Article: Jaggery

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 ...

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