Matchess + TALsounds + Cinchel + Scott Cortez
Wed, Dec 10
|Subterranean
Time & Location
Dec 10, 2014, 7:30 PM
Subterranean, 2011 W North Ave, Chicago, IL 60647, USA
About the event
Matchess + TALsounds + Cinchel + Scott Cortez @ Doors 7:30PM | Show 8PM | $8 |
MATCHESS
“Bewitching” is the only word we could come up with to describe “Seraphastra” when we first heard it in 2013. Originally released on an extremely limited cassette by the Digitalis label, the album makes a welcome debut to the vinyl format. Matchess is the solo project of Whitney Johnson, singer & keyboardist for Chicago band Verma, whose banshee-like wail & synth squall can be heard over the band’s more recent Trouble In Mind releases “Coltan” & “Sunrunner ” but Johnson’s work as Matchess is a different beast all together. Foregoing her band’s skyward arching krautrock jams for a more subtle, ‘Radiophonic’ approach, “Seraphastra”s alien drones & rhythmic pulse are grounded in the mystic & cosmic efflivium of modern spiritual synth music. The tone is immediately set from the first track “The Need of the…