Elsewhere, the Mush show went off without a hitch on Tuesday with Caural, Daedelus, and Dosh (sorry Thavius, we showed up too late). Caural was just as I expected him: sincere, ebullient, and mixed his stumbling and hiccuping glitch cleanly into smooth little streams and shimmers of new-agey flow.
I admittedly was a little leery about seeing Daedelus live -- I've built up this impression of him over the past couple years that he tends toward the beat-fuckery and can too flippantly toss what was a nice groove into terrifying madness, which he admittedly did on occasion, but I was pleasantly surprised to find that on balance he, decked out in his long-tails and dundrearies and with his magical The Box in tow, conjured up a mystical and highly danceable Neo-Victorian set. The ultimate prestidigitator-dandy, he stood behind his Box -- tilted outward and entrancing the entire audience who rushed in for a closer gawk from every conceivable angle -- with one arm behind his back, his fingers working the 16x16 grid of lights like a mad inventor whose head holds the sole key to making the magic device perform. It was good.
Dosh, whose one-man band contrivance has made him a more or less certifiable YouTube star, was joined that night by Milwaukee jazz trio Fat Kid Wednesdays. Their no-wave free-jazz explosion interlude that preceded Dosh actually taking the stage was heavily disarming and, after being charmed like a cobra by Daedelus' glitzy pan-flash, nearly threatened to suddenly de-oxygenize the room before Dosh took his rightful place and threw the crowd into the eye of his digitally-looped hurricane. Armed with Fat Kids' sax/bass/and drum backup, it was the most lush and organic Dosh I've ever heard, and especially after introducing special guest Andrew Bird on violin, broke chaos into what I can only describe as loops of tender optimism. It's rare to see a show that you can call sincerely uplifting -- my only hope is someone's caught at least a shred of the Fat Kid collaboration from recent dates to put on Dosh's growing MySpace Video tour diary.
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