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Why I Must Be Careful

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Why I Must Be CarefulThe hardcore Balkan frenzy of Why I Must Be Careful is careening across the northwest from the band’s Portland home;last February, I caught it alighting on the Fontee Fest.  The room exploded with the electric thunder of Seth Brown’s Rhodes piano and John Niekrasz’ drums.  The instrumentals led directly to the band’s staccato recitations of backward verse and upside down lyric and back to the Tasmanian whirl – Brown cycling the keys almost spherically and Niekrasz allotting each drum exactly the correct proportion of power complete the statement and perfect the experience.  The concert?  Why I Must Be Careful is an experience, not a show.  Although your ears might be ringing , your head will be clear. 

WIMBC gives a perf that is absolutely; so; watertight in reaction to the chaos the band observes around them.  The terrific control is killing: their mathematical precision cuts like a razor blade through the otherwise black prog.  It’s like Lewis Carroll splintering within from the points of numbers until he writes absurdity that profounds academics.  This experimental is the gold of Niekrasz’ and Brown’s existentialist quest for the transcendent.  “Why do humans exist other than to get away from the necessity of making food and shelter?”  Brown rhetorically asks the rather hazy night air, “To escape that excess and find time to do something else . . . art.”  If experimental rock is the gateway from this finite dirt, as Brown expresses, then Why I Must Be Careful has gone (oh no) to infinity, and beyond.  

Why I Must Be Careful– playing in a venue near you.  15 July 09, 7.00 p.m., The Empyrean Coffee House, Spokane.

Molly is a freelance journalist and a senior at New St. Andrew’s College with a special interest in postcards and goldfish.  She writes for The Loop 21 and keeps - sporadically - the blog A New Amsterdam.

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