East meets West
Published: December 04, 2009, 12:30 am
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Music from the Middle East, India and Africa has long held sway over the more open-minded among rock musicians. George Harrison, Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones, Peter Gabriel, and Miles Davis/Mahavishnu Orchestra/Shakti guitarist John McLaughlin are only a handful of the rock players and songwriters who have been able to assimilate the timeless, exotic melodies and drone-based progressions common to Middle Eastern musics—as well as the polyrhthymic dexterity of Africa—into an otherwise Western sound. Though any jam band worth its salt can lend a rock rhythm to a raga, few have been able to create such a consistently stunning East-meets-West melange as the trio Consider the Source. The three musicians are in possession of an otherworldly collective talent, one that they seem able to bend to their will, to the point that the group is able to suggest Zappa, Mahavishnu, John Zorn and a Qawwlli moan, often within the space of a single tune. Challenging, exotic, surprising, and an awful lot of fun, the sound of Consider the Source is one of the most refreshing within the world of improvisation-based instrumental music. The band makes its third trip to Buffalo this year for a show inside Nietzsche’s (248 Allen St.) at 9 tonight. Peanut Brittle Satellite will share the bill. Do yourself a favor and check the band out beforehand, at www.considerthesourcemusic.com . —Jeff Miers
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