WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3RD @ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West) - 9pm - $12/$15
JERUSALEM IN MY HEART (http://cstrecords.com/jerusalem-in-my-heart/)
Constellation Records duo of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (sounds & compositions) & Charles-André Coderre (live visuals) celebrate the release of their 3rd full length "Daqa’iq Tudaiq". The duo melds traditional & contemporary Arabic music with electronic processing & programming out of some dark 70's film score. Lonely acapella ballads rest amongst processed buzuk instrumentals and acoustic meanderings. Writhing electronics billow until they burn out, leaving only the chants of distant chimes. Flute whistles birth beautiful drones that sprawl over time & space. Psych influences dance with new traditionalism in a marriage of noisey electronics, acoustic shredding and abstract percussion.
SARAH PAGÉ (http://www.sarahpageharp.com)
Montreal experimental harpist Sarah Pagé (The Barr Brother, Esmerine) builds beautiful ambient drones out of processed harp notes. Slow moving structures full of rich intertwining sonic textures. Bass tones sink and rumble, as waves travel up the frequency scale. Plucked notes ripple out with sparse melodic joy. This sounds like avant-garde campfire music. Pagé touches on a lot of interconnected sound worlds, capturing the feels of folk, post rock, classical composition, new age and ambient soundscapes, but never settles for a singular view. A not to be missed transformative experience!
MOTH ASH (http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2017/06/recording-moth-ash.html)
$12 Adv from Ticketscene (https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/21840/)
$15 at the door
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/270062626932202/
Constellation Records duo of Radwan Ghazi Moumneh (sounds & compositions) & Charles-André Coderre (live visuals) celebrate the release of their 3rd full length "Daqa’iq Tudaiq". The duo melds traditional & contemporary Arabic music with electronic processing & programming out of some dark 70's film score. Lonely acapella ballads rest amongst processed buzuk instrumentals and acoustic meanderings. Writhing electronics billow until they burn out, leaving only the chants of distant chimes. Flute whistles birth beautiful drones that sprawl over time & space. Psych influences dance with new traditionalism in a marriage of noisey electronics, acoustic shredding and abstract percussion.
SARAH PAGÉ (http://www.sarahpageharp.com)
Montreal experimental harpist Sarah Pagé (The Barr Brother, Esmerine) builds beautiful ambient drones out of processed harp notes. Slow moving structures full of rich intertwining sonic textures. Bass tones sink and rumble, as waves travel up the frequency scale. Plucked notes ripple out with sparse melodic joy. This sounds like avant-garde campfire music. Pagé touches on a lot of interconnected sound worlds, capturing the feels of folk, post rock, classical composition, new age and ambient soundscapes, but never settles for a singular view. A not to be missed transformative experience!
MOTH ASH (http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2017/06/recording-moth-ash.html)
$12 Adv from Ticketscene (https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/21840/)
$15 at the door
Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/270062626932202/
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9TH @ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St) - 8pm - $20/$25 - All Ages
KEIJI HAINO (https://keijihaino.bandcamp.com)
Japanese avant guitarist and noise legend returns to Toronto for an obviously not to be missed performance. Extreme guitar mastery piercing tones, heavy shredded chords, busted walls of noise. Don't sleep on this heavy hitter!
BRIAN RURYK
Toronto avant garde anti-legend Brian Ruryk is easily one of the city's best kept secrets, Ruryk has been manipulating the concepts of sound since the 80s. Free jangled guitar notes spray over a live collage of junk percussion & chaos. Tape samples squeal out amongst herky jerky clatter of Ruryk’s eclectic set up. Much like the coming together of puzzle pieces in a way in which they do not fit, then experiencing the process in which the puzzler, instead of sorting the pieces, just cuts & mangles them to create a new image.
Co-presented with Electric Eclectics Festival
$20 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketscene (https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/21790/)
$25 Door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/246029436029233/
This concert wouldn't be possible without support from send+receive and The Japan Foundation
Japanese avant guitarist and noise legend returns to Toronto for an obviously not to be missed performance. Extreme guitar mastery piercing tones, heavy shredded chords, busted walls of noise. Don't sleep on this heavy hitter!
BRIAN RURYK
Toronto avant garde anti-legend Brian Ruryk is easily one of the city's best kept secrets, Ruryk has been manipulating the concepts of sound since the 80s. Free jangled guitar notes spray over a live collage of junk percussion & chaos. Tape samples squeal out amongst herky jerky clatter of Ruryk’s eclectic set up. Much like the coming together of puzzle pieces in a way in which they do not fit, then experiencing the process in which the puzzler, instead of sorting the pieces, just cuts & mangles them to create a new image.
Co-presented with Electric Eclectics Festival
$20 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketscene (https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/21790/)
$25 Door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/246029436029233/
This concert wouldn't be possible without support from send+receive and The Japan Foundation
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 3RD @ Matt Durant Studio (1401 Queen St. East) - 9pm - $12/$15 - All Ages
Feast In The East is a bi-monthly east end music, food, & art installation series.
This month features a free dinner by Ted Crosby.
LUGE (https://hugeluge.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto no wave freaks celebrate the release of their first full length LP "Tall Is Just a Feeling". An obvious must grip for weird punk fans. Luge 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.
RETIRED (https://retired1.bandcamp.com)
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.
BABY LABOUR (https://babylabour.bandcamp.com)
Guelph based weird punks create groove laden angular jammers. Methodical guitar mangling, silky distortion over surfer influences meanderings. Driving fuzz & whipping drum patterns make their speedy compositions sound like some NES game theme that's glitched out. These guys are the real deal!
DEEP WATERS (https://www.instagram.com/deepwatersband)
Formed at Girls Rock Camp 2016, these young rockers continue to evolve, recently playing at the Polaris Prize Gala! The quartet channels a 90's alternative rock, with hints of punk. Their self aware lyricism is full of humour and conflicting emotions that pour out in vocal harmonies. Come on time to check these next generation Toronto rockers!
Environs by Ted Gudlat (https://www.instagram.com/tedgudlat) & Janine Miedzik (https://www.janinemiedzik.com)
$10 Adv at Circus Books and Music, Cask Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
$12 at the door
All Ages!
Free dinner with adv. ticket!
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/487203618415997/
Feast In The East is made possible through support from Moog Audio and Wellington Brewery
This month features a free dinner by Ted Crosby.
LUGE (https://hugeluge.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto no wave freaks celebrate the release of their first full length LP "Tall Is Just a Feeling". An obvious must grip for weird punk fans. Luge 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.
RETIRED (https://retired1.bandcamp.com)
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.
BABY LABOUR (https://babylabour.bandcamp.com)
Guelph based weird punks create groove laden angular jammers. Methodical guitar mangling, silky distortion over surfer influences meanderings. Driving fuzz & whipping drum patterns make their speedy compositions sound like some NES game theme that's glitched out. These guys are the real deal!
DEEP WATERS (https://www.instagram.com/deepwatersband)
Formed at Girls Rock Camp 2016, these young rockers continue to evolve, recently playing at the Polaris Prize Gala! The quartet channels a 90's alternative rock, with hints of punk. Their self aware lyricism is full of humour and conflicting emotions that pour out in vocal harmonies. Come on time to check these next generation Toronto rockers!
Environs by Ted Gudlat (https://www.instagram.com/tedgudlat) & Janine Miedzik (https://www.janinemiedzik.com)
$10 Adv at Circus Books and Music, Cask Music, Rotate This, and Soundscapes.
$12 at the door
All Ages!
Free dinner with adv. ticket!
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/487203618415997/
Feast In The East is made possible through support from Moog Audio and Wellington Brewery
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 8TH @ Handlebar (159 Augusta Ave.) - 9pm - $10
AMI DANG (https://www.amidang.com)
Baltimore based vocalist, electronic artist & sitar player Ami Dang takes classical indian music modes & melds them with dark avant pop electronics. Her voice infectious like a fog, drifts everywhere through her compositions. Electronic glitched beats & manipulated drones sweat out hints of avant garde noise textures, subdued as they dance with silky sitar tones and Ami's soaring full bodied vocals. Her upcoming album sees Dang dive deep into a world of layered sitar textures morphed into active pulsating structures through twisting electronics. Intricate sound worlds blossom & decay as Ami weaves wavering notes & dissonant hums together in a beautiful marriage.
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 prospective to the beat driven landscape, letting seemingly abstract rhythms linger and mingle with moody textures. Her tracks ebbs 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!
NEW CHANCE (https://soundcloud.com/new-chance)
Vic Cheong's posi beat project sees slowly flowering electronic textures mingle with bopping drum machine rhythms, and effected vocals. Lines blur between glitched vocal effects and shaking electronic beats. Whispers become spiritual drones. New age textures amped up with fresh rhythms. Vic takes you on the celestial journey merging the dance and drone zones.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/307526876703614/
Baltimore based vocalist, electronic artist & sitar player Ami Dang takes classical indian music modes & melds them with dark avant pop electronics. Her voice infectious like a fog, drifts everywhere through her compositions. Electronic glitched beats & manipulated drones sweat out hints of avant garde noise textures, subdued as they dance with silky sitar tones and Ami's soaring full bodied vocals. Her upcoming album sees Dang dive deep into a world of layered sitar textures morphed into active pulsating structures through twisting electronics. Intricate sound worlds blossom & decay as Ami weaves wavering notes & dissonant hums together in a beautiful marriage.
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 prospective to the beat driven landscape, letting seemingly abstract rhythms linger and mingle with moody textures. Her tracks ebbs 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!
NEW CHANCE (https://soundcloud.com/new-chance)
Vic Cheong's posi beat project sees slowly flowering electronic textures mingle with bopping drum machine rhythms, and effected vocals. Lines blur between glitched vocal effects and shaking electronic beats. Whispers become spiritual drones. New age textures amped up with fresh rhythms. Vic takes you on the celestial journey merging the dance and drone zones.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/307526876703614/
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 13TH @ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West) - 9pm - $10
CHARLIE LOOKER (http://www.charlielooker.com)
NYC singer, composer, guitarist & avant-garde veteran Charlie Looker (Psalm Zero, Extra Life, Dirty Projectors) returns to Toronto in support of his newest solo outing "Simple Answers". True to form Looker juxtaposes his haunting carefully crafted vocals with tense string arrangements and harsh drum machine beats. Larger than life compositions bear the weight of the world, as he weaves his end of times hymns over them. Angular blasts melt into creeping understated flourishes. Sitting somewhere between contemporary chamber and gothic pop these new songs draw on Looker's plethora of experience using pop idioms to subvert themselves in some perverse setting. Probably his most fully formed work to date! Don't miss these solo renditions of Looker's brutal ghostly orchestra pieces.
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.
CLARINET PANIC REDUX (https://clarinetpanicdeluxx.bandcamp.com)
Deluxx becomes Redux as Clarinet Panic return to the public arena 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.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/242561173123824/
NYC singer, composer, guitarist & avant-garde veteran Charlie Looker (Psalm Zero, Extra Life, Dirty Projectors) returns to Toronto in support of his newest solo outing "Simple Answers". True to form Looker juxtaposes his haunting carefully crafted vocals with tense string arrangements and harsh drum machine beats. Larger than life compositions bear the weight of the world, as he weaves his end of times hymns over them. Angular blasts melt into creeping understated flourishes. Sitting somewhere between contemporary chamber and gothic pop these new songs draw on Looker's plethora of experience using pop idioms to subvert themselves in some perverse setting. Probably his most fully formed work to date! Don't miss these solo renditions of Looker's brutal ghostly orchestra pieces.
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.
CLARINET PANIC REDUX (https://clarinetpanicdeluxx.bandcamp.com)
Deluxx becomes Redux as Clarinet Panic return to the public arena 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.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/242561173123824/
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 14TH @ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West) - 9pm - $12/$15
JESSICA MOSS (https://jessicamoss.bandcamp.com)
Montreal violinist & vocalist Jessica Moss (Silver Mt. Zion), celebrates the release of her 2nd solo LP "Entanglement" on Constellation Records, following the evolution of her solo 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.
VÖLUR (https://volur.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto folk doom trio featuring members of Blood Ceremony, Do Make Say Think & Gates, merge distorted strings with thundering percussion. Hard treble screeches out over crushing bass, and blood curdling vocals. Sounding like some funeral march anthem from the fiery pits, group vocals unite in an occult hum. Borrowing from post rock, but using the obliterating language of their doom metal forefathers, Völur helps you become one with the flame. CVLT.
QARAFA (https://qarafa.bandcamp.com)
Spacious post-rock meets slow psych jazz quartet features members of Ischemic, Retired, and Horse Lung. Guitar notes ripple out over meandering saxophone paths, as drums ramble forward. Forever prodding forward in a forest of languidity, Qarafa builds a multilayered haze over a creature in constant slow motion. Deep in the zone and looking for the next pathway, notes drift away into the mist. Come on time to check this heavy crew turned meditative.
$12 Adv from Rotate This, Soundscapes and Ticketscene (www.ticketscene.ca/events/21841/)
$15 at the door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2151850601750369/
Montreal violinist & vocalist Jessica Moss (Silver Mt. Zion), celebrates the release of her 2nd solo LP "Entanglement" on Constellation Records, following the evolution of her solo 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.
VÖLUR (https://volur.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto folk doom trio featuring members of Blood Ceremony, Do Make Say Think & Gates, merge distorted strings with thundering percussion. Hard treble screeches out over crushing bass, and blood curdling vocals. Sounding like some funeral march anthem from the fiery pits, group vocals unite in an occult hum. Borrowing from post rock, but using the obliterating language of their doom metal forefathers, Völur helps you become one with the flame. CVLT.
QARAFA (https://qarafa.bandcamp.com)
Spacious post-rock meets slow psych jazz quartet features members of Ischemic, Retired, and Horse Lung. Guitar notes ripple out over meandering saxophone paths, as drums ramble forward. Forever prodding forward in a forest of languidity, Qarafa builds a multilayered haze over a creature in constant slow motion. Deep in the zone and looking for the next pathway, notes drift away into the mist. Come on time to check this heavy crew turned meditative.
$12 Adv from Rotate This, Soundscapes and Ticketscene (www.ticketscene.ca/events/21841/)
$15 at the door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2151850601750369/
Upcoming Fall / Winter 2018 Shows:
SUN, NOV 11TH - Vampire Belt (Chris Corsano / Bill Nace) + Molnar / Bedoukian @ Burdock
SAT, JAN 5TH - Feast In The East 72
SAT, JAN 5TH - Feast In The East 72
