Buke and Gase drop by Berghain Kantine, courtesy of Paper and Iron Booking, on their short European tour in support of recent album General Dome, singular stroke of genius as only these two know how. Aron Sanchez and Arone Dyer are a duo that have rightly earned the tag pioneers, playing self-adjusted instruments, the buke and the gase, their live shows are nothing short of inspirational and we’re in for a real treat tonight.
Buke and Gase have this vague sense of unease. Like someone, somewhere is always watching. Do a Google image search for the band’s new album title, General Dome, and you’ll come across images that instill ideas of paranoia and surveillance such as security cameras and rockets being launched. In times like these, when governments can freely survey the citizenry’s every action and our lives become increasingly less private, people are often drawn to code. Take a look at Buke and Gase’s album cover above. Its minimalist design could mean nothing at all. Perhaps this would be the case, if this were any other band than Buke and Gase.
Inspired by a recent Sol LeWitt exhibition at the Dia Beacon museum in Beacon, NY, Arone Dyer and Aron Sanchez started brainstorming about coded imagery. They decided to build a system of images that would dictate the direction of the artwork, which lead them to creating a new alphabet they could write with, not totally different from the way they create their music. They built a graphical alphabet that the artwork is made of, the code of which will be available on their website once it’s released. There are more coded images like this throughout the packaging.
Here’s the video for the album’s title track, General Dome:
Support is from Zs, also from New York, here’s one of theirs:
ZS @ 285 Kent from Sam Hillmer on Vimeo.
