Thursday, September 20, 2007
Cream Calendar Tonight @ The End: Dark Meat
Posted by Tracy Moore on Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 2:25 PM
DARK MEAT Athens music collective Dark Meat's roster fluctuates between 18 and 30 members—the group supplements their standard rock 'n' roll fare with multiple percussionists, a horn section, a vocal trio known as the Subtweeters and random offerings of fiddles, clarinets, flutes and even the occasional didgeridoo for good measure. With personnel representing some of the city's most prominent bands—Circulatory System, Neutral Milk Hotel, Elf Power, The Olivia Tremor Control, etc.—Dark Meat come across as more of a happening than a band. The eclectic instrumentation lends itself to the eclectic output found on last year's Universal Indians, on which the band weaves its way in and out of blues, punk, country, free-form jazz and soul. The disparate mixture is held together by a loose, quasi-hippie aesthetic (a former drummer called himself "Spirit Bird") and the layers of sound meld into a swirling mass of satisfying psychedelia. 9 p.m. at The End —MATT SULLIVAN
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