Recording: Kind Mind

Artist: Kind Mind

Song: Toronto Unorganized

Recorded at Humber Loop (A More Beautiful Journey Launch Event), September 1, 2022.

Kind Mind - Toronto Unorganized

Returning after a couple pandemic hiatus years, the Intersection Festival also interfaced once more with the TTC — this time helping to celebrate the launch of the "A More Beautiful Journey" mobile app. With simultaneous concerts at both ends of the Queen streetcar line (and beyond), there was more than one person could take in, so I settled in and managed to see most of the performances at the Humber Loop. Streetcar-free on this day (to the consternation of west-end commuters, I'm sure), bus grumbles and coughs can be heard in the background here, as well as the occasionally-bemused passers-by.

There was a moment of glorious impracticality seeing Michael Davidson rolling his vibraphone down to the streetcar loop, but for all of its out-of-place-ness, bassist Josh Cole's trio sounded beautiful in this space. The trio (along with Karen Ng on saxophone) played a couple transit-inspired pieces — one was entitled "The Subway", and this piece's title most certainly bears the imprint of someone who has used the TTC.

You can check out some visual documentation from all of the sets I managed to catch that day over on youtube:

Thanks to Fahmid Nibesh for technical assistance with this recording.