Summary: <p>Chicago-based duo OHMME serves up fuzz and melodies, along with vocal hockets and harmonies, oh - and lots of time and feel changes. Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart, the songwriters and multi-instrumentalists of Ohmme, are both trained classical pianists with ties to the collaborative Chicago improvising scene. They made a decision to stretch their comfort levels and go with the guitar for their noise-making, and have composed a hard-to-categorize batch of songs that lean toward the experimental without losing that rockenroll bite.</p> <p>On their latest record <em>Parts,</em> they’ve enlisted improvising cellist Tomeka Reid, Tortoise’s Doug McCombs, and composer/sax player Ken Vandermark, a jazzer and improviser, while drawing from influences like the vocal adventures of Kate Bush, the sonic playfulness of Dirty Projectors, and Brian Eno’s <em>Here Come the Warm Jets. </em>Complemented by the highly inventive percussion of drummer Matt Carroll, Ohmme joins us in-studio to play songs from <em>Parts.</em> <em>-Caryn Havlik</em></p> <p>Watch the session here:<em> </em></p>
