The Comet Is Coming

[Morizzle]

Just discovered this band on NPR's Tiny Desk Series. Spectacular, nerve-wrecking, trance-inducing, whacky. I love it. Any idea what the top keyboard might be? Nord Lead?

 

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[RedKey]

SH-09 over a Juno 60

[NewImprov]

Love these guys, their last album is on my best-of list for 2019. Cool to see that they got onto NPR.

[Doerfler]

almost 48,000 views in one day. Someone must know who they are. I wasn't one of them.

[PianoMan51]

Wish I could see the keyboards more than his guitar face. Especially when it"s LH bass.

[Ed A.]

That spastic keyboard player bugs the hell out of me.

[Steve Nathan]

That kind of playing always makes me feel like I'm caught in the corner of the ring and Mike Tyson is beating me senseless.

[TommyRude]

Reminds me of those crazy middle eastern wedding parties where everyone starts shooting their guns in the air.

 

It started to grow on me towards the end, but I was fast forwarding, took me about 2 minutes to get through the whole video.

[moj]

GIGO

[marino]

 

Nice!

They remind me a bit of this trio, formed ten years ago by a couple of my former students:

 

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[Stokely]

Love the tiny desk concerts.

 

Snarky Puppy was awesome (what a shocker), though no corey henry....blue man group was a ton of fun too. They had some wacky gear that reminded me of the old "animusic" animations.

[Iconoclast]

Dude...Wow. Wow...Dude.

 

Thanks for posting that one.

[Adan]

That's why I read this forum, for discoveries like this. Just scratched the surface with a few minutes of listening but I'll be digging into this group for awhile.

 

Not for everyone, and not even for me at all times, but definitely strikes a chord in my nervous system.

[CowboyNQ]

Wow I really enjoyed this. Thanks very much for sharing, Morizzle! I particularly enjoyed "Summon the Fire"

 

I'd not heard of these chaps before, but I'm very keen to start listening to more of their material. Having been activated by this clip to do a modicum of initial research, I am particularly taken with the "space apocalypse" nature of their track titles, which line up beautifully and consistently with their band name.

 

I was not surprised to learn these gentlemen hailed from the cold and quirky British Isles upon witnessing their reactions as their muscular performance literally heated things up. The keys player stubbornly clinging to his fresh-from-soccer-practice Kappa tracksuit, only much later and perhaps somewhat distrustfully discarding the rain hood, while the sax player disrobed before sweating up like the favourite in the 7th.

 

Noting it has disturbed others, I must say I quite enjoyed the manic movements of our Kappa-adorned friend in all their convulsing and eye-rolling glory. One can only assume that in doing so, he passed through to the other side to commune with the spirits of Roland past. Perhaps in that secret crevice of existence he has discovered the ability to transcend the inconvenient boundaries that separate man and machine.

 

My only small quibble with this video was the sound. My ears felt that the "three year old hitting a cardboard box with a spoon" sound the engineer coaxed from the kit did not square well with the oily goodness of the Rolands nor the "I've just tiled the whole house" effects present on the sax.

 

It did not escape notice that at 12:43 the green caterpillar, presumably terrified by this sonic warning of impending cosmic doom, chose a more certain path towards self-determination, taking her piece of white card with her.

 

This listener however, will definitely stick around to hear more. At least, that is, until the cruel and fiery universe brings an end to it all.

 

 

[nursers]

Although not totally my cup of tea I enjoyed this a lot. And that sax player!