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||| UNCANNED DJ SUMMIT ||| Sunday 10/26/14 @ Danny's Tavern
All four Uncanned Music contributors (David Allen, Joe Darling, Scottie McNiece, and Dave Vettraino) will be sharing the decks for the first time ever (together) this Sunday October 26th 2014 at the legendary Danny's Tavern in Bucktown (1951 W Dickens Ave Chicago IL).
Please join us for loud listening, drinking & rug cutting to the gamut of 20th century eclecticism.
Over/Out: Bill MacKay / Matthew Lux / Ben Boye @ Bar DeVille, 5/20/14
Bill MacKay has been our friend and musical compatriot for three years on now. He met us in the cocktail lounge underground of Gilt Bar for our Trio in Curio series in 2012 and has accompanied us on a number of projects. MacKay is a critical fixture in Chicago’s folk/experimental community committing tirelessly to expressing a meditative spontaneity through his compositions and impulses. His annunciation of the 6-strings is a steady though hushed voice that’s been recognized as that of one of our city’s strongest improvisors.
He’s joined by longtime collaborator and legendary Chicago bassist Matthew Lux and Chicago luminary Benjamin Boye on keys. We welcome these three players in celebration of the Tuesdays that have come before and the expanded vision and direction of our musical presentation efforts in the city. In a matter of hours, MacKay, Lux and Boye will deliver the final performance presented by Uncanned Music at Bar DeVille—a farewell to a building but an observance of the growth of a creative musical community. We thank you for all of your support and encouragement over the past two years.
Over/Out at Bar DeVille (701 N Damen Ave, Chicago, Illinois), every Tuesday night at 10pm, vinyl selections by Joe Darling will be heard before, between, and after performances.
Over/Out: Pedway @ Bar DeVille, 12/3
This Tuesday, December 3, we welcome Chicago improvisational trio Pedway to Bar DeVille on the wings of their new record, Passion Ball.
The threesome, now spread out from Oakland, California to New York City, are longtime collaborators who first formed in Chicago in 2007. Passion Ball marks their second record together and first since their debut, Subventure, in 2008. On Passion Ball, Caroline Davis (alto saxophone), Matthew Golombisky (electric bass) and Quin Kirchner (percussion) work between poles of restraint and inquisitiveness. Davis's sax--lucid but wary as it streams elegantly rendered melodic impulses. Golombisky and Kirchner hone a steely rhythm section and evoke a palpable suspense on numbers like "Crassulaceae" and "My Passing Arrow." Passion Ball arrives a delightful step forward for the trio throughout and a testament to the maturation of a collaborative unit over a five-year period.
We hope you'll join us Tuesday as we host one of the few occasions when all three of these folks are in the same place at the same time. Pedway will perform two sets the first of which will commence at 10pm in the inky third chamber of Bar DeVille.
Over/Out at Bar DeVille (701 N Damen Ave, Chicago, Illinois) is every Tuesday night at 10pm, vinyl selections by Joe Darling will be heard before, between, and after performances.
A seasonal and sustainable menu of vinyl selections for the serving, curated by Joe Darling and Scott McNiece. This is a free, manually-operated human "jukebox" for anyone who is eager to engage the airwaves.
This Thursday night, April 4th, 2013, from 530pm-10pm at Room 1520 (1520 W Fulton St, Chicago, Illinois). Tons of food and drinks and stuff, check it out.
COLLECTION SELECTION: Joe Darling
Monday night (02/04/13) at Trenchermen, our Collection Selection series continues with a peek at the beats in Joe Darling's eardrums. Darling is the beverage director, barkeep, and master of all 36 taps at Au Cheval Diner, as well as an avid stacker of wax and resident DJ at Bar DeVille's Tuesday Night Instrumental Music Series.
Before he got into dealing the sauce he dealt in online publicity for the now-deceased digital distribution department of Touch and Go Records. Back in those days he wasn't yet hooked on vinyl, so many of his take home perks ended up in the gifted hands of his friends. Darling kept the discs; the compact discs that is.
Rather than dwell on the past, we chose to take a trip to Dave's Records in Lincoln Park and shop for some new memories.
Whenever he sees a Grand Funk Railroad record, he immediately thinks of his 5th grade Sunday School teacher, an old guitar-toting hippie rocker who loved GFR almost as much as he loved Jesus. Apparently the singer from GFR also fell for Jesus in the dusk of his career, so to quench his aging teacher's thirst for validation the young Darling was repeatedly subjected to Mark Farner Christian albums.
Darling goes bananas for Big Star. He managed to step up his Alex Chilton collection with a couple 45s by The Box Tops, one of Chilton's earlier bands.
Neither of us realized that Allen Toussaint originally wrote "Working in the Coal Mine." So many years of false head cred to Mark Mothersbaugh and Devo...
Speaking of Bayou Funk - you can never have too many Dr. John cuts in your crate, especially not come Mardi Gras.
No self-respecting vinylphile leaves a record store without (atleast) one shot in the dark. This 45 by Amadeo and his Indian Harps is just one of Darling's stray bullets flying through the night.
The find of the day for your's truly was a treasure trove of Czech records from the Supraphon label. The records run the gamut musically, from classical to vocal jazz to Czech brand Yé-yé rock. But through all the variety, the design aesthetic for the packaging is tightly consistent; a super slick mid-century mod across the board.
Collection Selection, vinyl listening party at Trenchermen, 2039 W North Avenue, Chicago, Illinois, every Monday night, 8pm to close.
Last Tuesday night, Joe Darling doused DeVille with the psychotropic sounds of Santiago, Chile, gifting us a listen to The Holydrug Couple's new album in its entirety. Noctuary is the newest and finest of the Chilean psychedelic influx, a string that has included some great releases by Föllakzoid (also courtesy of Sacred Bones Records), La Banda, and others.
(93/100) Pictures of Joseph Gordon-Levitt
