Posted on April 19, 2010 - by Mark Zonda

Why is the answer

American hip-hop and indie rock. Why? That’s the correct answer. The show at Bronson was absolutely satisfying, having the creature of Jonathan “Yoni” Wolf invading the stage with a load of irreverent poses and energy sprouts after letting the Josiah Wolf The Drummer having is little solo show in order to promote is solo debut. This man talent is incredible.

Not only he is a passionate, crazy and innovative drummer (I’ve never seen a drum set with a xylophone attached!), but he’s voice is actually quite good and his fingerpicking on acoustic guitar kick asses. Being frank I actually can’t realize how he’s able to do that staff on guitar, sing and manage his breaks on the drums at the same time. Josiah Wolf Brain is probably partitioned on separated sections simultaneously working at the same time in a multitasking process. Still people were there to rock, and didn’t payed the due attention to man’s little show.

Josiah was very polite, thanked everyone for their patience, and assured the audience that he would have left place to noise, guitars and more more drums. Poor Josiah! Johnatan came to stage, lights on stage were vibrating like the visible tension between all members and the audience. Messy curly hair, hyper-geek glasses, Yoni’s look on stage was really… freaky! He collected all the positive and negative vibes from the stage, he bowed his legs at equal distance, closed his eyes and put his end in a perfect symmetric junction on a perfect yin and yang tai chi pose. He wasn’t speaking, still the word was OHM!

The band had soon a technical problem. Josiah didn’t felt his voice very well because of a bad cable, so the man managing the sounds provided to change it on a song where Mr. Wold didn’t need to use his voice. After that song Yoni showed the audience what everyone would expect from an egocentric and untamed musicians’ ego, at least in a manga by Kazushi Hagiwara: he humiliated his drummer in front of the audience! “Now you can hear your sweet voice again? Don’t you? Are you happy? Really? Isn’t it great? Craaaaaaack! Qwaaaaack!” in Yoni best imitation of a crow.

And that’s what Yoni performance is all about: caustic, ironic, charismatic, cheeky and really physical. Unpredictable, cohesive, so creative and talented, ff you wondered why so many people spent the day after telling on how good they felt the night before at Bronson on their Facebook status, you don’t even need to try so hard and ask yourself… Why?

• Why? | Live @ Bronson 2010 Live Pics
• Why? | Live @ Bronson 2010 Live Clip#1
  
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