Now I find myself in a band called Gestures. I'm playing tenor saxophone. The picture above does not feature me; nor do the songs on the Web site. You can only find me by showing up at the Velvet Lounge on Wednesday, January 9, where we're playing with Adventure (from Baltimore) and Terrior Bute and Big Fun (both from Milwaukee).
Gestures seems in this case to be the butt of a which-one-doesn't-belong joke by the booking agent, since the other acts on the bill are crisp and electronic whereas we proffer acoustic noise. But the hope is that we'll find instead that we all belong (and you, too).
Posted by Kriston at January 3, 2008 5:40 PMThe first track to come up on the myspace page ("rip", apparently) has kind of a fife and drum band thing going on, which reminds me of this album on which the fife is similarly out of tune. Though I doubt it's really a fife in the Gestures track. Ah well.
Posted by: ben wolfson at January 3, 2008 7:39 PMPlease do continue to post about your gigs here or Twitter them. I'm not joining MySpace.
Posted by: Becks at January 3, 2008 11:10 PMHey---approve my comment!
Posted by: ben wolfson at January 3, 2008 11:50 PMThat song was recorded with a flute and also a trumpet, it sounds to me, but neither of those appear in the lineup now. There are two (sometimes three) drummers, one sax, one clarinet, one (sometimes two) trombones, and one tuba.
Posted by: Kriston at January 4, 2008 2:16 AMOh, I might be sitting in at a jazz club this month, so I'll toss a note up here if something comes together.
Posted by: Kriston at January 4, 2008 2:32 AM