Artist: Lori Freedman & Scott Thomson
Song: [excerpt from first piece]
Recorded at The Tranzac's Main Hall (Women From Space Festival 2022 – Night 2), April 29, 2022.
Lori Freedman & Scott Thomson - [excerpt from first piece]
For the past three years, the Women From Space Festival has been an excellent encapsulation of its moment. Coming on the cusp of the First Big Lockdown, the 2020 Festival is remembered by many as the last event of the beforetimes, while last year's "hologram edition" was an elegant solution to the flatness of livestreams. And now, this year's Festival had to bear all the relief and angst of "returning to live" at this uncertain mid-point of the pandemic. Presented with joy and community spirit over four nights, the Festival was a chance to run into seldom-seen familiar faces and to hear a dizzying variety of sounds.
One of the signs of a spirited collaboration is when musicians can continue to surprise each other, even after many years of playing together. Lori Freedman & Scott Thomson have been playing together since 2007's recording of their Plumb album, but were spontaneous and playful in this set, kinetically reacting to their respective whoops and veers on clainet/bass clarinet and trombone.
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