Thursday, February 7, 2013

HoDo Lounge
Fargo, ND

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HoDo Lounge
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101 Broadway N
Fargo, ND 58102
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Todd Clouser is a Baja, Mexico-based guitarist whose genre-defying compositions and passionate live performances have earned the praise of musicians, critics, and lovers of jazz and rock alike. His newest full-length release Todd Clouser’s A Love Electric, available February 1, 2011 on indie jazz tastemaker label Ropeadope, is an intuitive blend of 70's rock, Curtis Mayfield groove, and modern jazz, featuring eleven original compositions and two covers: Harry Nilsson’s “One” and Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” “A Love Electric is possibility and energy. I come from a rock place as a player. I still love Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, and the total madness in noise, even if I’m listening to Charlie Parker, Monk or Wayne Shorter more often these days. When I got my first guitar at 11, I plugged it in and just started scraping, strumming the strings open, shivering at the feedback, and making weird shit go on, but I was told that stuff was not right by early teachers. As time went on, I went from listening to Zappa and King Crimson to Miles Davis, lots of the organ trio blues players like Jimmy Smith, New Orleans music. All that stuff that just has an inherent scream to it, even when played softly,” explains Clouser. “On A Love Electric, I present real tunes with melodies and structure, but there’s freedom within the written parts to get back to having fun and screaming. Strumming the guitar like I did naturally, with swaths of sound, and just generally a passion to create. What I have to offer at this time in my life is the energy that shakes inside, all the emotion and the oddity which I cannot express in words or relationships. All that was once new was initially regarded as ‘out,’ ‘nasty’ and ‘evil’ from Robert Johnson to Ornette Coleman to electric Miles Davis to electric Dylan. That’s the stuff that feels real to me and it’s always been that way.”
Ticket Price: no cover
Show Time:8p
Ages:21 & Up
Website:http://www.hoteldonaldson.com/happenings/todd-clouser-a-love-electric/

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