Artist: Woods
Song: Blood Dries Darker
Recorded live at the Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto. Over the Top Festival, May 22, 2009.
Woods - Blood Dries DarkerMy notes for this gig are here.
Artist: Woods
Song: Blood Dries Darker
Recorded live at the Whippersnapper Gallery, Toronto. Over the Top Festival, May 22, 2009.
Woods - Blood Dries DarkerMy notes for this gig are here.
Founded as a blog about one curmudgeon's love affair with the em dash, Mechanical Forest Sound has grown to become a community-based archive of local musical culture. Assuming that "independent music" isn't just boys with guitars and "culture" isn't just some sort of pageant, MFS is an investigation of a wide range of artists, reflecting on concerts as shared experiences, acts of citizenship and a chance to get down — fuzzy photographs and clear-sounding original live recordings a specialty.
Current manifestations of this project include Track Could Bend, a monthly concert series featuring "improvised music and weird rock offshoots", presented in a casual environment.
At one point I wrote full-on concert reviews, and for longer I thought I would catch up and write about shows in the past. But these days, because of, y'know, life, do not expect much in the way of full show reviews — but live recordings with blurbs will be posted as quickly after the fact as is feasible.
Check out my original live recordings from many of the gigs discussed here.
You can also check out full sets uploaded to the Live Music Archive. [not currently active]
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Colin Fisher/Jeff Luciani/Diane Roblin/George Koller / The Emmet Ray 2024-03-25 (Monday – 6 p.m.). $10
Lipliners 4th Wednesday of the month residency (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-27 (Wednesday) [FB event]
CCMC [John Oswald/Paul Dutton/Al Mattes/Casey Sokol] / Array Space 2024-03-28 (Thursday). $free, livestream available
Escote (Ex Corpse / Liz Lima / Brian Fog) / Bar Orwell 2024-03-28 (Thursday). $15 / pwyc / notaflof. [FB event]
Karen Ng presents (feat. Karen Ng/Ted Crosby/Ben Dwyer) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-28 (Thursday)
Today Versions presents: 'Music From Five Mountain Station: An Earth Dancing Body Refuge Trip' (feat. Del Stephen / Key Cut / Newold Group) / Bar Orwell 2024-03-29 (Friday). $10 or pwyc. [FB event]
Exit Points #47 (feat. Zoë Alexis-Abrams/Youssef Bassit/Onophris/Bobby Gadda/Jury Tosh Kobayashi-Mackay / Xéynamay/Racha/Erik Flow/Measure/Michael Palumbo / Switchemups!) / Array Space 2024-03-29 (Friday). $20 at the door. cash/card/mobile. [FB event]
Luge / Houndstooth 2024-03-29 (Friday). $no cover. [FB event]
Ryan Driver’s Big 5-0 (feat. The Ryan Driver Sextet) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-03-30 (Saturday). $20 or pwyc. [more info]
Away Forward (Fires of Cheektowaga / The Neverminds / Luster Dust) / The Baby G 2024-03-30 (Saturday). $16.42, 19+. [FB event]
Chris Pruden & Isaiah Farahbakhsh / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-30 (Saturday)
Cosmic Homeostasis XXIII / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-31 (Sunday – 5 p.m.). $pwyc. [FB event]
Joyshape (Molehill [Pete Johnston/Jake Oelrichs/Mike Smith] / Heraclius Akimbo with Gabe Girard) / Bar Orwell 2024-03-31 (Sunday). $pwyc, suggested $10
Orkestar Kriminal (Blisk) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-03-31 (Sunday). $25.50. [FB event]
The Nilan Perera Quartet [Nilan Perera/Adrian Russouw/Rick Sacks/Marilyn Yogarajah] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-31 (Sunday) [FB event]
Small World Music Series & The Music Gallery present (feat. Nadah El Shazly & Sarah Pagé / Khôra / Honeypaw) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-04-02 (Tuesday). $15 advance, $20 door, $10 MG members, low income, arts workers. [FB event]
Track Could Bend #90 (feat. Voidfemmes & Erin Corbett / Allison Cameron & Stephen Parkinson) / Wenona Lodge 2024-04-02 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]
Coward Patrol and More Noise Please present (feat. The Nausea / Compactor / Andrew Nolan / Death Kneel) / See-Scape 2024-04-04 (Thursday). $15. [FB event]
Tania Gill Presents: Music by Carla Bley (feat. Tania Gill/Doug Tielli/Michael Davidson/Rob Clutton) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-04-05 (Friday – early). $pwyc. [FB event]
Experimental Link (feat. Pouya Ehsaei Trio [Pouya Ehsaei/Sadio Sissokho/Peter Lutek]) / Small World Centre 2024-04-05 (Friday). $25.57. [FB event]
Corpusse / Sellers & Newel 2024-04-06 (Saturday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]
Eclipse Drone 2024: A Cosmic Homeostasis Community Event [soundtracking the solar eclipse!] (feat. Cosmic Homeostasis) / Christie Pits 2022-04-08 (Monday – 2:05 p.m.) [FB event]
Dun-Dun Land: Slight Return (feat. Dun-Dun Band) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-04-09 (Tuesday – early). $pwyw. [FB event]
con:trust [contemporary music for two accordions, works by René Hirschfeld, Matt Simon, Joshua Nuñez, Jose Eduardo Muñoz, among others] / Array Space 2024-04-09 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]
Destroyer [solo] (Lightning Dust) / Horseshoe Tavern The Axis Club 2024-04-09 (Tuesday). $35.93, 19+. [FB event]
Bernice (The Ruth Garbus Trio) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-04-10 (Wednesday). $24.34. [more info]
Audiopollination: Spring Flowers and Love edition (feat. David Sait/Sonia Leung/Sable / yasmine/Victor/Marilyn / %%30%30
/Clay/Mania / Jessica Houghton/Pursuit Grooves) / Array Space 2024-04-12 (Friday). $10 (cash or card), livestream available. [FB event]
Go: Organic Orchestra [Composed and Spontaneously Conducted by Adam Rudolph] (feat. Araz Salek/Aline Homzy/Jonathan Kay/Andrew Kay/Bea Labikova/Kayla Milmine/Majd Sukar/Heather Saumer/Patrick O'Reilly/Justin Gray/Derek Gray/Dhaivat Jani) / The Aga Khan Museum 2024-04-13 (Saturday). $40 (regular), $36 (friends), $30 (students and seniors), $20 (limited same-day rush seats). [more info]
B.A. Johnston (Sons of Butcher / First Base) / The Baby G 2024-04-13 (Saturday). $14.48, 19+. [FB event]
Labyrinth Ontario's Annual Fundraiser (feat. Begüm Boyancı/Burak Ekmekçi/Selmanpak Ayduz / Naomi McCarroll-Butler & Sadaf Amini) / 918 Bathurst 2024-04-18 (Thursday) [FB event]
Marker Starling (Elrichman / Nutrients) / The Baby G 2024-04-19 (Friday). $25.03, 19+. [FB event]
Tranzac Fundraiser I (feat. Sandro Perri & Friends / Masahiro Takahashi / Anne Bourne) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-04-20 (Saturday). $20 in advance, $25 at the door. [FB event]
CLASS & The Oscillitarium Present: Green’n Out (feat. Hobby / Roy [Spoons For The World record release!] / Animatist / Biblical) / The Garrison 2024-04-20 (Saturday). $20, 19+. [FB event]
catl. (The Kewpie Dolls) / The Dakota Tavern 2024-04-20 (Saturday). $19.56, 19+. [FB event]
BODEGA (Notaband / SAMWOY) / The Garrison 2024-04-21 (Sunday). $25.03, 19+. [FB event]
Lipliners 4th Wednesday of the month residency (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-04-24 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Moon King [Roses album release party] (Lee Paradise) / Monarch Tavern 2024-04-25 (Thursday). $19.56, 19+. [FB event]
Joe's 50th Birthday (feat. Eucalyptus / Isla Craig + band / Colin Fisher) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-04-25 (Thursday). $pwyc/$15 (or more), notaflof. [FB event]
CMC Presents (feat. tUkU x bUdi) / Canadian Music Centre 2024-05-09 (Thursday). $15 Advance, $20 at the door; CMC Members and Arts Workers: $12 Advance, $15 at the door; Students. $10 anytime. [more info]
Beams [Requiem for a Planet album release show] (Pelican Movement / Zinnia) / The Garrison 2024-05-09 (Thursday). $18.86, 19+. [FB event]
Welcome to Hipsville (feat. Ichi-Bons / The Kewpie Dolls / The Slow Drags / Fuzz Vultures / Thee Rogue Telstars) / Owl's Club 2024-05-11 (Saturday). $25. [FB event]
Opa Yallah / Burdock Music Hall 2024-05-18 (Saturday). $15. [FB event]
Lipliners 4th Wednesday of the month residency (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-05-29 (Wednesday) [FB event]
Freesound presents Vortex Temporum [works by Gérard Grisey and Wesley Shen] (feat. Freesound Ensemble) / Array Space 2024-06-20&21 (Thursday & Friday) [FB event]
Lipliners 4th Wednesday of the month residency (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-26 (Wednesday) [FB event]
2024 Gigs
Track Could Bend #87 (feat. SOUP/ Panties / battle milk) / Wenona Lodge 2024-01-02 (Tuesday)
Swanherds [rebecca bruton solo] (Kurt Newman) / 918 Bathurst – The Sun Room 2024-01-23 (Tuesday)
Track Could Bend #88 (feat. Écureuil / Garden of Magic) / Wenona Lodge 2024-02-06 (Tuesday)
Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman / Eiyn Sof / Colin Fisher / Nick Flanagan) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-11 (Sunday)
Track Could Bend #89 (feat. mutepack / Piers Oolvai) / Wenona Lodge 2022-03-05 (Tuesday)
Women From Space Festival: Night 2 (feat. Grace Scheele / MOCH / Mali Obomsawin) / 918 Bathurst 2024-03-09 (Saturday)
Women From Space Festival: Night 3 (feat. Anh Phung/chiquitamagic/Emjay Wright / Val Jeanty & Nickeshia Garrick / Matana Roberts/Germaine Liu/Nicole Rampersaud) / 918 Bathurst 2024-03-10 (Sunday)
Faster Presents: Juice?$#%* (feat. Happy Apple / Brian Abbott & Ryan Kinney / Andrew Kay/Kayla Milmine/Bob Vespaziani / Liz Lima/Brodie West/Andrew Kay/Paul Newman) / Gerrard Art Space 2024-03-23 (Saturday)
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