Monday Roundup #190

Concert announcements:

Context, NA [solo] (No Frills [solo]) / 918 Bathurst – Sun Room 2024-09-11 (Wednesday). $10/pwyc. [FB event]

Tania Gill Presents (feat. The Mighty Gill Show [Tania Gill/Mike Overton/Jake Oelrichs]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-09-13 (Friday – early) [FB event]

Battle Milk (But Worse [Julie Reich/Brian Abbott/Marilyn Yogarajah] / Pat E) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2024-09-13 (Friday). $10/pwyc/notaflof. [FB event]

Martin Bisi Collective [performance/documentary screening/Q&A] (Flake) / Collective Arts 2024-09-14 (Saturday). $20.01, 19+. [FB event]

Duff Thompson and Steph Green (Curtis Bowman) / Monarch Tavern 2024-09-14 (Saturday). $17.50, 19+. [FB event]

Live in the Library: Gayageum Performance (feat. Roa Lee) / Parkdale Library 2024-09-27 (Friday). $free. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Track Could Bend #95 (feat. Royal Jelly [Cory Harper-Latkovich/Germaine Liu/Kurt Newman/Allison Cameron/Sara Constant] / Turtle Pleasure) / Wenona Lodge 2024-09-03 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Ghostlight Residency: Fall Equinox (feat. Ghostlight) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-09-04 (Wednesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

As If [Paul Linklater] [Human Piano album release!] (Michael Feuerstack) / The Piston 2024-09-05 (Thursday). $20. [more info]

Not Dead Yet presents: live album recording (Nick Flanagan / Sara Hennessey / Ayal Senior / The Kurt Newman Zonk Quintet [Kurt Newman/Andrew Furlong/Blake Howard/Ted Crosby]) / Monarch Tavern 2024-09-05 (Thursday). $21.41, 19+. [FB event]

Richard Laviolette's Band [performing the songs from his last album All Wild Things Are Shy, with guest vocalists Abigail Lapell, Jiaqing Wilson Yang, Tamara Lindeman, Terra Lightfoot, José Contreras, Peter Demakos, Cormac Culkeen, and Geordie Gordon] (Abigail Lapell) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-09-06 (Friday). $22.63. [FB event]

Art Spin Bike Tour & Wet Sounds ["gathering a large audience on bicycles to visit the multidisciplinary installations and performances in a one-of-a-kind event"/"a sound installation in a swimming pool led by UK-based artist Joel Cahen"] (feat. Neil Lordson / Moraa Stump / Joel Cahen (performing as PlutonOvarian) / Mira Martin-Gray & Olivia Shortt / Heidi Chan & Prince Nifty) / Earlscourt Park Gazebo/Giovanni Caboto Pool 2024-09-07 (Saturday). $27 [Bike Tour & Wet Sounds, afternoon show], $22 [Wet Sounds only, evening show]. [more info]

Batuki Music Society presents: Renaissance CD Release Concert (feat. Mis Blandine & Caza Jazz Band / Pecosse Animation) / Alliance Française Toronto 2024-09-07 (Saturday). $15 (advance), $20 (door). [FB eventa>]

undercommons collective #1 (feat. Holger Schoorl & Kayla Milmine / Victor O & friends / the rest [Joe Sorbara & Jonathan Kay]) / Annette Studios 2024-09-07 (Saturday). $15/pwyc. [FB event]

Naked Gardener [Patrick O'Reilly/Steven Noronha/Julian Anderson-Bowes/Tiffany Wu] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-09-07 (Saturday). $15, notaflof. [more info]

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Senior & Newman / Greydini / Nick Flanagan / "special guest") / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-09-08 (Sunday – 2:30 p.m.) [FB event]

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Bandcamp corner:

• Do note that after taking off the summer months as usual, Bandcamp Friday returns this week — so if you've been holding off buying stuff in hopes of getting a bit nmore money to the artists now is your time! Here's a couple things from my list:

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Video hits:

• Here's some documentation from a couple shows I would have liked to have gone to, in ornate/hi-fi and wiggy/lo-fi flavours:

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It happened this week...

• ...on September 5, 2014 at Array Space (Music Gallery's "Departures" series).

Battle Trance - Palace of Wind I

• ...on September 6, 2014 at Yonge-Dundas Square (INTERsection 2014).

Contact with Evan Ziporyn - Music in Similar Motion [excerpt]

[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.]

Recording: Battle Trance

Artist: Battle Trance

Song: Palace of Wind I

Recorded at Array Space (Music Gallery's "Departures" series), September 5, 2014.

Battle Trance - Palace of Wind I

Following a test run, The Music Gallery has formalized their off-site series (now christened "Departures") under the co-curatorship of Tad Michalak, employing some of the DIY verve be brings to his work with Burn Down the Capital/Feast In The East. Further instalments are being planned, but nothing's announced yet.

The night's headliners were a new quintet of tenor saxophones convened by Travis Laplante, pushing their instruments into mesmerizing territory. With no PA, the only other sound in the room was the patter of rain on the roof overhead. That was soon obliterated by the rising wall of circular breathing, very phase-y in the manner of Steve Reich. That slowly transformed into several other textures (from quiet drones to Ayler-ish spirit-honking), constantly morphing for the length of the fifty-minute set until the group finally stopped to breathe, holding — holding — the rapt silence of the room, with just the patter of rain on the roof overhead for more than a full minute before lowering their instruments to accept the crowd's applause.