Bent By Elephants (Hillside '10)

A full contingent of elephants hit the stage; seven of them playing violins, trombones, horns, guitars, bass and drums - often in unique ways. Early on the female drummer left her post to bring only one drum to the front of the stage so the group could play a song with limited instrumentation but layers of vocals that came off really neat. Adding to the song was the bowed saw. With all that backing instrumentation they could really build up the music before the strong lead female vocals impressively kicked in. On Sask. Pool the lyrics ask "How high can you go?" and her range responded resoundingly high. A pretty good show from an emerging band.