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Ides of Gemini @Mill City Nights, Minneapolis(US) – 4/05 Live Report

May 27, 2013

Ides of Gemini @Mill City Nights, Minneapolis(US) – 4/05 Live Report

On May 4, 2013, the Tao was everywhere,
including the venue Mill City Nights, a former church in downtown Minneapolis.
The just enough to recognize as, hinting at, psychedelic doom metal band Ides
of Gemini performing like it’s Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
These words may ruin an experience, may
contradict it, not the best if actually in a conversation with someone, but the
reader shall create the reality, not the author. Only one translation.
The “prisoners” chained in the “cave” –
hearing the echoes. The crowd was not as beardy as a hotspot like Portland,
OR., and without a proper metal tribute to Jeff Hanneman two days after his
death – only one person seen wearing a Slayer shirt, with just the logo, and it
looked like that fake, distressed vintage type.
With the curtains open, visually, an
anti-distortion, the band color coordinated in minimalism, not unlike a White
Stripes’ style of black and red. But guitarist J. Bennett’s wearing of a
necktie, pure psychedelia in its concept. Vocalist Sera Timms’ bangs vs. her
blazing red bass of ironic intensity. And the sometimes mallet use of Kelly
Johnston, a metal Moe Tucker, but with a traditionally arranged drum kit. All
seemed so far apart, assuming, they know each other’s tarot readings.
Less is more heavy psych, which makes it
easy to pick apart, technically, and not the point. An esoteric drone vocal
being the point, framed by the other two participants in the ritual, the third
was the audience being watched. This is not a revolution in sound combinations,
maybe it is, because all doom is retro thanks to Cathedral, wait, I mean Black
Sabbath. It’s classy (which could mean the opposite of what it should mean),
literary, atmospheric, primal womb metal. The guitar maintains the heartbeat,
only seconds here and there of quickness. The drums a modern chariot.
Then again, “Silence is a source of great
strength.” – Lao Tzu
(Before the first day, god created silence,
and that trembling feeling), as my experience was, “in the cave,” within the
beginning riffs, eventually fleeing the cave into the forest with an Artaudian
confusion. The lyrics are available in the forest, available for everyone that
is open and receptive to the experiment. Ideas, not the present material
things, are the most important of the realities, like what shadows represent
for the prisoners.
Escaping the cave, not just being able to
leave – the journey leading to acclimation and nowhere in the end, but the
path, the meaning. Is the freed one not considered anymore by the prisoners? –
Like the best thing about the internet being the fastest way to the truth. The
clever one is the chained one that can guess what shadow they will see next.
Others say the want of knowledge, the seeking of experiences, the escaping of
the cave, and running through the forest is the right way, the feeling I got as
the band played. But the releasing of the prisoners, only a dream?
Report made by Robert Savela/2013
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