Thursday, June 6th @ The Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave.) - 8pm - $15/$18
The Music Gallery and TONE present:
Dwarfs of East Agouza (https://thedwarfsofeastagouza.bandcamp.com/)
Fresh Snow (https://freshsnow.bandcamp.com/)
Omar Bongo (https://omarbongo.bandcamp.com/releases)
part of the Departures Series and TONE
curated by Tad Michalak
Doors: 8PM | Show: 8:30PM
Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Av.
$18 Regular/$10 Members/$15 Advance
Once again we ride with TONE in 2019, aiding and abetting their festival of improvisation, avant-everything and utterly new music. This year, we bring Montreal/Cairo stringed-instrument hero Sam Shalabi back to town with an all-star ensemble.
The Dwarfs of East Agouza is a trio from Cairo formed in 2012 by Maurice Louca (keyboards/electronics), Sam Shalabi (electric guitar/synth), and Alan Bishop (guitar/saxophone/vocals). The group utilizes improvisation to propel their unique, exciting, and hypnotic musical vision. They are putting the finishing touches on their third album which should appear sometime in late 2019. Considering each member’s many individual projects and as difficult as it is for these three to be in the same place at the same time, this is a great opportunity to witness and hear this group perform live.
Toronto quartet Fresh Snow have appeared on many local stages and festival in the past several years and have been described by Grayowl Point as "the breath of fresh air post-rock really needs."
Omar Bongo is one of the few Somali Canadian musicians proficient in the Qaraami style of classic Somali music. Omar’s skills as a songwriter and kaban player have made him a fixture of Toronto’s vibrant Somali music scene, his music has been the soundtrack for hundreds of community events and late night shisha lounges.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/463397917551512/
Dwarfs of East Agouza (https://thedwarfsofeastagouza.bandcamp.com/)
Fresh Snow (https://freshsnow.bandcamp.com/)
Omar Bongo (https://omarbongo.bandcamp.com/releases)
part of the Departures Series and TONE
curated by Tad Michalak
Doors: 8PM | Show: 8:30PM
Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick Av.
$18 Regular/$10 Members/$15 Advance
Once again we ride with TONE in 2019, aiding and abetting their festival of improvisation, avant-everything and utterly new music. This year, we bring Montreal/Cairo stringed-instrument hero Sam Shalabi back to town with an all-star ensemble.
The Dwarfs of East Agouza is a trio from Cairo formed in 2012 by Maurice Louca (keyboards/electronics), Sam Shalabi (electric guitar/synth), and Alan Bishop (guitar/saxophone/vocals). The group utilizes improvisation to propel their unique, exciting, and hypnotic musical vision. They are putting the finishing touches on their third album which should appear sometime in late 2019. Considering each member’s many individual projects and as difficult as it is for these three to be in the same place at the same time, this is a great opportunity to witness and hear this group perform live.
Toronto quartet Fresh Snow have appeared on many local stages and festival in the past several years and have been described by Grayowl Point as "the breath of fresh air post-rock really needs."
Omar Bongo is one of the few Somali Canadian musicians proficient in the Qaraami style of classic Somali music. Omar’s skills as a songwriter and kaban player have made him a fixture of Toronto’s vibrant Somali music scene, his music has been the soundtrack for hundreds of community events and late night shisha lounges.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/463397917551512/
Sunday, June 9th @ The Drake Underground (1150 Queen St. West) - 8pm - $12/$15
TONE and Musicworks Magazine Presents:
BEN LAMAR GAY
BONJAY
CRAIG DUNSMUIR'S DUN DUN BAND
@ The Drake Underground (1150 Queen St. West)
8pm, $12/$15
BEN LAMAR GAY (https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/downtown-castles-can-never-block-the-sun)
Chicago based cornetist, vocalist, composer, etc. draws influence from a plethora of styles & genres, while maintaining a concise voice. His mix of avant jazz flourishes, polyrhythmic funk, electronic beats and hip hop nods create a rich sonic landscape for Gay's own mutation of "Americana". Never a dull moment in this diverse array of clanking percussion, chattering vocals, creeping synth tones and verbose horn augmentations. Ben LaMar Gay's 2018 debut "Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun" on International Anthem is easily one of the most captivating & rewarding listens of last year. Don't miss a chance to jump off with Ben & his band in the flesh!
BONJAY (http://bonjay.net/)
Toronto genre melting duo of Alanna Stuart and Ian Swain sees Stuart's voice hold court over racing beats, beamed in synth tones, married live and digital percussion. Borrowing from dancehall rhythms, soul vocal nods and dusty bass bins Bonjay collects the pieces and gives them a continuity. No sound is lost in their post genre construction. Electronic bass lines drop like dollops of some rich icing. Dance beats squirm and twist under Alanna's hypnotic vocals. Still keep it real after dropping the killer "Lush Life" LP last year!
CRAIG DUNSMUIR'S DUN DUN BAND
Composer, guitarist, DJ, Toronto musical master mind Craig Dunsmuir (Glissandro 70, Kanada 70, Off World collaborator) bring his Dun Dun Band out from hibernation. The rhythmically multifaceted ensemble pulls influence from ethio-jazz, funk, and spiritual jazz merging it with more free form elements from the avant world. Dunsmuir's trademark playfulness is at work here as multiple percussionists and saxophone players create a complex realm of textures over songs subtly egged on by synth & guitar concoctions. One of the great avant beat party bands that are still a well kept secret. Not to me missed!
$12 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes, Circus Books and Music & Ticketscene: www.ticketscene.ca/events/24360/
$15 at the door
$55 TONE 4 Show Pass
$70 TONE Festival Pass
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1182381975263090/
BEN LAMAR GAY
BONJAY
CRAIG DUNSMUIR'S DUN DUN BAND
@ The Drake Underground (1150 Queen St. West)
8pm, $12/$15
BEN LAMAR GAY (https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/downtown-castles-can-never-block-the-sun)
Chicago based cornetist, vocalist, composer, etc. draws influence from a plethora of styles & genres, while maintaining a concise voice. His mix of avant jazz flourishes, polyrhythmic funk, electronic beats and hip hop nods create a rich sonic landscape for Gay's own mutation of "Americana". Never a dull moment in this diverse array of clanking percussion, chattering vocals, creeping synth tones and verbose horn augmentations. Ben LaMar Gay's 2018 debut "Downtown Castles Can Never Block The Sun" on International Anthem is easily one of the most captivating & rewarding listens of last year. Don't miss a chance to jump off with Ben & his band in the flesh!
BONJAY (http://bonjay.net/)
Toronto genre melting duo of Alanna Stuart and Ian Swain sees Stuart's voice hold court over racing beats, beamed in synth tones, married live and digital percussion. Borrowing from dancehall rhythms, soul vocal nods and dusty bass bins Bonjay collects the pieces and gives them a continuity. No sound is lost in their post genre construction. Electronic bass lines drop like dollops of some rich icing. Dance beats squirm and twist under Alanna's hypnotic vocals. Still keep it real after dropping the killer "Lush Life" LP last year!
CRAIG DUNSMUIR'S DUN DUN BAND
Composer, guitarist, DJ, Toronto musical master mind Craig Dunsmuir (Glissandro 70, Kanada 70, Off World collaborator) bring his Dun Dun Band out from hibernation. The rhythmically multifaceted ensemble pulls influence from ethio-jazz, funk, and spiritual jazz merging it with more free form elements from the avant world. Dunsmuir's trademark playfulness is at work here as multiple percussionists and saxophone players create a complex realm of textures over songs subtly egged on by synth & guitar concoctions. One of the great avant beat party bands that are still a well kept secret. Not to me missed!
$12 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes, Circus Books and Music & Ticketscene: www.ticketscene.ca/events/24360/
$15 at the door
$55 TONE 4 Show Pass
$70 TONE Festival Pass
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1182381975263090/
Tuesday, June 11th @ The Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave.) - 10pm - $10
TONE & Cramzac Presents:
LOTTE ANKER
SILVIA TAROZZI / DANIEL PENCER / PHILIPPE MELANSON / GERMAINE LIU
@ Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave)
10pm, $10
LOTTE ANKER (www.lotteanker.com)
Lotte Anker is a Copenhagen-based Danish saxophonist and composer working in the field between experimental jazz/improvisation and contemporary music.
SILVIA TAROZZI / DANIEL PENCER / PHILIPPE MELANSON / GERMAINE LIU (http://www.silviatarozzi.it)
Silvia Tarozzi is a violinist, performer and improviser. Her research on sound and instrumental gestures, based on her own experiences as an improviser, finds expression in several collaborations with composers as Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Pascale Criton, Philip Corner, Cassandra Miller. She compose for her own musical projects. For this performance she will be joined by saxophonist Daniel Pancer and percussionists Philippe Melanson (Bernice) and Germaine Liu.
$10 at the door
$55 TONE 4 Show Pass
$70 TONE Festval Pass
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1625329764278684/
LOTTE ANKER
SILVIA TAROZZI / DANIEL PENCER / PHILIPPE MELANSON / GERMAINE LIU
@ Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave)
10pm, $10
LOTTE ANKER (www.lotteanker.com)
Lotte Anker is a Copenhagen-based Danish saxophonist and composer working in the field between experimental jazz/improvisation and contemporary music.
SILVIA TAROZZI / DANIEL PENCER / PHILIPPE MELANSON / GERMAINE LIU (http://www.silviatarozzi.it)
Silvia Tarozzi is a violinist, performer and improviser. Her research on sound and instrumental gestures, based on her own experiences as an improviser, finds expression in several collaborations with composers as Éliane Radigue, Pauline Oliveros, Pascale Criton, Philip Corner, Cassandra Miller. She compose for her own musical projects. For this performance she will be joined by saxophonist Daniel Pancer and percussionists Philippe Melanson (Bernice) and Germaine Liu.
$10 at the door
$55 TONE 4 Show Pass
$70 TONE Festval Pass
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1625329764278684/
Wednesday, June 12th @ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.) - 8:30pm - $22/$28 - All Ages
TONE & Riparian Acoustics Present:
BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND & INDIGO RISING
DUSTINY
@ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.)
8:30pm, $22/$28, All Ages
BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND & INDIGO RISING (https://www.songcycles.com)
The diverse work of legendary singer and composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland has been gathering momentum again over the past couple of years thanks to the reissue of his genre-defying 1987 album Keyboard Fantasies on Invisible City Editions and subsequently Séance Centre. Its hybrid of new age, shades of early techno, and minimalism with the warmth of traditional songwriting resonated with new audiences and thrust Copeland into visibility. Trained on the piano since “cradlehood”, his rich career has embraced classical music, experimental jazz-inflected folk (as heard on his coveted self-titled album on GRT), children's music and cross-disciplinary collaborations—all of which inform his eclectic practice today.
After last year's magical performance Beverly Glenn-Copeland returns to Toronto with his five-piece band Indigo Rising, comprised of some of Canada's leading lights: Nick Dourado and Jeremy Costello (of Special Costello), Carlie Howell, Kurt Inder and Bianca Palmer.
DUSTINY
Dustiny began as a vehicle for revisiting the long-lost collaborative songs of Norma Tanega and Dusty Springfield. It has since wandered down other song lanes, and a recording is forthcoming in 2019, I imagine. Thom Gill has been a freelance musicmaker for the last 10 years, on a variety of instruments in a wide range of styles, the world over. He most often plays with Bernice, but also with Knower, Sam Amidon, Martha Wainwright, and Toronto Dance Theatre. He loves to paint and write and read and eat and drink and chitchat. This incarnation of Dustiny will feature : Phil Melanson / Matt Newton / Aline Homzy / Dan Pencer / Josh Cole & Felicity Williams !
$22 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes, Circus Books and Music & Ticketscene: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/24308/
$28 at the door
$55 TONE 4 Show Pass
$70 TONE Festval Pass
We regret that this venue is up one flight of stairs and therefore not fully accessible.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1058794344322973/
BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND & INDIGO RISING
DUSTINY
@ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.)
8:30pm, $22/$28, All Ages
BEVERLY GLENN-COPELAND & INDIGO RISING (https://www.songcycles.com)
The diverse work of legendary singer and composer Beverly Glenn-Copeland has been gathering momentum again over the past couple of years thanks to the reissue of his genre-defying 1987 album Keyboard Fantasies on Invisible City Editions and subsequently Séance Centre. Its hybrid of new age, shades of early techno, and minimalism with the warmth of traditional songwriting resonated with new audiences and thrust Copeland into visibility. Trained on the piano since “cradlehood”, his rich career has embraced classical music, experimental jazz-inflected folk (as heard on his coveted self-titled album on GRT), children's music and cross-disciplinary collaborations—all of which inform his eclectic practice today.
After last year's magical performance Beverly Glenn-Copeland returns to Toronto with his five-piece band Indigo Rising, comprised of some of Canada's leading lights: Nick Dourado and Jeremy Costello (of Special Costello), Carlie Howell, Kurt Inder and Bianca Palmer.
DUSTINY
Dustiny began as a vehicle for revisiting the long-lost collaborative songs of Norma Tanega and Dusty Springfield. It has since wandered down other song lanes, and a recording is forthcoming in 2019, I imagine. Thom Gill has been a freelance musicmaker for the last 10 years, on a variety of instruments in a wide range of styles, the world over. He most often plays with Bernice, but also with Knower, Sam Amidon, Martha Wainwright, and Toronto Dance Theatre. He loves to paint and write and read and eat and drink and chitchat. This incarnation of Dustiny will feature : Phil Melanson / Matt Newton / Aline Homzy / Dan Pencer / Josh Cole & Felicity Williams !
$22 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes, Circus Books and Music & Ticketscene: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/24308/
$28 at the door
$55 TONE 4 Show Pass
$70 TONE Festval Pass
We regret that this venue is up one flight of stairs and therefore not fully accessible.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1058794344322973/
Monday, June 24th @ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West) - 8pm - $10/$12
TONE, Riparian Acoustics & Canadian Music Centre Present:
CVN
KOEOSAEME
KOREA TOWN ACID
KAT ESTACIO
@ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West)
8pm, $10/$12
CVN (https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-c)
CVN is Nobuyuki Sakuma, previously of Jesse Ruins on Captured Tracks. Noboyuki's CVN project emits a searching quality in electronic music. His wide variety in sound choice, production style, and curiosity with engaging a wide variety of artists through his Gray Matter Archives series makes his output consistently compelling. CVN has been published with Orange Milk, Where To Now?, and angoisse. He is the curator of the mix series Grey Matter Archives and is editor at the music online magazine AVYSS.
KOEOSAEME (https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/obanikeshi)
Koeosaeme is Ryu Yoshizawa’s solo project which pursues the fusion of programming and sound art. From 2004, he has been a member of the sound artists group “OFFICE INTENZIO” under Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yukihiro Takahashi. In addition, he is in charge of live event backup support and recordings for Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi, Kyoka and many others. He also produces music commercially for Lotte and Square Enix.
KOREA TOWN ACID (https://soundcloud.com/koreatownacid)
Toronto based free form beat manipulator Jessica Cho creates swinging dance rhythms that draw from disassembled minimalism, free jazz and the more avant-garde corners of techno. With a background as a classically trained pianist Cho brings a fresh perspective to the beat-driven landscape, letting seemingly abstract rhythms linger and mingle with moody textures. Her tracks ebb and flow as electronic pulses, beats, and clicks coalesce only to transform once again. Manicured peaks and valleys are dotted with hints of what's to come. Sonic clues lost in a feeling. Check her newest LP "Mahogani Forest" on Cosmic Resonance Records!
KAT ESTACIO
Tkaronto (Toronto)-based Kat Estacio blends delicate, abstract electronics with the traditional gong music of the Philippines to produce an engrossing, mirage-like listening experience.
$10 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes, Circus Books and Music, and Canadian Music Centre
$12 at the door
$55 TONE 4 Show Pass
$70 TONE Festival Pass
Burdock is not fully accessible: there is one step at the entrance, and there are gendered washrooms in the basement accessed by a flight of stairs.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/650799155361617/
CVN
KOEOSAEME
KOREA TOWN ACID
KAT ESTACIO
@ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West)
8pm, $10/$12
CVN (https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/i-c)
CVN is Nobuyuki Sakuma, previously of Jesse Ruins on Captured Tracks. Noboyuki's CVN project emits a searching quality in electronic music. His wide variety in sound choice, production style, and curiosity with engaging a wide variety of artists through his Gray Matter Archives series makes his output consistently compelling. CVN has been published with Orange Milk, Where To Now?, and angoisse. He is the curator of the mix series Grey Matter Archives and is editor at the music online magazine AVYSS.
KOEOSAEME (https://orangemilkrecords.bandcamp.com/album/obanikeshi)
Koeosaeme is Ryu Yoshizawa’s solo project which pursues the fusion of programming and sound art. From 2004, he has been a member of the sound artists group “OFFICE INTENZIO” under Yellow Magic Orchestra’s Yukihiro Takahashi. In addition, he is in charge of live event backup support and recordings for Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yukihiro Takahashi, Kyoka and many others. He also produces music commercially for Lotte and Square Enix.
KOREA TOWN ACID (https://soundcloud.com/koreatownacid)
Toronto based free form beat manipulator Jessica Cho creates swinging dance rhythms that draw from disassembled minimalism, free jazz and the more avant-garde corners of techno. With a background as a classically trained pianist Cho brings a fresh perspective to the beat-driven landscape, letting seemingly abstract rhythms linger and mingle with moody textures. Her tracks ebb and flow as electronic pulses, beats, and clicks coalesce only to transform once again. Manicured peaks and valleys are dotted with hints of what's to come. Sonic clues lost in a feeling. Check her newest LP "Mahogani Forest" on Cosmic Resonance Records!
KAT ESTACIO
Tkaronto (Toronto)-based Kat Estacio blends delicate, abstract electronics with the traditional gong music of the Philippines to produce an engrossing, mirage-like listening experience.
$10 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes, Circus Books and Music, and Canadian Music Centre
$12 at the door
$55 TONE 4 Show Pass
$70 TONE Festival Pass
Burdock is not fully accessible: there is one step at the entrance, and there are gendered washrooms in the basement accessed by a flight of stairs.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/650799155361617/
Thursday, June 27th @ The Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave.) - 10pm - $10
TONE & Peter Gough Present:
CACTUS TRUCK
KAJA DRAKSLER / ANDREW FURLONG / BRODIE WEST
FEECHO
@ Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave)
10pm, $10
CACTUS TRUCK (https://cactustruck.bandcamp.com)
Cactus Truck creates startlingly intense music, not merely in terms of volume or velocity but through complete physical/psychological surrender. One can find hints of delta blues, early free jazz, Japanese noise, and no wave in the music. The collaborated with Terrie Ex, Colin McLean, Ab Baars, Han Bennink, Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Peter Jacquemyn, Teun Verbruggen, Nicolas Field, Jon Rune Strøm.
KAJA DRAKSLER / ANDREW FURLONG / BRODIE WEST (http://kajadraksler.com)
Kaja Draksler is a Slovenian pianist and composer. After her studies in the Netherlands she decided to stay in Amsterdam, where she is an active member of the improvisors scene, performing extensively all over the Europe. Kaja is interested in finding ways to merge the composition and (free) improvisation by working with different structures and musical logics. In the spirit of the Dutch jazz/improvised music legacy, she is drawn to the idea of erasing the stylistic and historical musical borders, and discovering personal expression and language through composition and improvisation. For this performance she will team up with two Toronto improv mainstays, bassist Andrew Furlong & saxophonist Brodie West (Eucalyptus).
FEECHO (https://soundcloud.com/kajadraksler/feecho-live-in-newcastle)
Feecho brings together two of the most talented musicians of the current generation of European improvisers. Based in Amsterdam, with origins in Holland and Slovenia, they combine a thorough knowledge of the European classical music history with an extreme sense of earthly energy to be found in the most pure forms of improvised or traditional folk music. A Feecho concert is a jump into the unknown; changes of moods and textures may happen abruptly, but they magically always seem like the most logical and natural way for the music to go. The combination of incredible musicality and intelligent sense of form is very rare for musicians of such age as Kaja Draksler and Onno Govaert. Their maturity speaks for itself and is embodied by the interplay which consists not only of an almost scary like-mindedness, but also of a respect for each other’s personal ideas and history of music.
$10 at the door
$55 TONE 4 Show Pass
$70 TONE Festival Pass
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2154067434688681/
CACTUS TRUCK
KAJA DRAKSLER / ANDREW FURLONG / BRODIE WEST
FEECHO
@ Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave)
10pm, $10
CACTUS TRUCK (https://cactustruck.bandcamp.com)
Cactus Truck creates startlingly intense music, not merely in terms of volume or velocity but through complete physical/psychological surrender. One can find hints of delta blues, early free jazz, Japanese noise, and no wave in the music. The collaborated with Terrie Ex, Colin McLean, Ab Baars, Han Bennink, Dave Rempis, Jeb Bishop, Peter Jacquemyn, Teun Verbruggen, Nicolas Field, Jon Rune Strøm.
KAJA DRAKSLER / ANDREW FURLONG / BRODIE WEST (http://kajadraksler.com)
Kaja Draksler is a Slovenian pianist and composer. After her studies in the Netherlands she decided to stay in Amsterdam, where she is an active member of the improvisors scene, performing extensively all over the Europe. Kaja is interested in finding ways to merge the composition and (free) improvisation by working with different structures and musical logics. In the spirit of the Dutch jazz/improvised music legacy, she is drawn to the idea of erasing the stylistic and historical musical borders, and discovering personal expression and language through composition and improvisation. For this performance she will team up with two Toronto improv mainstays, bassist Andrew Furlong & saxophonist Brodie West (Eucalyptus).
FEECHO (https://soundcloud.com/kajadraksler/feecho-live-in-newcastle)
Feecho brings together two of the most talented musicians of the current generation of European improvisers. Based in Amsterdam, with origins in Holland and Slovenia, they combine a thorough knowledge of the European classical music history with an extreme sense of earthly energy to be found in the most pure forms of improvised or traditional folk music. A Feecho concert is a jump into the unknown; changes of moods and textures may happen abruptly, but they magically always seem like the most logical and natural way for the music to go. The combination of incredible musicality and intelligent sense of form is very rare for musicians of such age as Kaja Draksler and Onno Govaert. Their maturity speaks for itself and is embodied by the interplay which consists not only of an almost scary like-mindedness, but also of a respect for each other’s personal ideas and history of music.
$10 at the door
$55 TONE 4 Show Pass
$70 TONE Festival Pass
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2154067434688681/
Upcoming Summer 2019 Shows:
JULY 6TH: Feast In The East 73 @ Prairie Drive Park
JULY 27TH: Feast In The East 74
AUG 29TH - SEPT 1ST: Intersection 2019
SEPT 21ST: Feast In The East 75 @ Matt Durant Studio
JULY 27TH: Feast In The East 74
AUG 29TH - SEPT 1ST: Intersection 2019
SEPT 21ST: Feast In The East 75 @ Matt Durant Studio
