Tera Melos / Minus the Bear

Ignatius Feb 23, 2019

Tera Melos was a gem for sure. Dynamic set, the main guy had some kind of effect that made his guitar growl with some kind of synthy, distorted feedback. Hard to describe but every time it fired off was sick. Absurd rhythms and unique time signatures, with all band members in sync perfectly. I counted 13/8 for one song, with extra eighth notes here and there which would make that section effectively 4/4. He had some white figurine of an NPC and interacted with it in different ways. Pretty sure the first time was just physically accenting his playback, not actually triggering the sample by touching it. Clever gimmicks regardless. Lots of creativity and passion in this music. It was definitely a journey; can't say exactly where the journey went, but it sure did go there.

I stood in the center section this time, which gave me a pretty damn good view, I was pretty fixed on Dave Knudson and his wonderful fingertapping and solid guitar tones throughout. Then for My Time they brought out a Suzuki Omnichord (from what I could tell...) for Dave to play the lead synth and he rocked that thing. Aside from the mainstays of Cold Company, Invisible, White Mystery, Knights, Into The Mirror, The Game Needed Me really stuck out to me. It's been a good run, I'll try to keep exploring this band's albums from time to time, but all good things must come to an end, as they say, and I am happy to see them make the best choices for their lives. Godspeed.