In a city with one of the most richest active jazz traditions alongside one of America’s most vibrant avant music scenes, a band like ADT may be inevitable. Chicago’s a place where various lines are always intersecting, where sounds and ideas float around and mutate rapidly, resulting in this hodge podge group of free jazz, noise, and pop musicians making the deepest, psych burner free music imaginable. So yeah, ADT’s occurrence in Chicago makes a lot of sense, but their excellence is not a foregone conclusion.
And fuck are they good. They consistently rip at just about any gig they show up at, and this set at The Hideout acts as something of a showcase of all the little niches they have developed over the years. The band’s own Kyle Drouin worked the projections throughout the set. This recording was taken just this past weekend at the record release show for the band’s new album Insecurities on Hausu Mountain. It’s a really really good album, and pretty stunning on account of the fact that the band improvised all of those intricate, melodic compositions on the spot.
This video was shot by Erica Gamble at a show organized by Doug Kaplan.
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