REDNESS - CREAM RINSE

Every once in a while a band that’s able to perfectly synthesize music and performance art appears. This is not that band. Redness is more like a rash -- the kind that gives you that odd, almost-but-not-quite pleasurable sensation when you scratch it. Eczema, maybe. And that’s perfectly fine with them. As Popeye may or may not have said, “you are what you is.“ Emanating from the same sulfur infused metropolis that gave us one of the world’s finest philharmonics, Redness is at the other end of the sonic spectrum, preferring the exploration of finite disharmonics instead - usually from their home base stage at the Euclid Tavern, in Cleveland, OH. Pinochet’s Chilean secret death squads of the 70s would have loved them. So would US PsyOps, today. The members of Redness all attended CIA, the Cleveland Institute of Art, where the band (and sister band Guyettes) originally formed. That should explain a lot but it doesn’t. The actual origins of a song like Litt