Mechanical Forest Sound: July 2024

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Recording: Aline Homzy & Co.

Artist: Aline Homzy & Co.

Songs: Sister Mary-Ellen + Weird Nightmare [composer: Charles Mingus]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Ghostgirl residency), June 11, 2024.

The second instalment of Aline Homzy's Ghostgirl residency saw her joined again by Michael Davidson on vibes, as well as Julian Anderson-Bowes on double bass and Aidan McConnell on drums. Once more there was a mix of spectral stories and songs — though the first one here is not a ghost story, but rather a fond remembrance of a former neighbour, while the on-point latter selection was also a spotlight for Anderson-Bowes.

[The Ghostgirl residency continues in the Southern Cross on Tuesday, July 9th, this time with Aline Homzy joined by Devon Henderson, Aidan McConnell, Michael Davidson and Steven Noronha.]

Monday, July 1, 2024

Monday Roundup #181

Concert announcements:

Ghostgirl Residency (feat. Devon Henderson/Aidan McConnell/Michael Davidson/Steven Noronha/Aline Homzy) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-09 (Tuesday – early)

Freesound Presents: Mostly Open Scores (feat. Andrew Noseworthy/Amahl Arulanandam/Matti Pulkki/Michael Murphy/Wesley Shen)/ Society Clubhouse 2024-07-13 (Saturday). $17.31. [FB event]

Modern Roots Jazz Americana Summer Series (feat. Aline Homzy's NDG [Aline Homzy/Michael Davidson/Spencer Cole/Jon Maharaj]) / Hirut Café 2024-07-14 (Sunday). $20, dining available. [more info]

Labyrinth Ontario presents: Makam Nights (feat. Anas Raslan / Majd Sukar) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2024-07-18 (Thursday) [FB event]

Greg Freeman (Westelaken) / The Baby G 2024-07-24 (Wednesday). $28.40, 19+. [FB event]

Mountain Movers (Stonegrass [Jay Anderson/Matthew "Doc" Dunn] / Emily Robb) / Monarch Tavern 2024-07-25 (Thursday). $17.50, 19+. [FB event]

Modern Roots Jazz Americana Summer Series (feat. Bloom [Dan Rooke/Kevin Breit/Dave Piltch]) / Hirut Café 2024-07-28 (Sunday). $20, dining available. [more info]

Modern Roots Jazz Americana Summer Series (feat. Utopia Ontario [Andrew Downing/Kevin Turcotte/Justin Orock/Ian McGimsey/Maggie Keogh]) / Hirut Café 2024-08-04 (Sunday). $20, dining available. [more info]

Dave Bidini / Sellers & Newel 2024-08-11 (Wednesday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

Burn Down The Capital presents (feat. Still House Plants / Only God Forgives) / Standard Time 2024-09-26 (Thursday). $22.89, all ages. [FB event]

Stranger Still [Pete Johnston/Rob Clutton/Mim Adams/Randi Helmers] / Sellers & Newel 2024-10-20 (Sunday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

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Shows this week:

Mike DeiCont Trio [Mike DeiCont/Eric West/Leland Whitty] / The Rex 2024-06-30&2024-07-01 (Sunday & Monday). $20. [FB event]

Track Could Bend #93 (feat. Without a Single Green Feather [Sam Laramee/Ezra Schell/Patrick O’Reilly] / Kristina Warren & Karen Ng) / Wenona Lodge 2024-07-02 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Peripheral Vision (Tania Gill Trio [Tania Gill/Lina Allemano/Rob Clutton]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-02 (Tuesday)

The Knot [Tilman Lewis & Nick Storring] (Germaine Liu & Mark Zurawinski) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-03 (Wednesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Slutcode (Jazz Dads / Hex-A-Decimal) / See-Scape 2024-07-04 (Thursday). $10/pwyc. [FB event]

Tania Gill presents (feat. Doug Tielli/Tania Gill/Rob Clutton) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-05 (Friday – early). $pwyc.

A-Minor presents (feat. Psychic Weapons / Artificial Light / Timehole) / Sneaky Dee's 2024-07-05 (Friday). $16.48, 19+. [FB event]

MINTCHEV5 feat. Mark Hundevad & Colin Fisher / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-06 (Saturday). $pwyc.

Modern Roots Jazz Americana Summer Series (feat. Jacob's Cattle [Roy Patterson/Mike Ekhert/Aline Homzy/Andrew Downing]) / Hirut Café 2024-07-07 (Sunday). $20, dining available. [more info]

Etran de L'Aïr / Longboat Hall 2024-07-07 (Sunday). $30.52, 19+. [FB event]

Monk's Music presents (feat. Adjacent Spheres) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-07 (Sunday). $pwyc

It happened this week...

...on July 7, 2016 at Scott Library Collaboratory (Celebrating Jazz at York University Libraries).

Brodie West + Rob Clutton - Meditations on 'Round Midnight [excerpt]

...on July 7, 2016 at Array Space (Invocation Presents).

Memorex - Glass Eyes

[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.]

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Founded as a blog about one curmudgeon's love affair with the em dash, Mechanical Forest Sound has grown to become a community-based archive of local musical culture. Assuming that "independent music" isn't just boys with guitars and "culture" isn't just some sort of pageant, MFS is an investigation of a wide range of artists, reflecting on concerts as shared experiences, acts of citizenship and a chance to get down — fuzzy photographs and clear-sounding original live recordings a specialty.

Current manifestations of this project include Track Could Bend, a monthly concert series featuring "improvised music and weird rock offshoots", presented in a casual environment.

At one point I wrote full-on concert reviews, and for longer I thought I would catch up and write about shows in the past. But these days, because of, y'know, life, do not expect much in the way of full show reviews — but live recordings with blurbs will be posted as quickly after the fact as is feasible.

Check out my original live recordings from many of the gigs discussed here.

You can also check out full sets uploaded to the Live Music Archive. [not currently active]

N.B.: All recordings should be available & playable. If you come across any broken links, invisible or non-functioning players, etc, please leave a comment and I will tend to it ASAP.

ALSO N.B.: I'm perpetually on the lookout for a new place to stash my MP3's online. If you know of any place that allows a couple gigs of stuff to be openly linked to for streaming, drop me a line!

All comments are welcome, or you can reach me at mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.

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