Recording: Kapali Carsi

Artist: Kapali Carsi

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Owl's Club (basement), January 25, 2019.

Kapali Carsi - [excerpt]

Celebrating the official release of his XX tape, this set offered some further rumblescapes from Kevin Hainey's Kapali Carsi — and saw his amp hitting the wall's resonant frequency and vibrating the mini light-show laser, making the dancing pinpoint lights fuzz out and tremble in time.

Recording: Kapali Carsi

Artist: Kapali Carsi

Song: [excerpt from first piece]

Recorded at Array Space (Invocation Presents), October 12, 2018.

Kapali Carsi - [excerpt from first piece]

A welcome return for Kevin Hainey's Kapali Carsi (now with a cool tape out on Raw Materials) saw him journey into the N-Zone, creating weird synchronicities with the collaged images. Subtle gestures (rocking his bass back and forth, tapping the strings) created plenty of variations in the sonic texture — and with a new level of subtle performativity, this time out there were some Zukermanesque awkward pauses and bursts of Rurykian chaos to process. Is his cable shorting out, or was that sound deliberate? Therein lies the art of the thing.

[Invocation's presentation of the Thalia Zedek Band has now been merged with Wavelength's Holiday Music/Comedy Fundraiser at The Baby G on Wednesday, December 12th.]

Recording: Kapali Carsi

Artist: Kapali Carsi

Song: [second piece]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Wolf's Nacho Wednesdays), September 28, 2016.

Kapali Carsi - [second piece]

Performing now for the third time as Kapali Carsi, Kevin Hainey's live manifestations might be becoming more frequent, but they still draw a crowd of devoted noise heads. Playing more also gives a chance to explore some variations in his bass drone/noise dynamics, such as exploiting a loose connection for spiky bursts of wobbly noise at the outset. In other spots there were some more subtle dynamics at play, even when the whole thing was wake-the-neighbours loud.

[As has been the case with his other performances, Hainey has documented this show over on his bandcamp.]

Recording: Kapali Carsi

Artist: Kapali Carsi

Song: [third piece]

Recorded at Dundas Video (Track Could Bend #17), August 2, 2016.

Kapali Carsi - [third piece]

After retiring his Inyrdisk label earlier this year, Kevin Hainey had more time to devote to other affairs, such as the long-awaited debut of his solo Kapali Carsi project. Hopefully this second show is a sign this will be more of a regular thing, though this was for now an exciting enough novelty to get some of the city's noted noise-heads out to grok Hainey's bass-induced rumbulations.

[Track Could Bend will be back at Dundas Video on September 6th, with Isla Craig, Mark Hundevad & Mike Gennaro and Jesse James Laderoute's Catholic Wilt.]

Recording: Kapali Carsi

Artist: Kapali Carsi

Song: [excerpt from first piece]

Recorded at Toronto Public Library – Parkdale Branch (SHHHH – Day 2), May 7, 2016.

Kapali Carsi - [excerpt from first piece]

So many things I like here, wrapped up in one package. Not only was this a celebration of an awesome new initiative from the Toronto Public Library where anyone with a library card can borrow a musical instrument, it was celebrated with a couple shows in the program's home branch. I didn't make it out on the Friday where the event's co-organizer Kyle Knapp played a quieter show with his Deliluh project, alongside solo efforts from Dorothea Paas and Dave from Soupcans (a new solo endeavour called Stucco). But Sunday afternoon (a free!, all ages!, afternoon! show — which for me is like seeing a row of cherries come up on the slot machine) moved things down to the Parkdale library's mysterious basement — home, it turns out, to an auditorium that awesomely looks like it was last redecorated c. 1985. This show got pretty loud, though apparently the bunker-like building is soundproofed enough that that didn't disturb the patrons above. I would love to see more shows like this — the mind reels at the possibilities of the communities that could be brought together in this space.

This solo bass noise/drone project from Kevin Hainey has been around for more than a decade, running parallel to his work on the recently-shuttered Inyrdisk label. Despite putting out more than a half-dozen releases from the project, ranging from harsh noise to meditative rumbles, this was his first time presenting it live in performance. Crouched and turned away from the audience, Hainey tapped and flicked at the strings of the bass sitting on top of his amp as he shaped the sounds through amp and pedal knob-twisting.