Subscribe RSSCovering Sun Ra’s “ Starship ” might be a genuine way to ingratiate your ensemble to space music devotees, but doesn’t serve as entrance into pop culture. Spacemen 3, a set founded almost thirty years ago in Rugby, UK, focused on playing a songbook culled from American jazzbos, Bob Dylan and the 13th Deck Elevators. In the hands of Sonic Boom (Pete Kember) and J. Spaceman (Jason Pierce), the unruly provenance material came together, was reassembled and dispatched as waves of repetitive rock progressions usually making use of no more than a few chords.
The directions for both Sonic Boom and J. Spaceman hasn’t changed as each has worked to break new groups—Spectrum and Spiritualized mutatis mutandis. It was only the former that was set to perform Thursday evening at Ukrainian Village’s Darkroom , but Spaceman’s spectre was present as well.
Last to the main happening, Apteka performed. And while the group aptly readied the crowd for what was to follow, it appeared as if the it worked extraordinarily inescapable at reaching the ever-elusive groove. Along the way, the ensemble’s drummer hit such a fever pitch as to knock over one his toms. Yeah, the guild raved up a good racket, but Spectrum achieved the same end results with seemingly less effort.
