Monday Roundup #215

Concert announcements:

Stranger Still [Pete Johnston/Mim Adams/Randi Helmers/Rob Clutton] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-03-04 (Tuesday – early). $pwyc

Tania Gill presents: The Blues (feat. Victor Bateman/Ken Kawashima (aka Sugar Brown)/Jean Martin/Blake Howard) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-03-07 (Friday – early) [more info]

The Harry Vetro Trio [Harry Vetro/Harrison Argatoff/Bennett Young] / The Emmet Ray 2025-03-07 (Friday). $12. [more info]

Audiopollination (feat. Kayla Milmine/Jonathan Kay/Anita Katakkar / Adriana Monti/Yasmine/Piers Oolvai / Ryan Kinney/Harry Vetro/Magick / Mickle32/Del Stephen) / Array Space 2025-03-14 (Friday). Livestream available. [FB event]

Freesound presents: IDENTITY [works for solo vibraphone by Adrian Knight, José Manuel López López, Steve Reich, Massimo Lauricella, Von Hansen] (feat. Matthew Lau) / Array Space 2025-03-16 (Sunday – 2 p.m.). $22.63. [FB event]

Freesound presents (feat. Transsonic / Jason Doell) / Array Space 2025-03-22 (Saturday). $22.63. [FB event]

Not Dead Yet Presents (feat. Kali Malone) / Trinity St. Paul's 2025-03-22 (Saturday). $43.35/$48.39, all ages. [more info]

We Are Busy Bodies presents Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren (feat. Absolutely Free) / Hot Docs T-- R----- Cinema 2025-03-26 (Wednesday). $26.77, all ages. [more info]

Garlic Jr. (Body Butter / Tommy Tone / Battle Milk) / Low Bar 2025-04-04 (Friday). $10

Not Dead Yet Presents (feat. Claire Rousay & More Eaze / You Can Can) / Monarch Tavern 2025-04-11 (Friday). $26.42, 19+. [more info]

Casper Skulls [Kit-Cat album release!] (Twist / Kurt Marble) / The Garrison 2025-04-26 (Saturday). $25.38, 19+. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Patrick O'Reilly presents: Carded! (feat. Patrick O'Reilly/Samuel Little/amiel ang/Samuel Laramee/Omar Yazaw/Leah Reavster/%%30%30/Annie Elgie) / Walter Hall 2025-02-24 (Monday). $free. [more info]

Colin Fisher/George Koller/Jeff Luciani/Diane Roblin / The Emmet Ray 2025-02-25 (Tuesday – 6:30 p.m.). $12. [more info]

Clue Note — Trivia and Creative Music: Malicious Appliance (feat. Raster-Noton is for lovers [Niamh Girling/Mira Martin-Gray/Sarah Peebles/Johnny Spence]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-02-25 (Tuesday – early) [more info]

Ronley Teper & the Lipliners / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-02-26 (Wednesday). [more info]

Cici Arthur [album release party!] [a new supergroup featuring Chris A. Cummings, Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill, playing with a fifteen-piece band including a horn and string section] (Dorothea Paas) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2025-02-27 (Thursday). $33.28. [more info]

All-Set! Presents (feat. Molehill [Mike Smith/Pete Johnston/Jake Oelrichs wsg Laura C. Bates]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-02-28 (Friday – early). $PWYC. [more info]

Exit Points #57 - 5th Anniversary Show! (feat. Xina Gilani/Ben McCarthy/Heather Saumer/Sara Constant /Jamie Eriksen / Pursuit Grooves/Anh Phung/Tara Kannangara/Martin Gomes/Michael Palumbo / switchemups) / Array Space 2025-02-28 (Friday). Tickets: $15 early bird, $20 adv, $25 door. [FB event]

AloneKitty (Yound / Output 1:1:1) / See-Scape 2025-02-28 (Friday). $10. [more info]

The Ryan Driver Sextet / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-02-28 (Friday). $pwyw. [more info]

Tenebrae Of Good Friday [works by Tomás Luis de Victoria] (feat. The Tallis Choir) / St. Patrick's Church 2025-03-01 (Saturday). $30 General, $25 Seniors, $10 for Students (at the door). [FB event]

Liquid Architecture presents "The Call of Cthulhu" [silent film with live musical accompaniment] (feat. ARRC [Ryan Kinney/Colin James Gibson/Rod Campbell/Ambrose Pottie) / Mischief Makers 2025-03-01 (Saturday). $10 advance, $12 at the door, 18+. [FB event]

The Patrick Smith Trio [Patrick Smith/Lowell Whitty/Dan Pitt] / Sellers and Newell 2025-03-02 (Sunday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

Michael Davidson's Adjacent Spheres / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-03-02 (Sunday) [more info]

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It happened this week...

• ...on February 27, 2019 at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Music by Harry and Furlong S1E5).

The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 4 - [excerpt from first piece, part 1]

• ...on February 28, 2019 at Jam Factory (Feast In The East 72).

Badge Époque - Badge Theme

• ...on March 2, 2019 at The Baby G (MFS 10th Anniversary Celebration / A Night of Rock Music!).

Man Made Hill - I'll Swallow You Whole

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Monday Roundup #214

Community notes:

• You might have heard some whispers about it, but Earlobe, "a website listing experimental music and sound art events happening in Toronto, Canada" is officially a thing, filling a much-needed void. Put together by some excellent community-minded folks, their webpage is minimal right now, but you can sign up for their weekly email list, whose first edition dropped today! And, as you might note in the listings below, Karen Ng — one of the earlobe-ists — is turning over her night at Wenona tomorrow (February 18th) to serve as a fundraiser for earlobe's hosting and other costs. Come support! Sign up!

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Concert announcements:

Colin Fisher/George Koller/Jeff Luciani/Diane Roblin / The Emmet Ray 2025-02-25 (Tuesday – 6:30 p.m.). $12. [more info]

Clue Note — Trivia and Creative Music: Malicious Appliance (feat. Raster-Noton is for lovers [Niamh Girling/Mira Martin-Gray/Sarah Peebles/Johnny Spence]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-02-25 (Tuesday – early) [more info]

Track Could Bend #102 (feat. M.D.N.R. [Max Donaldson/Nate Robertson] / Del Stephen's Totoloto) / Wenona Lodge 2025-03-04 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Ichi-Bons (Kewpie Dolls) / Monarch Tavern 2025-03-08 (Saturday). $22.50, 19+. [FB event]

Nolan Hildebrand’s DMA Recital (feat. Colin Fisher/Roan Ma/Patrick O'Reilly/Chris Weins/Veronica Zupanic/Hirad Moradi/Louis Pino/Nikki Huang/Hoi-Tong Keung/Bevis NG/Jasmine Tsui/Thomas Li) / Walter Hall 2025-03-11 (Tuesday – 12:20 p.m.). $free. [FB event]

A-Minor Presents (feat. not a band / Psychic Weapons /Gold Watch) / Supermarket 2025-03-14 (Friday). $16.48, 19+. [FB event]

More Noise Please! & Coward Patrol Present: Mind Boiling Experiments In Noise & Performance (feat. Human Fluid Rot / Harpy / Shadow Pattern / Colby Richardson /Eerified Catacomb) / See-Scape 2024-03-15 (Saturday). $20. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Music Hosted by Karen Ng: A fundraiser show for Earlobe (feat. Holger Schrool & Mark Zurawinski / Many People [Karen Ng/Maxwell Stover/Marilyn Yogarajah/Heather Saumer/Fahmid Nibesh/Heraclitus Akimbo/Kieran Maraj/%%30%30/Blake Howard]) / Wenona Lodge 2024-02-18 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Makam Nights (feat. Gandhaar Amin / Mehdi Rostami) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2025-02-20 (Thursday). $pwyc. [FB event]

PACKS (Triples / Romeo Romeo) / Monarch Tavern 2025-02-20 (Thursday). $28.25, 19+. [tickets + more info]

Spheres Of Southworth II: One Winter Rose (feat. John Southworth/Andrew Downing/Jean Martin/Craig Harley/Justin Orok/Ben Rositsan/Maggie Keogh) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-02-21 (Friday – early) [more info]

Geordie Haley Trio [Geordie Haley/Nick Fraser/Ryan Driver] (Eucalyptus) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2025-02-21 (Friday). $20 in advance ($15 students)

Toronto Noise presents Winter Noise III (feat. Xukasia / Plastic Heart Surgery / Density Creep / Deprivation Tactics) / Tapestry 2025-02-21 (Friday). $15/PWYC. [more info]

coexisDance 108 (feat. Gregory Harisson/Lybido/%%30%30/Brigita Gedgaudas/Viktor Kei/Nyda Kwasowsky/Eyeduh/Larissa Christoff/Olivia Shortt) / Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre 2025-02-22 (Saturday). $5 (sliding). [more info]

Imaginary North Presents: Ambient Afternoon (feat. JICS / Rosy Glow / A.V.E.) / Standard Time 2025-02-23 (Sunday – 3:30 p.m.). $free. [FB event]

The Harry Vetro Trio [Harry Vetro/Harrison Argatoff/Bennett Young] / The Emmet Ray 2025-02-23 (Sunday). $12. [more info]

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It happened this week...

• ...on February 23, 2018 at The Tranzac (Somewhere There Creative Music Festival).

Divergence Trio - Applications [last section]

The Ryan Driver Quintet - I Don't Want to Cry Any More

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Recording: Isla Craig

Artist: Isla Craig

Songs: For My Friends [Jennifer Castle cover] + Marbles

Recorded in The Sun Room at 918 Bathurst, February 2, 2025.

Isla Craig - For My Friends

Isla Craig - Marbles

Isla Craig has presented her music in a variety of configurations and with a revolving cast of collaborators, but by her own account, this was her first proper acoustic set, playing a guitar built by her luthier father. Playing in a trio format, she was joined here by Alex Lukashevsky (acoustic guit) and Matthew Coldwell (double bass) and dipped her toe in several eras of her songbook. The setlist zoomed outward from from her first album (one can compare the acoustic approach to the malleable, loping grooves of "Marbles" to a slightly more rockin' arrangement) to a more recent tribute to collaborator Jen Castle — all presented with a pleasing rolling gentleness, like a stroll through rural hillsides. Perfect sounds for a room full of adults, kids and babies on a winter afternoon.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

Recording: A L M A

Artist: A L M A - [excerpt]

Song:

Recorded in The Sun Room at 918 Bathurst, February 2, 2025.

A L M A - [excerpt]

Picking a room with good acoustics and good vibes to play an acoustic set, Isla Craig also picked pal Allie Blumas to open things up and set the mood. In their A L M A persona, Blumas brings spa music/new age vibes, offering a meditation exercise as much as a musical experience. Stripped back from previous offerings, the tools here were Digitakt and voice, with lots of space to relax in.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

Monday Roundup #213

Community notes:

• A special bit of self-promotion here to ensure everyone knows they're invited out to 918 Bathurst on Sunday (February 16th) to help celebrate Track Could Bend #100. It's been a wonderful surprise that the series would be going strong just shy of a decade along, so I've invited all the performers back to hang out. We'll draw some bands from a hat and gather friends and strangers to play together, plus hang out, nosh, work on a commemorative zine and more. Music from 5 to 7 and 8 to 11, do drop by for some chunk of that!

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Concert announcements:

Patrick O'Reilly presents: Carded! (feat. Patrick O'Reilly/Samuel Little/amiel ang/Samuel Laramee/Omar Yazaw/Leah Reavster/%%30%30/Annie Elgie) / Walter Hall 2025-02-24 (Monday). $free. [more info]

Exit Points #57 - 5th Anniversary Show! (feat. Xina Gilani/Ben McCarthy/Heather Saumer/Sara Constant /Jamie Eriksen / Pursuit Grooves/Anh Phung/Tara Kannangara/Martin Gomes/Michael Palumbo / switchemups) / Array Space 2025-02-28 (Friday). Tickets: $15 early bird, $20 adv, $25 door. [FB event]

Liquid Architecture presents "The Call of Cthulhu" [silent film with live musical accompaniment] (feat. ARRC [Ryan Kinney/Colin James Gibson/Rod Campbell/Ambrose Pottie) / Mischief Makers 2025-03-01 (Saturday). $10 advance, $12 at the door, 18+. [FB event]

Grocer (Luge / Least Weasel) / The Garrison 2025-03-05 (Wednesday). $21.53, 19+. [FB event]

Freesound presents [works by Georgina Bowden, Dylan Lardelli, Pauline Oliveros, Juliet Palmer, Gordon Williamson] (feat. Ensemble Musikfabrik) / Array Space 2024-03-06 (Thursday). $22.63. [FB event]

Enchanters (Pit Scum) / Houndstooth 2025-03-06 (Thursday). $pwyc. [FB event]

TONE presents (feat. Tara Clerkin Trio / Slow Attack Ensemble / Potions) / Collective Arts 2025-04-05 (Saturday). $22.89, 19+. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Sam Newsome's Straight Horn Magick Tour! (feat. Sam Newsome/Nick Fraser/Marilyn Lerner/Jonathan Kay/Kayla Milmine) / The Rex 2025-02-09–10 (Sunday–Monday). [FB event]

Brodie West's New Double Bass Quintet [Brodie West/Patrick O'Reilly/Josh Cole/Rob Clutton/Nick Fraser] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-12 (Wednesday – early). $pwyc. [more info]

Slipstreams (feat. Grace Scheele and Arie Verhuel v.d. Ven / hakosalo_tuohino / Kate Taylor [live art]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-12 (Wednesday) [more info]

FORMING [Signals debut EP release!] (Moonbean [single release!] / Escote) / Ted's Collision 2025-02-13 (Thursday). $free/pwyc. [FB event]

Away Forward (Loi Do / Little Vanity) / Sneaky Dee's 2025-02-14 (Friday – 7 p.m.). $16.48, 19+. [more info]

Audiopollination (feat. Phookie Nijjit/ sxrej / Sharp Stiki/max undefined/@whoischinavirus / Neil Wiernik/Matt Collins / The coin operated duo) / Array Space 2024-02-14 (Friday). livestream available. [FB event]

Blunt Object [Jay Hay/Ben Dietschi/Gordon Hyland/Jesse Malone/Teppei Kamei/Heather Saumer/Robin Jessome/Josh Bird/Tania Gill/Phil Albert/Nico Dann] / The Rex 2025-02-15 (Saturday – 2:00 p.m.). $10/$15. [FB event]

The Joe Sorbara Sextet [Ted Crosby/Tania Gill/Michael Herring/Rebecca Hennessy/Aline Homzy/Joe Sorbara] / Sellers and Newell 2025-02-15 (Saturday). $25 minimum donation. [more info]

Track Could Bend #100 [music plus potluck / community hangs / zine-making gathering] (feat. TCB alumni "Bands From a Hat" groupings) / 918 Bathurst 2025-02-16 (Sunday – music 5:00-7:00 and 8:00-11:00). $pwyc, all-ages, family-friendly. [FB event]

Babe Corner (Heaven For Real / D. Miami) / The Baby G 2025-02-16 (Sunday). $21.53, 19+. [FB event]

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It happened this week...

• ...on April 7, 2015 at Johnny Jackson (Track Could Bend #1).

Michael Keith/Michael Lynn/Bob Vespaziani - [second piece]

Allison Cameron - [excerpt from last section]

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Recording: Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman

Artist: Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman

Songs: Yutori + I Alone Escaped

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Ayal Senior & Friends), January 12, 2025.

Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman - Yutori + I Alone Escaped

With a new batch of songs almost ready to hatch (see below!) Senior and Newman dug into the arrangements a little deeper, with the accompaniment moving from the most understanded of echoes to careening-off-the-rails dangerfests.

[Ayal Senior & Friends is back in the Southern Cross on Sunday (January 9th) with a special "public dress rehearsal" as they prepare to enter the studio to cut a new album.]

Recording: David Sait

Artist: David Sait

Song: [track 4]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Ayal Senior & Friends), January 12, 2025.

David Sait - [track 4]

David Sait brought some songs and other inventions for his guzheng, as usual, exploring some new variations in tone and technique, including some cool bowing and (as heard here) some subtle shimmer.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

[Ayal Senior & Friends is back in the Southern Cross on Sunday (January 9th) with a special "public dress rehearsal" as they prepare to enter the studio to cut a new album.]

Monday Roundup #212

Concert announcements:

Brodie West's New Double Bass Quintet [Brodie West/Patrick O'Reilly/Josh Cole/Rob Clutton/Nick Fraser] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-12 (Wednesday – early). $pwyc. [more info]

Makam Nights (feat. Gandhaar Amin / Mehdi Rostami) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2025-02-20 (Thursday). $pwyc. [FB event]

PACKS (Triples / Romeo Romeo) / Monarch Tavern 2025-02-20 (Thursday). $28.25, 19+. [tickets + more info]

Tenebrae Of Good Friday [works by Tomás Luis de Victoria] (feat. The Tallis Choir) / St. Patrick's Church 2025-03-01 (Saturday). $30 General, $25 Seniors, $10 for Students (at the door). [FB event]

Sub-Sessions #9 (feat. Citizenry / Precious Jewel / Garden of Magic) / BSMT 254 2025-03-07 (Friday). $14.64 (early bird), $17.31 (general admission), all ages. [FB event]

Labyrinth Ontario presents: Fragmented Forms ["Fragmented Forms explores the possibilities of improvisation by utilizing both the microtonal aspect of Makam music and free improvisation, and how the two coalesce."] (feat. Araz Salek/Aysel Taghi-Zada/Cory Harper-Latkovich/Sara Constant/Yang Chen) / Annette Studios 2025-03-08 (Saturday). $27.96. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Track Could Bend #101 (feat. Allison Cameron / Kayla Milmine/Bob Vespaziani/Michael Lynn) / Wenona Lodge 2025-02-04 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

Soundstreams Encounters: Poitu Varen ["an installation of four pianos each connected through a series of specialized speakers... composed by Toronto-based composer Kalaisan Kalaichelvan"] (feat. Chris Pruden/Walker Grimshaw/Zoe Markle) / Hugh’s Room 2025-02-05 (Wednesday). $free with reservation. [more info]

The Mike DeiCont Trio [Mike DeiCont/Leland Whitty/Eric West] / Sellers and Newell 2025-02-07 (Friday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

undercommons collective presents: Sam Newsome's Straight Horn Magick Tour! (feat. Subspace Interception [Sam Newsome & Kayla Milmine] / Soprano Sax Quintet [Sam Newsome/Andrew Kay/Jonathan Kay/Bea Labikova/Kayla Milmine]) / Annette Studios 2025-02-07 (Friday). [FB event]

Fortunato Durutti Marinetti (Sara May / Giving) / The Cameron House (back room) 2025-02-07 (Friday). $15 adv / $20 door, 19+. [tickets + more info]

Roulette Intermedium × MG (feat. Allison Cameron & Madeline Stepien [fka pent] / John Kameel Farah) / The Music Gallery 2025-02-07 (Friday). 17.03/$22.20 PWYCA, all ages. [FB event]

Ministry of Phonic Services presents: a night of the serene (feat. OH GEE [Rob Campbell/Marilyn Yogarajah] / zoma / Denis Romanov / Woolworm, Ontario) / Agenda Cafe + Bar 2024-02-08 (Saturday). $pwyc. [more info]

Batuki Music Society presents (feat. Coup de Coeur [Sadio Sissokho/Assane Seck/Seydina Ndiaye/ILAM/Pape Ndiaye/Carlo Birri]) / Alliance Française 2025-02-08 (Saturday). $14.11/$20.50 (advance). [FB event]

Sam Newsome's Straight Horn Magick Tour! (feat. Sam Newsome/Nick Fraser/Marilyn Lerner/Jonathan Kay/Kayla Milmine) / The Rex 2025-02-09–10 (Sunday–Monday). [FB event]

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It happened this week...

• ...on February 6, 2016 at CineCycle.

SPOILS - What Pink Cheek

• ...on February 7, 2016 at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge).

c_RL - [excerpt from set 1, first piece]

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Recording: future proof

Artist: future proof

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #99), January 7, 2025.

future proof - [excerpt]

This set from Bea Labikova and Raphael Roter continued their forward-looking electronics augmentations for their reeds and percussion, but also looked back (with Roter's opening dance solo) as a reminder that considering movement and the body has always been a central concern for this pair.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

[Celebrating a big-round-number landmark, there are two special Track Could Bend events coming up in February! In the regular-time-regular-place department (Tuesday, February 4th at Wenona Lodge), TCB #101 is revisiting the series' very first show, with a solo performance from Allison Cameron and a trio set from Kayla Milmine/Bob Vespaziani/Michael Lynn. But then, on Sunday February 16th, TCB heads over to 918 Bathurst for its one hundredth show spectacular, with performers from over the past ten years joining together in ad hoc Bands From a Hat groupings. Come and celebrate with us!]

Recording: Lostworldsounds

Artist: Lostworldsounds

Songs: Dark Cloud + Loop Experiment

Recorded at Wenona Lodge (Track Could Bend #99), January 7, 2025.

Lostworldsounds - Dark Cloud

Lostworldsounds - Loop Experiment

Continuing a local tour of sorts in celebration of the release of her new album, Michelle Breslin brought newer and older songs along for this set, plus a few experimental flourishes, like the psychedelic edge imbued in "Dark Cloud" and a brief loop pedal construction.

You can check out some more from this set over on youtube:

[Celebrating a big-round-number landmark, there are two special Track Could Bend events coming up in February! In the regular-time-regular-place department (Tuesday, February 4th at Wenona Lodge), TCB #101 is revisiting the series' very first show, with a solo performance from Allison Cameron and a trio set from Kayla Milmine/Bob Vespaziani/Michael Lynn. But then, on Sunday February 16th, TCB heads over to 918 Bathurst for its one hundredth show spectacular, with performers from over the past ten years joining together in ad hoc Bands From a Hat groupings. Come and celebrate with us!]