Photos by Carrie Johnston [A] prominent downtown venue on a warm Saturday attracts all species of night crawlers. Due to this, nothing exclusive or particular about VietNam playing at Dante’s on such a night struck me. The noncommittal crowd was thin to begin with, then fattened when VietNam started, and mostly disappeared before the end. Save for the second opener, Small Arms, the whole experience– the crowd, the music, the low red lights, the air… was like the low hum of a car engine on a three-hour highway jaunt. The most desolate moments were during Daydream Machine’s set with their…
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[A]fter six years of working on film scores in Los Angeles, Michael Gerner has returned to VietNam… where he can steep his creative imagination in banh mi, water marionette shows, and endless rivers of Tiger Beer. Since he’s returned to VietNam, he has birthed an album called An A.merican D.ream, which presumably laments the glories and woes of his stint in, comparatively pho-deprived, California. …Kidding! VietNam is the ultimately impossible-to-find-on-Google name of Gerner’s band. What it has to do with the country of Vietnam is not entirely clear. We’ll have to ask him. Anyway, VietNam-the-band’s most recent album conjures the sprawling moods…
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