Recording: Pigeon Dance

Artist: Pigeon Dance

Song: [excerpt from first piece]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #98), December 3, 2024.

Pigeon Dance - [excerpt from first piece]

I asked Victor O to put something together for TCB and be responded with this should-be-a-full-time-band trio, with Clay on percussion/flute and Lenny on keybs/vox/chaos. Sounding like a late-night out-take from the In a Silent Way sessions when the acid was really kicking in, this was a pretty excellent psychedelic journey.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

[Track Could Bend is back at Wenona on Tuesday (January 7th) with sets from Lostworldsounds, future proof, and Hex-a-Decimal. And get ready for February, with two big TCB special celebrations!]

Recording: Dept. of Loss

Artist: Dept. of Loss

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #98), December 3, 2024.

Dept. of Loss - [excerpt]

One genuine thrill of putting together shows for Track Could Bend is giving artits a chance to propose combinations and concepts that I never would have considered. When Phil Hamilton (battle milk, Density Creep, Determinist? Beard Closet, etc.) pitched this joint effort with Fan Wu I was surprised and intruiged, but it turned out there was definite overlap between the former's performative abrasiveness and the latter's transgressive formalism. Centred around feedback sculpted with a mic and amp (though there were also gongs, samples, voices and more in the mix there) this was, as the duo's name suggested, an exercise in exploring the pain of absence and the manifestations of the void. It also ended with some audience-participation-as-audience-confrontation, as you can see if watch the clip below through to the end:

[Track Could Bend is back at Wenona on Tuesday (January 7th) with sets from Lostworldsounds, future proof, and Hex-a-Decimal. And get ready for February, with two big TCB special celebrations!]

2024 Gig List

Track Could Bend #87 (feat. SOUP / Panties / battle milk) / Wenona Lodge 2024-01-02 (Tuesday)

Swanherds [rebecca bruton solo] (Kurt Newman) / 918 Bathurst – The Sun Room 2024-01-23 (Tuesday)

Track Could Bend #88 (feat. Écureuil / Garden of Magic) / Wenona Lodge 2024-02-06 (Tuesday)

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman / Eiyn Sof / Colin Fisher / Nick Flanagan) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-11 (Sunday)

Track Could Bend #89 (feat. mutepack / Piers Oolvai) / Wenona Lodge 2022-03-05 (Tuesday)

Women From Space Festival: Night 2 (feat. Grace Scheele / MOCH / Mali Obomsawin) / 918 Bathurst 2024-03-09 (Saturday)

Women From Space Festival: Night 3 (feat. Anh Phung/chiquitamagic/Emjay Wright / Val Jeanty & Nickeshia Garrick / Matana Roberts/Germaine Liu/Nicole Rampersaud) / 918 Bathurst 2024-03-10 (Sunday)

Faster Presents: Juice?$#%* (feat. Happy Apple / Brian Abbott & Ryan Kinney / Andrew Kay/Kayla Milmine/Bob Vespaziani / Liz Lima/Brodie West/Andrew Kay/Paul Newman) / Gerrard Art Space 2024-03-23 (Saturday)

Ryan Driver’s Big 5-0 (feat. The Ryan Driver Sextet + guests) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-03-30 (Saturday)

Cosmic Homeostasis XXIII / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-31 (Sunday)

Gabe Girard presents (feat. Zoë / Molehill / Heraclitus Akimbo/Gabe Girard/mkl32) / Bar Orwell 2024-03-31 (Sunday)

Track Could Bend #90 (feat. Voidfemmes & Erin Corbett / Allison Cameron & Stephen Parkinson) / Wenona Lodge 2024-04-02 (Tuesday)

Eclipse Drone 2024: A Cosmic Homeostasis Community Event (feat. Cosmic Homeostasis) / Christie Pits 2022-04-08 (Monday)

Dun-Dun Land: Slight Return (feat. Dun-Dun Band) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-04-09 (Tuesday)

Josh Cole Presents (feat. Rob Clutton/Josh Cole/Nick Fraser/John Oswald wsg Colin Fisher) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-04-09 (Tuesday)

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Tzevi Sherman / Marilyn Yogarajah & Co. / Nick Flanagan / Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-04-14 (Sunday)

Poncili Creacion with Karen Ng and Philippe Melanson (Nubuo Kubota) / The Music Gallery 2024-04-19 (Friday)

Tranzac Fundraiser I (feat. Sandro Perri & Friends / Masahiro Takahashi / Anne Bourne) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-04-20 (Saturday)

Wenderly Park (Friends of Wenderly Park feat. Marilyn Yogarajah/Bea Labikova/Allison Cameron/Mike Lynn/Jason Doell) / The Sun Room at 918 Bathurst 2024-04-23 (Tuesday)

Joe's 50th Birthday (feat. Eucalyptus / Isla Craig + band / Colin Fisher) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-04-25 (Thursday)

Track Could Bend #91 (feat. TH6Ø / Olivia Shortt / Brian Abbott) / Wenona Lodge 2024-05-07 (Tuesday)

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior/Kurt Newman/Andrew Furlong / William Davison / Karsten Stryker / Nick Flanagan) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-05-12 (Sunday)

Ghostgirl residency (feat. Aline Homzy/Allan Mackie/Michael Davidson / Michael Davidson [solo]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-05-14 (Tuesday)

Josh Cole presents (feat. Kind Mind) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-05-14 (Tuesday)

TONE presents (feat. Nate Wooley's Columbia Icefield / Rob Clutton Trio with Kurt Newman) / Standard Time 2024-05-17 (Friday)

ArtJam Toronto (feat. not a band) / 918 Bathurst 2024-05-25 (Saturday)

Gabe Girard presents (feat. The Jake Laur Trio / Nobody Waved Goodbye / D.B. Buxton) / The Dock Ellis 2024-05-26

Track Could Bend #92 (feat. Duo Cichorium [Jasmine Tsui/Louis Pino] / Tom Richards) / Wenona Lodge 2024-06-04 (Tuesday)

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior / Drew Smith / Nick Flanagan / Nocturnes) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-09 (Sunday)

Ghostgirl residency (feat. Aline Homzy/Michael Davidson/Julian Anderson-Bowes/Aidan McConnell) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-11 (Tuesday)

Josh Cole presents (feat. Peter Zummo & friends) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-11 (Tuesday)

Tranzac Fundraiser II (feat. US Girls / Eucalyptus / Cots) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-06-14 (Friday)

TONE Festival (feat. Mas Aya / Colin Fisher / Xicada) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-06-16 (Sunday)

Luka Kuplowsky & The Ryōkan Band (The Heart of Going La) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-06-18 (Tuesday)

Aline's Étoile Magique / Toronto Jazz Fest — Village Stage 2024-06-24 (Monday)

Solitary Shrew presents (feat. Mira Martin-Gray / Molly McGregor's Pageant puppet play) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-25 (Tuesday)

Nick Fraser presents (feat. Zoe Pia / BLOOP! / Non-Twins) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-25 (Tuesday)

Karen Ng Presents (feat. Ted Crosby/Phil Melanson/Karen Ng / Swanherds) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-27 (Thursday)

Knots / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-30 (Sunday)

Cosmic Homeostasis XXIV / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-30 (Sunday)

Track Could Bend #93 (feat. Without a Single Green Feather / Kristina Warren & Karen Ng) / Wenona Lodge 2024-07-02 (Tuesday)

Tribute to Joe Raposo (Feat. Holy Oak Family Singers) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-03 (Wednesday)

The Knot (Germaine Liu & Mark Zurawinski) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-03 (Wednesday)

Karen Ng presents (feat. Windscour / The Adjacence / Shadow Pattern) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge)

Ayal Senior and Friends presents (feat. Nick Flanagan / Jane Inc / You're Steel on My Mind) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-14 (Sunday)

Kurt Newman presents: an evening of cool solos (feat. Christine Bougie / Kayla Milmine / Dan Pitt / Patrick O'Reilly / Thom Gill / Kurt Newman) / Wenona Lodge 2024-07-16 (Tuesday)

Sandro Perri & Friends (Alex Lukashevsky) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-19 (Friday)

Masahiro Takahashi presents Cha-no-yu (feat. Emissive / Masahiro Takahashi with Karen Ng/Sandro Perri) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-07-19 (Friday)

Burn Down The Capital presents (feat. Mira Martin-Gray / Deprivation Tactics / Brian Ruryk / Lucas Abela / Gorgina) / See-Scape 2024-07-24 (Wednesday)

Mountain Movers (Stonegrass / Emily Robb) / Monarch Tavern 2024-07-25 (Thursday)

Joseph Allred (Hieronymus Harry / Marilyn Yogarajah) / Annette Studios 2024-08-04 (Sunday)

Track Could Bend #94 (feat. Dangertown / Eye_Duh Kho & Alejandro Franco Briones) / Wenona Lodge 2024-08-06 (Tuesday)]

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior & Hieronymus Harry / David Sait / The Sympathetic String Band / Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-08-11 (Sunday)

Cosmic Homeostasis / Bloor Annex BIA Stage 2024-09-01 (Sunday)

Track Could Bend #95 (feat. Royal Jelly / Turtle Pleasure) / Wenona Lodge 2024-09-03 (Tuesday)

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Greydini / Everly Lux / Senior & Newman) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-09-08 (Sunday)

No Octopus Dancing / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-09-10 (Tuesday)

Josh Cole presents (feat. Josh Cole/Rob Clutton/John Oswald/Brodie West) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-09-10 (Tuesday)

Ministry of Phonic Services presents: Back to School Field Trip 2024 (feat. Brian Ruryk & %%30%30 / Louis Pino / Em Wright / Owen Kurtz) / Bickford Park "Stadium" 2024-09-19 (Thursday)

Cosmic Homeostasis XXV / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-09-29 (Sunday)

Track Could Bend #96 (feat. Josh Cole + Mira Martin-Gray / Laura Swankey/Brittany Pitt/Dan Pitt) / Wenona Lodge 2024-10-01 (Tuesday)

Sanctuary Drone (feat. DRONE:KLUB / Cosmic Homeostasis / Spectrum Soundbath) / Trinity-St.Paul's Centre 2024-10-05 (Saturday)

X Avant XIX: Texture: Refraction (feat. The Glass Orchestra / future proof) / The Music Gallery 2024-10-19 (Saturday)

Mira Martin-Gray and Niamh Girling present CLUE NOTE (feat. Allison Cameron/Niamh Girling/Mira Martin-Gray/Olivia Shortt) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-10-29 (Tuesday)

Friends of Clue Note present: Trivial Musical Pursuits (feat. Sara Constant/Patrick O'Reilly/Heraclitus Akimbo/Marilyn Yogarajah/Raphael Roter) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-10-29 (Tuesday)

Labyrinth Ensemble with Maliheh Moradi / Aga Khan Museum 2024-11-02 (Saturday)

Burn Down The Capital presents (feat. Ava Mendoza / Fresh Snow / Not The Wind, Not The Flag) / Collective Arts 2024-11-03 (Sunday)

Track Could Bend #97 (feat. Marilyn + Apple / Darren Williams / Rebecca Bruton) / Wenona Lodge 2024-11-05 (Tuesday)

Music Gallery presents (feat. Joëlle Léandre & Rémy Bélanger de Beauport / Masahiro Takahashi/Joseph Shabason/Bram Gielen) / Allan Gardens – Children's Conservatory 2024-11-09 (Saturday)

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman / Marilyn Yogarajah / Nick Flanagan / Triple Bad Acid) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-11-10 (Sunday)

Clue Note: Trivia and Creative Music (Vol. 2) (feat. Socks and Sandals (and Friends) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-11-26 (Tuesday)

Dan Pitt Quintet / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-11-26 (Tuesday)

Burn Down The Capital presents (feat. V. Vecker / Death Kneel / Cetacea / Aida Khorsandi) / Collective Arts 2024-11-30 (Saturday)

Track Could Bend #98 (feat. Dept. of Loss / Pigeon Dance) / Wenona Lodge 2024-12-03 (Tuesday)

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman / The Sympathetic String Band / Nick Flanagan / Way Bad Stone) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-12-08 (Sunday)

Lostworldsounds (Man Meets Bear) / The Sun Room at 918 Bathurst 2024-12-08 (Sunday)

fuzZfest 2.0 (feat. Ben Bennett/Raphaël Foisy/Karen Ng/Andrew Furlong / Eric Laska / Battle Milk) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2024-12-12 (Thursday)

CLUE NOTE: trivia and creative music (vol 3) (feat. December Bee) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2024-12-29 (Sunday)

Cosmic Homeostasis XXVI / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-12-29 (Sunday)