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HomePreviewsRussian Circles To Play The Cedar On 9/12/19

Russian Circles To Play The Cedar On 9/12/19

August 30, 2019 Seth Steffenhagen Previews 0

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A pair of talented Chicago based bands will be performing at the Cedar Cultural Center on September 12.  The instrumental rock band, Russian Circles, are set to embark on a 30 stop tour across the US and Canada in support of their recently released 7th album, Blood Year.  They will make a return to the Cedar after about a 3 year hiatus since they last performed there. Tickets for this all ages show may be purchased here for $17 in advance or $20 day of show.  Doors open at 7:00pm with Facs kicking things off at 7:30pm.

At the end of 2014, Chicago trio Russian Circles celebrated the10-year anniversary of their first show. A decade is a long time for any band to persevere, let alone a band that mines the relatively unmarketable niche of protracted instrumental dirges. But whereas many bands on the louder end of the rock-based instrumental world are content to work within the confines of the crescendos and washed-out timbres laid out by their predecessors, Russian Circles persistently expand their creative boundaries by working with a wider swath of sounds and structures. In many ways, their last album Memorial was a fitting cap to that first decade; it was an elegy to the past, a token of remembrance to the aural explorations of the band’s formative years. It encompassed the many facets of the band’s catalog: harrowing gloom, cinematic majesty, primitive bludgeonings, bittersweet dexterity, and morose minimalism.

With their sixth album Guidance, Russian Circles carried on in their quest to conjure multi-dimensional dramatic instrumental narratives and to scout out new textures from their respective instruments. Songs aren’t constructed out of highbrow concepts; they’re forged out of gut instinct and base emotional response. Nor was the band—as is often the case with artists later in their career—interested in testing their fans’ patience or securing a new broader audience with a radical reinvention. Instead, Russian Circles use Guidance to continue examining the polarity of quiet and loud, complexity and simplicity, ugliness and beauty. Every Russian Circles album has had its share of new sonic vistas, and Guidance finds the band still searching out new sounds while continuing to play to the collective strengths of guitarist Mike Sullivan, drummer Dave Turncrantz, and bassist Brian Cook. Starting with the meditative restraint of album opener “Asa”, Guidance sets off on a path of metallic savagery (“Vorel”, “Calla”), arpeggio tectonics (“Mota”), mercurial anthems (“Afrika”), somber segues (“Overboard”), and seismic Americana noir (“Lisboa”). With the help of engineer/co-producer Kurt Ballou and his God City Studio, Russian Circles were able to capture this broad tonal palette and wide array of emotional motifs into a cohesive journey through the tumultuous corners of human existence.

We often expect artists to fall into patterns and formulas, but for Russian Circles the creative method is still a mystery. Songs develop at their own pace. Inspiration comes from strange sources. If anything, the process of writing is every bit the enigma it was back when the band crafted their first song in 2004. Life itself is a struggle with the unknown and a search for meaning, and the creative process for Russian Circles has mirrored that pursuit. The radical dynamic shifts and straightforward production of Enter, the lockstep metallic attack and pensive comedowns of Station, the symphonic grandeur of Geneva, the grit and grime of Empros, and the oscillation between melancholy and wrath on Memorial were all incremental steps towards an ideal, and Guidance brings the band that much closer to that realization. In the interim between albums, a veteran handed off an envelope of war photos to the spouse of a band member. The photos depicted a man being led to his execution. There was no context for the traumatic scenes, no history, no background. Yet the dignity this anonymous figure exuded in his fatalistic march resonated with the band. Here was someone that knew his fate and marched boldly towards his destiny. The band used these photos for the Guidance album art, knowing that we all march towards our own conclusions, and we can only hope that we face our futures with the same honor and nobility. If the band’s fourth album Empros (Greek translation: Onward) was a statement of perseverance, Guidance became a statement of striding into the future undeterred by what lies ahead.

 

 

Wed, SEP 11 – High Noon Saloon – Madison, WI
Thu, SEP 12 – The Cedar Cultural Center – Minneapolis, MN
Sat, SEP 14 – Rialto Bozeman – Bozeman, MT
Mon, SEP 16 – Neumos – Seattle, WA
Tue, SEP 17 – Wonder Ballroom – Portland, OR
Thu, SEP 19 – August Hall – San Francisco, CA
Fri, SEP 20 – Discovery Ventura – Ventura, CA
Sat, SEP 21 – The Teragram Ballroom – Los Angeles, CA
Mon, SEP 23 – The Nile Theatre – Mesa, AZ
Tue, SEP 24 – Meow Wolf – Santa Fe, NM
Wed, SEP 25 – Bluebird Theater – Denver, CO
Sat, SEP 28 – Thalia Hall Chicago – Chicago, IL
Fri, OCT 18 – The Pyramid Scheme – Grand Rapids, MI
Sat, OCT 19 – El Club – Detroit, MI
Sun, OCT 20 – Lee’s Palace – Toronto, Canada
Mon, OCT 21 – Théâtre Fairmount – Montreal, Canada
Wed, OCT 23 – 3S Artspace – Portsmouth, NH
Thu, OCT 24 – The Sinclair – Cambridge, MA
Sat, OCT 26 – Warsaw – Brooklyn, NY
Sun, OCT 27 – Union Transfer – Philadelphia, PA
Tue, OCT 29 – Union Stage – Washington, DC
Wed, OCT 30 – The Broadberry – Richmond, VA
Fri, NOV 1 – Motorco Music Hall – Durham, NC
Sat, NOV 2 – Neighborhood Theatre – Charlotte, NC
Sun, NOV 3 – The Masquerade – Atlanta, GA
Mon, NOV 4 – One Eyed Jacks – New Orleans, LA
Wed, NOV 6 – The Secret Group – Houston, TX
Fri, NOV 8 – Levitation – Austin, TX
Sat, NOV 9 – Deep Ellum Art Co. – Dallas, TX
Mon, NOV 11 – Delmar Hall – Saint Louis, MO

 

 

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