| Daredevil Christopher Wright Plays Powerhouse |
| Written by YAC |
| Monday, 16 November 2009 16:05 |
Daredevil Christopher Wright will perform at the Powerhouse Community Arts Center Friday, November, 20th @ 7pm Tickets on Sale Now
There's a track on The Daredevil Christopher Wright's debut LP that shares a name with the band and tells the story of a man who literally dedicates his life to performing death-defying stunts. The Wisconsin trio has taken similar leaps—not of the motorcycle-jumping variety, but nearly as risky and contingent on vulnerability. Their debut, In Deference to a Broken Back (out now on Amble Down Records), owes as much to the band's musical open-mindedness as two of its members classical training; its reference points are far-flung, from Chopin-does-acoustic-folk etudes, circus waltzes, string quartets, whistling, post-punk rock-out—even one of those plastic recorders you might recognize from elementary school music class. Like any good escape artist, the band’s refusal to surrender to presumed restrictions seems to be the key to their success. “Whenever I hear music that gets me excited, I just want to play that music, you know?” says guitarist/vocalist Jon Sunde. “And so the idea of having no kind of boundary or no formula to what could happen is just really appealing to me.” Sunde and his older brother Jason were exposed to endless options as music students at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, where they both earned vocal degrees. “I think we were both influenced pretty strongly by these things that were sort of harmonically dense and more ambitious,” he says. “You get chained sometimes into these self-imposed rules, but it’s really freeing when you can access these other directions." http://www.myspace.com/thedaredevilchristopherwright |
