FRIDAY, APRIL 12TH @ Toronto Spiritualist Temple (706 College St.) - 7pm - $20/$25 - All Ages
Telephone Explosion, Morning Trip & Burn Down The Capital Present:
LARAAJI (https://laraajimusic.bandcamp.com)
Laraaji is a musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising experimental jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. After collaborating with Brian Eno, he rose to prominence as a figurehead of organic ambient music. His improvised live performances offer a blissful ambient voyage.
JOSEPH SHABASON (https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com)
Experimental saxophohnist Joseph Shabason deftly straddles the line between jazz, fourth-world, and explorative ambience. HIs richly layered saxophone builds a viscerally textured world of atmospheric drift.
Food by La Limonada, vegetarian Caribbean offerings including Doubles, Rotis and homemade Lemonades available in the church basement! Come early to have some dinner before the show or a snack between sets!
$20 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketscene.ca: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/23262/
$25 at the door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/554311655048003/
MORE INFO:
https://www.telephoneexplosion.com
https://morningtriprecords.bandcamp.com
http://www.burndownthecapital.com
LARAAJI (https://laraajimusic.bandcamp.com)
Laraaji is a musician, mystic and laughter meditation practitioner based in New York City. He began playing music on the streets in the 1970s, improvising experimental jams on a modified autoharp processed through various electronic effects. After collaborating with Brian Eno, he rose to prominence as a figurehead of organic ambient music. His improvised live performances offer a blissful ambient voyage.
JOSEPH SHABASON (https://josephshabason.bandcamp.com)
Experimental saxophohnist Joseph Shabason deftly straddles the line between jazz, fourth-world, and explorative ambience. HIs richly layered saxophone builds a viscerally textured world of atmospheric drift.
Food by La Limonada, vegetarian Caribbean offerings including Doubles, Rotis and homemade Lemonades available in the church basement! Come early to have some dinner before the show or a snack between sets!
$20 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketscene.ca: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/23262/
$25 at the door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/554311655048003/
MORE INFO:
https://www.telephoneexplosion.com
https://morningtriprecords.bandcamp.com
http://www.burndownthecapital.com
Tuesday, April 23rd @ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West) - 9pm - $10
GLANDS OF EXTERNAL SECRETION (https://coherentstates.bandcamp.com/album/convicted-felon-adjusted-for-inflation)
Experimental collage duo of Barbara Manning (World of Pooh, SF Seals) & Seymour Glass (Bananafish) create vocal driven collaged compositions on the verge of collapse, with all the vigour & buoyancy of life. Errant keys chime out over the heavy breathing of taxed strings, collapsing under their own weight. Warped vocal repeat, everything that was once real is now a temporary facsimile. Manning & Glass toy with reality as tape loops sway revealing crippled notes and reeling vocal phrases. Charred sounds, cracks and clips take over only fall victim to the next disintegration. The duo rebuilds as fast as they tear apart playing with a sound until it's worn out like a cat, then moving onto the next one. Endlessly enticing. Not to be missed. Hainey put them out once!
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.
AGAR AGAR
New improv. telekinetic electro-acoustic positive force assembled from your favourite Toronto avant minglers. Allison Cameron on amplified objects, toys, baby guitars, uke, electronics, joined by percussionist / creative thinker Germaine Liu, and collage electronics, tape looper Andrew Zukerman (Fleshtone Aura). These three composer / improvisor hybrids team up for the first time (hopefully not the last) to bring you the soul searching sonic force you've been waiting for!
SIX HEADS (http://www.recordism.com/SixHeads/SixHeads.html)
Toronto electro-acoustic table top noise collage crew featuring the likes of James Bailey, William Davison, Linda Feesey, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Colin Hinz, Pete Mosher. A cohesive environment created from a patchwork of minds sewing together the creaks, drips, oscillations, internal howlings and unexpected rhythms of their careful manipulations. The forming of a versatile beast, carefully composed sonic gestures help birth a new image of the creature. Don't miss this rare Six Heads jam, 19 years strong!
$10 at the door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1152223638284675/
Experimental collage duo of Barbara Manning (World of Pooh, SF Seals) & Seymour Glass (Bananafish) create vocal driven collaged compositions on the verge of collapse, with all the vigour & buoyancy of life. Errant keys chime out over the heavy breathing of taxed strings, collapsing under their own weight. Warped vocal repeat, everything that was once real is now a temporary facsimile. Manning & Glass toy with reality as tape loops sway revealing crippled notes and reeling vocal phrases. Charred sounds, cracks and clips take over only fall victim to the next disintegration. The duo rebuilds as fast as they tear apart playing with a sound until it's worn out like a cat, then moving onto the next one. Endlessly enticing. Not to be missed. Hainey put them out once!
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.
AGAR AGAR
New improv. telekinetic electro-acoustic positive force assembled from your favourite Toronto avant minglers. Allison Cameron on amplified objects, toys, baby guitars, uke, electronics, joined by percussionist / creative thinker Germaine Liu, and collage electronics, tape looper Andrew Zukerman (Fleshtone Aura). These three composer / improvisor hybrids team up for the first time (hopefully not the last) to bring you the soul searching sonic force you've been waiting for!
SIX HEADS (http://www.recordism.com/SixHeads/SixHeads.html)
Toronto electro-acoustic table top noise collage crew featuring the likes of James Bailey, William Davison, Linda Feesey, Sherri Lyn Higgins, Colin Hinz, Pete Mosher. A cohesive environment created from a patchwork of minds sewing together the creaks, drips, oscillations, internal howlings and unexpected rhythms of their careful manipulations. The forming of a versatile beast, carefully composed sonic gestures help birth a new image of the creature. Don't miss this rare Six Heads jam, 19 years strong!
$10 at the door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/1152223638284675/
Friday, May 10th @ Burdock (1184 Bloor St. West) - 9:30pm - $15/$20
EFRIM MANUEL MENUCK & KEVIN DORIA (http://cstrecords.com/cst144)
Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Silver Mt. Zion) and Kevin Doria (Growing) return to Toronto in support of their first collaborative LP Sing Sinck, Sing out May 10th on Constellation. Touring over the last couple years in duo formation supporting Efrim's solo recordings Menuck & Doria have evolved their collaboration to the next level. Blossoming guitar and synth swells mingle with each other as nascent drones unfold. Menuck's vocals glow in their low-fi effected glory, as the layers of reverb slip away. Synth tones glisten in a dance with warbling electronics. Maximalist dronescapes buzz with melancholic energy as the duo weaves from one pulsating form to another.
MIMICO (http://mimico.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto kraut trio builds warm spacious soundscapes, the perfect quilt of winter music. Synthesized tones dance out amongst manicured guitar & bass notes. Everything becomes percussive as their sonic structures drift like some all enveloping cloud. Oscillating hums & psychedelic guitar phrases bury vocals in a haunting mist. 33% more gear, same great band!
$15 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketscene
$20 Door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2199080376779755/
Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor / Silver Mt. Zion) and Kevin Doria (Growing) return to Toronto in support of their first collaborative LP Sing Sinck, Sing out May 10th on Constellation. Touring over the last couple years in duo formation supporting Efrim's solo recordings Menuck & Doria have evolved their collaboration to the next level. Blossoming guitar and synth swells mingle with each other as nascent drones unfold. Menuck's vocals glow in their low-fi effected glory, as the layers of reverb slip away. Synth tones glisten in a dance with warbling electronics. Maximalist dronescapes buzz with melancholic energy as the duo weaves from one pulsating form to another.
MIMICO (http://mimico.bandcamp.com/)
Toronto kraut trio builds warm spacious soundscapes, the perfect quilt of winter music. Synthesized tones dance out amongst manicured guitar & bass notes. Everything becomes percussive as their sonic structures drift like some all enveloping cloud. Oscillating hums & psychedelic guitar phrases bury vocals in a haunting mist. 33% more gear, same great band!
$15 Adv at Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketscene
$20 Door
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2199080376779755/
Friday, May 17th @ The Jam Factory (2 Matilda St.) - 9pm - $22/$28 - All Ages
THE EX (https://theex.bandcamp.com)
Now legendary Dutch noise rock / experimental punk band The Ex celebrate 40 years of iconoclastic moves. From collaborations with improvised & avant jazz mainstays like Han Bennink, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark & Tom Cora to Ethio-jazz greats like Getatchew Mekuria, The Ex have been tirelessly expanding the scope of their music to embrace new ideas. Inherently tied to a groove, angular rhythms drive band tirelessly forward. Drummer Katherina Bornefeld slowly builds minimalist percussive patterns as the trifecta of guitarists add their uniques textures on top. Crunching distorted tones rain over slick hard notes and vibrating bass. Aggressive gnarled guitars battle under Arnold de Boer's vocal proclamations. Treble filled notes dance over dissonant licks. Seriously probably one of the best rock bands out there, after 40 years The Stones sucked & The Beatles didn't exist, The Ex is still killing it.
NEW FRIES (https://newfries.bandcamp.com)
Toronto’s greatest freak quartet get riled up with some herky jerky jams, angular grooves & gnarly yelps over ripped guitar riffs. Real punks playing minimalist prog. Deconstructed night terror jams for the modern hypochondriac. New jams in the works!
EUCALYPTUS (https://eucalyptus1.bandcamp.com)
Brodie West's adventure in calypso inspired avant jazz is accompanied by a who's who of Toronto's avant whatever odd ball scene, including guitarist Alex Lukashevsky, trumpeter Nicole Rampersaud, pianist Ryan Driver, drummers Nick Fraser & Evan Cartright, bassist Josh Cole and percussionist Blake Howard. Pulling from a variety of worlds, music traditions & a generally buoyant feeling of love & harmony, Eucalyptus are the perfect band to have playing on the pool side patio at your palatial Caribbean estate. Alternatively they are also pretty nice band to see play at The Jam Factory on a fresh spring day!
All Ages
$22 Advance from Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketscene: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/23478/
$28 at the door
We regret that this venue is up one flight of stairs and therefore not fully accessible.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2205794163081715/
Now legendary Dutch noise rock / experimental punk band The Ex celebrate 40 years of iconoclastic moves. From collaborations with improvised & avant jazz mainstays like Han Bennink, Mats Gustafsson, Ken Vandermark & Tom Cora to Ethio-jazz greats like Getatchew Mekuria, The Ex have been tirelessly expanding the scope of their music to embrace new ideas. Inherently tied to a groove, angular rhythms drive band tirelessly forward. Drummer Katherina Bornefeld slowly builds minimalist percussive patterns as the trifecta of guitarists add their uniques textures on top. Crunching distorted tones rain over slick hard notes and vibrating bass. Aggressive gnarled guitars battle under Arnold de Boer's vocal proclamations. Treble filled notes dance over dissonant licks. Seriously probably one of the best rock bands out there, after 40 years The Stones sucked & The Beatles didn't exist, The Ex is still killing it.
NEW FRIES (https://newfries.bandcamp.com)
Toronto’s greatest freak quartet get riled up with some herky jerky jams, angular grooves & gnarly yelps over ripped guitar riffs. Real punks playing minimalist prog. Deconstructed night terror jams for the modern hypochondriac. New jams in the works!
EUCALYPTUS (https://eucalyptus1.bandcamp.com)
Brodie West's adventure in calypso inspired avant jazz is accompanied by a who's who of Toronto's avant whatever odd ball scene, including guitarist Alex Lukashevsky, trumpeter Nicole Rampersaud, pianist Ryan Driver, drummers Nick Fraser & Evan Cartright, bassist Josh Cole and percussionist Blake Howard. Pulling from a variety of worlds, music traditions & a generally buoyant feeling of love & harmony, Eucalyptus are the perfect band to have playing on the pool side patio at your palatial Caribbean estate. Alternatively they are also pretty nice band to see play at The Jam Factory on a fresh spring day!
All Ages
$22 Advance from Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketscene: https://www.ticketscene.ca/events/23478/
$28 at the door
We regret that this venue is up one flight of stairs and therefore not fully accessible.
Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2205794163081715/
Upcoming Spring 2019 Shows:
THURS, APRIL 18TH - Nadah El Shazly + ZOE + Qarafa @ Burdock
