Saturday 4/8/2006 from Noon to 1 PM Pacific Time
(that's 4 PM in Buenos Aires, Argentina)
on What's This Called? with your host Ricardo Wang
a very special Live Performance by Portland's own
Obe'Skupla www.myspace.com/obeskupla
The show will be STREAMING HERE: www.kpsu.org
and an MP3 will be available for download in the KPSU Archives immediately following the broadcast.
1450 AM in the Portland OR/Vancouver WA metro area
98.3 FM aroun the Portland State University campus
Pronounced "Obey Scoop Law", Obe'Skupla are an experimental jazz trio who count among their influences the likes of Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers, the Residents, and J.R. Bob Dobbs.
While many contemporary jazz groups who delve into the experimental realms take their directional cues from the noisy side of free jazz pioneered by Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane in the sixties, Obe'Skupla provide a sampler heavy mix that harkens more to the disjointed melodic funkiness of On the Corner era Miles Davis and Coleman's work with Prime Time. There is no question this music is edgy, and in fact they describe it themselves as "Charlie Parker being assaulted by the Butthole Surfers" or "ritalin deprived children in school band", but the edge is tempered with an aggressive sense of harmony, and one doesn't have to stretch one's brain to think of their pieces as "songs". However, those would be songs of a decidedly post-punk intent; they count John Zorn among their influences too after all, and they also played a gig backing up Iggy and the Stooges saxophonist Steve Mackay.
(that's 4 PM in Buenos Aires, Argentina)
on What's This Called? with your host Ricardo Wang
a very special Live Performance by Portland's own
Obe'Skupla www.myspace.com/obeskupla
The show will be STREAMING HERE: www.kpsu.org
and an MP3 will be available for download in the KPSU Archives immediately following the broadcast.
1450 AM in the Portland OR/Vancouver WA metro area
98.3 FM aroun the Portland State University campus
Pronounced "Obey Scoop Law", Obe'Skupla are an experimental jazz trio who count among their influences the likes of Sonic Youth, the Butthole Surfers, the Residents, and J.R. Bob Dobbs.
While many contemporary jazz groups who delve into the experimental realms take their directional cues from the noisy side of free jazz pioneered by Ornette Coleman and John Coltrane in the sixties, Obe'Skupla provide a sampler heavy mix that harkens more to the disjointed melodic funkiness of On the Corner era Miles Davis and Coleman's work with Prime Time. There is no question this music is edgy, and in fact they describe it themselves as "Charlie Parker being assaulted by the Butthole Surfers" or "ritalin deprived children in school band", but the edge is tempered with an aggressive sense of harmony, and one doesn't have to stretch one's brain to think of their pieces as "songs". However, those would be songs of a decidedly post-punk intent; they count John Zorn among their influences too after all, and they also played a gig backing up Iggy and the Stooges saxophonist Steve Mackay.
