The InBetweens, Out on a Limb

The InBetweens – a trio of Mike Gamble on guitar and electronics, Noah Jarrett on bass and Conor Elmes on drums and percussion - celebrated their 10th anniversary in New York and as a working unit, having formed a bond at the New England Conservatory, last fall by recording their fourth studio album Out on a Limb.  As someone who’s followed them pretty much since day one, it’s their strongest artistic statement yet.  Out on a Limb picks up on the melodic and harmonic territory they started exploring on their last record, Quantum Cowboy,...

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Vocabularies and Desire. Passing Strange, Short North Stage, 04/19/13

This was always, and remains a foreign land.  And we are undoubtedly, the slaves. There is some music, that shd come on now. With space for human drama, there shd be some memory that leaves you smiling.  That is, night and the way/ Her lovely hand, extended.  The Star, the star, all night We loved it like ourselves. -Amiri Baraka, “Stellar Nilotic (29)” As a theater lover, almost nothing’s better than watching a new company blossom, to grow into its powers and do something nobody else in...

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