Rollerball
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Saturday, May 26 › 9pm › $6
PLANTS with ROLLERBALL, NUDITY, and EVOLUTIONARY JASS BAND
About the artist
In a recent show preview, one Portland music critic wrote, "Which Rollerball will show up?" It was an acknowledgement of Rollerball's voracious creative appetite. They write smoky, dark, post-cabaret songs with accordian and dueling male-female vocal harmonies; blat out gnarled jazz-damaged improvisations with reeds, brass, shakers, and wild-eyed drumming; make you ache with melodic bass-and-piano-driven drifters; and get you up with skronking noise-beat laced with samples. They are always exploring, they fairly teeter into chaos, but their strong personalities always ensure that they are not too scattered. A certain "Rollerballness" always pervades.
Altogether, over the past decade Rollerball has released 10 full-lengths, over a dozen EPs and singles, not to mention the compilations. They have also recorded releases for Roadcone, San Francisco's Cochon Records, Italian labels Wallace and Bar La Muerte, along with their own Portland, OR-based Nillacat and Felina y Magia. They have toured the western US regularly and have been to Europe twice. Most of the members reside at the Ranch Rollerball and Salon where the group record, practice, and dine. Rollerball's Silber debut, Real Hair was released in late 2003, followed by Behind the Barber in June 2004, & most recently Catholic Paws/CatholicPause & its associated Companion EPs in 2005.
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