Event

Jaw Gems live at Radio Bean

Jaw Gems, an electronic outfit from Portland, Maine, is a collective of young, experimental producers bringing beat-music traditionally programmed and played on samplers to a live band setting. The mesmerizing result is a harmonic convergence.

Combine legendary beat-makers like J Dilla and Flying Lotus with indie rock and electronic icons like Deerhunter and Washed Out, then add Radioheads dreamy ambiance and you begin to approach the sound of Jaw Gems. Electronic musician, Daedelus says Jaw Gems have done the magic trick of delivering a thoroughly listenable instrumental album that you can also sing along to.

Dilla is the common thread for how we all met and began playing together, says keyboardist Hassan Muhammad. Not many people in Portland knew about him seven years ago, so through various friends, we were all pointed out to each other and we were blessed with the opportunity to hold a weekly residency at a bar, playing all the stuff we liked and getting increasingly weird.

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Thursday, June 6, 2019
10:30pm