It was a rare “one-off” performance for DRKWAV on Saturday evening in Miami Beach, Florida as jam band’s jazziest in the form of John Medeski (keyboards), Skerik (saxophones) and Adam Deitch (drums) got together for the final installment of Seaside Sessions hosted by The Rhythm Foundation at The North Beach Bandshell.

Medeski is known best as one-third of Medeski Martin and Wood; Adam Deitch for his work with groups like Lettuce and Break Science; and Skerik as an iconoclastic innovator of ‘saxophonics’. The three master musicians have come together in DRKWAV – a delivery system for improv-heavy psychedelic fusions. 

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Their sound is informed as much by the torqued jazz-rock of the early 1970s as by the dark ambient and drum ’n’ bass music of the early ’90s, while still pursuing an indeterminacy of style, anchored with cinematic overtures. True to its name, the trio revels in the pitch black, yet continually discovers beauty and sheds light through sonic exploration.

Thanks to our friends at CHeeSeHeaDPRoDuCTioNS for providing full video and audio from the show. Get down with this:

Full audio of DRKWAV 1/30/16 in Miami, FL via Mixcloud: 

 

DRKWAV: Medeski, Deitch, Skerik – North Beach Bandshell – Miami Beach, FL – 2016-1-30 by Cheeseheadproductions on Mixcloud

You can catch more of Adam Deitch in St. Augustine this April 1-2 for the inaugural Fool’s Paradise as he brings Lettuce and Break Science to the beach. Performing alongside GRiZ, Chris Robinson’s Soul Revue, The Nth Power, and Goldfish, this is one destination festival that you won’t want to miss! Tickets are on sale now and available here.

[Photo courtesy of Dubera.com]