Karsh Kale's Classical Science Fiction at Miner Auditorium, March 30, 2017

SFJAZZ presents Karsh Kale's Classical Science Fiction featuring Moto Fukushima, Alam Khan, Aditya Prakash, and Max ZT
Robert M. Miner Auditorium
SFJAZZ Center, 205 Franklin St, San Francisco, CA 94102 USA
7:30 PM, Thursday, March 30, 2017

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[7:33 PM lights down, announcements, band out, greetings from KK]

1. [7:36 PM] (unidentified tune #1, starts out as sarod solo by AK) »
2. [7:46 PM] (unidentified tune #2, AP lead) » Max solo » [7:52 PM] KK switches from tabla to trap set
   [KK back to tabla for the next piece]
3. [8:06 PM] (unidentified tune #3, starts out with solo from Max) » [8:15 PM] KK switches from tabla to trap set
4. [8:21 PM] (unidentified tune #4, starts out with solo from MF)
   [set ends ~8:30 PM; all off]

[8:52 PM lights down, band out, KK at tabla]

1. [8:54 PM] (unidentified tune #1) » [9:03 PM] KK switches from tabla to trap set
   [drop AK, AP]
2. [9:13 PM] (unidentified tune #2, something from Max's House of Waters CD)
   [add AK, AP]
3. [9:21 PM] (bass + loops solo from MF) »
4. [9:25 PM] (unidentified tune #4)
   [set ends 9:39 PM; no encore, all off after a minute or two]

• Moto Fukushima: bass;
• Karsh Kale: tabla, percussion, electronics;
• Alam Khan: sarod;
• Aditya Prakash: vox;
• Max ZT: dulcimer.

It's a shame that tonight's show was rather undersold, and annoying to find out only upon our arrival that we're being reseated so that they can close the balcony and focus the audience better towards the performers. Nice to be closer, of course, but awkward for someone like me who doesn't like dealing with unexpected changes.

I thought the show was great, once you accepted the fact that the songs were going to be somewhat monochromatic explorations of melody and rhythm. Nothing like the blues changes – just variations on that one chord vamp. I dug it. It was groovy enough to bliss out to – good thing they offered a dance floor for the folks who really wanted to spin!

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