Ambient improvisational acts The Regal Drug and More Klementines share the bill Sat., Nov. 1, at Best Video Film & Cultural Center. The cover is $10 and the show starts at 7 PM.
The Regal Drug is the sonic brainchild of Scott N. Amore, born from an abandoned, busted piano discovered in a New Haven parking lot in the dead of night, 1995. What began as a spontaneous experiment in sound and electronics has evolved over three decades into an immersive recording and performance project. The current incarnation features a dynamic trio: Amore on keys and textures, joined by Ben Heller on trumpet and Richard Brown on saxophone. Blending improvisation with deep electronic atmospheres, The Regal Drug channels three decades of exploration into moments of musical gratitude and raw expression.
Just feel. With the rare exception, More Klementines’ music is recorded with no planned approach, no talk of what it should sound like, and no song structures. Three sound-brothers making music in the most organic, joyful way possible. A cosmic catharsis. Music scored on the fly — electric guitar below, banjos, slide guitar, and mandolin above, filtered through strings of effects pedals while being propelled by the percussive pulse of bass, wood, steel, and skins. All deployed in a fashion that pushes and pulls as if at one with the tide and buoyed by the blues.
With no preconception, what is captured is a sort of long overdue conversation, in a language not studied, but fluently spoken and uniquely their own — a soft tread into Appalachia that side-winds into Krautrock and drifts down terrestrial pathways through time and space. An ecstatic sound for all the East Coast heads and a salve offering to melt and evaporate the currents of turbulence. Ease on back and enjoy the ride.