Monday Roundup #11

In the absence of concert listings, my regular Monday dispatches have fallen off. After bringing some life to the blog with the "bumping into" series, I figure I should get back in the groove. I'm guessing that this will be a bit like what used to get shoved into the end of the post when I was doing listings — some bandcamp suggestions, nods to a few livestreams, and sundry community notes (email me if you have anything that needs broadcast in the latter category!). Plus maybe a look back through the MFS archives.

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Community notes:

• Afropop Worldwide checks in with a comprehensive scene report from right here in T.O., looking both at local originators (like Tarik Abubakar and the Afro Nubians) and emerging stars (including Blandine). The players here will be familiar if you check in with Radio Karibuni on CIUT on Sunday afternoons, but if you need a respected authority to remind you what's near at hand, Banning Eyre has you covered. Check out the hour-long program here.

• Ilyse Krivel (who we virtually bumped into a couple months back) is supplementing the excellent sounds of her Eternalrealworld project with her new Vespertine Printshop on etsy, offering "high quality and original art inspired by the mystical, magical and mysterious."

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Livestream nation:

• End of the month means that Exit Points is coming back around again on Wednesday (March 31st) with two curated sets of electroacoustic experimentation (featuring Rufi Oswaldo, Marguerite Luu, Afraaz Mulji, thispatcher and Magali Dudemaine, Andy Yue, Kurt Inder, Piers Oolvai) plus some audience-participation Switchemups afterwards.

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It happened this week...

• ...on March 31, 2012 at The Silver Dollar Room.

Hunx & His Punx - Let Me In

• ... on April 3, 2013 at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge.

Body Help - unknown

[Do remember that you can click on the tags below to go back and find the original posts (and often, more stuff) from these artists.]

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Bandcamp corner:

• Your springtime walks (as well as your considerations on the nature of time) with be suitably enhanced if you spend some time with this new collection of solo saxophone explorations from Paul Newman.