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Stick Against Stone Orchestra - Album Release Party at Joe's Pub
Courtesy of Will Kreth | Posted on January 3, 2013
When
Tue, January 29, 2013
9:30 am
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Musicians
Denny McDermott
drumsYusuke Yamamoto
vibraphoneAbout
Thirty-one years ago, a six-piece band/collective called Stick Against Stone started writing songs in a dirt-floor basement of a row house near the University of Pittsburgh. Like a musical cargo cult fed by the global eclecticism of their local freeform community radio station - WYEP-FM - this “horns and percussion” outfit acquired a taste for afrobeat, punk rock, art funk, free jazz and dub reggae. Beyond the moniker of “no wave” – they wrote surprisingly deep melodic hooks amid swirling, ambitious, polyrhythmic arrangements. Finding themselves with a devoted local following – but without a proper album to their name – it would be several years and cities later that they eventually broke up and their quirky, soulful song- book was lost to time....