SUNNY WAR @ The Sofia

🚨✨S P E C I A L S H O W✨🚨 >> repost @thetorchclub

Tomorrow we will opening our doors, to host the one and only @wattfrompedro and the trio band Corsano Baiza Watt Trio. Don’t miss the opportunity to see them on their “Tiny Tour 2024”.
➡️8p - 11p, $20 (doors open @ 7p)

💥”In 2023, Chris Corsano played about 125 shows. One of the most eagerly anticipated of those was a meet-up with bassist Mike Watt and guitarist Joe Baiza, whose work Corsano followed since their days with Minutemen and Saccharine Trust respectively. This sounded like a trio gig with real possibilities, and the album resulting from their initial convocation is as fine as anticipated, mixing a few tracks from their first live show with a follow-up studio session.

Watt and Baiza were first documented playing together on Saccharine Trust’s 1985 album Worldbroken and they’ve worked together regularly since then. Watt’s bass playing in that time has often headed in a Mingusoid direction (witness his work with MSSV) and Baiza’s post-Saccharine attack has dialed back the extreme outward spiraling of his early days for contained melodicism. Baiza still has a unique way of spinning notes, but he displays much more control than he once did. Corsano’s work here has less rock action than he employs with Rangda, and the way he splits time between cymbals and skins does much to define the music’s stylistic parameters.

All three of these guys were birthed amid the brambles of punk rock, but even the youngster in the pack (Corsano) now has three decades of serious improvising behind him. And it’s a real pleasure to hear them creating such vital and exciting sounds. Like recent work by Nels Cline - who organized the summit between Minutemen and Charlie Haden four decades ago - this trio combines essential pieces of out rock and out jazz into a truly syncretic post-punk form.” ...