Music
Concerts
Phoebe Legere
Review by James Hopkins
Even the niche-nutty will realize Phoebe Legere is a multi-
instrumentalist who has a
Waste Land ability to extract
core truths from the voices inside her and outside us.
Improvisations with Jim Staley, Ikue Mori, Todd Horton, and
Steve Butters create an even wider stage for Blue Curtain
by layering sometimes mocking, sometimes yearning
vocals over pulses and dissonances that by the finale are
pared down to an unsparing intimacy, leaving listeners with
this stoic yet hopeful message: We must take responsiblity
for each other and the land dying under the weight of
cosmopolitan apathy.
It's not a soft ending, but it's the only logical one for an all-media
artist determined to awaken the artist in all of us.
