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Article: Jaggery
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- Pittsburgh City Paper
- Article date:
- March 14, 2007
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Jaggery
Spiral Staircase
[ BY AARON JENTZEN ]
AJENTZEN@STEELCITYMEDIA.COM
JAGGERY with AVIATOR and COLTER HARPER TRIO 8 p.m. Sat., March 17. Garfield Arworks, 4931 Penn Ave., Garfield. $7. All ages. 412-361-2262 or www.garfield artworks.com
A SYRUPY UPRIGHT bass line oozes into the chinks of a slow, polyrhythmic groove. A piano picks out a jazz-flavored motif alongside an oddly archaic sound: the pure tones of a Celtic harp. Restless, shape-shifting female vocals swim to the surface, then back to the depths again.
While the Brooklyn-based Jaggery's "darkwave jazz art-rock" is a smooth, subtle sound, it's not exactly what you'd call peaceful. But it is, in fact, therapeutic.
"I had a really ...