Music
Complex and Demanding
Dizzy Mystics and Alien ThoughtForm Incursions Review by Peter Jabs, Photos by Keegan Richard
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he subculture of progressive rock consistently foments new bands that burble up through the pavement cracks now and then. I would encourage anyone to experience this complex and demanding art form. It is not just for young ears, as the sound level was tolerable without earplugs. Local openers Visual Past had fast and furious molten rock pounding through their veins and pouring out their amps. Of interest were the six-string bass guitar and an audience- wowing Hendrix trick: a guitarist picking strings with his teeth. He also had great hair. Our own Dweezils painted a zombie apocalypse landscape heavy on
the kick drum thunder. My highlight of the evening was their free-flowing jam, stumbling upon a time-stopping standing wave of captured feedback and channelling an incursion of alien thought forms from far out. As ever, you had to be there. Headliners Dizzy Mystics played clean, polished, and precise numbers that neatly segued from movement to movement as in a symphonic piece Ă la prog rock pioneers. Years of practice have paid off for these gentlemen from Winnipeg. Playing as one, they were making musical statements and creating drama right from beat one until past closing time, when the bar staff were stacking chairs.
The Walleye
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