[ATTENDED: November 24, 2021] Jinjer
I first heard JInjer when I saw a video for their song “Pisces.” The song starts out slow and melodic with Tatiana Shmaylyuk singing in a quiet, lovely voice. At the one minute mark, the songs shifts to a heavy off-kilter riff and Shmaylyuk unleashes a guttural growl that you absolutely assume is from someone off screen–but it’s not. [Check out hilarious vocal coach reaction videos].
So I wanted to see Jinjer to experience Shmayluk’s voice in person. But I was absolutely blown away by the rest of the band.
Jinjer is from Ukraine and I don’t know how often they come to the U.S., but there were some really die hard fans there. The band’s lineup has changed quite a lot over the years, but since 2016, the lineup has reamined Roman Ibramkhalilov on guitar, Eugene Abdukhanov on bass and Vladislav Ulasevich on drums.
Their sound is quite heavy, but with lots of moments of quieter, pretty melodies. Indeed, they play really complicated rhythms and time changes, with terrific riffs and bass lines. The drummer also adds a lot of percussive sounds to the songs making them a band where it’s hard to know who to watch.
I didn’t really know any of their songs–I’d listened to the new album once or so, so I didn’t know what they were going to play.
I’m somewhat surprised to see that they only played four songs from their new album, with the rest pretty evenly balanced with their older material.
Visually the show was really interesting too, with projections in the back, a wicked light show and judicious use of black light. I enjoyed that Shmayluk had black light eye makeup on, too.
The set was really enjoyable and I was looking forward to “Pisces” as the encore, but their encore was a song from the new album, “Vortex,” which was pretty intense, but still a surprise. Did they just get sick of playing “Pisces?”
Whatever the case, they were a great band to see live and I’m glad I had the chance.
- Call Me a Symbol ϖ
- On the Top ⊗
- Pit of Consciousness ⊗
- I Speak Astronomy ♠
- Disclosure! ϖ
- Judgement (& Punishment) ⊗
- Sleep of the Righteous ϖ
- Ape ø
- Retrospection ⊗
- Perennial ø
- Teacher, Teacher ø
- Wallflower ϖ
- As I Boil Ice ϖ
- Mediator ϖ
- Colossus ϖ
encore - Vortex ϖ
ϖ Wallflowers (2021)
⊗ Macro (2019)
ø Micro EP (2019)
♠ King of Everything (2016)
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