Artist: Colin Fisher
Song: [excerpt]
Recorded at The Music Gallery (X Avant XVI – Night 3), October 16, 2021.
The Music Gallery's annual X Avant Festival felt like a return and a renewal in all the right ways. Although these weren't the first events presented by new-ish Artistic Director Sanjeet Takhar, they were the first ones in person, with performers and audience sharing space — a long-awaited return from all sides. Each of the nights played off the festival theme "You in Mind", looking for ways to amplify and support the overlapping communities being drawn together. Day Three ("Process") was "dedicated to the global thread of sustained tone as a healing modality" — by way of an eight-hour drone zone, letting the audience lay back on 918 Bathurst's sanctuary floor and watch projections planetarium-style on the high-arched ceiling.
Colin Fisher might not, by his own admission, be a drone musician, but that doesn't mean he can't let his musical explorations settle into a shimmery haze — and then add a bit of sonic grit to create a clarifying contrast. This extended zone sees him creating a lush pad with guitar and effects from which to launch the saxophone section of his set.
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