Monday Roundup #147

Community notes:

• The AMBiENT PiNG's DRONE:KLUB returns to the Long & McQuade Clinic Hall on Thursday (November 9th). "Droners, Friends and Audience are all welcome for this free indoor event, where we explore community sound-weaving." More info at the facebook event.

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Concert announcements:

Josh Cole & Nick Fraser present (feat. Yves Charuest/Josh Cole/Rob Clutton/Nick Fraser) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-11-14 (Tuesday). $10/pwyc. [FB event]

Ted Crosby Presents: Solos (feat. Alan Mackie / Justin Orok / Ted Crosby) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-11-16 (Thursday) [FB event]

Portage [George Koller/Bruce Cassidy/Diane Roblin] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-11-19 (Sunday) [FB event]

Exit Points 44 (feat. Yun Young Lee/Aaron Claudius/Donald Quan/Christine Duncan/None / Laura Chan/Pouya Hamidi/Emjay Wright/Margaret Maria/Michael Palumbo / Switchemups!) / Array Space 2023-11-24 (Friday). $20. [FB event]

Okavango African Orchestra [Migration album release celebration!] / The Redwood Theatre 2023-12-02 (Saturday). $20. [more info + tickets]

Amrita [Kayla Milmine & Anita Katakkar] / Tibet Street Records 2023-12-08 (Friday). $20. [FB event]

Is your show missing from this list? Submit it via this form!

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Shows this week:

Track Could Bend #85 (feat. Ben Grossman / Ozone) / Wenona Lodge 2023-11-07 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Never Was [Brandon Davis/Madeleine Ertel/Patrick O'Reilly/Joe Sorbara] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-11-08 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Night in the Garden [autophysiopsychic interpretation of a special banner painted by Shezad Dawood, using the banner as a visual score] (feat. Adam Rudolph/Ralph Miles Jones/Alexis Marcelo) / Aga Khan Museum 2023-11-10 (Friday). $40 (regular), $36 (friends of Aga Khan Museum), $30 (students and seniors). Tickets include same-day Museum admission. A limited number of $20 rush tickets will be available on the day of the event. [more info]

Musica Universalis (feat. Mark Hundevad/Mike Gennaro/Colin Fisher) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-11-10 (Friday). $10/pwyc.

Future Proof [Bea Labikova & Raphael Roter] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-11-11 (Saturday – early). $pwyc. [more info]

Off World [Sandro Perri/Andrew Zukerman/Nicole Rampersaud/Martin Arnold/Josh Cole] [album release!] (Nicole Rampersaud [album release!] / Playdate [Matthew Bailey & Carl Schilde]) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2023-11-11 (Saturday). $22.89. [FB event]

Eve Egoyan & Mauricio Pauly [Hopeful Monster album release!] / The Music Gallery 2023-11-11 (Saturday). $17.03. [FB event]

Jiants [LP release!] (Beams / Fjord Mustang) / Monarch Tavern 2023-11-11 (Saturday). $16, 19+. [FB event]

Toronto Improvisers Orchestra / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-11-12 (Sunday – noon)

Ayal Senior & Friends (feat. Ayal Senior/Kurt Newman / Michelle Breslin / Skyservant [Kevin Crump] / Nick Flanagan) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-11-12 (Sunday – 5 p.m. [later than usual start time!]) [FB event]

The music of Paul Motian (feat. Patrick Smith/Lowell Whitty/Dan Pitt) / Sellers and Newel 2023-11-12 (Sunday). $12 minimum donation. [more info]

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It happened this week...

• ...on November 8, 2017 at 918 Bathurst (OPEN: an evening of sound interactions).

Sandy Ewen with Brandon Valdivia - [last section]

• ...on November 9, 2017 at Monarch Tavern (Fundraiser Show for Mexico & Puerto Rico).

Rapport - My Goodbyes

[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: Rapport

Artist: Rapport

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at Workman Arts – Main Hall (Long Winter 7.4), February 9, 2019.

Rapport - unknown

With its multiple floors, cavernous halls, creaky stairwells and peeling-paint grandeur, Workman Arts might be the closest thing Long Winter has found to its old home at the pre-restoration Great Hall. Tina Weymouth's stage presence in Stop Making Sense should have inspired the formation of more bands, but thankfully we have this one. The only thing not to love about this group is that they are still keeping their music mostly on stage, with just a single track up on their bandcamp. But their live show (with Stephen "Omhouse" Foster sitting in on drums this time out) remains packed to the brim with infectiously joyful energy — if their lyrical invocations of "freedom" might seem ripped from the song playing over the end credits dance scene in the 80's teen flick of your choice, it's always completely lived in and never just a pastiche. Complete with a "bark-in" to begin, this song teeters on the brink of falling apart about two-thirds of the way through, but it still manages to to elicit plenty of joy, whether or not it evokes, say, the backing vox from The Go-Betweens' "Streets of Your Town" and the sequencer chug of a Game Theory track.

[Rapport will be playing a Pop Montreal showcase at The Baby G on Saturday, May 11th with Lydia Kepinski, Hanorah and Casey MQ.]

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

Recording: Rapport

Artist: Rapport

Song: My Goodbyes

Recorded at Monarch Tavern (Fundraiser Show for Mexico & Puerto Rico), November 9, 2017.

Rapport - My Goodbyes

A life in rock'n'roll gives many chances for rebirths and reinventions, so while the 2008 version of me would have been excited at the idea of a fundraiser featuring members of Forest City Lovers, Spiral Beach, Gentleman Reg and Magneta Lane, the 2017 version of me was perhaps more excited to see these musicians brimming with the energy of new music and new ideas. Organized by LOLAA to raise funds to rebuild Puerto Rico after hurricane Maria and Mexico after the earthquakes, there was a lot of positive energy all around throughout the night.

Formerly of Spiral Beach and Moon King, Rapport gives Maddy Wilde a long-awaited opportunity to step up front. Inspired by bands like 'Til Tuesday, there's a knowing 80's vibe to these tunes, with occasional melancholy and a lot of groovy joy — at one point, Wilde and her co-conspirators Kurt Marble and Most People's Mike Pereira were all simultaneously dancing like Tina Weymouth in Stop Making Sense. The band doesn't seem to have any music online yet (keep your eyes on this space) but they have a set of well-crafted tunes, including this one which encapsulates the absolute best of every 80's throwback to brassy 60's pop.