Jim White with Colleen Burke and Matthew Smith
3/30 6PM
TICKETS
3/31 - Performing the score for THE APOCALYPTIC IS THE MOTHER OF ALL CHRISTIAN THEOLOGY
The trap kit—so straightforward, so mysterious. What’s inside those things? Air and light—from which century? Which continent? Depending on how and when you hit them, it can be a vibration sent through a prehistoric breath… the dead, wet leaves you walked through on the way to the first day of school. These are the memories of the drums on this record. Infinite and personal. Editing each other as they muscle to the front or soft shoe to the shadow. Drums are the instrument where you can feel the presence of the player the most —the full body— and sense the thoughts of the player the most. The instrument with the most choices to be made sends out the most brainwaves. A bouquet of brainwaves is on this LP.
Jim oversees it all, surveys from the lost place we’re in, the void – the drumless song. We trust. We trust, Jim. His big green eyes search for the right tool (mallet, brush, etc), eyes that search you like you’re a song he wants to join, wants to see if he can add to or understand.
Before humans, drums were playing – these drums. Genesis was a solo drum piece. After humans, these drums, this album. Someone – the last man – is out in a spaceship at the edge of space. He plays a single chord on a synth to set time free from its bind and then lets go. This album sets time free, lets it frolic, lets it graze, lets it remember.
This is a record of thoughts, memories, surgery. A deft surgical operation you may not even realize is happening as it’s happening but you’re back on your feet when it’s over. Memories refreshed.
-Bill Callahan
Colleen Burke is a musician and composer living in Ann Arbor, Michigan. She has played with We Ragazzi, Smog, Outrageous Cherry, Danny and the Darleans and The Matthew Smith Group. She has composed music for many films and art projects over the past 25 years.
Matthew Smith is a musician, composer, and producer from Detroit. He currently plays with the Matthew Smith Group, Chatoyant, and the Volebeats, and has worked with a wide range of artists including Crime and the City Solution, Nathaniel Mayer, Andre Williams, Rodriguez, Odd Clouds, and Monster Island.