http://www.fluxblog.org/2011/07/we-cant-all-have-it Thu, 24 May 2012 00:45:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.fluxblog.org/2011/07/we-cant-all-have-it Thu, 24 May 2012 00:45:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.fluxblog.org/2011/07/we-cant-all-have-it Thu, 24 May 2012 00:45:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.fluxblog.org/2011/07/we-cant-all-have-it#comment-21916 Chris Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:20:24 +0000 http://www.fluxblog.org/?p=4253#comment-21916 I saw this show and it was amazing from my vantage point. It was my first time, and if this is what a Merrill Garbus off night sounds like it, I'd love to see her at her best. She talked about "how cool the full moon is up there" a few too many times, which was funny -- and she generally seemed like one of those people who, even if she makes a mistake or deals with technical looping difficulties, well—her personality makes it all so easy to forgive. There seems to be a real movement afoot in Brooklyn with the Indie scene taking inspriation from World Music, for lack of a better term—along with tUnEyArDs and others, I saw a band in Brooklyn last week called the Gentleman Brawlers, checked them out and they've made a surprisingly fun disc—it grows on you like ivy on a Cobble Hill brownstone, kind of a fusion of American folk and Afro/Latin folk ... merits continual spins in my estimation! I saw this show and it was amazing from my vantage point. It was my first time, and if this is what a Merrill Garbus off night sounds like it, I’d love to see her at her best. She talked about “how cool the full moon is up there” a few too many times, which was funny — and she generally seemed like one of those people who, even if she makes a mistake or deals with technical looping difficulties, well—her personality makes it all so easy to forgive.
There seems to be a real movement afoot in Brooklyn with the Indie scene taking inspriation from World Music, for lack of a better term—along with tUnEyArDs and others, I saw a band in Brooklyn last week called the Gentleman Brawlers, checked them out and they’ve made a surprisingly fun disc—it grows on you like ivy on a Cobble Hill brownstone, kind of a fusion of American folk and Afro/Latin folk … merits continual spins in my estimation!

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