FRIDAY, MARCH 13TH @ Annette Studios (566 Annette St.) - 7:30pm - $20 / $30 - All Ages
BRAHJA
HIGH ALPINE HUT NETWORK
Mutating avant jazz quintet Brahja, led by NYC saxophonist Devin Brahja Waldman, comes to town with a fresh crop of songs. Toronto’s own electronic jazz meets free form psych rock melting pot collective, High Alpine Hut Network joins them for a night of sonic morphology.
Brahja’s ever evolving line up features Montreal & NYC heavy hitters, guitarist Sam Shalabi, percussionist Daniel Gélinas, pianist Damon Handoff, bassist Georgia Wartel Collins, and of course saxophonist & composer Devin Brahja Waldman. The rhythmically driven quintet draws from the wells of spiritual and soul jazz, balancing powerful sax mantras with atmospheric moods. High Alpine Hut Network sits in a genre defying realm where rhythm is also king, pushing their improvised maelstrom from ripping rock riffs to charred free jazz fusion inspired horn escalations. Both ensembles embrace the bubbling transformations at hand.
TICKETS
HIGH ALPINE HUT NETWORK
Mutating avant jazz quintet Brahja, led by NYC saxophonist Devin Brahja Waldman, comes to town with a fresh crop of songs. Toronto’s own electronic jazz meets free form psych rock melting pot collective, High Alpine Hut Network joins them for a night of sonic morphology.
Brahja’s ever evolving line up features Montreal & NYC heavy hitters, guitarist Sam Shalabi, percussionist Daniel Gélinas, pianist Damon Handoff, bassist Georgia Wartel Collins, and of course saxophonist & composer Devin Brahja Waldman. The rhythmically driven quintet draws from the wells of spiritual and soul jazz, balancing powerful sax mantras with atmospheric moods. High Alpine Hut Network sits in a genre defying realm where rhythm is also king, pushing their improvised maelstrom from ripping rock riffs to charred free jazz fusion inspired horn escalations. Both ensembles embrace the bubbling transformations at hand.
TICKETS
THURSDAY, MAY 14TH @ Standard Time (165 Geary Ave. 2nd Floor, Unit A) - 8pm - $30/$35, All Ages
ERIC CHENAUX & RYAN DRIVER (bandcamp)
Constellation Records' guitarist & singer Eric Chenaux returns home to Toronto for a foray with long-time collaborator Ryan Driver. Gentle acoustic guitar notes stretch out & ripple underneath electric psych inspired meanderings. Eric's voice weaves seamlessly among this textural landscape, like a silk sheet in the wind. Every movement is subtle, yet beautiful. A storyteller from a slower time, a player from the jazz tradition borrowing gracefully from the folk form. Two sonic ramblers existing out of time, but in step with their own hearts.
RAFAEL TORAL (bandcamp)
Portuguese experimental guitarist & synthesist Rafael Toral comes to town in support of his newest record on Drag City, “Traveling Light”. A collection of jazz standards put through Toral’s elongated ambient treatments. Notes stretch and crackle as they become humming landscapes. Ethereal drones emerge out of woozy jazz phrases. Throughout his close to 40 year career he’s built a plethora of home brew electronic instruments that now work in conversation with his guitar work. Together this intricate textural & rhythmic dance moves his work into a totally other sonic universe where it feels like a rare bird sending its bent coos & tweets back to earth from a distant space station. Rafael catches these errant notes and arranges them perfectly. Don’t miss this!
MASAHIRO TAKAHSASHI (bandcamp)
Toronto-based Japanese composer-musician Masahiro Takahashi has been crafting gently spellbinding pieces that simultaneously embrace electronic abstraction and a palpable, even brittle, humanity. His delicate and evocative landscapes always seem to be illuminated in vibrant magic hour tones as golden synth lines emanate from between soft flickers of acoustic instrumentation. He has released music on an array of labels, such as Not Not Fun, JJ Funhouse, Slow Editions and his 2026 record In Another on Telephone Explosion Records. He also composes for films and art installations.
TICKETS
FACEBOOK EVENT
Constellation Records' guitarist & singer Eric Chenaux returns home to Toronto for a foray with long-time collaborator Ryan Driver. Gentle acoustic guitar notes stretch out & ripple underneath electric psych inspired meanderings. Eric's voice weaves seamlessly among this textural landscape, like a silk sheet in the wind. Every movement is subtle, yet beautiful. A storyteller from a slower time, a player from the jazz tradition borrowing gracefully from the folk form. Two sonic ramblers existing out of time, but in step with their own hearts.
RAFAEL TORAL (bandcamp)
Portuguese experimental guitarist & synthesist Rafael Toral comes to town in support of his newest record on Drag City, “Traveling Light”. A collection of jazz standards put through Toral’s elongated ambient treatments. Notes stretch and crackle as they become humming landscapes. Ethereal drones emerge out of woozy jazz phrases. Throughout his close to 40 year career he’s built a plethora of home brew electronic instruments that now work in conversation with his guitar work. Together this intricate textural & rhythmic dance moves his work into a totally other sonic universe where it feels like a rare bird sending its bent coos & tweets back to earth from a distant space station. Rafael catches these errant notes and arranges them perfectly. Don’t miss this!
MASAHIRO TAKAHSASHI (bandcamp)
Toronto-based Japanese composer-musician Masahiro Takahashi has been crafting gently spellbinding pieces that simultaneously embrace electronic abstraction and a palpable, even brittle, humanity. His delicate and evocative landscapes always seem to be illuminated in vibrant magic hour tones as golden synth lines emanate from between soft flickers of acoustic instrumentation. He has released music on an array of labels, such as Not Not Fun, JJ Funhouse, Slow Editions and his 2026 record In Another on Telephone Explosion Records. He also composes for films and art installations.
TICKETS
FACEBOOK EVENT
SATURDAY, MAY 23RD @ Collective Arts (777 Dundas St. West) - 8pm - $20/$25
COLE PULICE (bandcamp)
California based electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser & composer Cole Pulice makes their first appearance in Toronto after dropping 2025’s ethereal album “Land’s End Eternal" on Leaving Records. Ambient jazz moods hum with airy saxophone breathes and delicate guitar notes. Synthesized swells ripple like rays of sun dancing through the clouds. Pulice’s light touch can be heard throughout their music, letting the released notes float their own way through this enveloping atmosphere. Fourth Worldian landscapes that recalled the influence of Pauline Oliveros, David Behrman and Terry Riley among others. Transformative, meditative worlds pull you deep into the zone.
SPEARING (Karen Ng & Charles Spearin)
Toronto saxophonist & improviser Karen Ng hot off the release of her newest record “Blue Backward” on Halocline Trance last fall, teams up with another Toronto stalwart, Charles Spearin (Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, etc.) for a new duo project. Inquisitive horn phrases flourish with creaking tones and sputtering whispers. Saxophone notes tie themselves in intricate knots, as Spearin’s nyckelharpa fills the air with wavering elongated drones. These long time pals and frequent collaborators refine the textural sonic dance in a stripped down duo setting.
GRACE SCHEELE (bandcamp)
Grace Scheele is an unconventional artist noted for her innovative take on experimental and ambient forms. She masterfully interweaves harp rumblings, cinematic drones, textural loops, and candid tape confessions into music that celebrates that liminal ‘in-between’; a place of question, blank existence, or wonder. An interdisciplinary artist, electroacoustic harpist, and composer, she works across a wide range of disciplines.
TICKETS
FACEBOOK EVENT
California based electroacoustic saxophonist, improviser & composer Cole Pulice makes their first appearance in Toronto after dropping 2025’s ethereal album “Land’s End Eternal" on Leaving Records. Ambient jazz moods hum with airy saxophone breathes and delicate guitar notes. Synthesized swells ripple like rays of sun dancing through the clouds. Pulice’s light touch can be heard throughout their music, letting the released notes float their own way through this enveloping atmosphere. Fourth Worldian landscapes that recalled the influence of Pauline Oliveros, David Behrman and Terry Riley among others. Transformative, meditative worlds pull you deep into the zone.
SPEARING (Karen Ng & Charles Spearin)
Toronto saxophonist & improviser Karen Ng hot off the release of her newest record “Blue Backward” on Halocline Trance last fall, teams up with another Toronto stalwart, Charles Spearin (Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene, etc.) for a new duo project. Inquisitive horn phrases flourish with creaking tones and sputtering whispers. Saxophone notes tie themselves in intricate knots, as Spearin’s nyckelharpa fills the air with wavering elongated drones. These long time pals and frequent collaborators refine the textural sonic dance in a stripped down duo setting.
GRACE SCHEELE (bandcamp)
Grace Scheele is an unconventional artist noted for her innovative take on experimental and ambient forms. She masterfully interweaves harp rumblings, cinematic drones, textural loops, and candid tape confessions into music that celebrates that liminal ‘in-between’; a place of question, blank existence, or wonder. An interdisciplinary artist, electroacoustic harpist, and composer, she works across a wide range of disciplines.
TICKETS
FACEBOOK EVENT
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