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 Tiger Saw is a musical collective founded in Newburyport, MA in 1999 by Dylan Metrano. It is an ever-changing group of friends, whose ranks can vary to form a hushed duet or fifteen-person orchestra incorporating piano, cello, horns, percussion, and a small choir. Their simple, heartfelt songs celebrate friendship, community, the beauty of everyday life, and love in all its forms. Tiger Saw has toured extensively in North America and Europe, and is known for playing unorthodox venues from beach bonfires to treetop sing-alongs, as well as basements and barrooms from coast to coast. Since 2002, Tiger Saw has released four albums on Kimchee and Tract Records, and has performed with Grizzly Bear, Kimya Dawson, Ida, Jad Fair, Laura Veirs, Magnolia Electric Co., Explosions in the Sky, The Gossip, and many others. The recent album, Tigers on Fire sees the group further expanding their sound, to explore basement soul, breezy sambas, back porch stompers, and bedroom hymns. Many musicians have contributed to Tiger Saw shows and recordings, including pianist Casey Dienel (Hush Records), bassist Nat Baldwin (Dirty Projectors), Jason Anderson (K Records), Ray Raposa (Castanets), Kyle Field (Little Wings), Tom Eaton (Danielson Famile), and countless others. Tiger Saw is recording it’s fifth album, Paper Birdz, this autumn with engineer Colin Rhinesmith in a secret Boston location. The record finds them further exploring the “basement soul” sound that they first hinted at with Tigers on Fire. The songs on Paper Birdz are meditations on blood, birds, and transformation, and feature re-workings of the spiritual ‘Sinner Man’ (popularized by Nina Simone and the Wailers) and Pharoah Sanders’ ‘Japan’, a Tiger Saw live staple. Among the seventeen players on the album are the rapper Cathy Cathodic, Eli "Paperboy" Reed, and members of the bands Victory at Sea, Harry and the Potters, Seekonk and others. Committed to expanding the possibilities of their live performances, Tiger Saw’s ranks now include a tap-dancer, a magician, and an eight-piece horn section.
Bas Jacobs is ook wel bekend van zijn werk als bassist bij Seedling. Pfaff draagt gedichten voor, maar doet dit op een onalledaagse manier. Tijdens het voordragen begeleidt hij zichzelf op drums en loopt er een band mee met gitaarbegeleiding. Erg origineel en zeer goed uitgevoerd. Het publiek luistert aandachtig terwijl de regen ondertussen een manier heeft gevonden om de tent in te druppelen. Het mag allemaal niet deren en Pfaff zet met zijn combinatie van gedichten en muziek misschien wel een van de meest grensoverschrijdende optredens van Crossing Border neer.
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