I'm hitting the road starting Wednesday, June 8, with Johnny DeBlase and Kevin Shea.
Check us out in one of these places:
DESERTION Trio TOUR
w/Johnny DeBlase on bass and Kevin Shea on drums
June 8th - Hudson, NY - The Spotty Dog w/Slow Collins
June 9th - Toronto, ON - Burn Down The Capital @ Ratio w/Steve Kado and zhang
June 10th - Detroit, MI - Trinosophes w/Ben Miller
June 11th - Chicago, IL - Elastic Arts w/Katherine Young's quartet and Michael Vallera
June 12th - Lafayette, IN - Spot Tavern
June 13th - Columbus, OH - Cara Bar w/Ryan Jewell Quintet, A Beamed Gelling Rose, Faster Island
June 14th - Pittsburgh, PA - City of Asylum
Here's a great preview from the Chicago Reader:
http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/nick-millevois-desertion-trio-katie-young-michael-vallera/Event?oid=22340819
Nick Millevoi’s Desertion Trio, Katie Young, Michael Vallera
When: Sat., June 11, 9 p.m.
Price: $10 suggested donation
On most recordings I’ve heard by Philadephia guitarist Nick
Millevoi his playing is unapologetically aggressive and noisy,
unleashing jaggedly lacerating outbursts that fit neatly within the
general brutal prog milieu (see: his long-running trio Many Arms).
Millevoi’s playing is no less furious with free-jazz quartet Haitian
Rail or when he teams up with improvisers like
Toshimaru Nakamura or
Dead Neanderthals. So I was pretty shocked the first time I heard the new
Desertion
(Shhpuma), an often melodic quartet album that showcases a reserved,
atmospheric side of his music. Deftly supported by keyboardist Jamie
Saft, drummer
Ches Smith,
and Many Arms bassist Johnny DeBlase, Millevoi carves out enough space
to turn American music into one sprawling cosmic jam, balancing country
with a kind of denatured funk. It’s not all chill, as opening cut
“Desertion and the Arsonist’s Match” draws upon classic prog gestures,
with massive organ swells from Saft, overdriven beats by Smith, and
needling, upper-register leads from the guitarist—all before segueing
into one of many passages that evoke post-Morriccone renderings of the
American southwest. “Just for a Moment, I Stood There in Silence” most
surprised me: the tender, twangy waltz features lyric violin fills by
guest June Bender and eventually veers into straight Crazy Horse
territory with a luxuriantly stomping groove. On “Where They Do Their
Capers,” Millevoi hovers within clouds of reverb and texture, waiting
for a resolution that never arrives. His touring lineup includes DeBlase
and drummer Kevin Shea of Haitian Rail and Mostly Other People Do the
Killing.
— Peter Margasak
