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Concert Review: Dan Deacon, Future Islands, and Teeth Mountain at the Foundation Room, May 1, 2009

May 4, 2009
Grant Snider,

Dan Deacon‘s current tour, in support of his new album, Bromst, is to electronica what a live performance by the Roots is to hip hop. Times ten. Rather than turning knobs and tickling a keyboard over only a programmed drum loop, Deacon employed a guy pounding furiously on a drum kit. And another guy on a drum kit. Not content with the percussive fury of two ?uestloves, he recruited four or five musicians to play a gauntlet of electronic mallet instruments and floor toms. Add in a pack of guitarists and bassists, a flock of keyboardists (or is it a ‘gaggle’ of keyboardists?), and a glowing green skull, and Dan Deacon’s electronic assault orchestra was complete.

An NPR story on Deacon pegs the number of supporting musicians as 15. I had trouble getting close enough to the mayhem to get a full count, and the flashing red and green lights didn’t help. If watching the performance from the sidelines felt like an epileptic aura, approaching the thrashing mass surrounding Deacon was a grand mal seizure.

Categories: Music
Tags: Dan Deacon, electronic, Future Islands, Ken Kesey, Pistol Social Club, Steve Reich, Teeth Mountain
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