Santo’s Party House
By: Ross Edwards

In a packed, reverberating Santo’s Party House, people all around raised hands slowly, every clap in unison, heads lulled into bobbing back and forth. Some drifted into the ecstasy of synths and drums, others just had a friggin great time. Body Language, by name alone, brings to mind the effect they produce with their techno-pop-rock hybrid: dancing (and also flirting). Their great success is to move butts, both to their gigs, and of course at their gigs. They are like a loud electric lullaby, not rocking you to sleep obviously, but inducing a state that destroys the will to stand still. On top of all that they have the personality of being quirkily timid, sexual, fun, and nonsensical.

The sound is electronic: Matthew Young on pronounced sound through the vocoder, Grant Wheeler on vocals keyboard/synth/talkbox, Angelica Bass on sly vocals and glockenspiel, and Ian Chang as the human drum machine (and vocals). All members are quite serious about their music, in that they play their instruments really well, put on a fantastically energetic show, and friggin love what they’re doing. The audience can feel it as they shout into keyboards, bounce off glockenspiels, clap their hands, and sing all four in unison. The bright feel brings everything a sense of partying, of a night that has just begun, in the right way, and just a little sexual energy. There’s a lot of negative crap out there, but Body Language is on a whole other level. They just might brighten up the day.