Hothouse Down by My House
Tonight, Friday, the long-gone-from-here Hothouse organization scheduled
a performance of the Andreas Kapsalis Trio at Reggie’s Music Joint, just
south of the 60616 Post Office on State & 21st and North of a regular liquor
store hang out you don’t want to know about.
I’ve seen Kapsalis at the Cultural Center before in a more ethnic program.
Tonight he and his two percussionist partners were very more interesting.
Andreas plays an amplified acoustic guitar and is a master of playing
on the neck of the guitar by impacting the frets to get the strings
singing. I was sitting up front and was amazed by the finger work.
One or more songs concluded with delicate harmonics on the strings.
The percussionist on stage right had an African hour-glass shaped drum
rigged up as a kick-drum. At one point he also played cymbals with
mini-straw brooms and rubbed a mini-cow-bell on the cymbal too.
But he really rocked on the tom-toms.
The percussionist on stage left had straight forward drums and several
other gadgets to pound and shake. At one point I think he was shaking
something with LED lights in it(?).
Reggie’s seem to draw lots the 20yr old hipsters from the south side.
But once the music got going, I didn’t feel out of place.
I stayed for the 1st set, ending about 11pm. I would certainly recommend
hearing the A-K Trio to anyone with good ears.
–
Bruce
