Recording: Ways

Artist: Ways

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at the Canadian Music Centre (CMC/Riparian Acoustics presents), January 23, 2020.

Ways - [excerpt]

This pairing of Brodie West and Evan Cartwright was frequently spotted around town a few years back, but had gone to ground for a spell. With an album due in a couple months, the next phase is now opening up as the pair are putting themselves back in the mix. The time away has definitely lead to some refinements in the pair's sound, which on this showing was presented with a renewed sense of elegant restraint. Evan Cartwright's percussion was not so much propelling things along as keeping them aloft, while West's saxophone was more suggestive of a sphere expanding than a path taken.

[Ways will be back in action on Thursday, March 5th at the launch party for A Pigsty in a Single Grain of Rice, recent collages by Andrew Zukerman at Likely General, where they will be interpreting a graphic score by Zukerman. West and Cartwright will also be performing as members of Eucalyptus at the band's annual residency at Hirut restaurant, every Sunday in March (except the first Sunday). This season of CMC Presents concerts will be concluding at the Burdock on Thursday, March 5th with a special co-presentation with the Women From Space Festival featuring Elisa Thorn, Claire Yunjin Lee, Amy Brandon, and Susan Alcorn.]