Recording: No Seas

Artist: No Seas

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #41), August 7, 2018.

No Seas - unknown

"Unexpected rain just before showtime," is scrawled in my notepad at the start of this night. Little did we know that a monumental storm was about to settle over the city and flood low-lying areas — like, say, basement venues — making nature the surprise guest headliner on the night and cutting things short. Things started without incident though, with Alexei Orechin leading off the evening with a carefully-constructed set from his tapes-and-guitar project. Often the tools of "noise", Orechin is instead using his tapes as compositional frames — and the found-sound answering machine messages add a slightly-voyeuristic documentary edge to the proceedings.

[What should have been the third set on this night, featuring Debashis Sinha, is actually happening tonight (September 25th) at a special offsite make-up show at Array Space. (Allison Cameron & Mani Mazinani are also playing a set!) Meanwhile, Track Could Bend will be back in the basement at Wenona next week (October 2nd) with sets from Uxvae, The Velvet Crystals and Jakob Rehlinger.]

^* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!