Posts Tagged ‘NOMO’
Electricity And Weight: NOMO @ DC9
Lest it be left unsaid: NOMO may make you get down, but they are serious dudes. A glance at bassist Matthew Golombisky, who has f-holes tattooed on his forearms, or baritone saxophonist Dan Bennett, who plays his instrument like he’s operating heavy machinery, will tell you exactly that. Not that they’re overly studious: These guys are the jazz heads at every music conservatory who’d rather be trading solos with Fela Kuti.
The great Nigerian bandleader’s mid-’70s Afrobeat casts a large shadow over NOMO’s often electronic take on the genre. The Ann Arbor, Mich., group — currently a sextet led by alto saxophonist Elliot Bergman — played an electrifying, hour-plus set last night at DC9, and it was easy to pick out other influences, too, from fusion-era Miles Davis to the recent ambassadors of Afrobeat coming out of Congo, the Saharan, and Lisbon, Portugal. Everything blended seamlessly but each component remained distinct — less like a melting pot, as Bergman suggested in an interview last year, and more like, say, an overstuffed sandwich.
Weekend Music Round-Up
Saturday
- Deleted Scenes, The Drones, Pretty & Nice (mainstage); 100th BLISS Dance Party w/ DJ Will Eastman (backstage). Black Cat. $12/$7. All ages.
- WVAU presents Capitol Punishment VI w/ Ponytail, Screaming Females, Mittenfields. American University Kay Spiritual Life Center. FREE. All ages.
- Honor By August CD Release w/ The Alternate Routes, The Ruse, Melodime. 9:30 club. $15. All ages.
- Asobi Seksu, Tyvjk, Detox Retox. Rock and Roll Hotel. $12. All ages.
- TK Webb & the Visions, Appomatox, Gods & Queens. DC9. $8. +18.
- The Jaguar Club, Loose Lips, Paperhaus, Mary Bragg. The Red & The Black. $8. +21.
- Garotas Suecas, DJ Neville Chamberlain. Comet Ping Pong. FREE. All ages.
- Middle Distance Runner, Eulogies, Payola Reserve. IOTA Club & Cafe. $12. +21.
- Chanticleer. Strathmore. $28-$68. All ages.
- John Eaton. The Barns at Wolf Trap. $25. All ages.
- Christian Tamburr Quartet. Kennedy Center Millennium Stage. Free. All ages.
