Vetiver at The High Noon Saloon, March 9, 2010

Vetiver were in town this Tuesday for an early show at the High Noon (a 7 p.m. show mid work-week is wonderful) and left the reasonably well attended crowd wanting more by the time they packed up after a couple of hours of solid Americana and Folk… the band is headed by Andy Cabic, with cellist Alissa Anderson, drummer Otto Hauser, violinist Carmen Biggers, guitarists Kevin Barker and Sanders Trippe, and bassist Brent Dunn. We didn’t have the entire band on stage but that did not diminish the soothing and warm sound of the band, which can also rock pretty mean! As a side note, Andy is also a keen lover of minimal techno in its vinyl format and often writes his songs to the rhythms of minimal music. We also traded notes on where we could get some of the hard-to-find-in-Madison-and-elsewhere minimal on vinyl.

Check out their live performance the next time in town (or wherever you can). I picked up some of their 12″ LP’s from the merch table for my listening pleasure and they sound delicious. Pick up their tunes on vinyl – also available locally at Strictly Discs in store or through this link here. And some pictures from the show. Enjoy!