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

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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.]

Monday Roundup #90

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Concert announcements:

Portage [George Koller/ Bruce Cassidy/Diane Roblin] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-10-16 (Sunday – early!) [FB event]

Soundstreams: Surface Tension (feat. TorQ Percussion Quartet) / Universal Music 2022-10-22 (Saturday – two performances at 7:00 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.) [FB event]

Death to T.O #10 [members of Breeze, Rapport, Nyssa, Praises, Dilettante, C.J Wiley, Shitbats, Theo Vandenhoff, Witchrot, Secret Sign, Blanks, Nutrients, World news performing as Abba, Depeche Mode, Roxy Music, Dolly Parton, The Doors, Nancy Sinatra, Orchestral Manouveres in the Dark, The Cramps, Kate Bush, The Cure, The Kinks, The Pixies, Flight of the Conchords] / Lee's Palace + The Cave 2021-10-29 (Saturday). $20 advance, 19+. [FB event]

Aline's étoile magique [Aline Homzy/Thom Gill/Daniel Fortin/Michael Davidson/Marito Marques] / The Rex 2021-10-30 (Sunday) [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Victor Bateman & Reg Schwager / The Rex 2022-10-04 (Tuesday – 5:30-7:30) [FB event]

Track Could Bend #72 (feat. Kayla Milmine/Mike Gennaro / Stranger Still [Mim Adams/Randi Helmers/Rob Clutton/Pete Johnston] / Jonas Olesen) / Wenona Lodge 2022-10-04 (Tuesday). $PWYC. [FB event]

Partner (Rapport / CJ Wiley) / Horseshoe Tavern 2022-10-06 (Thursday). $17.00, 19+ [FB event]

Tania Gill Presents (feat. Jasper Stadhouders/Brodie West/Karen Ng/Blake Howard/Rob Clutton / Tania Gill/Rob Clutton/Nico Dann) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-10-07 (Friday – early!)

Audiopollination (feat. Jessica Houghton/Kathryn Merriam / Patrick O’Reilly/Curtis Whittaker/Saba Saneinejad / Ryan Kinney/Mira Riselli / Bill Gilliam/Eugene Martynec/Bill McBirnie) / Array Space 2022-10-07 (Friday). $10 (cash or card) or PWYC. [FB event]

Status/Non Status / Horseshoe Tavern 2022-10-08 (Saturday). $22.66, 19+. [FB event]

Ayal Senior's monthly (feat. Country Phasers / Nick Flanagan / Electroacoustic Autumn Ensemble [Kieran Miraj/Fuzzy Nibesh/William Davison + special guests!]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-10-09 (Sunday – afternoon show @ 2:30 p.m.!). $PWYC, family-friendly. [FB event]

SynCirSundays (feat. Mike Hansen & Gary Barwin [where the angels once were: live sessions album release!] / Rob Clutton & Nilan Perera) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-10-09 (Sunday – early!) [FB event]

Holy Oak Family Singers / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-10-09 (Sunday)

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Bandcamp corner:

• Reminder that Bandcap Friday happens again this week (October 7th), so get your lists ready! Me, I like to pre-order stuff, while more of the money goes right to the artists — and then you get a delightful surprise in your inbox when the albums drop. Here's a couple things I have my eyes on:

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It happened this week...

• ...on October 4, 2018 at Burdock Music Hall. [and speaking of Bandcamp Friday pre-orders, why not grab Joy Shape, a newer name for Zoë Alexis-Abrams' solo songcraft. It looks like this track will be on there, so it'll be cool to see how it has developed!]

ZOË - The Rock

• ...on October 7, 2018 at Handlebar (Nite Comfort 60).

Memorex - Self-Discipline

[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: Memorex

Artist: Memorex

Song: Self-Discipline

Recorded at Handlebar (Nite Comfort 60), October 7, 2018.

Memorex - Self-Discipline

Streamlining things from the trio format that I last saw, this new phase for Memorex saw founder David Lush taking the stage on his own, surrounded by a floor full of synths. Adding bass and vocals while keeping synth sequences and drum machines from going off the rails contributed to the sense of tension and paranoia often evident in his songs — plus, it's always more entertaining when the audience gets the sense that things could veer out of control at any second.

Nite Comfort will be back at Handlebar on Sunday, December 2nd, celebrating an album release from deep sludge-drone explorers Northumbria (plus a set from Subterranea as well).

Recording: Memorex

Artist: Memorex

Song: One Step Ahead of the Whip

Recorded at The Baby G, October 20, 2016.

Memorex - One Step Ahead of the Whip

A full set from David Lush's tapehiss/synthpop project gave an opportunity to try a few twists from the group's recent trio sound — they opened and closed with just Lush and Ben Oginz on stage playing some instrumentals. Those were less "song" oriented than the main part of the set that included Nyles Miszczyk's guit and bass work on the more "pop" material. With their stage set-up that includes a vertically-mounted mixer propped up behind the keybs, the whole thing has an admirable science-experiment feeling to it — that conjured-chaos feeling that things could go wrong if someone doesn't hit the right thing at the right time — that makes this a worthy live unit and not just a tasty bedroom-y pop project.

Recording: Memorex

Artist: Memorex

Song: Glass Eyes

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

Memorex - Glass Eyes

This group, which has been around for nearly a couple years now, has been on my radar ever since I realized it was fronted by David Lush, formerly of beloved local jangle-popsters The Airfields. This project takes a sharp turn into retrosynthtopia — it made perfect sense to see that the current live incarnation includes Ben Oginz and his Jupiter-6, as this occupies similar musical terrain to his Mystic Triangle project. (The live unit was rounded out by Nyles Miszczyk, playing guit and bass, though he too knows a thing or two about synthesizer operation.) Tasty stuff (and a stylish soundtrack to some 70's dystopian auto-eroticism) as the band played some tunes from their recent tape two, plus some dips back to their first release and a cover of an early Ministry obscurity that fit right into their sound-world.