Sunday, May 8, 2022

Recording: Marilyn Lerner

Artist: Marilyn Lerner

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at 918 Bathurst (Women From Space Festival 2022 – Night 4), May 1, 2022.

Marilyn Lerner - [excerpt]

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.

Another festival standout, Marilyn Lerner sat down at the piano and let loose a steady torrent of ideas, with themes and timbres developing and shifting in a natural flow that never once felt forced or rushed.

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