Monday Roundup #79

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Concert announcements:

Joyful Joyful [record release!] (Joni Void / Hsien) / 918 Bathurst 2022-07-26 (Tuesday). $22.23 advance. [FB event]

The Ryan Driver Sextet / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-07-29 (Friday). $pay-what-you-wish. [FB event]

Cosmic Homeostasis XVI / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-07-31 (Sunday – 2:30 p.m.). $PWYC. [FB event]

Solo-ish Guitar Night (feat. Brian Abbott / Kurt Newman / Ryan Kinney / Patrick O'Reilly) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-07-31 (Sunday – late!) [FB event]

Audiopollination presents Sandy Ewen (feat. Wenderly Park / Sandy Ewen/Kurt Newman/Kieran Maraj / Sandy Ewen/Allison Cameron) / Array Space 2022-08-14 (Sunday). $15. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Lina Allemano's Ohrenschmaus [Lina Allemano/Dan Peter Sundland/Michael Griener] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-07-19 (Tuesday) [FB event]

Cate Le Bon / The Great Hall 2022-07-19 (Tuesday). $33.99 advance, 19+. [FB event]

Not Dead Yet Presents (feat. Claire Rousay / Matchess / Erin Corbett) / The Baby G 2022-07-19 (Tuesday). $21.76 Advance, 19+. [FB event]

A Josh Cole Quartet [Brodie West/Andrew Zukerman/Phil Melanson/Josh Cole] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-07-20 (Wednesday)

Dan Pitt/Mike DeiCont/Robert Diack / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-07-22 (Friday – early!)

Ornate Presents: Dark Matter Tapes double release celebration (feat. Michael Lynn / Kayla Milmine / Brian Abbott) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-07-22 (Friday). [FB event]

Cots (Ways Lain) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2022-07-24 (Sunday). $10/pwyc. [FB event]

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It happened this week...

• ...on July 21, 2013 at Franklin Children's Garden (Poor Pilgrim 6).

Nick Ferrio - Half the Time

• ...on July 24, 2013 at Holy Oak Café.

Mystic Triangle - unknown

[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: Mystic Triangle

Artist: Mystic Triangle

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at Monarch Tavern, August 28, 2016.

Mystic Triangle - unknown

There's been a slight tweak in Ben Oginz's approach with some new compositions for his Mystic Triangle project — these instrumentals felt less like the soundtrack to a straight-to-VHS Predator ripoff and more like background music in a particularly excellent 80's episode of NOVA.

^* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!

Recording: Mystic Triangle

Artist: Mystic Triangle

Song: A4M

Recorded at The Great Hall (Long Winter 4.5 – Night 2), March 18, 2016.

Mystic Triangle - A4M

You can't fault Long Winter for being ambitious and for wanting to close out the season by cramming in as much music and art into the Great Hall as possible, but their plan to close the year out with a two-night stand didn't entirely pay off. Giving patrons the choice of two nights (and holding them at the end of Spring Break) seemed to especially cut into the younger crowd and both nights (especially Friday) lacked that "about to burst" feeling that makes LW unique. But even if the crowd was at less than maximum strength, there was no certainly no lack of music spread throughout the building.

Having heard Ben Oginz's Mystic Triangle project in more intimate spaces, it was quite exciting to hear his slightly-brooding synth-arpeggiations filling up the huge space in the Main Hall. Sounds like there's some different gear in the mix since I last caught him, too, with some subtle re-arrangements of the material.

[Mystic Triangle, along with YlangYlang and Fake Humans, is part of a staggeringly-good undercard for tomorrow's ZONES album release show (Friday, April 1st at Smiling Buddha). ]

Recording: Mystic Triangle

Artist: Mystic Triangle

Song: Snake Eyes Wins

Recorded at Holy Oak Café, October 28, 2014.

Mystic Triangle - Snake Eyes Wins

Although it was only back in February that Ben Oginz was celebrating the release of a Mystic Triangle tape, there's no drop-off in quality in the tasty new Pulses — in fact this one raises his game a bit. The insistent gungungungung gungungungung of the sequencer beat would have been worthy of packed-in, dance-y Friday night crowd — but even on a mellower Tuesday, it was sweet to see this music making its way out to the world.

Recording: Mystic Triangle

Artist: Mystic Triangle

Song: Fragment

Recorded at Handlebar, February 22, 2014.

Mystic Triangle - Fragment

Full review to follow. In a case of parallel lines converging, a new tape from Ben Oginz's Mystic Triangle takes him a little closer to what you might hear from Mimico, rather than the "psychic new age music" that this side-project used to dabble in. Surrounded by synths and swathed in reverb, this set sounded like it was purpose-built as a soundtrack to some 80's direct-to-video exploitation flick ripping off the latest from John Carpenter. (Just listen to this and try not to imagine a guy with a shotgun in a foggy swamp being chased by an alien.)

Recording: Mystic Triangle

Artist: Mystic Triangle

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at Holy Oak Café, July 24, 2013.

Mystic Triangle - unknown

Full review to follow. Mystic Triangle is the solo bandonym for Mimico's Ben Oginz, and while the psychetronic realms he's inhabiting here aren't worlds removed from his band's sound, these come with their own sense of austere grooviness.

^* Does anyone know the title to this one? Please leave a comment!