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CONCERT REVIEW: Medeski Martin & Wood @ Electric Factory 10/28
Friday night Medeski Martin & Wood got just about everyone in the Electric Factory shuffling their feet, shaking their hips and showing them how to groove in on a Halloween weekend.
CONCERT REVIEW: Medeski Martin & Wood @ Electric Factory 10/28
Friday night Medeski Martin & Wood got just about everyone in the Electric Factory shuffling their feet, shaking their hips and showing them how to groove in on a Halloween weekend. They played three sets, the first of which included just the three and song selections made by fans via their Facebook wall in the days prior to the show. “End of the World Party,” from 2004’s album of the same name, featuring Wood upright bass bowing, was the relatively short first set’s standout. Short because the real show was yet to follow.
Antibalas, a.k.a. Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra, who opened the show, joined MMW for the second set. But they didn’t begin until MMW and Antibalas (a combined 15 people) selected their favorite of the carved pumpkins at the front of the stage, which were brought for a contest to meet the bands after the show. With Antibalas, there were 15 people on stage and not one of them could have looked like he was having more fun than they already were. Really, there were smiles and dance moves throughout those on stage equal to those in the crowd. The arrangement was put together for just three shows this Halloween weekend, which Martin called, the “trilogy of terror.” Even when Medeski, who seemed to be the least afraid to get noisy and atonal with his solos, the giant band stayed together. Antibalas’ lead trumpet player, Jordan McLean dedicated a song to the Occupy movement and the protests in Egypt. “That’s why we’re here,” he said. The encore set included a raucous protest tune with Antibalas saxophonist Stuart Bogie leading “Indictment,” and calling everyone to withdraw all their money from banks and put it in a credit union by Nov. 5.
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