Cinemat show boasting chamber music and noisecore

Two bands are going acoustic and two bands are just going nuts March 4 at The Cinemat.

Headliner Capillary Action will be joined by Basilica and local bands Push-Pull and Racebannon for a night of intimate performances and rock ‘n’ roll.

Capillary Action, fronted by Oberlin College graduate Jonathan Pfeffer, is a team of musicians that specializes in polyphonic compositions, multi-layered rhythms and shifting time signatures. But the jazz-fusion act will be modulating their performance, playing an all acoustic show this Wednesday.

“Usually they’re a really intense band,” show organizer Andy Goheen said. “But for this tour, (Pfeffer) has arranged an acoustic quintet ... it’s a totally different arrangement of the songs.”

Attendees will hear Action’s Zappa-esque melodies and free-jazz arrangements in a context the band rarely explores.

Push-Pull is joining the acoustic bandwagon, playing the entirety of its new record on acoustic instruments. Push-Pull’s songs, in their original form, team with fuzzy basslines, incensed vocals and frenetic guitar melodies.

“It’s kind of interesting because our shows are usually loud and raucous,” said guitarist, bassist and vocalist Mike Bridavsky. “And our songs sound quite different when played on acoustic instruments.”

Basilica, a classically-trained chamber music group with a taste for grindcore and electro-charged symphonies, is also on the bill.

“If renowned film composer Bernard Herrmann (“Psycho”) started a metal band, this is what it would sound like,” said Chad Coup of grindingtheapparatus.net in a review of Basilica’s debut CD.

Local band Racebannon, in a similar vein as Basilica, will also bring nontraditional sounds to The Cinemat.

Racebannon’s sound stems from a synthesis of “death-grind, ’80s scum-punk, Melvins-style sludge, hyperactive spazz and war-metal,” according to an article from Plan B Magazine.

Attendees can expect a show unlike any they’ve seen before, said guitarist James Bauman.

“At our show, you’re going to get huge riffs, bigger than the Empire State Building,” Bauman said. “Our singer Mike puts on a hell of a show, complete with groundbreaking dance moves, earth-shattering vocals and off-the-cuff hilarity.”