm; indie, rock, folk,
$5
THE POKER LOUNGE DJ'd Party
Nights—8pm; 2-4 local DJs play-
ing techno, house, pop, etc., n/c
SAM BOND'S GARAGE Laney Lou
& The Bird Dogs, Erik
Ledbetter—9pm; alt-string band,
acoustic, $5
SIDELINES SPORTS BAR Karaoke
w/Mike—9pm; n/c
THE SHEDD An Old-Fashioned
Christmas—7:30pm; $24-$34
SOUTH EUGENE HS AUDITORIUM
Eugene-Spfd Youth Orchestras
2017 Winter Concert Series led
by Dr. David Jacobs—7:30pm;
$5-$10, kids 12 & under n/c
WESTEND TAVERN Karaoke—
9pm; n/c
CORVALLIS
& THE REGION
LINN-BENTON COMMUNITY
COLLEGE — Albany
TH Fall choral concert
"Whispered & Revealed"—
7:30pm; $7-$10
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY —
Salem
SU John Doan, "Christmas
Unplugged - Reclaiming the
Holiday Spirit"—7pm; $10-$18
TRUTHFUL
MASKS
In 1891, Oscar Wilde wrote: “Man is least himself when he talks in his own
person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.” This evokes mysterious
electronic musician Slow Magic (nobody’s sure who he really is), who performs
behind a multi-colored animal mask, never revealing his true face. The popular
producer stops in Eugene behind his latest release Float.
Wearing a mask seems to free Slow Magic, bringing a level of rawness to
his live performance, moving him closer than many to an audience reared
on electronic music as a live experience rather than the strict domain of the
recording studio. Slow Magic recorded Float in northern Europe, and there’s more
vocal work than usual from Tropics, Kate Boy and Peter Silberman of Antlers.
What’s always present is Magic’s nimble manipulation of sounds existing
somewhere between ambient and concrete musical ideas. Slow Magic draws
equally from modern electronica, soul, hip hop, worldly textures and new age
music, and there’s even some neo-classical on the track “Diamond Ring.” Like
a lot of current EDM, Slow Magic frequently builds to some kind of alarm or
perhaps catharsis, sonic climaxes building as synthesized sounds crescendo,
reaching peaks heightened and stretched by digital technology.
“I wanted to capture the raw sounds and feelings and freedom of my first
albums,” Slow Magic says via press release. “I let the songs write themselves
without forcing them to go anywhere they didn’t naturally go.”
Float is optimistic, youthful and triumphant, explaining the popularity
of artists like Slow Magic with younger music fans. Slow Magic tries on
musical masks from behind his shielded visage, which also sounds like the
fundamental process of growing up.
“Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity,” poet W.H. Auden
wrote, “often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which
suits them — the one, in fact, which is not a mask.”
Slow Magic performs with Point Point and Qrion 9 pm Sunday, Dec. 3, at
WOW Hall, $15 advance, $18 door, all-ages. — Will Kennedy
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