Multiplex 5 10/27/19 State House

Another early Sunday show featuring regional improv musicians curated by local skronksters Bob Gorry and Joe Morris. I missed the first group. The second outfit had a young man on clarinet and baritone sax, two drummers, and big fella on guitar. The two drummer assault was the perfect backdrop for the reedman and fuzzed out guitar. The guitar was creepy ( in keeping with the season), completely black, strings, knobs, fretboard, even the player was clad in black. The sound was sludgy fuzz that didn't even sound like a guitar, as if this man was playing batman's flamethrower. After the set, this guitarist sat next to me and I queried him on his axe. He talked of an 8 string setup with odd placement of the additional strings. The third group had Bob Gorry on guitar, Vance Provey on trumpet, and Paul Gunsberg on drums, sax, and pocket cornet. I've seen Gorry many times and am always impressed with the improv interplay. With trumpet and drums, the sound was jazzier than the first group. The drummer got out from behind the kit to play the final song on pocket cornet ( that's what I'm calling it), a mini trumpet that echoed then complemented the trad trumpeter. The final duo was upstate New York denizen Jamie Saft on mellotron and Joe Morris on drums. Morris' primary instrument is guitar, but he took to the kit for this outing. Saft is a sight to behold with a ZZ Top beard and looked like he was having fun on the keys. Morris, on the other hand, had the wondered look of of a teenager on January 10th, who had been given a drum set for Christmas. Please examine Saft's bio, from the hauntingly beautiful soundtrack to Loneliness Road ( with some Iggy Pop), to a dub workout with legendary noisoids Merzbow. On driving to the show, I spied Saft and Morris walking near the green and passed on a perfect opportunity to kook them by saying that I was with the FBI Special Avant Garde Jazz Unit and that they were in violation of all tonality laws.