Friday, May 25th @ DDL (2O9 Augusta Ave.) - 9pm - $10 - All Ages
TOSHIMARU NAKAMURA & MARTIN TAXT (https://soundcloud.com/martintaxt/taxt-nakamura-2016-kagoshima)
Japanese no-input mixer noise artist Toshimaru Nakamura teams up with Norwegian avant jazz tuba player Martin Taxt. Touring behind their second record as a duo "Listening to the Footsteps of Living Ones Who Are Still on the Ground" Nakamura processes Taxt's deep tuba tones. He mutants wavering grumbles and bass driven hum into clipping static and gurgling chunks of noise. Their sound together is cohesive and organic. It crackles and screeches like electricity weaving it's way through sheets of metal. Nakamura whips Taxt's tuba tones into a tropical storm of stereo chaos. Truly the dynamic duo. Not to be missed!
JOYFULTALK (https://joyfultalk.bandcamp.com/)
Nova Scotian electronic duo gears up to release a new disc on Constellation. Pulsating rhythms drive forward under soothing synth tones. angular drum machine texture grow rampant. Balancing ambient moods, meandering bleeps & bloops, and krautrock inspired synthesis JOYFULTALK moves from the dark realms of space to the avant dance lounge. Spectral electronics bounce of each other. This pair builds structure where there was only wayward notes.
SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN (http://www.soundofthemountain.com/)
Montreal amplified clarinet and trumpet duo of Elizabeth Millar and Craig Pedersen take the minutia and blow it up. Heavy breathing tones, air wandering through metallic passages. Muted roars twirl and float in their expanse of quiet harsh noise.
CARES (https://cares.bandcamp.com/)
Ambient noise project of James Beardmore sees him build flowing drones full of haunting textures slowly writhing. He disassembles these methodical drones into piles of crunching noise like he's moving large tangles of cables. Electronic hums and clips become oscillated beats for a blink before they merge into the reforming drone.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/192894591433811/
Japanese no-input mixer noise artist Toshimaru Nakamura teams up with Norwegian avant jazz tuba player Martin Taxt. Touring behind their second record as a duo "Listening to the Footsteps of Living Ones Who Are Still on the Ground" Nakamura processes Taxt's deep tuba tones. He mutants wavering grumbles and bass driven hum into clipping static and gurgling chunks of noise. Their sound together is cohesive and organic. It crackles and screeches like electricity weaving it's way through sheets of metal. Nakamura whips Taxt's tuba tones into a tropical storm of stereo chaos. Truly the dynamic duo. Not to be missed!
JOYFULTALK (https://joyfultalk.bandcamp.com/)
Nova Scotian electronic duo gears up to release a new disc on Constellation. Pulsating rhythms drive forward under soothing synth tones. angular drum machine texture grow rampant. Balancing ambient moods, meandering bleeps & bloops, and krautrock inspired synthesis JOYFULTALK moves from the dark realms of space to the avant dance lounge. Spectral electronics bounce of each other. This pair builds structure where there was only wayward notes.
SOUND OF THE MOUNTAIN (http://www.soundofthemountain.com/)
Montreal amplified clarinet and trumpet duo of Elizabeth Millar and Craig Pedersen take the minutia and blow it up. Heavy breathing tones, air wandering through metallic passages. Muted roars twirl and float in their expanse of quiet harsh noise.
CARES (https://cares.bandcamp.com/)
Ambient noise project of James Beardmore sees him build flowing drones full of haunting textures slowly writhing. He disassembles these methodical drones into piles of crunching noise like he's moving large tangles of cables. Electronic hums and clips become oscillated beats for a blink before they merge into the reforming drone.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/192894591433811/
Thursday, May 31st @ DDL (2O9 Augusta Ave.) - 9pm - $10 - All Ages
COLIN FISHER (https://colinfisher.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto multi-instrumentalist / improvisor Colin Fisher celebrates the release of his solo ambient guitar record "V Le Pape" out now on Geej Recordings. Fisher has been a pillar of Toronto's avant-garde music world for well over a decade. His work in Not The Wind, Not The Flag, Fake Humans, with Caribou, and in a plethora of other ensembles sees him move seamlessly through genres, moods & instruments. His latest work finds him playing with processed guitar, building fluid sonic worlds where notes ripple off each other. Methodical pieces of slow motion guitar vignettes stretch the frabric of Fisher's normally ecstatic work. Moments of New Age majesty flourish and then step aside as Fisher dives into his classic cosmic psych shredder territory, though pulling back the speed to accommodate V Le Pape's more paced trajectory. Never a dull moment with one of Toronto's (the world's?) unsung musical mavericks.
ACT!
David Psutka (Egyptrixx, Anamai, Ceramic TL) redefines beat music with his haunting, glitched and disjointed renditions of dance floor textures laid bare. ACT! is his newest outing that pushes aggressive electronic nodes through the dark chasms of space. Come get the first taste of this cosmic evolution.
XUAN YE (https://apureapparatus.bandcamp.com/)
Artist & Performer Xuan Ye (Invisible Out) creates electro-acoustic collages marrying environmental distortion with manipulated amplified objects, and buried sound bites. Frequencies buzz with electric energy. Twisted synthesized and recorded sounds vibrate as they attempt to communicate. Ye mutates the normal into the abnormal through her compositional process, amplifying the minutia. She sculpts the chaos in her own beast. Blast of feedback knock like rain against the window, as the television drolls on in the background. Birds chirp, someone accidentally called a fax machine number, or is the internet dialling. AOL is almost connected.
REVEREND MARCO D'ANDREA (https://reverendmarcodandrea.bandcamp.com/)
Hamiltonian & fellow Geej label mate D'Andrea creates glistening ambient soundscapes. Channeling the celestial reverberations his music comes across fittingly holy, sounding like you are traveling inside the pipes of an organ. Drawn out tones seem to stretch out endlessly across a monolithic structure. Vocals slither like spirits down a long corridor. This music is built on the essence as it slips away into the next dimension.
Environs by Diana Lynn VanderMeulen (https://www.instagram.com/dianalynnvdm/)
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/136223790567038/
Toronto multi-instrumentalist / improvisor Colin Fisher celebrates the release of his solo ambient guitar record "V Le Pape" out now on Geej Recordings. Fisher has been a pillar of Toronto's avant-garde music world for well over a decade. His work in Not The Wind, Not The Flag, Fake Humans, with Caribou, and in a plethora of other ensembles sees him move seamlessly through genres, moods & instruments. His latest work finds him playing with processed guitar, building fluid sonic worlds where notes ripple off each other. Methodical pieces of slow motion guitar vignettes stretch the frabric of Fisher's normally ecstatic work. Moments of New Age majesty flourish and then step aside as Fisher dives into his classic cosmic psych shredder territory, though pulling back the speed to accommodate V Le Pape's more paced trajectory. Never a dull moment with one of Toronto's (the world's?) unsung musical mavericks.
ACT!
David Psutka (Egyptrixx, Anamai, Ceramic TL) redefines beat music with his haunting, glitched and disjointed renditions of dance floor textures laid bare. ACT! is his newest outing that pushes aggressive electronic nodes through the dark chasms of space. Come get the first taste of this cosmic evolution.
XUAN YE (https://apureapparatus.bandcamp.com/)
Artist & Performer Xuan Ye (Invisible Out) creates electro-acoustic collages marrying environmental distortion with manipulated amplified objects, and buried sound bites. Frequencies buzz with electric energy. Twisted synthesized and recorded sounds vibrate as they attempt to communicate. Ye mutates the normal into the abnormal through her compositional process, amplifying the minutia. She sculpts the chaos in her own beast. Blast of feedback knock like rain against the window, as the television drolls on in the background. Birds chirp, someone accidentally called a fax machine number, or is the internet dialling. AOL is almost connected.
REVEREND MARCO D'ANDREA (https://reverendmarcodandrea.bandcamp.com/)
Hamiltonian & fellow Geej label mate D'Andrea creates glistening ambient soundscapes. Channeling the celestial reverberations his music comes across fittingly holy, sounding like you are traveling inside the pipes of an organ. Drawn out tones seem to stretch out endlessly across a monolithic structure. Vocals slither like spirits down a long corridor. This music is built on the essence as it slips away into the next dimension.
Environs by Diana Lynn VanderMeulen (https://www.instagram.com/dianalynnvdm/)
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/136223790567038/
Saturday, June 2nd @ Matt Durant Studio (1401 Queen St. East) - 9pm - $10/$12 - All Ages
Feast In The East is a bi-monthly east end music, food, & art installation series.
This month features a free dinner by Dan Bedard.
EUGENE CHADBOURNE (http://eugenechadbourne.com/)
American banjo & guitar virtuoso Eugene Chadbourne twists folk, country, blues & bluegrass traditions through a gnarly avant jazz & ranging free improv grinder. Morphing classic tunes into bizarre banjo shred tongue in cheek rippers. Chadbourne's lyrics mine a comically dark side or his reality playing on the warped traditional structure they live in. A true master of essence, he adopts genres capturing their being while pulling it apart. Chadbourne has collaborated with such heavy weights as John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Jimmy Carl Black, Fred Frith, and local legend Michael Snow. For this show he will preform solo & followed by a short impov. set.
PROTRUDERS (https://protruders.bandcamp.com/)
Fuzzed out crunchy punks bring the raw chaos in their latest quartet format. Angular guitars laced in distortion rip against blasting percussion. Gurgling feedback & slithering electronic manipulations fills the underbelly of this raw rocker scene. An unhinged party band. Primitive in vibe Protruders slips hints of no wave into their crafted junk store jammers.
HOLIDAY RAMBLER (http://www.qualityco.co/)
D. Alex Meeks (of Hooded Fang) solo guitar project rides again. Bouncing guitar notes roll along like tumble weeds, as Mr. Meeks spins his folk songs intrenched in the spirit of the american south. His lyrics, smart, cautious, and full of unbridled honesty, like a Flannery O’Connor novel he weaves religion, family and the future of the world as we know it, into something human and tangible. Intricate repetitive plucking dot Holiday Rambler’s songs like stars in the sky, all in the right place, so natural their placement seems accidentally. Languid emotions float gently over the simplicity of an acoustic guitar. Holiday Rambler is the everyman that died long ago, the tradition your grandparents remembered, but your parent discarded. Lose yourself in these lost hymns. Eat your heart out computer music.
MERMAIDS
Psychedelic folk ensemble featuring Janet Macpherson (vocals), Martin Arnold (Banjo), Kurt Newman (pedal steel) and the infamous Ryan Driver (analog synth) reinterpret traditional folk song & ballads from the British Isles. Watch as the minds of Toronto's great contrarians go to work on British tradition in what can only be described as a cacophonous rebirth effort. Don't miss it!
Environs by Sebastian Butt
$10 Adv at Circus Books and Music, Cask Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
$12 at the door
Free dinner with adv. ticket!
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1670208396389957/
Feast In The East is made possible through support from the Toronto Arts Council and Wellington Brewery
This month features a free dinner by Dan Bedard.
EUGENE CHADBOURNE (http://eugenechadbourne.com/)
American banjo & guitar virtuoso Eugene Chadbourne twists folk, country, blues & bluegrass traditions through a gnarly avant jazz & ranging free improv grinder. Morphing classic tunes into bizarre banjo shred tongue in cheek rippers. Chadbourne's lyrics mine a comically dark side or his reality playing on the warped traditional structure they live in. A true master of essence, he adopts genres capturing their being while pulling it apart. Chadbourne has collaborated with such heavy weights as John Zorn, Derek Bailey, Henry Kaiser, Jimmy Carl Black, Fred Frith, and local legend Michael Snow. For this show he will preform solo & followed by a short impov. set.
PROTRUDERS (https://protruders.bandcamp.com/)
Fuzzed out crunchy punks bring the raw chaos in their latest quartet format. Angular guitars laced in distortion rip against blasting percussion. Gurgling feedback & slithering electronic manipulations fills the underbelly of this raw rocker scene. An unhinged party band. Primitive in vibe Protruders slips hints of no wave into their crafted junk store jammers.
HOLIDAY RAMBLER (http://www.qualityco.co/)
D. Alex Meeks (of Hooded Fang) solo guitar project rides again. Bouncing guitar notes roll along like tumble weeds, as Mr. Meeks spins his folk songs intrenched in the spirit of the american south. His lyrics, smart, cautious, and full of unbridled honesty, like a Flannery O’Connor novel he weaves religion, family and the future of the world as we know it, into something human and tangible. Intricate repetitive plucking dot Holiday Rambler’s songs like stars in the sky, all in the right place, so natural their placement seems accidentally. Languid emotions float gently over the simplicity of an acoustic guitar. Holiday Rambler is the everyman that died long ago, the tradition your grandparents remembered, but your parent discarded. Lose yourself in these lost hymns. Eat your heart out computer music.
MERMAIDS
Psychedelic folk ensemble featuring Janet Macpherson (vocals), Martin Arnold (Banjo), Kurt Newman (pedal steel) and the infamous Ryan Driver (analog synth) reinterpret traditional folk song & ballads from the British Isles. Watch as the minds of Toronto's great contrarians go to work on British tradition in what can only be described as a cacophonous rebirth effort. Don't miss it!
Environs by Sebastian Butt
$10 Adv at Circus Books and Music, Cask Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
$12 at the door
Free dinner with adv. ticket!
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1670208396389957/
Feast In The East is made possible through support from the Toronto Arts Council and Wellington Brewery
Sunday, June 3rd @ Baby G (1608 Dundas St. West) - 9pm - $10/$12
MANAS (http://feedingtuberecords.com/releases/iii/)
Guitarist Tashi Dorji returns to Toronto with his duo come trio Manas. Drummer Thom Nguyen and percussionist Tyler Damon trade secrets & rhythms and Dorji plays angular guitar passages often spurring on the ecstatic clattering & creaking of his compatriots. This trio with a new record out on Feeding Tube Records sounds like the inner working of some infernal machine. Each player counters the other at every turn, working themselves into what comes a constant frenzy of caustic notes & drum hits. Total blasting unit. Noise heads, shred buds, avant free formers, punks gone wrong, this is the unit for you. Face rip music for the ages.
CLARINET PANIC REDUX (https://clarinetpanicdeluxx.bandcamp.com/)
Deluxx becomes Redux as Clarinet Panic re-unite for your pleasure & pain! Hectic dream jams from cellist Cory Latkovich, avant percussionist/eccentric genius D. Alex Meeks (Hooded Fang, Holiday Rambler), saxophonist Karen Ng (Andy Shauf, Convergence Ensemble, etc) and guitarist Sebastian Shinwell. Clattering ahead like the score to a never ending horror film, inching towards climax as cello and sax play a game of back & forth only to be driven forward by systematically antagonistic drum patterns and their own instrumental curiosity. Rigid breakdowns give way to seemingly free form guitar & sax chaos, only to slam us back in the exacting grid like patterns with more force & precision that ever before. Bastard chamber music meets math rock. Sponsored by Beef Jerky Unlimited.
KURT NEWMAN'S NASHVILLE MINIMALISM UNIT (http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.ca/2017/12/recording-kurt-newmans-nashville.html)
Toronto shredder takes the Nashville twang & blasts it like you won't believe. Guitar fillets served with blasts of static, feedback & distortion. Angular blues destruction. Noise guitar gets in the Dad zone while the riffage keeps on kicking. Textural fuzz haunts Kurt's world like a million unhappy spirits of the true shred. Get haunted or get lost!
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
co-presented with Mechanical Forest Sound (http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.ca/)
This Show: $10 Adv / $12 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/187457951976113/
Guitarist Tashi Dorji returns to Toronto with his duo come trio Manas. Drummer Thom Nguyen and percussionist Tyler Damon trade secrets & rhythms and Dorji plays angular guitar passages often spurring on the ecstatic clattering & creaking of his compatriots. This trio with a new record out on Feeding Tube Records sounds like the inner working of some infernal machine. Each player counters the other at every turn, working themselves into what comes a constant frenzy of caustic notes & drum hits. Total blasting unit. Noise heads, shred buds, avant free formers, punks gone wrong, this is the unit for you. Face rip music for the ages.
CLARINET PANIC REDUX (https://clarinetpanicdeluxx.bandcamp.com/)
Deluxx becomes Redux as Clarinet Panic re-unite for your pleasure & pain! Hectic dream jams from cellist Cory Latkovich, avant percussionist/eccentric genius D. Alex Meeks (Hooded Fang, Holiday Rambler), saxophonist Karen Ng (Andy Shauf, Convergence Ensemble, etc) and guitarist Sebastian Shinwell. Clattering ahead like the score to a never ending horror film, inching towards climax as cello and sax play a game of back & forth only to be driven forward by systematically antagonistic drum patterns and their own instrumental curiosity. Rigid breakdowns give way to seemingly free form guitar & sax chaos, only to slam us back in the exacting grid like patterns with more force & precision that ever before. Bastard chamber music meets math rock. Sponsored by Beef Jerky Unlimited.
KURT NEWMAN'S NASHVILLE MINIMALISM UNIT (http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.ca/2017/12/recording-kurt-newmans-nashville.html)
Toronto shredder takes the Nashville twang & blasts it like you won't believe. Guitar fillets served with blasts of static, feedback & distortion. Angular blues destruction. Noise guitar gets in the Dad zone while the riffage keeps on kicking. Textural fuzz haunts Kurt's world like a million unhappy spirits of the true shred. Get haunted or get lost!
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
co-presented with Mechanical Forest Sound (http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.ca/)
This Show: $10 Adv / $12 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/187457951976113/
Tuesday, June 5th @ Baby G (1608 Dundas St. West) - 9pm - $12/$15
WACLAW ZIMPEL & KUBA ZIOLEK (https://instantclassic.bandcamp.com/album/zimpel-zio-ek)
Polish reed player Waclaw Zimpel and guitarist Kuba Ziolek (Stara Rzeka) team up to create a beautiful marriage of folk guitar textures silky saxophone curls and electronic manipulations. These Polish luminaries push each other into uncharted territory on their first collaboration. Driving song structures lose themselves in meandering horn lines & glitching fuzz tones that scurry like insects on the forest floor. Vocals sway & wisp over interwoven guitar & horn dances. Dynamic, meditative caressing angular passages hold a virtuosic quality while also drawing from minimalism, contemporary electronic music and age old folk traditions. Don't miss this rare set by 2 of Poland's heaviest musical exports.
JOSEPH SHABASON (https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com/)
Destroyer & Diana saxophonist Joseph Shabason is a compelling composer in his own right. His music sees instruments languid whispers create sleepy flourishes as they slip in & out of the soundscape. Living somewhere between new age, ambient and low key avant jazz moods Shabason finds warmth in the shadows. Synth notes drip into smooth horn lines that seems to dissipate into mist as soon as they are released. Piano keys sing in the meandering fog. Notes hymn & haw in a world of the light touch.
NICK STORRING (https://nickstorring.bandcamp.com/)
Composer & cellist Nick Storring (Picastro) slips back into the live arena. Using the live cello as a base Storring creates collaged electro-acoutic structures that move from haunting to comical. A master of timing & assemblage notes twist & break at just the right second. Lost electronics burst into string swells. Sounding almost Partch-esque at times, come early to catch Toronto's master of the knife.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
This Show: $12 Adv / $15 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/176755676478256/
Polish reed player Waclaw Zimpel and guitarist Kuba Ziolek (Stara Rzeka) team up to create a beautiful marriage of folk guitar textures silky saxophone curls and electronic manipulations. These Polish luminaries push each other into uncharted territory on their first collaboration. Driving song structures lose themselves in meandering horn lines & glitching fuzz tones that scurry like insects on the forest floor. Vocals sway & wisp over interwoven guitar & horn dances. Dynamic, meditative caressing angular passages hold a virtuosic quality while also drawing from minimalism, contemporary electronic music and age old folk traditions. Don't miss this rare set by 2 of Poland's heaviest musical exports.
JOSEPH SHABASON (https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com/)
Destroyer & Diana saxophonist Joseph Shabason is a compelling composer in his own right. His music sees instruments languid whispers create sleepy flourishes as they slip in & out of the soundscape. Living somewhere between new age, ambient and low key avant jazz moods Shabason finds warmth in the shadows. Synth notes drip into smooth horn lines that seems to dissipate into mist as soon as they are released. Piano keys sing in the meandering fog. Notes hymn & haw in a world of the light touch.
NICK STORRING (https://nickstorring.bandcamp.com/)
Composer & cellist Nick Storring (Picastro) slips back into the live arena. Using the live cello as a base Storring creates collaged electro-acoutic structures that move from haunting to comical. A master of timing & assemblage notes twist & break at just the right second. Lost electronics burst into string swells. Sounding almost Partch-esque at times, come early to catch Toronto's master of the knife.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
This Show: $12 Adv / $15 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/176755676478256/
Friday, June 8th @ Array Space (155 Walnut Ave.) - 9pm - $15/$18 - All Ages
ANTHONY COLEMAN
Pianist – Composer Anthony Coleman has been one of the key figures of New York music for nearly four decades. His work bridges the gap between Composition and Improvisation, Uptown and Downtown, and spans a wide range of genres and practices including Free Improvisation, Jazz, Jewish music (of various types), and Contemporary Chamber Music. Balancing a powerful sense of structural logic and expressionistic color, Coleman has had a prolific career as a composer.
c_RL (https://crlmusic.bandcamp.com/releases)
Free improv / electro-acoustic power trio of Allison Cameron (electronics & objects), Germaine Liu (percussion), and Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet) let the fury rip. The rhythmic chaos ensues fuel by Cameron & Liu lovingly egging each other on, while Rampersaud handles the acrobatics overhead. The true gift of joy seeps from their music like the sap from a maple tree. That pesky yet ever lovable Canadian goo. Always a playful note as one of Toronto's most refined improv crews bounces their ideas around like children abandoned in a bouncing castle. Cameron adds electronic bleeps & gurgles to Germaine's focused percussive regiment, while Rampersaud squeaks & tip toes until the space emerges for a full on serenade.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
This Show: $15 Adv / $18 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/588981874792352/
Pianist – Composer Anthony Coleman has been one of the key figures of New York music for nearly four decades. His work bridges the gap between Composition and Improvisation, Uptown and Downtown, and spans a wide range of genres and practices including Free Improvisation, Jazz, Jewish music (of various types), and Contemporary Chamber Music. Balancing a powerful sense of structural logic and expressionistic color, Coleman has had a prolific career as a composer.
c_RL (https://crlmusic.bandcamp.com/releases)
Free improv / electro-acoustic power trio of Allison Cameron (electronics & objects), Germaine Liu (percussion), and Nicole Rampersaud (trumpet) let the fury rip. The rhythmic chaos ensues fuel by Cameron & Liu lovingly egging each other on, while Rampersaud handles the acrobatics overhead. The true gift of joy seeps from their music like the sap from a maple tree. That pesky yet ever lovable Canadian goo. Always a playful note as one of Toronto's most refined improv crews bounces their ideas around like children abandoned in a bouncing castle. Cameron adds electronic bleeps & gurgles to Germaine's focused percussive regiment, while Rampersaud squeaks & tip toes until the space emerges for a full on serenade.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
This Show: $15 Adv / $18 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/588981874792352/
Saturday, June 9th @ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West) - 9pm - $12/$15
JESSICA MOSS (https://jessicamoss.bandcamp.com/)
Montreal violinist & vocalist Jessica Moss (A Silver Mt. Zion), hits the road with her solo project, focusing on her music for violin, voice & electronics. Tortured violin loops weave a web of bristly yet comforting fur. Errant vibrations blistering into distorted notes. Beauty finds a way to exist amongst inevitable sorrow. Don't miss what is sure to be an inspiring & introspective performance.
TRYAL (https://tryal1.bandcamp.com/)
Alex Samaras' dreamy electronic pop influenced compositions float through the atmosphere like it's the lazy river. Synth & manipulated guitar notes are a stream for layers of vocals drifting over top. Samaras' coos become repeated mantras as drum beats paddle along. Smooth textures birth a new type of healing song. Ambient nods are like silk whispers passing in the night.
MANTICORE (https://soundcloud.com/mmmanticore)
Zoe Alexis-Abrams & David Jones touch the outer realms of alien communication with their duo Manticore. Haunting guitar tones shriek & twist as if letting go of some captive spirit. Like an unnatural wind meandering through an abandoned factory. Zoe’s voice hovers above these eerie manifestations, some times joining them in an alien chatter, almost creating a dialogue with the wayward phantoms. As captivating as it is versatile, her vocals occupy an adventurous, almost naive territory, as they stretch out their acrobatic routine in a venomous world.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
This Show: $12 Adv / $15 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/179200349571683/
Montreal violinist & vocalist Jessica Moss (A Silver Mt. Zion), hits the road with her solo project, focusing on her music for violin, voice & electronics. Tortured violin loops weave a web of bristly yet comforting fur. Errant vibrations blistering into distorted notes. Beauty finds a way to exist amongst inevitable sorrow. Don't miss what is sure to be an inspiring & introspective performance.
TRYAL (https://tryal1.bandcamp.com/)
Alex Samaras' dreamy electronic pop influenced compositions float through the atmosphere like it's the lazy river. Synth & manipulated guitar notes are a stream for layers of vocals drifting over top. Samaras' coos become repeated mantras as drum beats paddle along. Smooth textures birth a new type of healing song. Ambient nods are like silk whispers passing in the night.
MANTICORE (https://soundcloud.com/mmmanticore)
Zoe Alexis-Abrams & David Jones touch the outer realms of alien communication with their duo Manticore. Haunting guitar tones shriek & twist as if letting go of some captive spirit. Like an unnatural wind meandering through an abandoned factory. Zoe’s voice hovers above these eerie manifestations, some times joining them in an alien chatter, almost creating a dialogue with the wayward phantoms. As captivating as it is versatile, her vocals occupy an adventurous, almost naive territory, as they stretch out their acrobatic routine in a venomous world.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
This Show: $12 Adv / $15 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/179200349571683/
Friday, June 15th @ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.) - 9pm - $15/$18 - All Ages
EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK (https://cstrecords.com/efrim-manuel-menuck)
Founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Silver Mt. Zion, Efrim Manuel Menuck returns to Toronto accompanied by Kevin Doria (Growing) to play some heavy material of his newest solo record "Pissing Stars" out now on Constellation. Blossoming guitar and synth swells mingle with each other over drum machine beats. Menuck's voice glows in it's low-fi effected glory, as the layers of reverb slip away. Synth tones glisten in a dance with warbling electronics. Efrim's guitar work is as full and enveloping as ever.
FET.NAT (https://fetnat.bandcamp.com/)
Hull, Quebec weirdos pump out the angular no wave jams. Demonic vocals beathe over tight rhythms, locked in guitar grooves and spaced out sax squeals. Pulling percussive tendancies out of some Warp meets 99 Record vortex, Fet.Nat bounces from abbrassive textures to beat driven gestations. Samples & electronics play with errant saxophone howls. Drawing influence from nyc no wave, the spastic tendancies of noise rock bands like Melt Banana, Old Time Relijun and contemporary electronic experimentalists, this mutant baby is a must see live experience! Big up Hull!
FRESH SNOW (http://freshsnowmusic.com/)
Toronto kraut quartet adventures in the round. Undying synth lines and guitar fuzz merge into one vibrating beast driven by a drum beat locked into the warbling distortion. More space music for the 22nd century. Constantly moving forward building the humming, buzzing, clattering structure that is Fresh Snow. Rough guitar notes cut through pulsating fuzz to converse with formless electronics. Hard psych noodling becomes a back drop for groove repetition. Hints of jangle pop dig themselves out of a squealing wall of sound. Don't miss this space kraut unit about to alter life as know it.
SCATTERED CLOUDS (https://scatteredclouds.bandcamp.com/)
Another Hull, Quebec mutation Scattered Clouds are the soundtrack to some cold war science fiction apocalypse. Heavy bass tones rumble underneath cold synth blast & swells. Clattering noise deconstruction. Driving percussion form the heart of this wayward world. Krautrock with a dark industrial tinge, bass lines almost bounce in this chilling landscape. Find these guys down some back alley jamming in a shipping container.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
Co-presented with Wavelength Music Series & Boiled Records.
This Show: $15 Adv / $18 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, Soundscapes and online through TicketScene: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/21123/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/395916374224683/
Founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Silver Mt. Zion, Efrim Manuel Menuck returns to Toronto accompanied by Kevin Doria (Growing) to play some heavy material of his newest solo record "Pissing Stars" out now on Constellation. Blossoming guitar and synth swells mingle with each other over drum machine beats. Menuck's voice glows in it's low-fi effected glory, as the layers of reverb slip away. Synth tones glisten in a dance with warbling electronics. Efrim's guitar work is as full and enveloping as ever.
FET.NAT (https://fetnat.bandcamp.com/)
Hull, Quebec weirdos pump out the angular no wave jams. Demonic vocals beathe over tight rhythms, locked in guitar grooves and spaced out sax squeals. Pulling percussive tendancies out of some Warp meets 99 Record vortex, Fet.Nat bounces from abbrassive textures to beat driven gestations. Samples & electronics play with errant saxophone howls. Drawing influence from nyc no wave, the spastic tendancies of noise rock bands like Melt Banana, Old Time Relijun and contemporary electronic experimentalists, this mutant baby is a must see live experience! Big up Hull!
FRESH SNOW (http://freshsnowmusic.com/)
Toronto kraut quartet adventures in the round. Undying synth lines and guitar fuzz merge into one vibrating beast driven by a drum beat locked into the warbling distortion. More space music for the 22nd century. Constantly moving forward building the humming, buzzing, clattering structure that is Fresh Snow. Rough guitar notes cut through pulsating fuzz to converse with formless electronics. Hard psych noodling becomes a back drop for groove repetition. Hints of jangle pop dig themselves out of a squealing wall of sound. Don't miss this space kraut unit about to alter life as know it.
SCATTERED CLOUDS (https://scatteredclouds.bandcamp.com/)
Another Hull, Quebec mutation Scattered Clouds are the soundtrack to some cold war science fiction apocalypse. Heavy bass tones rumble underneath cold synth blast & swells. Clattering noise deconstruction. Driving percussion form the heart of this wayward world. Krautrock with a dark industrial tinge, bass lines almost bounce in this chilling landscape. Find these guys down some back alley jamming in a shipping container.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
Co-presented with Wavelength Music Series & Boiled Records.
This Show: $15 Adv / $18 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, Soundscapes and online through TicketScene: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/21123/
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/395916374224683/
Sunday, June 17th @ Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave.) - 8pm - $10/$12
THE REVIVAL ENSEMBLE (https://soundcloud.com/tedcrosby)
Led by reedist Ted Crosby, interprets and re-imagines the works of great composers with a focus on free improvisation and contemporary composition. The group will be tackling Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's landmark 1967 album, the Far East Suite. The piece was inspired by the Ellington Orchestra's trip to Asia and the Middle East and sought to give portraits of various places the band visited. While Revival will stay true to Ellington's themes, the ensemble will explore the idea of travel and exploration into unknown territory deriving from their own experiences in our modern world.
Ted Crosby - reeds
Lisen Rylander Love - reeds
Karen Ng - reeds
Alan Mackie - violin
Lina Allemano - trumpet
Rebecca Hennessy - trumpet
Michael Davidson - vibraphone
Scott Thomson - trombone
Harley Card - guitar
Cole Schmidt - guitar
James Meger - bass
Dan Gaucher - drums
SICK BOSS LÖVE (https://sickboss.bandcamp.com/)
Drawing from creative improvisation, folk, and Hendrix, guitarist Cole Schmidt, bassist James Meger and drummer Dan Gaucher, travel from Vancouver with an unafraid collage of big bold ideas that’ll carry listeners to unexpected places. For this performance they will be meeting again with Lisen Rylander Löve from Gothenburg, Sweden. Lisen Rylander Löve is an internationally acclaimed Swedish musician and composer who inhabits a unique territory between jazz, electronic music, and improvisation. Her singular sound melds saxophone and voice with live electronics to create compelling soundscapes.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
This Show: $10 Adv / $12 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205847900019692/
Led by reedist Ted Crosby, interprets and re-imagines the works of great composers with a focus on free improvisation and contemporary composition. The group will be tackling Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's landmark 1967 album, the Far East Suite. The piece was inspired by the Ellington Orchestra's trip to Asia and the Middle East and sought to give portraits of various places the band visited. While Revival will stay true to Ellington's themes, the ensemble will explore the idea of travel and exploration into unknown territory deriving from their own experiences in our modern world.
Ted Crosby - reeds
Lisen Rylander Love - reeds
Karen Ng - reeds
Alan Mackie - violin
Lina Allemano - trumpet
Rebecca Hennessy - trumpet
Michael Davidson - vibraphone
Scott Thomson - trombone
Harley Card - guitar
Cole Schmidt - guitar
James Meger - bass
Dan Gaucher - drums
SICK BOSS LÖVE (https://sickboss.bandcamp.com/)
Drawing from creative improvisation, folk, and Hendrix, guitarist Cole Schmidt, bassist James Meger and drummer Dan Gaucher, travel from Vancouver with an unafraid collage of big bold ideas that’ll carry listeners to unexpected places. For this performance they will be meeting again with Lisen Rylander Löve from Gothenburg, Sweden. Lisen Rylander Löve is an internationally acclaimed Swedish musician and composer who inhabits a unique territory between jazz, electronic music, and improvisation. Her singular sound melds saxophone and voice with live electronics to create compelling soundscapes.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
This Show: $10 Adv / $12 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/205847900019692/
Tuesday, June 19th @ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.) - 8pm - $15/$18 - All Ages
Oren Ambarchi & Will Guthrie (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQLh2VdVTt8)
Jazz Bras Dot Com (https://jazzbrasdotcom.bandcamp.com/)
RETIRED (https://retired1.bandcamp.com/)
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
Part of The Music Gallery's Departures series, curated by Tad Michalak
Tickets: $18 Regular / $15 Advance / $10 Members & Students at musicgallery.org, Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes
Our final core presentation of the year takes place in the eastward loft space of the Jam Factory where electronic composer / multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi teams up with Australian drummer / percussionist Will Guthrie. Ambarchi and Guthrie gentlemen have known each other for years, first meeting in Melbourne in the 90s where they quickly formed a mutual admiration society. Since then they have worked together often in varying contexts, most recently with Guthrie guesting on Ambarchi's acclaimed "Hubris" album (Editions Mego 2016) and Ambarchi releasing Guthrie's mind-boggling "People Pleaser" album on his Black Truffle imprint (2017). The duo thrives on the interplay between Ambarchi's swirling guitar harmonics and the metronomic pulse and constantly shifting accents of Guthrie's drumming. They weave a mesmerising net of frequencies, textures and rhythms, fusing the organic push and pull of a '70s psych jam, the bass response of a doom metal ritual and the psycho-acoustic precision of an Alvin Lucier composition. Building on the foundation of Guthrie's insistent ride cymbal and propulsive polyrhythms alongside the shifting tonal bed of Ambarchi's rich, overtone-drenched guitar and buzzsaw harmonics, Ambarchi and Guthrie merge the 'in-the-moment' crackling vitality of free improvisation with an overarching compositional framework.
Emergents alum Laura Swankey's Jazz Bras Dot Com is free and angular and quirky and strange. Fulfilling all the feminist noise hopes, dreams and desires you never knew you had. Featuring Jessica Ackerley (guitar), Laura Swankey (voice), Elisa Thorn (harp)
Toronto free form punk jazz wanderers Retired bring dark eerie forbidding sonic meanderings to life with Percussive movements that cruise seamlessly through ominous bass tones. Guitar growls unhinged, as saxophone splutters a bitter syrup. Like a junkyard creation slowly breaking apart as it races towards an impending destruction that will never come. Becoming more haunting & mangled as it evolves from one form to another. The swing of jazz emanates from what is more like some lost kraut jam.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/184300502222857/
Jazz Bras Dot Com (https://jazzbrasdotcom.bandcamp.com/)
RETIRED (https://retired1.bandcamp.com/)
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
Part of The Music Gallery's Departures series, curated by Tad Michalak
Tickets: $18 Regular / $15 Advance / $10 Members & Students at musicgallery.org, Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes
Our final core presentation of the year takes place in the eastward loft space of the Jam Factory where electronic composer / multi-instrumentalist Oren Ambarchi teams up with Australian drummer / percussionist Will Guthrie. Ambarchi and Guthrie gentlemen have known each other for years, first meeting in Melbourne in the 90s where they quickly formed a mutual admiration society. Since then they have worked together often in varying contexts, most recently with Guthrie guesting on Ambarchi's acclaimed "Hubris" album (Editions Mego 2016) and Ambarchi releasing Guthrie's mind-boggling "People Pleaser" album on his Black Truffle imprint (2017). The duo thrives on the interplay between Ambarchi's swirling guitar harmonics and the metronomic pulse and constantly shifting accents of Guthrie's drumming. They weave a mesmerising net of frequencies, textures and rhythms, fusing the organic push and pull of a '70s psych jam, the bass response of a doom metal ritual and the psycho-acoustic precision of an Alvin Lucier composition. Building on the foundation of Guthrie's insistent ride cymbal and propulsive polyrhythms alongside the shifting tonal bed of Ambarchi's rich, overtone-drenched guitar and buzzsaw harmonics, Ambarchi and Guthrie merge the 'in-the-moment' crackling vitality of free improvisation with an overarching compositional framework.
Emergents alum Laura Swankey's Jazz Bras Dot Com is free and angular and quirky and strange. Fulfilling all the feminist noise hopes, dreams and desires you never knew you had. Featuring Jessica Ackerley (guitar), Laura Swankey (voice), Elisa Thorn (harp)
Toronto free form punk jazz wanderers Retired bring dark eerie forbidding sonic meanderings to life with Percussive movements that cruise seamlessly through ominous bass tones. Guitar growls unhinged, as saxophone splutters a bitter syrup. Like a junkyard creation slowly breaking apart as it races towards an impending destruction that will never come. Becoming more haunting & mangled as it evolves from one form to another. The swing of jazz emanates from what is more like some lost kraut jam.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/184300502222857/
Friday, June 22nd @ Array Space (155 Walnut Ave.) - 9pm - $15/$18 - All Ages
CHARLES GAYLE (https://charlesgayle.bandcamp.com/releases)
Charles Gayle grows in the same arboretum as free jazz pioneers Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Pharoah Saunders and Archie Shepp. Gayle branches into incendiary urban American gospel, informed by the concrete environs. During extended periods of homelessness in New York City, he assumed the character of “Streets”. Streets serves as a recurrent humble tramp clown (Emmett Kelly/Charlie Chaplin) offering an ego free focus on the music rather than the man. Behind that role he need not say much. The tenor saxophone afforded an intensely spirited expression later evolving into piano and bass pursuits as available. Note that he also is an accomplished carillonneur willing to peal the music from inviting belfries. Vision Festival #19 Arts for Art bestowed their annual Lifetime Achievement Award on Charles in 2014. The program featured the artist in duo, quartet and conduction of an ad hoc 10 piece orchestra while playing piano.
TONE welcomes Charles Gayle to the intimate theatre and baby grand piano of Arrayspace. The finale concert will offer solo and trio settings along with Shuffle Demon’s Rhythm Section: George Koller- bass and Stich Wynston – drums.
WAYS (https://www.brodiewest.com/ways/)
Saxophonist Brodie West (Eucalyptus) teams up with percussionist Evan Cartwright (Eucalyptus, Tasseomancy, Alex Lukashevsky, etc). In this thoughtful duo both West & Cartwright play with the rhythm, they pass notes back & forth in a playful yes cautious way. Their music is full of space, letting each note truly absorb into the air before veering from it. Saxophone phrases wander over sparse minimalist percussion. Like old friends playing an elongated game of chess their interactions are curt and full of intent. The bare minimum says the most.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
This Show: $15 Adv / $18 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/437319743372046/
Charles Gayle grows in the same arboretum as free jazz pioneers Albert Ayler, John Coltrane, Pharoah Saunders and Archie Shepp. Gayle branches into incendiary urban American gospel, informed by the concrete environs. During extended periods of homelessness in New York City, he assumed the character of “Streets”. Streets serves as a recurrent humble tramp clown (Emmett Kelly/Charlie Chaplin) offering an ego free focus on the music rather than the man. Behind that role he need not say much. The tenor saxophone afforded an intensely spirited expression later evolving into piano and bass pursuits as available. Note that he also is an accomplished carillonneur willing to peal the music from inviting belfries. Vision Festival #19 Arts for Art bestowed their annual Lifetime Achievement Award on Charles in 2014. The program featured the artist in duo, quartet and conduction of an ad hoc 10 piece orchestra while playing piano.
TONE welcomes Charles Gayle to the intimate theatre and baby grand piano of Arrayspace. The finale concert will offer solo and trio settings along with Shuffle Demon’s Rhythm Section: George Koller- bass and Stich Wynston – drums.
WAYS (https://www.brodiewest.com/ways/)
Saxophonist Brodie West (Eucalyptus) teams up with percussionist Evan Cartwright (Eucalyptus, Tasseomancy, Alex Lukashevsky, etc). In this thoughtful duo both West & Cartwright play with the rhythm, they pass notes back & forth in a playful yes cautious way. Their music is full of space, letting each note truly absorb into the air before veering from it. Saxophone phrases wander over sparse minimalist percussion. Like old friends playing an elongated game of chess their interactions are curt and full of intent. The bare minimum says the most.
Presented as part of TONE (https://tonetoronto.tumblr.com/)
This Show: $15 Adv / $18 Door / 4-Show Pass: $55 / All Show Pass: $95
Passes & Tickets available at: Circus Books and Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/437319743372046/
Upcoming Winter 2018 Shows:
SAT, JULY 7TH - Feast In The East 69: The Highest Order + Eric Landry + Faun Fables @ Prairie Drive Park
SUN, JULY 15TH - FaUSt + Castle If @ The Jam Factory
AUG 31ST - SEPT 3RD - Intersection 2018
SAT, SEPT 8TH - Feast In The East 70 @ Matt Durant Studio
SUN, JULY 15TH - FaUSt + Castle If @ The Jam Factory
AUG 31ST - SEPT 3RD - Intersection 2018
SAT, SEPT 8TH - Feast In The East 70 @ Matt Durant Studio