Recording: Zone Support

Artist: Zone Support

Song: Group Encounter Session [excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), February 25, 2015.

Zone Support - Group Encounter Session [excerpt]

Randy Gagne (Man Made Hill) and Kevin Hainey (Inyrdisk/Kapali Karsi/etc.) team up on this new project, celebrating the release of their first album on the Healing Power label. The tape is both a fond tribute (Gagne's keyboard work is stupendous throughout) and loving sendup (wait 'til you get to the part about the sandwiches) of the New Age genre. Live, that was pushed even further, with incense and low lights, and some oddly soothing aerial found footage of Saskatchewan's vast oceans of grain — imploding the joke/not-a-joke distinction in a blast of psychic detoxification.

[P.S.: Healing Power is once again presenting nights of casual weirdness on the last Wednesday of every month at The Tranzac, so keep an eye out for upcoming events!]