Ronny's Bar
2101 N California Ave
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Pillars & Tongues
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Friday May 16, 2008 (9pm)
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$5
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They say good things come to those who wait. With avant-classical experimentalists Pillars & Tongues, it's a long wait — and that's a very good thing. Patient listeners who enjoy the local trio's largely improvised "spontaneous compositions" are richly rewarded with transcendent jams that tremble with melancholic grandeur. Using a slowly churning organ, barely there flute, clarinet, violin lines, sparse vocal incantations, and upright-bass pulses, the multi-instrumentalists build delicate drones into blink-and-you'll-miss-it denouements. It's an amorphous, meditative sound — recalling the hushed side of Thee Silver Mt. Zion — and one that is definitely not for the instant-gratification crowd. Tonight, they perform at Ronny's with copies of their gorgeously packaged, self-released CD-Rs.
