Ambient accordionist Walt McClements drifts into Orlando for rare performance

Walt McClements Credit: Rachael Pony Cassels

It’s been a banner year in the City Beautiful for fans of Jon Hassell, Nicolás Jaar, Mary Lattimore and other practitioners of healing musics at the intersection of jazz and ambient. The Chris Williams show at Timucua Arts was balm for our very weary souls, and now thanks to that same venue and booker (Civic Minded 5), we get even more twilit radiance from Walt McClements.

The Los Angeles-based accordionist and composer (think Pauline Oliveros on the cover of Accordion & Voice) has long dazzled and soothed leftfield listeners with gentle and crystalline sound-washes, as exemplified by 2021 album A Hole in the Fence.

Pressurewave, the inward-looking vehicle for Jared Silvia of the Circuit Church collective and aggro EBManiac Earth Fault, holds up the local end of things ably. Timucua’s stage should be an excellent staging ground for these deeply meditative and slightly melancholy musical epiphanies.

7 p.m. Thursday, April 2, Timucua Arts, 2000 S. Summerlin Ave., timucua.com, $15.


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