PSYCH OUT! Music Night with Numbfoot, Lark Minkous & JRG_one

Sat 14 Jun 2014, 8 pm
ATK

From the organizer:

Brooklyn original Brett Zweiman teams up with Hanoi favourites Dave Payne (Ngu Cung, Zamina, Gibbon Suburbia, etc.) and Hà Đình Huy (basically everyone, ever) to bring you Hanoi’s newest musical concontion: Numbfoot!

Numbfoot! is heavy psychedelic blues straight–dare we say it–from the muddy banks of the Tô Lịch river, with a spoonful of southern cải lương and a few drops of hát xẩm sprinkled on top for good measure.

Huy’s restless, driving beats and Brett’s effects-laden, distorted bass riffs form the guts of of the trio. On top of that, Dave Payne, mostly holding down the bass end of things over the past couple of years with Ngu Cung and Zamina, seems very happy to be off the chain and back on his guitar. The word from the test audience is that the whole thing “chugs along like the Trans-Europe Express, always on time”.

As the perfect foil for Numbfoot!’s power-trio excess, Lark Minkous aka Daniel Henneberry and JRG_one aka Jackson Garland are joining forces to start the night with an exploration of the smaller or lowercase noises found in our lives, performed live with both field recordings and synthetically synthesised sounds.

Daniel Henneberry has emerged as a young, bearded and much-beloved elder of Hanoi’s improvised and experimental music scene over the past few years. Jackson Garland, many would agree, plays far fewer shows that he ought. This one should be a cracker!

Tickets: 50k at door