Cactides
NEFARIOUS INDUSTRIES
Imperial Triumphant drummer journeys into avant-sci-fiinsanity
You might need a protractor handy to get the exact measure of Titan To Tachyons’ sci-fiinspired instrumentals, such are their free-jazz-infused angularity. Guitarist Sally Gates and her crack rhythm section of drummer Kenny Grohowski (Imperial Triumphant, Secret Chiefs 3) and bassist Matt Hollenberg (Cleric, John Zorn’s Simulacrum) quickly froth up impressively florid displays of chaos theory where dizzying squalls of Mick Barr-like finger-tapping segue into potent off-kilter riff processions - check the near-swinging finale of Earth, And Squidless. Songs continually teeter on the brink of collapse, passages detonate like a series of supernovas, notes hanging in space like cosmic motes before coalescing into more discernible patterns. And if all that wasn’t surreally extra-terrestrial enough, Trevor Dunn makes a bass cameo on closer Everybody’s Dead, Dave, where Cylon stowaways vent in the underbelly of Red Dwarf.