Papadosio returned to its house state of Ohio final weekend to rejoice the ten-year anniversary of its 2012 album T.E.T.I.O.S. at Masonic Auditorium in Cleveland.

T.E.T.I.O.S.—the title itself an acronym for To Finish the Phantasm of Separation—is a 20-song, two-hour album recorded by the band in a Civil Battle-era cabin exterior Asheville, simply after the band relocated to the North Carolina music haven from Ohio. Its creation marked an essential shift in not solely Papadosio’s life as a band however within the sound and intention of its music as effectively.

After ten years, this was the primary time the band got down to play the album in its entirety. Initially scheduled to happen in September at Resonance Music and Arts Pageant, the occasion was canceled because of points exterior the band’s management. Fortuitously, Papadosio and its staff got here collectively to discover a appropriate venue and date, coinciding with the discharge of a long-awaited 4LP vinyl field set.

Night time one opened with Cleveland-based Vibe & Direct adopted by a high-energy efficiency from Aqueous and Pals, which included Cool Cool Cool guitarist Craig Brodhead (previously of Turkuaz).

The lights dimmed and Papadosio took the stage to a full auditorium of keen and expectant followers. The pit was shoulder-to-shoulder, the mezzanine alive with a standing ovation from all age teams.

Despite the fact that followers already knew the setlist for the weekend, the primary notes of “Path Tune” looping out of an ambient intro evoked excited motion across the room.

This sense advanced because the band moved into an XL model of “We Are Water”, a danceable tune that mixes drum and bass with a tinkling of keys, sounds, and a pattern of Dr. Masaru Emoto. Leaving the usual portion, keyboardist Sam Brouse led the band into an intricate, aquatic soundscape. That’s when the actual enjoyable started. After a dive into benthic depths, the band kicked again to the tune’s floor with piquant fury.

The group settled and guitarist Anthony Thogmartin addressed the ocean of smiling faces with a smile of his personal. He joked that the band “labored actually onerous on this setlist ten years in the past,” famous that T.E.T.I.O.S. was the purpose when the group realized individuals have been actually listening to them, and thanked the fanbase for nonetheless popping out in spite of everything these years.

A hushed room soaked within the mellifluous notes and empowering lyrics of “The Sum”, and the tune culminated in stunning convulsions earlier than descending right into a jazzy, greenlit jam that segued into “Ear to Ear”. Then set one got here to an in depth with a seamless XL exploration of “The Bionic Man Meet His Previous…”.

Through the album’s conception, Papadosio gathered artists and buddies locally to create visible artwork for every tune on the album, to be launched in a booklet that got here with the unique CD. Visible designer/lighting operator Dustin Klein integrated this art work into his visuals all through the weekend on a display screen behind the band in addition to by means of huge projections forged on the partitions of the auditorium, immersing attendees in a style of the previous in addition to up to date creations.

The second set opened with the featherlike synth intro to “Technique of Management”. Drummer Mike Healy broke into a lightweight patter pushed by the primary encouraging notes of bassist Rob McConnell. Thogmartin’s spectral voice seeped into the room. The drums returned with definition. A glitchy rain from synth participant Billy Brouse drizzled in and the anticipated bass line boomed out, throwing attendees right into a collective bounce.

“Technique” contained a sentimental, guitar-heavy jam, then rolled from a subterranean segue straight into an apocalyptic rendition of “Madre de Dios”, which one fan affectionately described as being “pulled straight from the depths of hell” and one other described as “so deep she discovered a Balrog of Morgoth.”

“That’s sort of the way it went down there,” Thogmartin laughed because the applause settled, referring to the band’s 2011 journey to the Peruvian jungle. The applause returned loud and clear.

Tender, dancing keys opened “Puddles for Oceans”, an uplifting tune about leaving the remoted puddle of a egocentric worldview for the huge ocean of compassion, empathy, and love. “Monochrome” was something however monochrome. Textured, expansive, imaginative, it crept into a fragile, slinking jam, nearly silent at factors, and returned with surprising pressure to shut the set.

Papadosio left the stage. The group glanced round. Sporadic cheers for yet another tune hooked up themselves to murmurs of uncertainty.

The band reemerged with Aqueous guitarist Mike Gantzer to an excited room and broke right into a tune clearly not on the album. The stage glowed crimson, display screen ablaze with photo voltaic flares and electrical mild. All of a sudden the lights went out and the music stopped. The viewers screamed.

“Once more?!” I mentioned to myself. As did anybody who attended Secret Desires Music & Arts Pageant in August, the place the ability was pulled simply as Gantzer stepped onstage close to the top of Papadosio’s Arcade Set.

Growth! The lights flashed again. The prolonged ensemble raged into the Mortal Kombat theme tune, and all of it got here full circle. Laughter amongst those that knew flew forth as did cheers throughout. However neither might be heard for lengthy. The jam had a sinister crunch to it, and the amount appeared cranked up greater than earlier than. Most individuals have been in awe or dancing maniacally, swept up at nighttime industrial onslaught of music and lights.

Build up right into a thunderous finale, Gantzer shredded his guitar in concord with the band’s crescendo. And with that, night time one got here to a fiery end.

Papadosio, Mike Gantzer – “Mortal Kombat Theme” – 11/25/22

[Video: Jonathan Bowen]

Night time two opened with BareFuzz and loosened with a cool, feel-good set by Each day Bread. The vitality within the room felt simply as giddy because the night time earlier than however someway extra balanced. Papadosio emerged and started proper the place it left off: “…and That is What He Thought.” This melodic instrumental build-up of peaceable revelation wove into an XL model of “Cue”, a preferred tune that encourages humanity to appreciate our half within the destruction of the planet and are available collectively to determine methods to rectify it.

Utilizing a technique favored by Jason Takahashi, Papadosio’s visible director on the time of T.E.T.I.O.S., Klein’s visuals started utilizing satellite tv for pc pictures of storms because the depth mounted to point the influence our actions have on the present local weather disaster—one other important message of the album. Teasing notes of the following observe, “Now That You Know”, Papadosio skillfully transitioned into its 2.0 model, with some uncommon parts, and opened up into an awakening jam emblematic of the tune’s intention.

Thogmartin spoke: “Earlier than this, we have been simply taking part in celebration music. We have been, like, this dance band, and other people have been like, ‘We’re going to exit and see the band and dance,’ proper?” He talked about how, with T.E.T.I.O.S., the band determined to strive one thing totally different and see what occurred. He thanked the gang for supporting this. “Due to that, we have been capable of do, and proceed to do, and really feel snug persevering with to precise ourselves in no matter approach it involves us.”

“Proper Now”, a tune about how the current second is at all times accessible to climb our approach out of negativity and doubt to discover a sense of objective, light and opened into an prolonged instrumental sprinkled with “Stick Determine”, lastly breaking into the childlike play of the tune itself with an XL model to shut the set.

The second set opened with an “Oracle Theme” of visionary improvisation and merged with the favored “Discover Your Cloud”. Thogmartin requested everybody to sing collectively, and the room erupted within the heartfelt refrain recognized to all Dosio followers. A smooth, delicate jam adopted that quickly launched up and took listeners on a tangled journey by means of cumulus, cirrus, and nimbostratus clouds alike earlier than its return to the joyous, spiraling notes of the tune’s finish.

“TV Tune”, a satirical tune about discovering solace in a tv stupor, was adopted by a young “Backyard” into “Planting the Seeds of Life”. Initially acoustic, however carried out electrical tonight, this tune, the final on the album, sums up the important thing messages of T.E.T.I.O.S. with a name for individuals to appreciate the optimistic impact their actions can have in shaping the world right into a backyard of peaceable progress and homeostasis.

Tumultuous applause. There have been smiles. Hugs. Palms clasped. Tears. Because it got here to an in depth, the album’s lasting resonance with the individuals on this room, each outdated followers and new, was emotionally palpable.

The band left the stage, and nobody knew what would occur subsequent. Waves of exclamation swept over the venue. Cheers for extra. However what else may the band play? The album was completed.

After minutes of unsure whoops and howls, whistles and claps, the band members returned, waving, and approached their devices. Sam Brouse spoke to the gang a couple of tune he wrote in the course of the T.E.T.I.O.S.-era that by no means made it on the album. Recovered from an outdated onerous drive, “The Domes” was included as a bonus observe on the brand new vinyl field set (together with the 2014 Wakarusa “Discover Your Cloud”, long-held excessive in fan esteem as top-of-the-line—if not the—finest variations ever). It had by no means been performed reside. Till that night time.

The primary piano notes stuffed the room, and the band joined in. Replete with Brouse’s euphonic vocals, “The Domes” shines mild on the harmful patterns of human beings with strains like, “Dig our personal grave and by no means change our methods, wouldn’t or not it’s good if people have been right here to remain?” and “Leaving our mom, leaving her to rot, oceans swell and rip us all aside,” whereas the refrain, “I’ve at all times been right here. You could have, too,” appears a beacon of hope by means of recognition and togetherness.

Chatting with Sam after the present, he mentioned, “There are elements of that tune which have been in my head over time, you recognize? I’ve been like, ‘I’m wondering if that even nonetheless exists?’ ‘Trigger I didn’t know if we had the unique classes from T.E.T.I.O.S. … I put a lot love into that at one level in my life … I feel it’s such a singular little tune, musically … Perhaps it was too totally different, or too—there may’ve been any variety of explanation why that by no means made it on.”

Referencing the lyrics, he mentioned, “That’s simply being afraid of local weather change, clearly. However now it means one thing totally different to me. Now, it’s like, ‘How do I alter my methods to be a greater particular person?’ Not simply, ‘I’ve no management what occurs with the local weather.’” He associated the refrain to the concept consciousness was everlasting, that we’ve been residing this life eternally, and mentioned, “I’m actually glad that the tune’s out, and that individuals are listening to it. For me, it’s very fascinating to return and relive it. What was I considering, and why? … It’s not at all times simple to jot down lyrics, or poems, or specific your self in that approach. … I feel all of the songs on T.E.T.I.O.S. imply one thing totally different to everybody than what it was we wished them to listen to when listening, once we wrote it, and I feel that’s what’s cool.”

An attentive crowd familiarized itself with the brand new lyrics and sounds. Simply as we thought we had it, the band broke from an ordinary few have been acquainted with, and entered an sudden jam with hypnotic fluidity. Folks responded. Dancing, cheering. “The Domes” tied issues along with simply the precise ribbon of vitality.

Elated, the viewers gathered for an image. Coronary heart-shaped fingers stuffed the air. The band bowed and left the stage. “By no means Ending Story” by Limahl performed from the audio system. Everybody took a collective breath, and the night time was full.

General, T.E.T.I.O.S. is an album about realizing the data we have already got inside us: that every of us is related to one another, a small piece of the puzzle that makes up life on Earth within the universe. Ten years later, Papadosio proved that its message didn’t fall on deaf ears. There’s a entire group that has been influenced by its music, who come along with the hope that every dialog and connection crops a seed in ending the phantasm of separation and making the world a greater place.

Papadosio – Recap – 11/26/22 

[Video: Versatile Ken Pierce]

Setlist: Papadosio | Masonic Auditorium | Cleveland, OH | 11/25/22

Set One: Path Tune XL, We Are Water XL, The Sum > Ear to Ear, The Bionic Man Meets His Previous… XL

Set Two: Technique of Management XL > Technique Jam > Madre de Dios XL, Puddles for Oceans XL, Monochrome XL

Encore: Mortal Kombat (Theme Tune) [1]

[1] w/ Mike Gantzer

Setlist: Papadosio | Masonic Auditorium | Cleveland, OH | 11/26/22

Set One: …and That is What He Thought. > Cue XL > Now That You Know XL, Proper Now, Prolonged Intro > Stick Determine XL

Set Two: Oracle Theme XL > Discover Your Cloud XL, TV Tune, Backyard XL > Planting the Seeds of Life

Encore: The Domes [1]

[1] FTP