Artists: Nasim Asgari & Moël
Songs: two unknown songs*
Recorded at The Music Gallery (X Avant XVI – Night 1), October 14, 2021.
Nasim Asgari with Moël - unknown
The Music Gallery's annual X Avant Festival felt like a return and a renewal in all the right ways. Although these weren't the first events presented by new-ish Artistic Director Sanjeet Takhar, they were the first ones in person, with performers and audience sharing space — a long-awaited return from all sides. Each of the nights played off the festival theme "You in Mind", looking for ways to amplify and support the overlapping communities being drawn together. The first night was presented in collaboration with RISE, who also put on their own smashing community-oriented shows at 918 Bathurst.
Both of the night's live sets were hightly collaborative in nature, the first pairing spoken word poet Nasim Asgari with singer-guitarist Moël. The latter provided instrumental backdrops for all of Asgari's pieces, and in turn she added some vocal accents to some of the songs, each finding their own path to cathartic release.
* Does anyone know the titles to these? Please leave a comment!
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