Section Five – Wolf Temper
The band had stopped playing a half hour earlier and the customers had slowly drained away; all the sheep wandering from the pen to find a new place to be lost. Two skeletal, bearded guys are tugging equipment through the side door and into the parking lot. The place is damp with stale beer, stale perfume and stale pheromones.
When the band finally leaves, Sophie clicks on the overhead lights; they throw hard shadows to the floor. The overheads always make the Scrawl look even more like the Dive at the Edge of the Universe. I can see every nick in the mismatched chairs, every chip in the Formica. The tattered band posters papering the far wall. A sofa in the corner is missing a leg, which has been replaced by a brick. For some reason, the limp appendage of a bra trails from beneath it, white and curling, abandoned, forlorn.
We’re alone save Alex and Sasha, who’d turned up for a beer an hour before. Sasha perches on a stool at the bar, legs crossed at the knees swinging her sandaled foot, one hand resting on her half empty bottle. Alex meanders around the small raised stage thirty feet away, scuffing his soles on the floor.
We’re at that point in the night when we have to decide whether to go home for bed or re-start in a new direction. Alex and Sasha are obviously as unsure as Sophie and I, lounging restlessly awaiting inspiration or direction, each of us hoping one of the others might rouse us from our lethargy.
“I Want Her” : No Going Back, Stratus by Wolf Temper
Wolf Temper composes electronic music in the grand Romantic tradition, leveraging dynamic range to elicit an emotional response. He bridges the analog/digital divide, with studio instrumentation ranging from grand piano to modular synthesizer, and uses a homemade MIDI controller and asynchronous loopers in live performance. WT has been genre-busting since 2011.
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The Cloud Diary Music Project
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