Radfest 8 (maybe 9?) lineup announced
Marshall Allen + James Harrar: Solorians Native Unity, Death Stuff, Jade Poppyfield, and Pyramid Club fill out the bill
Here we come a-caroling to another Radfest, the annual mini-music-festival staged in part to celebrate CL Music Editor Chad Radford’s birthday. The 8th or 9th edition of the event — no one, apparently, not even the birthday boy, is keeping an accurate count — features the standard lineup of stellar emerging local bands plus a special appearance by a bona fide jazz god. Jade Poppyfield (Meghan Dowlen) lends her eerily diaphanous voice to a techno-infused soundscape. Pyramid Club (Chris Daresta and Matt Weiner) thumps and grinds groovy electronic rhythms deeply into the soul. Death Stuff delivers what Radford calls “the perfect balance of teeth-gnashing and darkly afflicted hardcore and post-industrial, post-punk drive.” Which leaves the Soloriens Native Unity Quartet featuring the immortal Marshall Allen, who at 92 still leads the Sun Ra Arkestra when he’s not skronking like a madman with Max Boecker (bass), Kenito Murray (drums), and James Harrar (horn). Within the realm of intergalactic free jazz and cosmic funk, these guys are the envelope against which everyone else is pushing.
<a href="http://jadepoppyfield.bandcamp.com/album/orchid-twilight">Orchid Twilight by Jade Poppyfield</a>
<a href="http://pyramid-club.bandcamp.com/album/stay-behind-b-w-heart-throb">Stay Behind b/w Heart Throb by Pyramid Club</a>
======Radfest is at the Drunken Unicorn on Sat., Jan. 21. Admission is free, but donations will be accepted at the door. Every penny goes to the musicians. Music starts promptly at 9:15 p.m. More information is coming soon.
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