CMJ Day 1: Cloud Cult and friends played Knitting Factory
Download “Everybody Here Is a Cloud” | I’m not one to sit down and plan out a CMJ marathon schedule, that would be too much an arduous task. So in the spirit of “discovering”, I offhandedly picked the Stunt Company showcase at Knitting Factory, which would feature an acoustic set from Cloud Cult. To see Cloud Cult in that level of intimacy, all stripped down as a two-piece—not counting singer Craig Minowa’s wife, Connie Minowa, who was the sole “live-painter” last night—was highly satisfying. Surprisingly, the painting Connie ended up creating was very much reflective of the mood the show evoked in my mind: that of feeling like a 10-year-old with a strawberry popsicle bicycling through a rainbow. Though that was not what she painted (she depicted a colorful profile of a hummingbird with its wings open, hovering above what looked like a ripple), the vibrancy of the colors were a match. Cloud Cult with play a “regular” show at Bowery Ballroom on Nov 11.
Connie Minowa:
The Gay Blades did not play, but Clark Westfield was there to introduce the bands:
Sarah Young:
Scott McCloud of Girls Against Boys played as Paramount Styles, joined by singer Angela McCluskey and American composer and violinist Paul Cantelon.
I caught a little bit of Sister Suvi:
