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.
Community notes:
- Congratulations to Music Gallery Artistic Director Sanjeet Takhar, whose first curatorial project comes to light this week. Her new "What Is" series is promised as an annual event to both embrace and break down genre conventions. The first edition, "What is: Soul" offers five events over the next week, including a "one hour vocal lesson on how to sing full from the confines of your apartment" with dreamcastmoe (Tuesday, June 8th), a conversation on "the culture around music sharing" with Eugene Tam and Raf Reza (Wednesday, June 9th), a workshop that explores putting emotion into music with Byron the Aquarius (Thursday, June 10th), a "panel discussion curated by Anupa Mistry exploring how urban resilience, cultural exchange, and femme resourcefulness can liberate the soul of the city" (Friday, June 11th), and a "special webcast performance & record release by multi-instrumentalist and vocalist Angel Bat Dawid, one of the leading lights of Chicago's avant-jazz, boundary-defying labels, International Anthem and The Village, the like-minded L.A.-based record label stemming from the work and legacy of the Pan Afrikan People's Arkestra" (Saturday, June 12th). A free registration (found here) gets you access to all events.
Livestream nation:
- Audiopollination returns Wednesday (June 9th) with a performance from Love Children of the Apocalypse (Elizabeth Lima and Michael Lynn). Call it free-spirit improvisation; last time around they were gettin' physical, aerobic class style — who knows what inspiration will arise from lockdown fever dreams? (free to stream via Arraymusic)
It happened this week...
- ...on June 9, 2012 at Wrongbar.
- ...on June 10, 2013 at Array Space.
Joshua Abrams' Natural Information Society - Boro
[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.]
Bandcamp corner:
- Let us once more praise Telephone Explosion — Toronto's most essential Pandemic-era label. After issuing plenty of stone grooves last year, their most recent couple offerings hew towards singer-songwriter vibes. Dorothea Paas' Anything Can't Happen is sadly in love, with hints of hauntings and plenty folky flourishes, while Andre Ethier's Further Up Island spends some extra time in producer's Sandro Perri's backyard with organic sonic textures creeping a bit further into the foreground.
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