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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/neo-surf-band-golems-of-the-red-plane
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SUMMARY:NEO Surf Band Golems of the Red Planet Interprets John Zorn's Masad
 a Songs
DESCRIPTION:\nFri 6/19 @ 8PM\nAkron quintet Golems of the Red Planet has a 
 unique mission: to apply 3rd wave surf-style exploration to avant-garde co
 mposer John Zorn’s Masada songbook. These were songs he started composin
 g more than 30 years ago\, based on modes found in Ashkenazi (European) Je
 wish music. It now comprises three books and 613 songs.\n“Each of these 
 compositions is written on half a sheet of staff paper (no more than five 
 staves) and written to be performed by any instrumentation\,” Golems’ 
 website tells us. “These pieces have been performed by genres as diverse
  as piano jazz\, string quartet\, hardcore\, all female acapella\, salsa\,
  afrobeat\, and many many more.... but never SURF! And as many of us know\
 , the best surf music uses middle-eastern scales.”\nWell\, that’s cert
 ainly … off the beaten path\, you might be thinking. In recent decades\,
  other bands have tweaked classic ’60s surf music in unusual ways but no
 ne has done what this one is doing.\nBut if you look at the five Golems’
  backgrounds\, you’ll see that “off the beaten path” is where they
 ’ve always wandered. Guitarist Harvey Gold was a co-founder on Akron’s
  most iconoclastic band on the 1970s\, Tin Huey. Devo was more famous but 
 Tin Huey was the most experimental.\nGolems’ drummer Bob Ethington is a 
 fixture in the Akron music scene: he also played with Huey but is best kno
 wn for his years with the city’s New Wave stars Unit 5. Currently in add
 ition to Golems\, he leads an “ambient free jazz fusion” ensemble.\nBa
 ssist Mark Allender is classically trained but has played with avant-garde
  jazz groups. He’s the band’s main connection to Zorn\, a superfan who
  manages the Masada World website. Cellist Matt Reese also has classical t
 rained and played in the 90s with Flying Carpet People\; he’s also playe
 d with former Tin Huey/Waitresses member Chris Butler.\nAnd the band’s n
 ewest member\, violinist Jen Singleton Richeson is yet another classically
  trained musician gone astray\, as it were\, picking up her skills and tak
 ing them into parts unknown. She and Allender played together in Kent’s 
 Pointless Orchestra.\nWith violin and cello\, Golems of the Red Planet is 
 unlike any surf band you’ve heard. Now they’re celebrating the release
  of their debut album\, Surf Masada: The Compositions of John Zorn\, with 
 a show at the Beachland Tavern. They’ll be joined by another adventurous
  3rd wave surf band\, Jupiter 2.\nGo here for tickets.\n[mappress mapid="4
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