ADRON / K. KID / CICADA RHYTHM
Three outstanding groups join for a triple-bill event rich with talent and creative vision.
TWEED STUDIOS, Saturday September 3, 2022 ->BUY TICKETS<-
Americana, modern creative jazz, tropicalia: indeed each band may inhabit distinct musical territories, but what they share tonight speaks the common love-language of music, beauty, and escape.
With otherworldly whistling, adventures in language, kaleidoscopic guitar work, and vocals like a reincarnated Doris Day, Atlanta-bred LA-based singer-songwriter ADRON seems to have absorbed and synthesized the whole history of global pop music into her own wholly unique oeuvre. Since the release of her latest full-length album Water Music, a surprise tour opening for Steely Dan’s Donald Fagen, and her subsequent move to Los Angeles, Adron brightened the dark days of pandemic lockdown with her single "Song About My Computer," what she called her "whimsical pessimist" expression of comic distemperment. Now she's hitting US tour routes while preparing the way for her next offering, an LP to be called "The Trickster," conceptually centered around psychedelics, love, loss and wanderlust.
Early releases are popping up in Adron’s Patreon, including a cover of Robert Wyatt’s “Alliance,” and a glimpse into a darker, more brooding corner of her world. The Trickster and the Peru EP are expected in 2022, with Adron performing regular virtual livestream concerts on her social media platforms.
A musician's dream: you meet, write songs together, perform around the world, and eventually marry… your soulmate. Does this even really happen? Yes, yes it does, and you can hear it in the weave of every CICADA RHYTHM song.
For the uninitiated, the Americana umbrella would certainly serve to shelter the Cicada family's music, but upon further listen you will find a wealth of textures and harmonic twists set this music far above anyone's expectations of the genre. To sweeten the deal, as singers and instrumentalists Andrea and Dave can stand alone or flow together as needed, and onstage you sense they often merge into a spine-tingling single unique voice that lifts you up.
The duo shines in the group's newest record Everywhere I Go, and songs like "American Open Roads" and "Kaleidoscope Rose" invite you to wander through wisteria-choked backyards, gaze at the stars from your front porch, and yes, even dream a dream of your own.
"Regardless of how the influences of folk, jazz and blues intermingled, Cicada Rhythm craft an open-hearted, inventive blend of American musics in deceptively simple songs that are both haunting and playfully jaunty…” - Creative Loafing
Nearing twenty years in existence, KENOSHA KID, or K.KID as it is occasionally stylized, is a musical group led by guitarist Dan Nettles. Based in the humid indie-rock haven of Athens, Georgia, Nettles leads a worldwide host of collaborators in a simple purpose: build a scene, write for people you know, and listen to your creative heart. Certainly the all-instrumental music has deep roots in jazz composition, but it is also fueled by an omnivorous musical appetite and as likely to reference Monk as Willie Nelson, Hendrix as Duke Ellington.
"Nettles’ compositions are melodic and organically unfold through clear forms and solid sounds... a distinct sonic and emotional universe brought into focus by a band that listens as hard as they play…" -Staccatofy