Buke and Gase - Riposte on CD

Description

I first saw Buke And Gass last summer at Joe's Pub as part of the Happy Ending Music & Reading Series. They performed some of their songs on a bill where I did a reading about black metal (and, separately, Colin Stetson made his saxophone sound like black metal). I'd never heard them before that -- they stood out in the way they conjured these weird, catchy, dense songs on homemade instruments. It was unexpectedly bracing. Lots of momentum. As far as the lingo, the buke is "a self-modified six string baritone ukelele" and the gass is "a guitar-bass hybrid." They both handle all sorts of foot percussion. The sounds are then filtered and processed, etc. It's compelling watching them kick and strum on these things, but it was Arone Dyer's waling, uplifting, melodic voice that left the biggest impression on me. You hear Beth Ditto for a second (one who races/fixes bikes and builds her own instruments, doesn't hang out at fashion shows), Kathleen Hannah in those Bikini Kill days, Throwing Muses, something else, etc., an overall joy.

TRACKS

1. Buke & Gase - Medulla Oblongata
2. Buke & Gase - Medicina
3. Buke & Gase - Your Face Left Before You
4. Buke & Gase - Naked Cities
5. Buke & Gase - Sleep Gets Your Ghost
6. Buke & Gase - Revel in Contempt
7. Buke & Gase - Red Hood Came Home
8. Buke & Gase - Horse Head Nebula
9. Buke & Gase - Immoral But Just Fine, Okay
10. Buke & Gase - Neurosis + Her Sisters
11. Buke & Gase - Bundletuck
12. Buke & Gase - Page Break
13. Buke & Gase - Outt!
14. Buke & Gase - [Untranslated]