Recording: Leucrocuta

Artist: Leucrocuta

Song: two unknown songs^*

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Long Winter 8.1), November 22, 2019.

Leucrocuta - unknown #1

Leucrocuta - unknown #2

Sometimes a purveyor of ambient sound design or austere synthscapes, the flipside of Laura Dickens' Leucrocuta project sees her delving into gothy darkwave pop. This set (stage look: "bene gesserit/dystopian dom") with co-conspirator Hex-A-Decimal moved from the dissections of consumer culture heard here into some bumpin' Peaches territory, examining contemporary possibilities of both containment and liberation.

[Long Winter is back on Saturday (January 11th) with a night of art and music at The Gladstone, including performances from Korea Town Acid, Boosie Fade, Kiwi jr., BBQ Pope, No Frills, Ian Daniel Kehoe, Nailbiter, Joseph Shabason, Robin Hatch and Ichi-Bons.]

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Recording: Leucrocuta

Artist: Leucrocuta

Song: exorcise no 3

Recorded at Jam Factory (Intersection Day 4), September 1, 2019.

Leucrocuta - exorcise no 3

Once more, Burn Down the Capital's Tad Michalak crosswired a couple of his curatorial endeavours, bringing together the Intersection festival and the Music Gallery's Departures series to make it possible to host an esteemed visiting musician — in this case pioneering electronic musician Morton Subotnick. Mirroring his futuristic sounds of the past was an opening set from local synth explorer Leucrocuta, alternating austere soundscapes with blippier, beat-driven zones, and offering a gracious sense of floating, expanding space.

[Leucrocuta will be helping to get things going at Venus Fest's Merganzer album release party this Saturday (October 26th) alongside Blue Light.]