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Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Tonight Dirty Three Roil and Rumble Like a Free-Jazz Storm
Posted by Dave Segal on Tue, Oct 2, 2012 at 11:18 AM
(Neumos) Australian instrumental-rock trio Dirty Three keep on truckin' in their own lane, changing little over the last 20 years while maintaining high quality. They have two songs that I think tower over all of their others: "Indian Love Song" and "Furnace Skies." The former is a gorgeous, ragged waltz marked by Warren Ellis's relentless, melismatic violin motifs and Mick Turner's excoriating guitar flares. The latter, from their latest album, Toward the Low Sun, roils and rumbles like a free-jazz storm inside of a gypsy-music lament, augmented by Turner's madly cyclical bass riff and a surging, Alice Coltrane–esque organ. Of course, Dirty Three have many more fine songs, but these two lift them into the pantheon. Go for the riveting music, stay for Ellis's absurdist between-song banter (assuming he still does this...). DAVE SEGAL
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