Saturday, February 22nd @ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West) - 9pm, $10
MARK MORGAN (https://markcharlesmorgan.bandcamp.com)
Experimental guitarist Mark Morgan (Sightings, Wolf Eyes) has been creating textural sonic mutations for decades. His more recent solo work takes his signature sound of gnarled guitar notes grinding on each other with a dissonant magnetism & brings it to the next level. Slow burning industrial noise riffage evolves into angular screeches with the fluidity of funk, but the caustic flavour of an auto manufacturing plant. Morgan's accute sense of rhythm in his playing shows as he juggles errant distortion notes & corroding tones. Don't miss one of the most original & engaging guitarist around!
CARL DIDUR (https://www.youtube.com/carldidur)
Part of the mastermind behind Zacht Automaat and Fake Humans, electronic manipulator & synthesizer Carl Didur creates equally as brilliant & encompassing solo compositions. Glowing organ tones hum over eerie tape loops & vibrating synth tones. An electronic wizard from a lost century. Toronto's best kept secret?
NEW TENDENCIES (https://newtendencies.bandcamp.com)
The solo electronic project of Matt Nish-Lapidus sees him migrate across varying landscapes from meditative ambient drones to minimal techno. Glitched electronics birth erratic beats, dancing sine waves curve & curl over each other in a slow motion ballet. Notes glob onto each other in a pointillist landscape. Nish-Lapidus composes an abstract language of humming & singing electronics that twist & bounce in a vacuum of space.
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Experimental guitarist Mark Morgan (Sightings, Wolf Eyes) has been creating textural sonic mutations for decades. His more recent solo work takes his signature sound of gnarled guitar notes grinding on each other with a dissonant magnetism & brings it to the next level. Slow burning industrial noise riffage evolves into angular screeches with the fluidity of funk, but the caustic flavour of an auto manufacturing plant. Morgan's accute sense of rhythm in his playing shows as he juggles errant distortion notes & corroding tones. Don't miss one of the most original & engaging guitarist around!
CARL DIDUR (https://www.youtube.com/carldidur)
Part of the mastermind behind Zacht Automaat and Fake Humans, electronic manipulator & synthesizer Carl Didur creates equally as brilliant & encompassing solo compositions. Glowing organ tones hum over eerie tape loops & vibrating synth tones. An electronic wizard from a lost century. Toronto's best kept secret?
NEW TENDENCIES (https://newtendencies.bandcamp.com)
The solo electronic project of Matt Nish-Lapidus sees him migrate across varying landscapes from meditative ambient drones to minimal techno. Glitched electronics birth erratic beats, dancing sine waves curve & curl over each other in a slow motion ballet. Notes glob onto each other in a pointillist landscape. Nish-Lapidus composes an abstract language of humming & singing electronics that twist & bounce in a vacuum of space.
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Friday, March 20th @ Tranzac (292 Brunswick Ave.) - 10pm, $10/PWYC
CP UNIT (https://chrispitsiokos.bandcamp.com/album/one-foot-on-the-ground-smoking-mirror-shakedown)
NYC sax player Chris Pitsiokos brings his avant jazz free wheeling quartet CP Unit to Toronto in support of their newest recording "One Foot On The Ground Smoking Mirror Shakedown". CP Unit features Sam Lisabeth (Guerilla Toss) on guitar, Henry Fraser (Ryan Power, Brandon Seabrook) on bass, Jason Nazary (Little Women, Bear In Heaven) on drums & electronics, and of course Pitsiokos on sax. This NYC power house of next gen weirdos blends languid free form jazz idioms with tickling guitar notes and talkative angular sax lines. At times feeling more like a renegade punk band CP Unit dives through jabbing notation into squalls of sax & guitar textures that drip out over a driving rhythm section. Part face rip unit, part methodical meanderers, CP Unit balances the chaos energy.
LUGE ((https://hugeluge.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto no wave freaks bust angular guitar & bass jabs over funk infused rhythms that squirm and shake. Bouncing bass lines & speedy drum patterns pull you in, as Luge seamlessly morphs from a languid stroll into chaotic spazz punk fury. Absurdist vocals wander amongst mangled guitar notes. Their locked in rhythms section spits out bastard funk grooves sound like they are straight out of late 1970's NYC.
photo by Katharina Huber
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NYC sax player Chris Pitsiokos brings his avant jazz free wheeling quartet CP Unit to Toronto in support of their newest recording "One Foot On The Ground Smoking Mirror Shakedown". CP Unit features Sam Lisabeth (Guerilla Toss) on guitar, Henry Fraser (Ryan Power, Brandon Seabrook) on bass, Jason Nazary (Little Women, Bear In Heaven) on drums & electronics, and of course Pitsiokos on sax. This NYC power house of next gen weirdos blends languid free form jazz idioms with tickling guitar notes and talkative angular sax lines. At times feeling more like a renegade punk band CP Unit dives through jabbing notation into squalls of sax & guitar textures that drip out over a driving rhythm section. Part face rip unit, part methodical meanderers, CP Unit balances the chaos energy.
LUGE ((https://hugeluge.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto no wave freaks bust angular guitar & bass jabs over funk infused rhythms that squirm and shake. Bouncing bass lines & speedy drum patterns pull you in, as Luge seamlessly morphs from a languid stroll into chaotic spazz punk fury. Absurdist vocals wander amongst mangled guitar notes. Their locked in rhythms section spits out bastard funk grooves sound like they are straight out of late 1970's NYC.
photo by Katharina Huber
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/705479396647647/
Tuesday, March 24th @ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West) - 9pm, $12
DAVE PHILLIPS (https://dave-phillips.bandcamp.com)
Swiss composer, sonic activist, and noise experimentalist Dave Phillips (Schimpfluch Gruppe, Fear Of God) returns to Toronto for the first time in well over a decade. Phillips creates haunting confrontational soundscapes from mutated samples and twisted loops in a performative exorcism. Searing tones whine as manipulated vocals erupt over a scorched earth. Samples of bodily gurgling skitter like insects in the undergrowth. A master of sonic tension and balancing extremes, Phillips lures you into his world with stunning dynamism only to bury you in the thick sonic cloth of a tortured pulsating organism. Don't miss this aural deconstruction / reconstruction.
DEATH KNEEL (https://soundcloud.com/deathkneel)
Max Klebanoff (Tomb Mold)'s industrial noise unit thrives on buried rhythmic nodes under walls of crackling distortion and blistering sonic disfigurement. Nascent hums blossom into spectral ambient drones. Gnarled electronic pulses waver in grand fields of dissonance. Granulated tones crumble and reform as the tracking adjusts on Death Kneel's harsh noise synthesized into medotative soundscape creation.
FLESHTONE AURA (https://fleshtoneaura.bandcamp.com)
The solo workhorse of infamous experimenter Andrew Zukerman melds home made electronics with mashed up tape loops. Zukerman's work draws of a plethora of sources, references & sounds while still maintaing continuity. His sense of humour & nostalgia play out as an inexplicable buoyancy in his compositions, often getting derailed into to some minimalist holding pattern before breaking free like some child finally out of his parents grasp. Meditative, chaotic, compelling music. For fans of music.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/446220626261854/
Swiss composer, sonic activist, and noise experimentalist Dave Phillips (Schimpfluch Gruppe, Fear Of God) returns to Toronto for the first time in well over a decade. Phillips creates haunting confrontational soundscapes from mutated samples and twisted loops in a performative exorcism. Searing tones whine as manipulated vocals erupt over a scorched earth. Samples of bodily gurgling skitter like insects in the undergrowth. A master of sonic tension and balancing extremes, Phillips lures you into his world with stunning dynamism only to bury you in the thick sonic cloth of a tortured pulsating organism. Don't miss this aural deconstruction / reconstruction.
DEATH KNEEL (https://soundcloud.com/deathkneel)
Max Klebanoff (Tomb Mold)'s industrial noise unit thrives on buried rhythmic nodes under walls of crackling distortion and blistering sonic disfigurement. Nascent hums blossom into spectral ambient drones. Gnarled electronic pulses waver in grand fields of dissonance. Granulated tones crumble and reform as the tracking adjusts on Death Kneel's harsh noise synthesized into medotative soundscape creation.
FLESHTONE AURA (https://fleshtoneaura.bandcamp.com)
The solo workhorse of infamous experimenter Andrew Zukerman melds home made electronics with mashed up tape loops. Zukerman's work draws of a plethora of sources, references & sounds while still maintaing continuity. His sense of humour & nostalgia play out as an inexplicable buoyancy in his compositions, often getting derailed into to some minimalist holding pattern before breaking free like some child finally out of his parents grasp. Meditative, chaotic, compelling music. For fans of music.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/446220626261854/
Sunday, March 29th @ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West) - 9pm, $12/$15
NAT BALDWIN (https://shinkoyo.bandcamp.com/album/autonomia-i-body-without-organs)
Double bassist Nat Baldwin (formerly of Dirty Projectors) arrives in Toronto behind his newest solo album "AUTONOMIA I: Body Without Organs". This outing sees Nat embrace his history as an improvisor, using extended techniques and often playing with 2 bows, preparing the strings, and eliciting haunting timbres. Strings writhe and curl as Baldwin coaxes out intimate hums & whispers. Dynamic moves see notes jump in a controlled vibrant chaos orchestrated as if herding a rockslide. Unexpected intimacy is born out of a feverish dream. Nat does it all live at The Burdock!
CHARLES SPEARIN (https://charlesspearinandjosefinrunsteen.bandcamp.com/)
Charles Spearin (Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene) presents a set of solo music following the release of his newest recording "Thank God The Plague Is Over". A piercing & beautiful collaboration with Swedish musican Josefin Runsteen, that sees Spearin on the Swedish folk instrument the nyckelharpa and Runsteen on Violin. The stunning improvised pieces to come out of this duo's meeting move from haunting whispers to urgent racing cries. Tension transforms into tranquility as a fog of tones slowly rest into a decided hum. Scope it out online & watch this spot for a hint of what Spearin has in store.
SANDRO PERRI (http://www.sandroperri.com)
Composer / singer / experimenter Sandro Perri (Constellation Records) performs a duo set of new improvised music with a special guest.
$12 Adv at Ticketscene: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/28140/
$15 at the door
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/466148267609435/
Double bassist Nat Baldwin (formerly of Dirty Projectors) arrives in Toronto behind his newest solo album "AUTONOMIA I: Body Without Organs". This outing sees Nat embrace his history as an improvisor, using extended techniques and often playing with 2 bows, preparing the strings, and eliciting haunting timbres. Strings writhe and curl as Baldwin coaxes out intimate hums & whispers. Dynamic moves see notes jump in a controlled vibrant chaos orchestrated as if herding a rockslide. Unexpected intimacy is born out of a feverish dream. Nat does it all live at The Burdock!
CHARLES SPEARIN (https://charlesspearinandjosefinrunsteen.bandcamp.com/)
Charles Spearin (Do Make Say Think, Broken Social Scene) presents a set of solo music following the release of his newest recording "Thank God The Plague Is Over". A piercing & beautiful collaboration with Swedish musican Josefin Runsteen, that sees Spearin on the Swedish folk instrument the nyckelharpa and Runsteen on Violin. The stunning improvised pieces to come out of this duo's meeting move from haunting whispers to urgent racing cries. Tension transforms into tranquility as a fog of tones slowly rest into a decided hum. Scope it out online & watch this spot for a hint of what Spearin has in store.
SANDRO PERRI (http://www.sandroperri.com)
Composer / singer / experimenter Sandro Perri (Constellation Records) performs a duo set of new improvised music with a special guest.
$12 Adv at Ticketscene: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/28140/
$15 at the door
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/466148267609435/
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