LESPECIAL @ P44P'S CHANGING SEASONS CONCERT SERIES

The Commons, 875 NW Brooks St, Bend, Oregon 97703

On Friday, September 10th, East coast Future Dance Rock sensations lespecial light up P44P’s Changing Seasons Concert Series at The Commons presented by Parallel 44 Presents. lespecial are one of the hottest and most innovative bands on the live dance & jam music scene today and we are excited to be hosting their first ever Bend performance and bringing them to you for FREE ! P44P’s Summer Into Fall Concert Series at The Commons is a four part monthly series spanning August to November that features free monthly Friday evening performances by superb touring musical acts on Riverfront Plaza overlooking Mirror Pond in downtown Bend, right next to the Commons Cafe. The Deschutes and Bend Cider taps start flowing at 6:30PM and the music runs from 7PM to just before 10PM. Thanks to our wonderful sponsors: Deschutes Brewery, CannaBend, Bend Cider Co., High Desert Law, Hortitech & Lancto Builders About lespecial: lespecial carve their own sonic path in modern music, creating their signature blend of “heavy future groove.” The power trio’s fresh synthesis of varied and divergent influences doesn’t underestimate the listener, reflecting a post-modern cultural climate in which fans have space on their aural palette for J Dilla, Radiohead, King Crimson and Fela Kuti. Veering from hip-hop to metal, prog to house, pensive indie-rock to apocalyptic dub, leaving room for head banging and hip swaying alike, while still presenting a unified sound and vision. These three childhood friends from Connecticut play off of a lifetime of shared experience in their writing and performance. In a power trio, it's essential that each of the players can utterly captivate you at any given time. Each individual has a lot of weight to carry and is only as strong as the weakest link. In the studio, as on stage, it seems at first blush that Jon Grusauskas—delivering lyrics that call for your attention and seamlessly moving from guitar to keys to samples—is handling the entire upper end of the spectrum... until you consider how broad the melodic embrace of rhythmatist Rory Dolan and low end wizard Luke Bemand: injecting splashes of color and wicked chops into their heavy groove foundations or driving assaults, this dynamic battery simultaneously eases and propels lespecial through fractious changes of mood and tempo. Additionally, whether at the forefront or scattered throughout the mix, all of them use live looping or triggered samples that contribute to a sound that is far greater than that generally created by three people as they seek to tap into a primitive past, distorted through the lens of contemporary technology.