Recording: Lillian Allen

Artist: Lillian Allen with Ariel Gold

Songs: We Want All Women to be Safe + Blood Orange

Recorded at The Music Gallery @ 918 Bathurst (X Avant XIII – Night 4), October 14, 2018.

Lillian Allen with Ariel Gold - We Want All Women to be Safe + Blood Orange

The full four nights of this year's X Avant Festival were curated by A Tribe Called Red's Bear Witness, expanding on the concept of "The Halluci Nation". No surprise, then, that the festival's closing night (with sets from collaborators new and old) ended with all of the performers taking part in a (not so) secret headlining set from ATCR's Halluci Nation Band, mapping journeys taken as well as brand new extensions.

The night began with a set from local legend Lillian Allen, who was herself in collaboration mode, sharing the stage with her student Ariel Gold. Dub poetics with human echoes gave way to some more intriguing technology with Gold performing here on her Blood Orange Piano, with cut oranges on a circuit board triggering synth sounds.

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