Sometimes things
happen for a reason and I shouldn’t question
it. I stopped by Club Coda on Thursday, March 2,
2006 to checkout a friend’s performance and
got swooped up by the evenings opening performance,
Poetic Liesense.
Poetic Liesense
The band’s sound was wide
and diverse; I kept expecting the usual only to
get the unusual. Poetic Liesense lead vocalist,
Chisa Hidaka, has an incredible sense of style.
She descended the stairs, clad in a sheer dress
and thigh-high boots, and then she dominated the
stage in a style reminiscent of Marlene Dietrich.
Her lyrical approach teeters to Bjork, shifts gears
to a “Dead can Dance” (in the style
of Jim Morrison) and then on to a bit of 1940’s
European cabaret style.
Chisa
Hidaka
Chisa
Hidaka
The band worked its sound
as one. They are: Rob Steckman on guitar (band leader);
Justin Wood on flute/sax; Grant Smith-bass; and
Blake Lindberg on drums. These boys jam in sync
and carry an even flow even in their subtlest of
moments.
Poetic Liesense definitely “got’s weight
in the making” - check’em out!
