07-24-2006, 07:20 PM
I hadn't heard Tc until the week before. Due to a snafu, we didn't know we had this show to book until a week before, so it was a scramble to staff. My co-worker, who I enlisted as a volunteer, was a fan and lent me a CD. It was ok - some reggae dub and electronica - reminded me of LA shopping mall muzak. I was expecting two guys on stage before mixing boards and a light show.
I never figured out how many people play in TC. They kept alternating players - singers, dancers, sitar, tabla, reggae toasters, Brazilian singers, guitars, keys, trumpet, sax, usually 10 people on stage at any time. I've nicknamed it metro reggae rave, but it's world fusion, electronica, reggae dancehall, a lot of sounds. And it's fun. Jammy. The first new (new to me) band that's moved me in a long spell. Very enjoyable. The crowd was young, metro, clean and sexy, like out of FHM or something. In fact, it was quite teh perfumed audience and smelled a lot like a men's or women's mag. A few dreadlocks in the corners. I'll check in with them whenever I can from now on. For a rasta like me, it was a wonderful permutation of the sound.
I never figured out how many people play in TC. They kept alternating players - singers, dancers, sitar, tabla, reggae toasters, Brazilian singers, guitars, keys, trumpet, sax, usually 10 people on stage at any time. I've nicknamed it metro reggae rave, but it's world fusion, electronica, reggae dancehall, a lot of sounds. And it's fun. Jammy. The first new (new to me) band that's moved me in a long spell. Very enjoyable. The crowd was young, metro, clean and sexy, like out of FHM or something. In fact, it was quite teh perfumed audience and smelled a lot like a men's or women's mag. A few dreadlocks in the corners. I'll check in with them whenever I can from now on. For a rasta like me, it was a wonderful permutation of the sound.
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