BY B AO L E - H U U JONAS VAN DEN BOSSCHE | PHOTO BY RACHEL KINBAR
LOCAL RELEASES
You’d be forgiven if you didn’t know that experimental Orlando musician Jonas Van den Bossche could play it straight. I didn’t. He’s a well-known figure in the city’s outermost avant-garde circles, usually in the society of noise and free-jazz freaks. But popular music? Come on. As it turns out, though, he can and will do it from time to time. His latest release — a two-track record titled A Little Insecurity Goes a Long Way — is astonishingly … normal. While not quite like Rat Bastard suddenly turning into Taylor Swift or anything, it’ll be at least a mild shock to anyone who’s ever seen one of his raw improv performances. Van den Bossche, an artist who’s typically just as apt to play his guitar with a toolkit as with a pick, is here actually strumming (!) melodies (!!) and even singing (!!!). Across the two lovely compositions “Nothing Goes to Waste” and “∞”, he goes all singer-songwriter on us with acoustic contemplation that daydreams without the schmaltz. The music’s up on his Bandcamp, but there are also fitting videos for each song worth checking out on YouTube. Made by fade theory (the nom d’art of Van den Bossche’s creative and life partner, Rachel Kinbar) using found footage, the videos are warm with vintage texture and flicker with handheld human character, all of which suits the reflective and halcyon music well. Orlando artist As Seas Exhale has been on an ambient sabbatical for a while now. Finally, though, the pulse has picked back up for the recently released Light Source.
You’d be forgiven if you didn’t know that experimental musician Jonas Van den Bossche could play it straight. I didn’t. As it turns out, he can and will do it from time to time
acts Rainbow Park and Fools’ Gold, expect a buoyant blend of alt-rock and grunge. (8 p.m. Wednesday, June 16, Will’s Pub, $10)
Elizabeth Ward: This Americana songbird was, until recently, a member of formidable Orlando country-rock band Jordan Foley and the Wheelhouse. Anyone who can hold their own singing alongside Foley, as Ward did, is a voice to be reckoned with. And now that she’s back focusing on her own music, we’ll get to see how bright it can shine in Filled with elegant post-rock that packs its own spotlight as she commands the climactic drama, it’s an album sprawling Laundry Sessions outside on Will’s Pub’s in expanse. The songs go from around back patio. (7 p.m. Friday, June 18, Dirty five minutes on the short end to nearly Laundry, free) 20 minutes on the marathon end. And in scope, they range from ambient meditaTchami: I still don’t know what “future tion to day-breaking, Explosions in the house” is, but this French DJ and proSky-esque release. The 11-track collection ducer coined the term. What I do know is is up on Bandcamp. that his clean house sound is gilded with sleek EDM strands and he’s good enough Orlando’s Jankyswans just released an for Lady Gaga. (9 p.m. Friday, June 18, the EP of nicely distilled electronic music. Vanguard, $25-$75) The five-song By Post is minimal without being stark or background. The sounds are Daniela Soledade and Nate Najar: serene but not comatose, kept in motion This St. Pete duo bring some real bossa with a crisp rhythmic sensibility. The nova cred to the scene this weekend. result is instrumental pop that’s abstract The granddaughter of Paulo Soledade, but intimate. By Post is up on Bandcamp who composed with titans like Antônio as a name-your-price download. Carlos Jobim and Vinícius de Moraes, singer Daniela Soledade’s Brazilian pediMUSIC EVENTS THIS WEEK gree runs in a straight line back to the Rainbow Park, The Blumes, Fools’ very roots of bossa nova. Nate Najar is a Gold: So you gettin’ down on that nu- Charlie Byrd disciple of unconventional indie-tonic-death-wave-trap-core or technique and dazzling style. If anyone what? Well, this latest Montgomery Drive can turn this Florida summer-bummer showcase eschews all those niche sen- swelter into balmy Ipanema zephyrs, it’s sibilities and just delivers three straight these two. (8 p.m. Saturday, June 19, Blue shots of melodic guitar rock. Between Bamboo Center for the Arts, $25) Orlando band the Blumes and Daytona baolehuu@orlandoweekly.com orlandoweekly.com
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