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Vagabon / Nourished By Time (Underground Arts, Philadelphia, PA, October 27, 2023) [DID NOT ATTEND]

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[DID NOT ATTEND: October 27, 2023] Vagabon / Nourished By Time

I was planning in seeing Vagabon in March 2020, but her show was cancelled, of course.

I really enjoyed Vagabon’s debut album.  It had a great indie rock sound, but the fact that Lætitia Tamko is originally from Cameroon gives her music a unique quality that makes it stand out.

Back in 2021, I chose to see Dinosaur Jr instead of Vagabon, a choice I regret a little.  When this show was announced, I grabbed a ticket right away.  Honestly it has been many many years since that debut came out–she could sound very different now, I’m not sure.

Anyway, I was excited to see her and then My Morning Jacket announced a show on the same night, so my wife and I are going to that instead.  I’m not sure if I’ll ever see Vagabon.  She might get put on my “missed too much list.”

I saw Nourished by Time open for Palm last month. Nourished By Time is producer Marcus Brown, with a laptop on the floor and keyboard on a stand.

He played about six or so catchy songs.  They were kind of a blend of new wave and R&B.  His vocal delivery differed for each song, which I really liked.

At the end of the show he said he had some shows coming up that he wasn’t looking forwars to.  I hope it wasn’t these.

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Palm [FINAL SHOW–BAND CALLING IT QUITS] (Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA, September 14, 2023)

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[ATTENDED: September 14, 2023] Palm 

I discovered Palm by accident back in 2016 when they opened for the band Dilly Dally (who have since broken up).   About that show I wrote:

So Palm was fantastic.  An amazing band to see live (especially from so close).  The band plays noisy, complex music that has parts math-rock and parts shoegaze.  They remind me of Battles, but only in part.  The two guitarists Kasra Kurt and Eve Alpert are constantly playing different (and highly unlikely) chords or notes.  Meanwhile the bassist (Gerasimos Livitsanos) is typically playing his own patterns that somehow meld with the two and keep everything grounded.  And the drummer (Hugo Stanley) is doing complex things of his own.  It’s so hard to tell who you want to watch.

I got to see them headline a few months after that at PhilaMOCA and that was great (although apparently I was shoved aside by a slam dancer at the show).

Six years later and I hadn’t had a chance to see them again when they announced that they were calling it quits as a band.

“Palm is ending. Thank you to everyone who has supported us, to the artists we’ve shared the stage with and to all our collaborators over the past 12 years”.

Not much more was said, and not much more was said in stage either. (more…)

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Nourished By Time (Johnny Brenda’s, Philadelphia, PA, September 14, 2023) [PALM]

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[ATTENDED: September 14, 2023] Nourished By Time

Nourished By Time is Baltimore producer Marcus Brown.  I could have seen him a while back, but didn’t make that show.  He’s also supposed to open for Vagabon later next month, but I think I’m not going to make that show either.  So this was my only chance to check him out.

During the Palm set, Eve said that they had been listening to his new album Erotic Probiotic 2 all the time.

Nourished By Time was, indeed, just Brown, with a laptop on the floor and keyboard on a stand.  I liked that he had a bandana round his mic cord–I imagined it was his way of keeping track of his stuff.

He played about six or so catchy songs.  They were kind of a blend of new wave and R&B.  His vocal delivery differed for each song, which I really liked.  His first song, “Staring Into the Fireplace” he kind of drawled and sounded almost bored as he rhymed his final lines.

Each song had an instrumental section–either middle or coda which had him playing solos over the prerecorded music.

Some of the later songs got bigger and were even more catchy.  I liked “The Fields.” (more…)

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Dry Cleaning / The Spirit of the Beehive / Nourished By Time (Union Transfer, Philadelphia, PA, February 1, 2023) [DID NOT ATTEND]

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[DID NOT ATTEND: November 5, 2022] Dry Cleaning / The Spirit of the Beehive / Nourished By Time

Dry Cleaning are a kind of trendy British band.  They are of the spoken deadpan vocal/wild guitar noise variety.  I don’t love them, but I think their music is really interesting.  I thought they’d be fun to see live once.

But we had a family emergency and it wasn’t time to go to a show.  So, I didn’t really mind missing this one. (more…)

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