BUKE & GASS

Friday 8:00 PM at the Big Ears Annex
The Ex w/ Buke & Gass

This will mark the first time the Dutch punk anarchists, The Ex, have ever performed south of the Mason Dixon line in their 30 year history.

Buke and Gass are a Brooklyn-based two-piece – Arone Dyer on the “buke” (a self-modified six-string baritone ukulele) and Aron Sanchez on the “gass” (a guitar-bass hybrid of his own creation).  Both of them play double duty, mobilizing a small army of foot percussion.  These instruments are then filtered through various pedals, amplifiers and other homemade inventions to create a surprisingly complex sound.

Arone’s supermelodic vocal lines weave through the beautiful yet sometimes unwieldy musical matter, balancing light and dark, calamity and control.  Their musical multi-tasking makes for live performances that are both visually unexpected and sonically explosive.

They have one EP available, +/-, and a forthcoming album to be released on Brassland later in 2010.

In-line with their inventions, DIY, general fix-it/build-it aesthetic, Buke and Gass will be setting up a printing station so that folks can have the option of printing their own disc with the raw Buke and Gass CD materials.

This is going to be one of those shows that leads to dropped jaws and glazed, happy faces.