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Thursday, May 27, 2021 • ThE BuLLETIN
Bandcampin’: Good stuff for your ears
BY BEN SALMON • For The Bulletin
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andcamp is an online music platform used largely by independent artists and record labels to stream songs and sell merchandise. It’s also a vibrant virtual
community teeming with interesting sounds just waiting to be discovered. Each week, I’ll highlight three releases available on the site that are well worth
your time and attention. If you find something you dig, please consider supporting the artist with a purchase.
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Currently, London is home to the hottest jazz scene on the planet,
thanks to adventurous artists like Shabaka Hutchings, Theon Cross,
Nubya Garcia and Moses Boyd. The latter plays on the latest album
(“Symphonie Pacifique”) from British pianist and composer Greg
Foat, but today we’re going to rewind back to Foat’s excellent 2012
effort, “Girl and Robot with Flowers,” which takes jazz to space.
The result is a set of gleaming songs that tell a story without words,
thanks to their sci-fi vibes and their cinematic feel. Who knows if
England’s new school considers him an influence, but Foat’s sopho-
more album feels like a forerunner to the now sound.
JEFFREY MARTIN, “One Go Around”
Jeffrey Martin should be a familiar face for many local music fans;
the Eugene-raised and Portland-based folk singer has played live in
Central Oregon many times over the years, including a few stops at the
Sisters Folk Festival. He fits in quite nicely there, thanks to his outsized
talent as a guitar picker, a distinctive singer and, above all, a storyteller.
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Les Schwab Amphitheater’s busy
summer concert slate just got even
more packed with two late August
shows.
Denver roots-rockers Nathaniel
Rateliff & the Night Sweats will be
performing in Bend on Aug. 17. San
Diego band Delta Spirit will be their
opening act, according to an Old Mill
District press release.
On Aug. 29, Issaquah indie-rock
icons Modest Mouse will play at the
amphitheater.
General ticket sale for both shows
are on sale now at bendconcerts.com
or at the Old Mill District ticket store.
— Bulletin staff report
Martin’s 2017 album “One Go Around” is packed with incredible tunes
and you should listen to them all. But be sure to hear “Poor Man,” a
song about the emotional toil of barely scraping by. It’s a stunner that
still stops me in my tracks, even after what must be 100 listens.
PURLING HISS, “Hissteria”
If nonstop electric guitar heroics is your thing, this early album
from Philadelphia shredder Mike Polizze may be for you. However,
if you prefer your nonstop electric guitar heroics to sound all cool
and crisp and hi-fi, you might want to keep moving, because “Hiss-
teria” is … not that. These four tracks put the “noise” in noise-rock,
with Polizze running his bluesy jams through a gauntlet of fuzz and
hiss and squeals, and maybe a wood chipper. He’d go on to clean up
his sound on a series of great rock records, but “Hissteria” taps into
something positively primal. It’s one of the best unbridled rawk re-
cords in recent memory.
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Ben Salmon is a Bend-based music journalist and host of Left Of The Dial, which airs
8-10 p.m. Thursdays on KPOV, 88.9 FM and streams at kpov.org. You can find him on
Bandcamp and Twitter at @bcsalmon.
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