by David Kulma
In a concert that could have been titled “The Joy of Hitting Things,” Tigue — cheered on by family and friends — filled the Bop Stop with exuberance as the sun went down on Sunday, June 3. Ohio-born and educated together as undergraduates at Ohio State, Matt Evans, Amy Garapic, and Carson Moody are touring Strange Paradise, their new second album. [Read more…]
by Jarrett Hoffman
Around a decade ago, three Ohio-born musicians met through their studies in the percussion program at Ohio State University, and they just clicked.
After heading to the Eastman School of Music for their masters’ degrees, Matt Evans, Amy Garapic, and Carson Moody found themselves drawn six hours southeast — past Syracuse, Scranton, and Newark, through the Holland Tunnel, and over the Manhattan Bridge.
There, in Brooklyn, they set up a home base for their genre-fluid trio Tigue, whose influences include minimalism and indie rock. Now the group is hitting the road for a two-week tour — including a performance at the Bop Stop on Sunday, June 3 at 7:00 pm — to play music from their recent sophomore album, Strange Paradise. (Tickets are available online.)
Built around Evans’ synthesizer, Garapic’s vibraphone, and Moody’s drum set, the album explores long arcs and slow gradations of change in its 3 tracks over 41 minutes. As a comparison, Tigue’s first album, Peaks, comprised 8 tracks over 34 minutes. [Read more…]