Goodbye to Tonic

Sep 19, 2007

One NYC blogger decries the loss of Tonic, the Lower East Side jazz club:

I saw a remarkable panoply of bands at Tonic over the years. Khanate, gruelingly slow, like Slayer dipped in cough syrup; Animal Collective, merry pranksters with a sound entirely their own that was entirely lovely; Han Bennink, a Dutch percussionist, clarinetist and free improviser who may the world's loudest purely acoustic musician; and Zorn, best known now for his radical take on traditional Jewish music, recorded here live and premiered many of the pieces that made him famous (in certain circles).

I saw Han Bennink at Tonic, too, and also at euroGel 2006. You can, too in the euroGel video clips.

See also my previous post on Tonic and that changing neighborhood.

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