Zdrastvootie
PERFORMING AT SOMEDAY
Tuesday, March 13 › 9pm › $5
THE LATE SEVERA WIRES with ZDRASTVOOTIE and REDGLAER
About the artist
Zdrastvootie is a skronk-rock, avant-whatsit group out of Santa Cruz that revolves around the core trio of drummer Sean Adams and guitarists Scott Stobbe and Drew Adams. Bassists and other musicians have contributed to past performances and recordings (including this one), and the three guys are currently playing live with a female saxophonist. The band creates complex compositions veering from spazz-jazz to intricate indie guitar-rock and more ethereal atmospheric stuff, sometimes all within the same song. You could compare them to anyone from French prog monsters Magma to the Minutemen and be accurate at some point; the CD sticker calling this "deeply fragmented progression" pretty much nails it. As you might've guessed from the title, 2 is Zdrastvootie's second album. The primary difference from the first is that Adams sings now, with an odd, prog-operatic vocal that embellishes things nicely. People doing math and calling it music can be tedious, but Zdrastvootie's members manage to sidestep that tar pit by injecting some feeling into their compositions. Plus, there's a subtle sense of fun: The band's name is a mutant pronunciation of the Russian word for "hello," and there's a track on this CD featuring birdcalls titled "Procellariiformes," which is an order of birds that includes the albatross.—SFWeekly
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