Shareef Ali & The Radical Folksonomy

Shareef Ali & The Radical Folksonomy ~ The Brendan Getzell Band (singer / songwriter)
When: Tue, January 4
Time: 7pm
Cost: FREE
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Shareef Ali & The Radical Folksonomy
http://www.shareefali.com/
http://www.myspace.com/shareefalisongwriter
Shareef Ali & The Radical Folksonomy perform deeply lyrical songs against a rich tapestry of American traditional music from folk to jazz to country to rock & roll. Poignant and revealing verse reminiscent of Leonard Cohen or Conor Oberst is laden with sweet vocal harmonies, warm Telecaster twang and cascading piano textures. A delicate trust is forged between artist and audience, “a feeling that he’s building fragile, intricate worlds inside a wind tunnel, fully aware that they may be caught in a gust at any moment.” (Britnelle Bell) Each vignette is guided along by elegant chord progressions, classical in craft and variation: though familiar forms recur in the terrain, the journey ends in quite a different place than the one in which it began. [myspace]

Brendan Getzell

The Brendan Getzell Band
http://myspace.com/brendangetzell
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Brendan-Getzell/114805885719
Brendan describes his official debut album A Season Intertwined as “‘Grey’s Anatomy’ music for ‘House’ people”; it is equal parts earnestly romantic, sophisticatedly tuneful and subtly clever. The towering choruses of “Rain”, “So Far Away From You” and “Metrocard” are countered by the sometimes-sarcastic, yet always-infectious cleverness of “Ghost”, “Sky Is Falling” and “Asparagus”. A truce between the two sides of Brendan’s spheres of composition finally comes in the teen-angst anthem “Kill Me So Slow”, a sing-along popular among many of his friends and fans. The album’s haunting closer “Blue Hands” recalls Sufjan Stevens and Kings Of Convenience with its acoustic tenderness. [facebook]