A day before Tortoise's appearance at All Tomorrow's Parties' in November, bassist Douglas McCombs will be bringing his solo project Brokeback to London for a rare live show at the Heath Street Baptist Church in Hampstead as part of the London Jazz Festival.
Expect to hear tracks taken from Brokeback's newest release Brokeback and the Black Rock, which came out earlier this year via Thrill Jockey Records in January.
Douglas McCombs' goal for his longstanding Brokeback project has always been to do service to those fleeting moments in life when everything seems clear and defined and beautiful and the hair stands up on the back of your neck. These moments are hard to describe and by their nature impossible to capture, but to try it is to be inspired. They’re not always auditory, but for their musical expression, think Roy Orbison when he's sad and lonely, or alternately when he’s feeling triumphant, a Tom Verlaine guitar solo, Stravinsky and Erik Satie, an Ennio Morricone crescendo. Or Billy Gibbons, in a lyric like "Ridin’ ’top the floodway on a Friday night / The landscape’s a fine and natural sight."
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