Comedies for the Young (
Scott Amendola and Matthias Bossi)
With special guests:
Michael Coleman, keys, and MicRoVard, santir and bass
For
Scott Amendola, the drum kit isn’t so much an instrument as a musical portal. As an ambitious composer, savvy bandleader and capaciously creative foil for some of the world’s most inventive musicians, Amendola applies his wide- ranging rhythmic virtuosity to a vast array of settings. His closest musical associates include guitarists Jeff Parker, Nels Cline and Charlie Hunter, Hammond B-3 organist Wil Blades, ROVA saxophonist Larry Ochs, and Tin Hat clarinetist Ben Goldberg, players who have each forged a singular path within and beyond the realm of jazz. While rooted in the San Francisco Bay Area scene, Amendola has woven a dense and far-reaching web of bandstand relationships that tie him to influential artists in jazz, blues, rock and new music. A potent creative catalyst, the Berkeley-based drummer became the nexus for a disparate community of musicians stretching from Los Angeles and Seattle to Chicago and New York. Whatever the context, Amendola possesses a gift for twisting musical genres in unexpected directions.
Matthias Bossi is born in 1979 at Beth Israel Hospital in Boston. He is raised on Cape Cod by school-teachers in a small village that is known for its outstanding seasonal Nativity display. At age 5 he is forced to play the violin, and while excelling at the instrument, his heart belongs to the drums. Bossi takes delivery of his first drum-set in the 3rd grade, and immediately forms Lover’s Luck, a band that specializes in shameless plagiaries of Aerosmith songs, playing only the hooks from such hits as Dude Looks Like A Lady. Fast forward to 2001. Matthias graduates from the New England Conservatory in Boston with a Bachelor’s Degree in Music, moves to New York, where he works in a book store just south of the World Trade Center, and tours with a band called Vic Thrill in which he masquerades as a cross-dressing Goth castrato.
Triumphantly ensconced on the East Coast, Matthias embarks on a number of thrilling projects, including studio appearances with A Storm Of Light, and Pretty Lights. He lends his Voiceover talent to The Brave Project, Steerforth Press’ E-Book release of Street Soldier, and Edmund McMillan’s The Binding Of Isaac,an absolutely mind-bending game for your Mac and PC. Recent escapades include much singing and playing with the inimitable singer-songwriter Sasha Dobson, a commercial narration for Little Baby’s Ice Cream of Philadelphia that blossomed into a YouTube riot, and the penning of a score for the upcoming video game “Mew-Genics.” Bossi continues to tour the world, although the magnetic forces of the small whaling village that he inhabits pull him home with greater frequency. Embracing the small-town life has allowed him and his wife Carla to mythologize their quiet existence in the form of a monthly music blog called Rabbit Rabbit Radio