Reconnaissance Fly is both aggressively whimsical and charmingly incoherent. Spam poetry, found texts, and original lyrics mix deliriously with jazz, progressive rock, funk, samba, free improvisation, a small Chinese gong, and an arsenal of wind instruments all deployed against the forces of tedium. There will be no tedium to fight against at Bird & Beckett Books though --- just all those books vying for your attention while the band croons, flops, and bangs around on the stage playing all the tunes we know and some we don't.
The five members of Reconnaissance Fly are
Amanda Chaudhary with keyboard and electronics; Richard Lesnik playing clarinet, bass clarinet, and soprano and tenor saxophones; Polly Moller with voice, flutes and guitar; Larry The-o on the drums, and
Tim Walters on bass guitar and electronics.
Admission: no cover, $10 suggested donation.