Percussionist Kevin Cheli resumes his extensive series of collaborations with guitarist Seth Davis at Farewell on Wednesday, December 27. Scott R. Looney and Aaron Osborne will join them. Night Mode and Nate Hofer round out the bill.
Album Review: Cheli Davis Smith Trio- Composite
Thanks in part to the strenuous efforts of Seth Andrew Davis, the rowdiest component of Kansas City’s improvised music scene is achieving breathtaking new heights. Composite, the area resident’s vitriolic new collaboration with University of Missouri-Kansas City graduate Kevin Cheli and Damon Smith, is an amalgamation of malformed jazz, cacophonous electronic music and radiated rock. Davis (electronics and guitar), Cheli (percussion) and Smith (bass) alternately expand and contract time and space as they scratch, claw and pummel their distressed instruments. The enlightening Composite pairs antagonistic ugliness with prohibitive beauty in a mode once rarely attempted in Kansas City.