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Chick corea midi4/3/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s a kind of approach to electronic music that’s not actually electronic-a kind of circuitous, familiar/unfamiliar tweak of timbre and close melody that is impossible not to groove to. The sound of this record is singular, but needs explanation. It is a feat of composition, endurance, and innovation, moving and addictive in its disguise of acoustic music as electronic. Dysnomia, the sophomore record from the Brooklyn trio, is now out and will be celebrated with an album release show at (Le) Poisson Rouge tonight. ![]() But these three use extended techniques more familiar to John Cage than to Charles Mingus: playing from within the piano while also on the keys, emulating African talking drums with the bass, altering the drumset acoustically to sound electronic. They met at CalArts and now live in New York City, and you would guess from looking at them that they’d be a jazz combo. PHOTO BY CHRISTOPHER GABELLOĭawn of Midi is a trio of grand piano, upright bass, and drums, from Pakistan, India, and Morocco respectively. ![]()
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