IU: BRIAN! LP Release Show with Motherwort & La Llorona

102 Cherry Street,Ithaca NY

28 October, 2022

Description

Bassoon driven avant-garde trio BRIAN! cover a variety of introspective themes and sonic concepts on their fifth studio album "The Cataclysmic Engine". Nine angular and heavy compositions blend whole-tone, non-western, modal scales with frenzied meter and tempo while taking inspiration from finding queer identity (“Rose”), the awe of passionate relationships blossoming out of childhood trauma (“Intemperate to Death”), and embracing brevity when dealing with vulnerability (“Smol”). Inspiration struck in the summer of 2019 to forge the next LP after recording and performing the punishing composition “Quartermaster” for Josh Oxford’s OXified. The result is a coalescence of the band’s characteristic sounds distilled to their purest, most direct, and urgent form. Resig & Crumrine trade lead, rhythm, and low-end responsibilities while Willie B propels the trio with deft creativity on the kit. The band is joined by saxophonist Keir Neuringer (Irreversible Entanglements, Dromedaries) who performs saxophone on “Wholed” and bass clarinet on “Vibrato.” The Cataclysmic Engine was recorded, mixed, and mastered by Matthew Saccuccimorano at Electric Wilburland Studio and completed with artwork by Sam "Skullboy" Mameli. Motherwort: Farm-grrrl folk-punk from Interlaken and Ithaca, NY La Llorona: Haunting and mystical. Fun and spunky. Spells, not songs.