De la Luz
BASIC — three musicians seated, dark room

Supplied with the listing

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Divine Theater

Presented by De la Luz

BASIC

Date
Saturday, October 10
Music
7:00 PM
Where
De la Luz Soundstage, Holyoke, MA

The evening

  • Music 7 PM
  • Divine Theater

Three explorers strip everything down to rhythm, texture and instinct.

Chris Forsyth, guitar. Mikel Patrick Avery, drums and electronics. Douglas McCombs, bass and guitar.

“a hypnotic, groove-rooted identity all its own”

— Pitchfork · as quoted in the listing; the review should be linked before this ships

proposed: An audience recording from the room. The sound is honest; the playing is the point.

The story

BASIC draws from art rock, trance, jazz, dub, psychedelia and global rhythms to make immersive instrumental music that is hypnotic, groove-driven and constantly evolving.

Fresh off their album Basic, recorded largely live at Chicago's Electrical Audio, the trio arrives with the chemistry forged through years of touring and improvising together. Every performance becomes a conversation between rhythm, melody and atmosphere.

Chris Forsyth, Nick Millevoi and Mikel Patrick Avery
Supplied with the listing

Sources · for review

Story and the Pitchfork line from the delaluz.org listing. The Constellation set is an audience recording as embedded on delaluz.org.

Gap · No broadcast-quality performance video. Rather than hide the room recording, the spread says what it is.