Concert Review: Kneebody with Mark Guiliana and Busdriver

Kneebody played two sets at Southpaw in Park Slope, Brooklyn on Friday, January 28th as part of a four-night series programmed by Search and Restore. The first set featured the band in its usual form, with saxophonist Ben Wendel, trumpeter Shane Endsley, keyboardist Adam Benjamin, drummer Nate Wood, and bassist Tim Lefebvre substituting for Kaveh Rastegar. The second set was a collaboration between the quintet and the rapper Busdriver, as well as drummer Mark Guiliana. Read my review of the show:

"Mark Guiliana and Nate Wood accommodated each other sleekly, dividing the two drum sets' timbral splendors between them. Guiliana played solos that hinged on tiny subdivisions, and sounded like digital glitches that worked themselves out just in time for exhilarating resolution. Behind Busdriver, whose mischievous rhymes were delivered in rapid-fire staccato, Kneebody took a sparse accompanying roll dedicated to groove and bumptious horn lines..."

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