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“Dazzling, hypnotic and very clever”

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The Beat Down is keeping the spirit of rock ’n’ roll alive with vintage sound.

“Stunningly beautiful.”

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– Carrie Seidman, Sarasota Herald-Tribune

Trying to describe a band’s music today can be more complicated than it seems. A question as simple as “What kind of music do you play?” can easily result in an endless stream of hyphenated genres — and sub-genres — that can make even the most enthusiastic of music-lovers’ eyes glaze over.

And then there’s The Beat Down.

In a world of musical taxonomy, the Sarasota-based trio’s sound is refreshingly simple to describe.

It’s rock ’n’ roll. And, to borrow from Mick Jagger — I like it.

The Beat Down is Garrett Von Räd on guitar, Ryan O’Neill on drums and Justin Kaiser on bass and lead vocals — all three members sing. All prolific members of Sarasota original-music scene, Kaiser and O’Neill have played in various projects together since as long ago as the late 1990s.

Von Räd, who also plays in the Southern rock band Hail Dale, was a longtime fan of Kaiser and O’Neill’s music, and he hoped to combine their shared tastes in a project of their own.

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But it wouldn’t happen until December 2016, when Kaiser, recently returned from a stint in Los Angeles, decided to organize a jam.

“We love that ’60s garage-rock sound. The original idea was that we would play covers of those bands — the Beatles, Small Faces, The Animals,” says Von Räd.

All three members are guitarists and songwriters in their own right, and after meeting up, it was apparent they would have no shortage of original material.

“We learned about six covers, and we decided to work on a few songs Ryan had written,” he says.

“We had a handful of originals come together almost right away.”

The members say there are no hard and fast rules in their writing, but they operate under one guiding principle: They want to play rock ’n’ roll, pure and simple.

“Five years ago, there were probably 15 or more bands playing original rock,” says Kaiser. “The rock ’n’ roll and psychedelic scene was a lot more active. We want to keep that alive and show people it’s still happening here in Sarasota. It’s kind of a good barometer of any local music scene — you check out the local original rock bands.”

Often, the writing process starts with O’Neill.

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Ryan O’Neill, Garrett Von Räd and Justin Kaiser created The Beat Down after a jam session in December 2016.

“The spirit of rock ’n’ roll is still alive. It’s cemented its place in American culture, and even around the world.”

— Garrett Von Räd

“I like knowing where stuff began,” says Kaiser. “Every riff has been ripped off from something — and those were ripped off from somebody who came before them. It’s like carrying the torch.

Nobody around here was doing anything like that, and I think it’s important to keep those roots alive.”

This outlook is also evident in the band’s equipment. O’Neill’s minimal drum kit is set up true to the way it would’ve been in the

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’60s, and his driving, danceable backbeats are straight out of the playbooks of the founding fathers of rock drumming.

Von Räd is an outspoken vintage analog-gear enthusiast, playing through decades-old vacuumtube-powered amplifiers, outfitting his guitars with vintage electronics and preferring to record to tape, instead of digitally.

Kaiser’s bass guitar and tone similarly embody the aesthetic, and he says playing as a trio is also a good fit for the music.

“It’s minimalist,” he says. “I love to get the most sound out of the least amount of instruments.”

Perhaps the best way to experience the band is at a live performance. It’s loud, high-energy — and there’s plenty of people on

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“I think we’re all so influenced by that music,” says O’Neill. “It’s what we all grew up listening to and gravitated toward, so it’s not necessarily a sound we’re consciously trying to create — it just happens organically.”

The band plans to record a fivetrack EP —analog, of course — to be released before the end of the year. But mostly, the band just hopes to keep rock music thriving in Sarasota.

“The spirit of rock ’n’ roll is still alive,” says Von Räd. “It’s cemented its place in American culture, and even around the world. The best way to keep it alive? Just keep playing it.”

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opens with a fuzzy bassline, which is quickly joined by a pounding drumbeat and all three members singing together in harmonized, airy falsetto: “I want your love.”

The chorus, punctuated with a tremolo-heavy psychedelic organ line, is an instant sing-along, and the guitar solo that follows — a cutting, fuzz-drenched run that pans left and right — is equal parts trippy and swagger.

The Beat Down wears its influences on its sleeve.

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tic guitar,” he says. “And I’ll usually record it with some humming or mumblings over the top to give an idea of the vocal melody. Then we flesh it out in practice with lyrics and other instruments.”

The result is a melody-driven, rhythmic, high-energy blend of ’60s garage rock in the vein of The Yardbirds and early Rolling Stones, as well as the pioneers of the ’50s who inspired them — Chuck Berry, The Everly Brothers.

Fittingly, the lyrics are generally light, fun and relatable, with a catchy melody and beat that defies audiences not to dance.

Their first home-recorded single, “She Wanna Dance,” encapsulates the sound well.

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Festival wraps with a delightful mix of sound Third portion of Sarasota Music Festival offers greatest contrast.

EDWARD ALLEY CONTRIBUTOR

The closing weekend of the Sarasota Music Festival gave us a combination of music that was traditional, cutting-edge, and classical cross-over. Quite a mixture, to say the least.

Friday night’s offering presented the greatest contrast, starting with the “Wind Quintet, Opus 10,” of Pavel Haas, written in 1929. Although Haas was Czech and a student of Leos Janacek, at times there were hints of Kurt Weill, his German contemporary.

Mostly serious, except for the “Ballo eccentric” third movement, with piccolo and E-flat clarinet, it was given a thoughtful and moving performance by Carol Wincenc, flute, Stephen Taylor, oboe, Charlie Neidich, clarinet, William Purvis, horn, and Frank Morelli, bassoon.

Robert Schumann’s “Piano Quartet in E-flat major,” written during his chamber music

year of 1842, wound up being the “oldest” work of the weekend. Written in his full romantic and sweeping style, with a few Mendelssohn-like moments in the scherzo, it was beautifully performed by Jeffrey Kahane, piano, Frank Almond, violin, Barbara Westphal, viola, and Brinton Smith, cello.

The balance of the evening featured yMusic, a chamber group of young performers from New York, in a set of works as different and somewhat perplexing as the makeup of the group itself. The combination of flute, clarinet, trumpet, violin, viola, and cello is far from traditional, and so was their music. The seven works they performed, although by different composers, sounded vaguely alike, with combinations of sounds and effects, usually starting quietly, building to a shattering climax, and ending quietly. More variety would have been welcome, but their appearance gives evidence that the festival is expanding its reach in the experience it provides for both students and audience. It was a musical stretch and not to everyone’s taste, but was an important

The festival strings, all standing (except for the cellos) gave a glorious performance, bringing goosebumps and a few tears of joy at the beauty of sound and melody. addition to the festival.

It’s difficult to believe that Samuel Barber’s “Adagio for Strings” (1936) was once considered to be adventurous, with its slow moving themes and resolving dissonant harmonies, but it was. Originally a movement for string quartet, this adagio has been arranged for many combinations, including a choral setting. The festival strings, all standing (except for the cellos) gave a glorious performance, bringing goosebumps and a few tears of joy at the beauty of sound and melody.

Beginning with a crack of the slap-stick, Maurice Ravel’s “Piano Concerto in G-major” takes us into this Frenchman’s version of George Gershwin’s New York jazz. Filled with “blue notes” and “flatted fifths,” together with Ravel’s brilliant pianism and orchestration, this

work is something of a tour de force for both orchestra and soloist, especially when the soloist is also the conductor.

Kahane performed both roles brilliantly, especially the quiet and contemplative second movement, which in contrast to the Big City excitement of the first and third, is virtually a nocturne in its melodic simplicity.

Timo Andres’ “Paraphrase on themes of Brian Eno,” is odd in that it is one contemporary composer’s reflections on the work of another. Ambient and collage are two adjectives used for Eno’s music, and Andres’ musings are just that, providing sounds evoking vast reaches of space, then strikingly romantic phrases sounding like movie underscoring; all reasonably tonal, and yes, ambling along a little bit. Andres uses a steel drum, that pillar of Caribbean

calypso, as a new voice and texture, again providing more collage and ambience.

Gershwin and Ravel influenced each other, and both gained from that influence, with Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” preceding the Ravel “Concerto” by several years.

Kahane, again conducting from the piano, chose the original Paul Whitman “jazz band” version, orchestrated by Ferde Grofé, replete with saxophones, brass, and tuba. Almost as evident as the soloist was clarinetist Charlie Neidich, who from his opening glissando set the mood for this rousing and energetic performance. At times the execution was more enthusiastic than accurate, but clearly everyone was having a good time with this cross-over classic, especially the audience, which responded with shouts, bravos, and applause.

Returning for several bows, and acknowledging everyone in the orchestra, Kahane ended the concert and the festival with a quiet, respectful and very moving improvisation on “America the Beautiful.”

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honor, Alley will give back to the organization LeBell adored.

“It always meant a great deal to her,” he says. “She was doing Music Mondays and writing for the Observer among other things, but she was still a singer at heart.”

Alley says that, along with bringing Holt on board as artistic director, LeBell’s legacy within the organization was making the group of professional singers a professional organization. She gave it the visibility it has now, he says.

This year’s concert will feature the group’s traditional salute to the armed forces along with a tribute to the heroes of World War I and World War II and a new musical setting of the Gettysburg Address. Holt is also excited about the traditional Bach chorale that will be performed with words

by Pete Seeger, along with a pairing of “My Country Tis of Thee” with “Lift Every Voice and Sing,” arranged by Moses Hogan.

Holt says his goal is to remind locals why we unite on the Fourth of July.

“I felt like this year, considering the seeming divisiveness that we have in our country, we needed to have more of an underscore of who we are, where we come from and why we all do this together,” Holt says. “It makes no difference whether you’re white, black, red, green — we all do this because we believe in this.”

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There will be one fewer audience member at Choral Artists of Sarasota’s annual Fourth of July concert this year.

June LeBell, former singer, board member and executive director of the organization, died April 30 of ovarian cancer.

It was LeBell who came up with the idea for the first Independence Day concert in 2007, so the group decided to dedicate this performance, Voices of Freedom, to her.

“June was kind of insistent that we maintain this tradition of the Fourth of July, and I agreed with her,” Artistic Director Joseph Holt says. “It seemed only right to dedicate this performance in her honor and in her memory because she meant so much to this organization.”

When he talks about LeBell, a wide, unwavering smile crosses Holt’s face. His eyes are distant, caught up in memories, as he speaks of her sense of humor and how she was always eager to help people — especially other singers.

He changes direction midsentence when a memory from a Fourth of July performance a few years ago comes back to him. He recalls a concert in which LeBell and her husband, Edward Alley, did a narration — set to music, with the chorus singing softly in the background — of quotes from several American presidents.

“It was a wonderful experience to be up there on stage with the two of them,” Holt remembers.

“One on either side of me, as the chorus is singing and they’re giving these great orations. Obviously June was a natural. She could talk anywhere anytime.”

This year, Alley will take the stage again to do a narration for the Voices of Freedom concert.

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