tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72593167591789660742024-03-18T13:41:47.694-04:00Mechanical Forest SoundMechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.comBlogger6446125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-9012030496895733572024-03-18T13:41:00.000-04:002024-03-18T13:41:00.134-04:00Monday Roundup #166<noscript><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3mFKFiKqmDA/YASiUV0PPJI/AAAAAAAAV3E/wso9kPtQs8IAavQ2g_OZ8hrUqPXOVGduwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/mfs%2Blogo%2B-%2Bmonday%2Broundup.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Concert announcements:</b></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Colin Fisher/Jeff Luciani/Diane Roblin/George Koller</b> / The Emmet Ray 2024-03-25 (Monday – <i>6 p.m.</i>). $10</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Today Versions presents: 'Music From Five Mountain Station: An Earth Dancing Body Refuge Trip'</i></b> (feat. Del Stephen / Key Cut / Newold Group) / Bar Orwell 2024-03-29 (Friday). $10 or pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2770475536461752/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Exit Points #47</i></b> (feat. Zoë Alexis-Abrams/Youssef Bassit/Onophris/Bobby Gadda/Jury Tosh Kobayashi-Mackay / Xéynamay/Racha/Erik Flow/Measure/Michael Palumbo / Switchemups!) / Array Space 2024-03-29 (Friday). $20 at the door. cash/card/mobile. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2683564078458779/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Joyshape</b> (Molehill [Pete Johnston/Jake Oelrichs/Mike Smith] / Heraclius Akimbo with Gabe Girard) / Bar Orwell 2024-03-31 (Sunday). $pwyc, suggested $10</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Orkestar Kriminal</b> (Blisk) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-03-31 (Sunday). $25.50. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/764735561858910/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Track Could Bend #90</i></b> (feat. Voidfemmes & Erin Corbett / Allison Cameron & Stephen Parkinson) / Wenona Lodge 2024-04-02 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/786319670024392/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Dun-Dun Land: Slight Return</i></b> (feat. Dun-Dun Band) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-04-09 (Tuesday – <i>early</i>). $pwyw</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Bernice</b> (The Ruth Garbus Trio) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-04-10 (Wednesday). $24.34. [<i><a href="https://www.tranzac.org/event/tranzac-presents-bernice-with-the-ruth-garbus-trio/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Audiopollination: Spring Flowers and Love edition</i></b> (feat. David Sait/Sonia Leung/Sable / yasmine/Victor/Marilyn / <code>%%30%30</code>/Clay/Mania / Jessica Houghton/Pursuit Grooves) / Array Space 2024-04-12 (Friday). $10 (cash or card), livestream <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oCXluxPsJJo">available</a>. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/336655065598153/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>CLASS & The Oscillitarium Present: Green’n Out</i></b> (feat. Hobby / Roy [<i>Spoons For The World</i> record release!] / Animatist / Biblical) / The Garrison 2024-04-20 (Saturday). $20, 19+. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/430603686084046">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Welcome to Hipsville</i></b> (feat. Ichi-Bons / The Kewpie Dolls / The Slow Drags / Fuzz Vultures / Thee Rogue Telstars) / Owl's Club 2024-05-11 (Saturday). $25. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1005261690986441/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Opa Yallah</b> / Burdock Music Hall 2024-05-18 (Saturday). $15. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2514360028750275/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="border: 2px solid red;font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;text-align: center;"><b>Is your show missing from this list? Submit it via <a href="https://forms.gle/WMiDr3xzSdpVZSU68">this form</a>!</b></p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Shows this week:</b></p></ul><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Mike DeiCont Trio + 1 [<i>album release</i>]</b> [Mike DeiCont/Eric West/Leland Whitty/Allison Philips] / The Rex 2024-03-17–18 (Sunday–Monday). $20. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/737964098404142/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Surf & Turf</i></b> [<i>works by Fish Yu, Pascal le Boeuf, John Cage, Luke Blackmore, and Aurél Holló</i>] (feat. U of T Percussion Ensemble) / Walter Hall 2024-03-18 (Monday). $free. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/371882422469304/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>No Octopus Dancing</b> [Allison Cameron/Stephen Parkinson/Germaine Liu/Mark Zurawinski] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-18 (Monday). $pwyc</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Gay Hollywood [Carmen Elle]</b> / Three Dollar Bill 2024-03-19 (Tuesday). $15 or pwyc</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Music hosted by Karen Ng</b> (feat. Leap Year [Andrew Pacheco/Lowell Whitty/Karen Ng/Kae Murphy] / Whiskey Jacks [Dan Gooch/Jay Hay/Pete Johnston/Jake Oelrichs]) / Wenona Lodge 2024-03-19 (Tuesday)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Sebastian Bailey presents</i></b> (feat. Sebastian Bailey/Nick Fraser/Marilyn Lerner/Rob Clutton) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-19 (Tuesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/708016151479921/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>CMC Presents</i></b> (feat. DOG Ensemble, under the direction of Patrick O’Reilly) / Canadian Music Centre 2024-03-21 (Thursday). $15 Advance, $20 at the door; CMC Members and Arts Workers: $12 Advance, $15 at the door; Students. $10 anytime. [<i><a href="https://cmccanada.org/event/dog-ensemble/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Makam Nights</i></b> [<i>"a shared space for makam learning and performing!"</i>] (feat. Burak Ekmekci / Begum Boyancı) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2024-03-21 (Thursday). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/963398378482833/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Ronley Teper & The Lipliners</b> / Drom Taberna 2024-03-21 (Thursday)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Confluence Concerts presents Unsung: Music by some of Toronto's Finest Songwriters</i></b> [<i>curated by Andrew Downing</i>] (feat. John Southworth/Justin Orok/Rebecca Campbell/Lydia Persaud/Patricia O’Callaghan/Teiya Kasahara/Maggie Keogh and more) / Heliconian Hall 2024-03-21–22 (Thursday–Friday). $25. [<i><a href="https://www.confluenceconcerts.ca/concerts#details">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Dan Pitt</b> [<i>solo guitar</i>] / Sellers & Newel 2024-03-22 (Friday). $15 minimum donation. [<i><a href="https://www.sellersandnewel.com/literary-society.html">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Siaka Diabaté x Raphael Weinroth-Browne</b> / Array Space 2024-03-23 (Saturday). $22.63. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/255984754264049/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Faster Presents: Juice?$#%*</i></b> (feat. Happy Apple [Allison Cameron/Joe Strutt] / Brian Abbott & Ryan Kinney / Andrew Kay/Kayla Milmine/Bob Vespaziani / Liz Lima/Brodie West/Andrew Kay/Paul Newman [<i>performing "Job's Anguish", a composition by Brian Abbott</i>]) / Gerrard Art Space 2024-03-23 (Saturday). $pwyc, suggested donation $10. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/775128657559550/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Ministry of Phonic Services presents: album release show</i></b> (feat. Wilderness Adventure Ride [Owen Kurtz & <code>%%30%30</code>] / Germaine Liu & Mark Zurawinski) / Wenona Lodge 2024-03-24 (Sunday). $pwyc.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Drones Over Dufferin</b> [<i>improvised, ambient country music from David and Duncan MacKinnon</i>] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-24 (Sunday). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.tranzac.org/event/drones-over-dufferin/">more info</a></i>]</p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Video hits:</b></p><ul style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><li>Some beautiful footage in this restless travelogue accompanying Thin Edge's recording of Linda Catlin Smith's "Wanderer", from their recent collaborative <i><a href="https://redshiftmusicsociety.bandcamp.com/album/dark-flower">Dark Flower</a></i> album.</li></ul><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/A6gzajHjM_o?si=ZFCQTBDe8P12wz2i" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>It happened this week...</b></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>...on March 19, 2010 at The Horseshoe Tavern.</li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.pbworks.com/f/The%20Clientele%20-%20Never%20Anyone%20But%20You%20(live%202010-03-19).mp3">The Clientele - Never Anyone But You</a></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>...on March 24, 2010 at Sonic Boom Records.</li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.pbworks.com/f/The%20Weakerthans%20-%20Plea%20from%20a%20Cat%20Named%20Virtute%20(live%202010-03-24).mp3">The Weakerthans - Plea from a Cat Named Virtute</a></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">[<i>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.</i>]</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/S-nxcX6hDuI/AAAAAAAABCE/UEVXwfcTsFA/s1600/clientele+4+-+resized.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 136px;" title="The Clientele, live at The Horseshoe, March 19, 2010." src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/S-nxcX6hDuI/AAAAAAAABCE/UEVXwfcTsFA/s400/clientele+4+-+resized.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5470168692176260834" /></a></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-53735633445591000882024-03-11T15:35:00.000-04:002024-03-11T15:35:00.141-04:00Monday Roundup #165<noscript><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3mFKFiKqmDA/YASiUV0PPJI/AAAAAAAAV3E/wso9kPtQs8IAavQ2g_OZ8hrUqPXOVGduwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/mfs%2Blogo%2B-%2Bmonday%2Broundup.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Community notes:</b></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>"THE AMBiENT PiNG invites you to participate in or experience DRONE:KLUB:41 - a live community drone event at the Long & McQuade Clinic Hall - 935 Bloor St. W. in Toronto from 7pm to 9pm on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/931557255195141/">Thursday March 14th</a>, 2024."<br />"Droners, Friends and Audience are all welcome for this free indoor event, where we explore community sound-weaving."</li></ul><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Concert announcements:</b></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Surf & Turf</i></b> [<i>works by Fish Yu, Pascal le Boeuf, John Cage, Luke Blackmore, and Aurél Holló</i>] (feat. U of T Percussion Ensemble) / Walter Hall 2024-03-18 (Monday). $free. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/371882422469304/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>No Octopus Dancing</b> [Allison Cameron/Stephen Parkinson/Germaine Liu/Mark Zurawinski] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-18 (Monday). $pwyc</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Sebastian Bailey presents</i></b> (feat. Sebastian Bailey/Nick Fraser/Marilyn Lerner/Rob Clutton) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-19 (Tuesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/708016151479921/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Makam Nights</i></b> [<i>"a shared space for makam learning and performing!"</i>] (feat. Burak Ekmekci / Begum Boyancı) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2024-03-21 (Thursday). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/963398378482833/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Siaka Diabaté x Raphael Weinroth-Browne</b> / Array Space 2024-03-23 (Saturday). $22.63. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/255984754264049/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Beams [<i>Requiem for a Planet</i> album release show]</b> (Pelican Movement / Zinnia) / The Garrison 2024-05-09 (Thursday). $18.86, 19+. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/956367299486617/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="border: 2px solid red;font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;text-align: center;"><b>Is your show missing from this list? Submit it via <a href="https://forms.gle/WMiDr3xzSdpVZSU68">this form</a>!</b></p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Shows this week:</b></p></ul><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Florian Hoefner Trio</b> [Florian Hoefner/Andrew Downing/Nick Fraser] / The Rex 2024-03-10–11 (Sunday–Monday). $20. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/418039740723780/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Alessandro Cortini</b> (Slow Attack Ensemble / Garden of Magic) / Velvet Underground 2024-03-11 (Monday). $33.89, 19+. [<i><a href="https://www.ndygigs.info/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Josh Cole Presents</i></b> (feat. a Josh Cole quartet + strings [Josh Cole/Lina Allemano/Aline Homzy/Blake Howard/John Oswald/Nick Storring]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-12 (Tuesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/376360715260389/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Ladyfinger</b> [Diane Roblin/Kayla Milmine with special guest Mark Zurawinski] / The Emmet Ray 2024-03-13 (Wednesday – <i>6:00 p.m.</i>) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/925328929292317/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Donna Lee Quartet</b> [Brodie West/Reg Schwager/Josh Cole/Nick Fraser] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-13 (Wednesday – <i>early</i>)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Video Age</b> (Sean Nicholas Savage) / The Garrison 2024-03-13 (Wednesday). $31.24, 19+. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1732604663898769/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Never Was</b> [Brandon Davis/Kel Mansaray/Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Racha Moukalled/Patrick O’Reilly/Joe Sorbara] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-13 (Wednesday). $pwyc</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Lina Allemano & Rob Clutton</b> (Araz Salek [<i>solo</i>]) / Sellers & Newel 2024-03-14 (Thursday). $20. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1618659202280025/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Maria Chávez</b> (Debashis Sinha) / The Music Gallery 2024-03-14 (Thursday). $10 MG members, $10-$20 pay what you can afford. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/293848713715621/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Little Jim</b> [Chris Pruden/Mack Longpre/Julian Anderson Bowes] / Hirtut Cafe 2024-03-14 (Thursday)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Comic Country for Communists</i></b> (feat. The Sorry Brothers [Karsten Stryker/Chris Adriaanse/Kurt Newman] / Nick Flanagan) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-14 (Thursday)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Mark Hundevad & Mike Gennaro</b> / Annette Studios 2024-03-15 (Friday). $10. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1401539707150383/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>TONE presents</b> (feat. Horse Lords / Ka Baird / Bile Sister) / The Baby G 2024-03-15 (Friday). $22.24, 19+. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/170929082706684/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Mike DeiCont Trio + 1 [<i>album release</i>]</b> [Mike DeiCont/Eric West/Leland Whitty/Allison Philips] / The Rex 2024-03-17–18 (Sunday–Monday). $20. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/737964098404142/">FB event</a></i>]</p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>It happened this week...</b></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>...on March 15, 2013 at Saving Gigi.</li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2012.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/64561760/Prosimii%20-%20%5Btrack%206%5D%20%28live%202013-03-15%29.mp3">Prosimii - CO</a></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>...on March 17, 2013 at Saving Gigi (<i>The Ballads Reimagined, Part Three: Voice</i>).</li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2012.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/64574387/Caylie%20Staples%20-%20Ten-Ten%20%28live%202013-03-16%29.mp3">Caylie Staples - Ten-Ten</a></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">[<i>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.</i>]</p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tmJDdzM_ubo/UUSbOoYeRmI/AAAAAAAAID4/o7AYl9qYVkE/s1600/prosimii+-+rec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" ><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-tmJDdzM_ubo/UUSbOoYeRmI/AAAAAAAAID4/o7AYl9qYVkE/s320/prosimii+-+rec1.JPG" /></a></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-60739433286208619132024-03-08T10:38:00.000-05:002024-03-08T10:38:00.109-05:00Recording: Eiyn Sof<div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Artist:</b> Eiyn Sof</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Song:</b> Temple Creep</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (<i>Ayal Senior & Friends</i>), February 11, 2024.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2023.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/156206073/Eiyn%20Sof%20-%20Temple%20Creep%20%28live%202024-02-11%29.mp3">Eiyn Sof - Temple Creep</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">With a <a href="https://eiynsof.bandcamp.com/">repertoire that's been expanding</a> since I've last seen Melissa Boraski performing, it was a treat to hear live arrangements of some newer songs, all the more so as they were presented in duo form with Roan Bateman (a.k.a. Sleepy Mosquito a.k.a.Dark Bird) on second guitar.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">[<i>Ayal Senior & Friends will be back in the Tranzac on Sunday (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1722371544918715/">March 10th</a>), with sounds from Ayal and Kurt Newman, Blake Howard, and Andrew Furlong plus Eye-Duh Kho, Jonathan Adjemian, and Nick Flanagan.</i>]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69N-a4AcH02XIRMXQPlinyaGPA97YpbMtaiRRk45dVycI3yvTSBcFYg-aPmCcog18leJ4RUs20Kh_JdJVRNjvgMdweaMmA13LUpXV8zFp4slhyphenhyphenUr0fXwCLB5-ISVwE0hizJh0huimgzz7fCEOb_2BbC8OVmp8riQ8tNd_bV80ds7eK_P4N2LUSX9Gihg/s1800/eiyn%20sof%20-%20rec1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1452" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj69N-a4AcH02XIRMXQPlinyaGPA97YpbMtaiRRk45dVycI3yvTSBcFYg-aPmCcog18leJ4RUs20Kh_JdJVRNjvgMdweaMmA13LUpXV8zFp4slhyphenhyphenUr0fXwCLB5-ISVwE0hizJh0huimgzz7fCEOb_2BbC8OVmp8riQ8tNd_bV80ds7eK_P4N2LUSX9Gihg/s400/eiyn%20sof%20-%20rec1.jpg"/></a></div></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-22374754504876999862024-03-08T10:34:00.001-05:002024-03-08T10:33:40.229-05:00Recording: Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman<div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Artist:</b> Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Song:</b> Nor the Moon by Night</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (<i>Ayal Senior & Friends</i>), February 11, 2024.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2023.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/156206067/Ayal%20Senior%20%26%20Kurt%20Newman%20-%20Nor%20the%20Moon%20by%20Night%20%28live%202024-02-11%29.mp3">Ayal Senior & Kurt Newman - Nor the Moon by Night</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">It's pretty amazing to watch in real time when Ayal Senior starts playing a new piece that even guitarist Kurt Newman hasn't heard yet. Somehow, the arrangement falls into place immediately and the ending is nailed with precision.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">[<i>Ayal Senior & Friends will be back in the Tranzac on Sunday (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1722371544918715/">March 10th</a>), with sounds from Ayal and Kurt Newman, Blake Howard, and Andrew Furlong plus Eye-Duh Kho, Jonathan Adjemian, and Nick Flanagan.</i>]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cT8lBACthkZBCwHrbgLEThMkDz29f4J8Sr4-QhoaJm77LWkKU9Hq9oZf_M92UMEGLfMaeixjZ2oppgDgGf7YwY7HWJRukqUJAZuDyHolmVD1e0U3hjrP0fYf2X25v2jNem8OgMFZ-uuuTKYRiSM3GgEZr8uY6BI43iQ8b0tSUyBmKS9wmFhX3fizT7U/s1800/Ayal%20Senior%20&%20Kurt%20Newman%20-%20rec1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1281" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_cT8lBACthkZBCwHrbgLEThMkDz29f4J8Sr4-QhoaJm77LWkKU9Hq9oZf_M92UMEGLfMaeixjZ2oppgDgGf7YwY7HWJRukqUJAZuDyHolmVD1e0U3hjrP0fYf2X25v2jNem8OgMFZ-uuuTKYRiSM3GgEZr8uY6BI43iQ8b0tSUyBmKS9wmFhX3fizT7U/s400/Ayal%20Senior%20&%20Kurt%20Newman%20-%20rec1.jpg"/></a></div></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-2706358656434836202024-03-08T10:34:00.000-05:002024-03-08T10:34:00.141-05:00Recording: Colin Fisher<div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Artist:</b> Colin Fisher</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Song:</b> [<i>excerpt</i>]</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (<i>Ayal Senior & Friends</i>), February 11, 2024.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2023.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/156206070/Colin%20Fisher%20-%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202024-02-11%29.mp3">Colin Fisher - [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Just some casual solo magic from Colin Fisher, granulating sounds on guitar and switching over to sax.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">[<i>Ayal Senior & Friends will be back in the Tranzac on Sunday (<a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1722371544918715/">March 10th</a>), with sounds from Ayal and Kurt Newman, Blake Howard, and Andrew Furlong plus Eye-Duh Kho, Jonathan Adjemian, and Nick Flanagan.</i>]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mQj5sHuYqL0HyJxkddiZS8U0nD35vjTYoXPWg-lhP6jPjn4DeDv4pVhUyLnLXHR-yANOHz6nbnJbQKy62eZKud7W6TpWoU4pPjdjad5q9vPlQkk8cUYIFzK7qN_VZntbRGYmfNmL2DcpnIQDvjNUzwmouDcsn2Iflj6jId87zhHdAMZvcJGwTuvfpqU/s1776/colin%20fisher%20-%20rec1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1576" data-original-width="1776" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1mQj5sHuYqL0HyJxkddiZS8U0nD35vjTYoXPWg-lhP6jPjn4DeDv4pVhUyLnLXHR-yANOHz6nbnJbQKy62eZKud7W6TpWoU4pPjdjad5q9vPlQkk8cUYIFzK7qN_VZntbRGYmfNmL2DcpnIQDvjNUzwmouDcsn2Iflj6jId87zhHdAMZvcJGwTuvfpqU/s400/colin%20fisher%20-%20rec1.jpg"/></a></div></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-5464758268024721312024-03-04T17:08:00.000-05:002024-03-04T17:08:00.655-05:00Monday Roundup #164<noscript><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3mFKFiKqmDA/YASiUV0PPJI/AAAAAAAAV3E/wso9kPtQs8IAavQ2g_OZ8hrUqPXOVGduwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/mfs%2Blogo%2B-%2Bmonday%2Broundup.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Community notes:</b></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>There are more teachings from Nilan Perera forthcoming, with a four-week course entitled "Prepared Guitar: Theory, Practice, Improvisation" being offered at Array Space on Thursdays from March 21 to April 11. The course is free (donations accepted) and space is limited. "In this 4-week course, you’ll have a hands-on experience discovering how to prepare your guitar, and will explore various techniques of prepared guitar performance, method, and improvisation." All information is <a href="https://www.arraymusic.ca/prepared-guitar-theory-practice-improvisation-with-nilan-perera-4-week-course/">here</a>.</li></ul><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Concert announcements:</b></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Ladyfinger</b> [Diane Roblin/Kayla Milmine with special guest Mark Zurawinski] / The Emmet Ray 2024-03-13 (Wednesday – <i>6:00 p.m.</i>) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/925328929292317/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Lina Allemano & Rob Clutton</b> (Araz Salek [<i>solo</i>]) / Sellers & Newel 2024-03-14 (Thursday). $20. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1618659202280025/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Mike DeiCont Trio + 1 [<i>album release</i>]</b> [Mike DeiCont/Eric West/Leland Whitty/Allison Philips] / The Rex 2024-03-17–18 (Sunday–Monday). $20. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/737964098404142/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Music hosted by Karen Ng</b> (feat. Leap Year [Andrew Pacheco/Lowell Whitty/Karen Ng/Kae Murphy]) / Wenona Lodge 2024-03-19 (Tuesday)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Confluence Concerts presents Unsung: Music by some of Toronto's Finest Songwriters</i></b> [<i>curated by Andrew Downing</i>] (feat. John Southworth/Justin Orok/Rebecca Campbell/Lydia Persaud/Patricia O’Callaghan/Teiya Kasahara/Maggie Keogh and more) / Heliconian Hall 2024-03-21–22 (Thursday–Friday). $25. [<i><a href="https://www.confluenceconcerts.ca/concerts#details">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Karen Ng presents</i></b> (feat. Karen Ng/Ted Crosby/Ben Dwyer) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-28 (Thursday)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Cosmic Homeostasis XXIII</b> / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-31 (Sunday – <i>5 p.m.</i>). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/995233235367752/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>The Nilan Perera Quartet</b> [Nilan Perera/Adrian Russouw/Rick Sacks/Marilyn Yogarajah] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-31 (Sunday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/3668811280034412/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Eclipse Drone 2024: A Cosmic Homeostasis Community Event</i></b> [<i>soundtracking the solar eclipse!</i>] (feat. Cosmic Homeostasis) / Christie Pits 2022-04-08 (Monday – <i>2:05 p.m.</i>) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/7175214915927688/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Marker Starling</b> (Elrichman / Nutrients) / The Baby G 2024-04-19 (Friday). $25.03, 19+. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/3258254371144355/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="border: 2px solid red;font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;text-align: center;"><b>Is your show missing from this list? Submit it via <a href="https://forms.gle/WMiDr3xzSdpVZSU68">this form</a>!</b></p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Shows this week:</b></p></ul><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Track Could Bend #89</i></b> (feat. mutepack / Piers Oolvai) / Wenona Lodge 2022-03-05 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/774188241223088/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Peripheral Vision</b> (Ertel/Davidson/Fortin/Fraser/Hodgson) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-05 (Tuesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1354208281949670/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Equinox and Solstice Residency</i></b> (feat. Ghostlight) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2024-03-06 (Wednesday). $10 suggested. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/975844147234297/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Michael Palumbo’s Friends #3: A Free-Improvisation Joint</i></b> (feat. Zerone Duo [Deniz Tafaghodi/Farbod Maeen] / Doris Du/Isaiah Farabaksh/Jamie Thompson/Matthew Golem/Michael Palumbo) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-06 (Wednesday). $pwyc</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Otterville</b> [Andrew Downing/Michael Davidson/Nick Fraser/Tara Davidson/Paul Mathew/Christine Bougie] / The Rex 2024-03-06–09 (Wednesday–Saturday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1840793096372748/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Women From Space Festival: Night 1</i></b> (feat. Bloop / Morgan-Paige / BIG BANG! plays Björk) / 918 Bathurst 2024-03-08 (Friday). $15 advance, $20 at the door; early-bird passes $30, regular passes $38. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/917696419466589/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Audiopollination</i></b> (feat. Uuxe/Collette Andrea/Nirvana Sagar / Connor Crone/ Bicyclops/ Raymond Carruthers / Bill Gilliam/Andrew Finlay Stewart/Émilie Fortin / Jenna Geen/Abby Silvera/Mickle32) / Array Space 2024-03-08 (Friday). $10 or PWYC. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/409350111453880/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Musica Universalis</i></b> (feat. Conventional Weapons [Colin Fisher/Tristan Tims] /Cetacea) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-08 (Friday). $10 suggested donation</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Women From Space Festival: Night 2</i></b> (feat. Grace Scheele / MOCH / Mali Obomsawin) / 918 Bathurst 2024-03-09 (Saturday). $15 advance, $20 at the door; early-bird passes $30, regular passes $38. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/917696419466589/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Wildflower</b> (Andre Ethier & Joseph Shabason) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-09 (Saturday). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.tranzac.org/event/wildflower-with-andre-ethier-and-joseph-shabason/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Ayal Senior & Friends</i></b> (feat. Ayal Senior/Kurt Newman/Blake Howard/Andrew Furlong / Eye-Duh Kho / Jonathan Adjemian / Nick Flanagan) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-10 (Sunday – 2:30 p.m.) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1722371544918715/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>John Millard's Hope Street</b> [John Millard/Rob Clutton/Chris Pruden] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-10 (Sunday – 5 p.m.) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/6922420494536263/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Women From Space Festival: Night 3</i></b> (feat. Anh Phung/chiquitamagic/Emjay Wright / Val Jeanty & Nickeshia Garrick / Matana Roberts/Germaine Liu/Nicole Rampersaud) / 918 Bathurst 2024-03-10 (Sunday). $15 advance, $20 at the door; early-bird passes $30, regular passes $38. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/917696419466589/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Avalon Tassonyi & The Rock Stars [Thom Gill/Eliza Niemi/Jason Bhattacharya] [<i>Sprigs & Brush</i> release celebration]</b> (Isla Craig) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-10 (Sunday) [<i><a href="https://www.tranzac.org/event/avalon-tassonyi-sprigs-brush-tape-release-w-isla-craig/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Florian Hoefner Trio</b> [Florian Hoefner/Andrew Downing/Nick Fraser] / The Rex 2024-03-10–11 (Sunday–Monday). $20. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/418039740723780/">FB event</a></i>]</p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>It happened this week...</b></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>...on March 5, 2016 at Array Space (<i>All-Set! Triple Album Launch</i>).</li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2016.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/106317978/Mike%20Smith%20%26%20Jonathan%20Adjemian%20-%20Fifth%20Transcombobulation%20%28live%202016-03-05%29.mp3">Mike Smith & Jonathan Adjemian - Fifth Transcombobulation</a></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>...on March 8, 2016 at Double Double Land.</li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2016.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/106417518/Wyrd%20Visions%20-%20Forces%20of%20Nature%20%28live%202016-03-08%29.mp3">Wyrd Visions - <i>unknown</i></a></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">[<i>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.</i>]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gssVmSyYRM4/Vuw5Eias5yI/AAAAAAAAOhw/FxJxHlZKPEESHEFKS3RjuPFGNLr-8YH3A/s1600/mike%2Bsmith%2B%252B%2Bjonathan%2Badjemian%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gssVmSyYRM4/Vuw5Eias5yI/AAAAAAAAOhw/FxJxHlZKPEESHEFKS3RjuPFGNLr-8YH3A/s400/mike%2Bsmith%2B%252B%2Bjonathan%2Badjemian%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" /></a></div></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-54516662562854652862024-02-26T14:04:00.001-05:002024-02-26T14:08:12.282-05:00Monday Roundup #163<noscript><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3mFKFiKqmDA/YASiUV0PPJI/AAAAAAAAV3E/wso9kPtQs8IAavQ2g_OZ8hrUqPXOVGduwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/mfs%2Blogo%2B-%2Bmonday%2Broundup.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Concert announcements:</b></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Peripheral Vision</b> (Ertel/Davidson/Fortin/Fraser/Hodgson) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-05 (Tuesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1354208281949670/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Alessandro Cortini</b> (Slow Attack Ensemble / Garden of Magic) / Velvet Underground 2024-03-11 (Monday). $33.89, 19+. [<i><a href="https://www.ndygigs.info/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Josh Cole presents</i></b> (feat. a Josh Cole quartet + strings [Josh Cole/Lina Allemano/Aline Homzy/Blake Howard/John Oswald/Nick Storring]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-12 (Tuesday). $10/pwyc</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Ministry of Phonic Services presents: album release show</i></b> (feat. Wilderness Adventure Ride [Owen Kurtz & <code>%%30%30</code>] / Germaine Liu & Mark Zurawinski) / Wenona Lodge 2024-03-24 (Sunday). $pwyc.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Lipliners 4th Wednesday of the month residency</i></b> (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-27 (Wednesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/774428584734306/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Away Forward</b> (Fires of Cheektowaga / The Neverminds / Luster Dust) / The Baby G 2024-03-30 (Saturday). $16.42, 19+. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2054037124959314/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Lipliners 4th Wednesday of the month residency</i></b> (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-04-24 (Wednesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/774428584734306/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Joe's 50th Birthday</i></b> (feat. Eucalyptus / Isla Craig + band / Colin Fisher) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-04-25 (Thursday). $pwyc/$15 (or more), notaflof. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/244286635419252/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Lipliners 4th Wednesday of the month residency</i></b> (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-05-29 (Wednesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/774428584734306/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Lipliners 4th Wednesday of the month residency</i></b> (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-06-26 (Wednesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/774428584734306/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="border: 2px solid red;font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;text-align: center;"><b>Is your show missing from this list? Submit it via <a href="https://forms.gle/WMiDr3xzSdpVZSU68">this form</a>!</b></p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Shows this week:</b></p></ul><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Lina Allemano Four</b> / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-27 (Tuesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/636483038607015/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Rob Clutton Trio</b> / The Emmet Ray 2024-02-28 (Wednesday – <i>6:30 p.m.</i>) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/411235031401026/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Lipliners 4th Wednesday of the month residency</i></b> (feat. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-28 (Wednesday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/774428584734306/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Cosmic Ship</b> [Andrew Kay/Chris Pruden/Tyler Emond/Mack Longpre] / Drom Taberna 2024-02-29 (Thursday – 6:30 p.m.) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/387523480544844/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Leap Year</b> [Andrew Pacheco/Lowell Whitty/Karen Ng/Kae Murphy] / Sellers & Newel 2024-02-29 (Thursday). $15 minimum donation. [<i><a href="https://www.sellersandnewel.com/literary-society.html">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Frequencies</i></b> (feat. Paulo Sinski Microband / Garden of Magic / Caleb Klager) / Handlebar 2022-02-29 (Thursday). $pwyc before 10 / $10 after 10.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Freesound Presents: Patterns in a Chromatic Field</i></b> [<i>performing Morton Feldman’s hour-long "Patterns in a Chromatic Field" (1981) for cello and piano</i>] (feat. Amahl Arulanandam/Wesley Shen) / Array Space 2024-02-29 & 2024-03-01 (Thursday & Friday). [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/703096181867490/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Tania Gill Presents</i></b> (feat. The Titillators [Ryan Driver/Thom Gill/Tania Gill/Philippe Melanson/D. Alex Meeks/Nick Fraser/<code>%%30%30</code>]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-01 (Friday – <i>early</i>). $pwyw. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/325925307078424/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>A Breeze From Kurdish Mountains</i></b> (feat. Kazim Boran & Shahriyar Jamshidi) / Canadian Music Centre 2024-03-01 (Friday). $22.63. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1112337030210836/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Moodset [<i>album release show</i>]</b> [Jacqueline Teh/Alexa Belgrave/Madeleine Ertel/Caleb Klager/Mackenzie Read] / Annette Studios 2024-03-01 (Friday). $15 advance, $20 door. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/7913920691957803/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Tommy Tone</b> (Esther Splett / Erin Corbett) / No-No Room 2024-03-01 (Friday). $10, 19+.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Freesound and Arraymusic co-present</i></b> [<i>solo piano works by Rodney Sharman, Cris Derksen and Jocelyn Morlock</i>] (feat. Rachel Kiyo Iwaasa) / Array Space 2024-03-03 (Sunday – 2 p.m.). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1078061073406705/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Reunion Reunion!</i></b> (feat. Reunion [Alex Samaras/Jillian Sauerteig/Steven Noronha/Dan Fortin/Aidan McConnell] / Monsters Inc [Robin Dann & Philippe Melanson]) / <i>house show</i> 2024-03-03 (Sunday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/402543495496087/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Bilal Nasser</b> (Heart Map Ambient Ensemble / Turtle Pleasure & Simon Farintosh) / Array Space 2024-03-03 (Sunday). $15. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1577677922984520/">FB event</a></i>]</p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Bandcamp corner:</b></p><ul style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; "><li>The announcement came unusually late, but is it a Bandcamp Friday this week (March 1st). Here's a couple things I'll be grabbing:</li></ul><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=891674322/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://robclutton.bandcamp.com/album/asterballoo-22">Asterballoo 22 by Rob Clutton Trio featuring Karen Ng and Nick Fraser</a></iframe><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3623018649/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://bluntchunks.bandcamp.com/album/the-butterfly-myth">The Butterfly Myth by Blunt Chunks</a></iframe><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>It happened this week...</b></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>...on March 1, 2015 at June Records.</li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs8.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/93842900/ANAMAI%20-%20Otolith%20%28live%202015-03-01%29.mp3">ANAMAI - Otolith</a></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>...on March 1, 2015 at Johnny Jackson.</li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs8.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/93884267/WHIMM%20-%20%5Btrack%203%5D%20%28live%202015-03-01%29.mp3">WHIMM - A Stare Ajar</a></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">[<i>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.</i>]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q-nLrWNp_gg/VQMByXql50I/AAAAAAAAMLk/f5MRU1yo7ZA/s1600/whimm%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-q-nLrWNp_gg/VQMByXql50I/AAAAAAAAMLk/f5MRU1yo7ZA/s400/whimm%2B-%2Brec1.jpg"></a></div></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-46390230504526907432024-02-25T13:18:00.001-05:002024-02-25T13:30:33.982-05:00Recording: Garden of Magic<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCxCw40MVcDe8ZsB7as4JVNOpMCt4eWUbdSGfHJmIK05Vylv7ERBS1uK8od3a6NlkkdQauSVjl_PIpTEu1uG4ACHRuOKKSRwOM3VmcAaApy6vGcfJ_L4vMmXUlSFjPUEib4sY-lBHVR4SyCowdXDWNMc_rKlBA6FcBaqt5TosbjlWdzyGTruSxt9LE8h4/s826/Garden%20of%20Magic%20-%20rec1.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Artist:</b> Garden of Magic</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Song:</b> [<i>excerpt</i>]</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Wenona Lodge (<i>Track Could Bend #88</i>), February 6, 2024.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2023.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/156142608/Garden%20of%20Magic%20-%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202024-02-06%29.mp3">Garden of Magic - [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">This solo electronic project from Daria Morgacheva brought some nimble realtime manipulations to her groovy tracks. Fingers dancing over the octarack, there was a strong performative sensibility at play.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">You can check out some footage of the full set over on youtube:</p><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7dNhAQtF0pg?si=-BRw1Cd0IvEiE0Tr" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">[<i>Garden of Magic will be performing at Frequencies at Handlebar on Thursday (February 29th), as well as opening for Alessandro Cortini at <a href="https://www.ndygigs.info/">a Not Dead Yet show</a> at Velvet Underground on March 11th. Track Could Bend is back at Wenona on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/774188241223088/">Tuesday, March 5th</a> with sets from mutepack and Piers Oolvai.</i>]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCxCw40MVcDe8ZsB7as4JVNOpMCt4eWUbdSGfHJmIK05Vylv7ERBS1uK8od3a6NlkkdQauSVjl_PIpTEu1uG4ACHRuOKKSRwOM3VmcAaApy6vGcfJ_L4vMmXUlSFjPUEib4sY-lBHVR4SyCowdXDWNMc_rKlBA6FcBaqt5TosbjlWdzyGTruSxt9LE8h4/s826/Garden%20of%20Magic%20-%20rec1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="709" data-original-width="826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCxCw40MVcDe8ZsB7as4JVNOpMCt4eWUbdSGfHJmIK05Vylv7ERBS1uK8od3a6NlkkdQauSVjl_PIpTEu1uG4ACHRuOKKSRwOM3VmcAaApy6vGcfJ_L4vMmXUlSFjPUEib4sY-lBHVR4SyCowdXDWNMc_rKlBA6FcBaqt5TosbjlWdzyGTruSxt9LE8h4/s400/Garden%20of%20Magic%20-%20rec1.jpg"/></a></div></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-68100928717982423692024-02-25T13:17:00.001-05:002024-02-25T13:30:15.063-05:00Recording: Écureuil<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwSfXgkVvmDgWvci3JMAnJ7SB4Ne_QMKcrdA-T1lRcR6nH0hfOt23XcjbO4L_Tuvf-vgCsewrYBHlvwPf4S5mbkZaY-Itdn4sqHOgsXMWbN_RnykYS0GF9uyJ0Oiok63KfCTkF1Dv7IlFjJCyYoghvGem2zRsj8uDdCp2j7XOH3-xKYtnp9g8kt2HZceY/s1128/%C3%89cureuil%20-%20rec1.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Artist:</b> Écureuil</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Song:</b> The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin [<i>from <a href="https://gutenberg.org/cache/epub/14872/pg14872-images.html">a story by Beatrix Potter</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Wenona Lodge (<i>Track Could Bend #88</i>), February 6, 2024.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2023.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/156142605/%C3%89cureuil%20-%20The%20Tale%20of%20Squirrel%20Nutkin%20%28live%202024-02-06%29.mp3">Écureuil - The Tale of Squirrel Nutkin</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">A new partnership of old friends, this pairing of Kayla Milmine (soprano sax) and Liz Lima (clarinet, voice) incorporated some stories from the animal world (including some poems by and about cats) in a free-ranging ramble.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">You can check out some footage of the full set over on youtube:</p><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/DgZGAqbhVto?si=wqKpS8mocO8Sihlr" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">[<i>Track Could Bend is back at Wenona on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/774188241223088/">Tuesday, March 5th</a> with sets from mutepack and Piers Oolvai.</i>]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwSfXgkVvmDgWvci3JMAnJ7SB4Ne_QMKcrdA-T1lRcR6nH0hfOt23XcjbO4L_Tuvf-vgCsewrYBHlvwPf4S5mbkZaY-Itdn4sqHOgsXMWbN_RnykYS0GF9uyJ0Oiok63KfCTkF1Dv7IlFjJCyYoghvGem2zRsj8uDdCp2j7XOH3-xKYtnp9g8kt2HZceY/s1128/%C3%89cureuil%20-%20rec1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="648" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwSfXgkVvmDgWvci3JMAnJ7SB4Ne_QMKcrdA-T1lRcR6nH0hfOt23XcjbO4L_Tuvf-vgCsewrYBHlvwPf4S5mbkZaY-Itdn4sqHOgsXMWbN_RnykYS0GF9uyJ0Oiok63KfCTkF1Dv7IlFjJCyYoghvGem2zRsj8uDdCp2j7XOH3-xKYtnp9g8kt2HZceY/s400/%C3%89cureuil%20-%20rec1.jpg"/></a></div></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-23665756591289099242024-02-24T12:30:00.000-05:002024-02-24T12:30:00.258-05:00#mfs15 playlist: Andrew Finlay Stewart<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from Andrew Finlay Stewart.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Apologies to Joe Strutt and the wonderful community around Mechanical Forest Sound for my lateness in submitting this little playlist. I’ve been thinking about it for a while and was overwhelmed by the depth of the archive, and I didn’t know where to start. But when I dove in and started revisiting shows I’d been to and artists I’ve loved, it was a beautiful, emotional experience. I’m sure most people reading this have taken a swim through the MFS back catalogues at least once or twice, but if you haven’t lately I recommend setting aside a couple hours and letting yourself get lost.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2020.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/137534016/LUKA%20-%20O%2C%20My%20Heart%20is%20Full%20%28live%202019-11-02%29.mp3">LUKA - O, My Heart is Full</a></p></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at a house party, November 2, 2019.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">The first song I’ve chosen is from a concert that was also featured in Del Stephen’s playlist (side note: go click on the <a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/search/label/del%20stephen">Del Stephen tag</a> here on MFS, you’ll find a stack of great recordings that Joe’s made of Del, both solo and with various collaborators). I feel like even though it’s been represented before, I need to pick something from this show because it was a house concert for my 30th birthday, in my basement. The lineup was Karen Ng, Luka Kuplowsky, and Charlotte Cornfield, and I can’t think of a better birthday present than their music. O, My Heart is Full! Just listening back to this, my heart fills up again and again. Luka is an absolute treasure. Hearing him and his all-star band here (Josh Cole, Thom Gill, Evan Cartwright, and Karen Ng) and a room absolutely jam-packed with people I love, singing along. I can even hear my own voice singing along to the choruses, and whistling at the end.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WPptLuMjDrU/XfEykxp-GqI/AAAAAAAAVBw/lI4j2FeB8tY5MBnmmaTTKxDR9RVZT5KKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/luka%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WPptLuMjDrU/XfEykxp-GqI/AAAAAAAAVBw/lI4j2FeB8tY5MBnmmaTTKxDR9RVZT5KKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/luka%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="225" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="675" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2018b.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/132231330/Joyful%20Joyful%20-%20At%20the%20Bit%20%28live%202019-01-04%29.mp3">Joyful Joyful - At the Bit</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Gladstone Hotel's Ballroom (<i>Long Winter, Vol. 7.3</i>), January 4, 2019.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">The second song is by Joyful Joyful, at Long Winter in January 2019. I wanted to include something from Long Winter, because it’s a festival series that’s meant a lot to me, and which I helped curate visual art for a number of years. One project I was very proud of during my time at Long Winter, in 2018 we worked with Joe to present <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2018/01/special-event-mfs-listening-station.html">an installation and listening station</a> of the MFS archives on tapes.<br />Joyful Joyful are an incredible band, and they make some of the most beautiful, haunting, soul-touching music I’ve ever experienced. Cormac Culkeen’s voice is transportative, and Dave Grenon’s synths are both earthy and otherworldly.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3pV32cwvlcE/XHbm1T8jRQI/AAAAAAAAT1I/N9Viccl-pHIUMmbywOvG0SlTYfRYmG6fgCLcBGAs/s1600/joyful%2Bjoyful%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3pV32cwvlcE/XHbm1T8jRQI/AAAAAAAAT1I/N9Viccl-pHIUMmbywOvG0SlTYfRYmG6fgCLcBGAs/s400/joyful%2Bjoyful%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="336" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="1008" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2015.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/84744670/Army%20Girls%20-%20Twice%20%28live%202014-08-09%29.mp3">Army Girls - Twice</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at SummerWorks Festival – S--------- Studio Theatre (<i>Failure Fest</i>), August 9, 2014.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Army Girls were a fantastic two-piece of Carmen Elle and Andy Smith. I’ve known Carmen for many years, and loved their music through solo projects, Donlands and Mortiner, DIANA, and more. This particular Army Girls show was one of the most memorable gigs I’ve ever been to, with the wonderful dancer, choreographer, and community pillar Cara Spooner disrupting and challenging the duo by moving their instruments and gear around the room as they played, never letting anything be comfortable or easy. Carmen and Andy rose to the occasion by putting on an incredibly dynamic performance.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HMH1HB2yTbM/VAIYMkHVvFI/AAAAAAAALBQ/KFrh169DCSE/s1600/army%2Bgirls%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-HMH1HB2yTbM/VAIYMkHVvFI/AAAAAAAALBQ/KFrh169DCSE/s400/army%2Bgirls%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.pbworks.com/f/The%20Magic%20-%20Call%20Me%20Up%20(live%202009-12-31).mp3">The Magic - Call Me Up</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac Club, December 31, 2009.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I moved to Toronto in 2007 as a teenager, and immediately started going to as many gigs as I could. One honorable mention I’d like to shout out, which is referenced in the archives from 2008 before MFS started, was The Kalimba Summit featuring Matt Smith, Laura Barrett, Njacko Backo, Kahil El'Zabar at the Tranzac. The one advantage of submitting this list late is I can see what’s already been picked, and I was happy to see Laura Barrett make Mira Martin-Gray’s list. Laura was an early gateway act for me into the scene, and I think that was probably the first time I’d ever been to the Tranzac.<br />Another early favourite for me when I moved to Toronto was The Magic. This recording is also from a Tranzac show, although I’m not certain if I was at this particular New Year’s Eve, I would try to go see The Magic at every opportunity in those days. This song was one of those gems one finds (especially when you’re young) that hits you just the right way and sticks with you, and makes you think “is this a perfect pop song”? I didn’t know local bands around my age or a few years older could make music that sounded like this. Everyone I knew was fumbling, experimenting, being noisy and loose, and The Magic were trying to make something slick and polished and beautiful. I’m still a little star-struck any time I see Geordie Gordon or Sylvie Smith around town, they’ll always be popstars to me.
</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/S0oiOXbfgoI/AAAAAAAAAwI/2R-O4WJS0RU/s1600-h/the+magic+5+-+resized.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 348px;" title="The Magic, live at the Tranzac, December 31, 2009." src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/S0oiOXbfgoI/AAAAAAAAAwI/2R-O4WJS0RU/s400/the+magic+5+-+resized.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5425186331324023426" /></a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.pbworks.com/f/Richard%20Laviolette%20%26%20The%20Oil%20Spills%20-%20Funeral%20Song%20(live%202011-01-07).mp3">Richard Laviolette & The Oil Spills - Funeral Song</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (<i>Out of This Spark 4th Anniversary Concert</i>), January 7, 2011.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">We lost Richard Laviolette last year, and it hurt a lot. I grew up in Owen Sound, and have been listening to him and his records since high school. He might well be my most listened-to songwriter, and the one whose music was deepest inside me and most influential. The album this song is on, All of Your Raw Materials, came out in October 2009, so it will also be celebrating its 15th anniversary this year. Richard’s music is beautiful and funny and sad and sometimes angry. This one is joyful and defiant and confident.<br />It has especial poignance now, as he describes his own funeral:</p><blockquote style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: left;"><i>When I die don't call no preacher</i><br /><i>And if I die I won't call one either</i><br /><i>Leaving these words in all of the mouths</i><br /><i>Of all of the people</i><br /><i>People who can speak for themselves</i><br /><i>And are much better suited on this particular day</i><br /><i>To say a few words about an old friend</i><br /><i>In their particular way</i></blockquote><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">He told us what he wanted, and it sounds like that’s what he’s going to get. There will be a public memorial for Richard on <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/C27tiqUAcZO/?hl=en">March 9th at the Royal City Mission in Guelph</a>, with music and toasts and stories, and I’m looking forward to celebrating him just like he asked us to, with the people who knew him better than I did, and some of the many, many people his music touched.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Thank you Joe for the invitation to participate, I promise I’ll get back to you sooner if you invite me to contribute to the 30th anniversary. Mechanical Forest Sound is so clearly a labour of love and to do it for 15 years is an incredible accomplishment, you should be very proud of yourself. You are providing a real service to our community and to listeners of the future. Plus you’re just such a nice presence at every show I see you at. Thank you for everything!</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>
Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-77563420020280485952024-02-21T12:30:00.000-05:002024-02-21T12:30:00.140-05:00#mfs15 playlist: Alma<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from ALMA (<i>a.k.a.</i> Allie Blumas).</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[<i><b>Ed. note:</b> This is tentatively the last one of these lists being shared, and I picked this one to go out on for the wonderful way it reinterprets the exercise, sharing something new-to-me instead of digging theough the catacombs. There's still a lot of music out there to explore.</i>]</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I picked these tracks because they all express my love of new agey, spa, meditation music as well as my love of experimentation, improv and avante garde music. All of these songs were made in one sitting during the years 2020-2021. During these years I wanted to explore the process of making music from a less performative place. All of these songs were recorded in a moment of need to release an emotion or expression. Because of this I wanted to share them with the world in the exact way they had come out of me. None of these expressions have been edited, mixed, masterd or altered in any way. These explorations exist in their original and singular forms to best convey the moment and headspace that I was in when they arrived. These explorations exist as a kind of meditative practice on presence and impermanence.</p><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1197270640&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/alllmaa" title="A L M A" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">A L M A</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/alllmaa/flute-2" title="Flute 2" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Flute 2</a></div><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1424883529&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/alllmaa" title="A L M A" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">A L M A</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/alllmaa/piano-exploration-1" title="Piano Exploration 1" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Piano Exploration 1</a></div><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1709840640&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/alllmaa" title="A L M A" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">A L M A</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/alllmaa/some-kind-of-dance" title="Some Kind Of Dance" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Some Kind Of Dance</a></div><iframe width="100%" height="300" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1709842431&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true&visual=true"></iframe><div style="font-size: 10px; color: #cccccc;line-break: anywhere;word-break: normal;overflow: hidden;white-space: nowrap;text-overflow: ellipsis; font-family: Interstate,Lucida Grande,Lucida Sans Unicode,Lucida Sans,Garuda,Verdana,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-weight: 100;"><a href="https://soundcloud.com/alllmaa" title="A L M A" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">A L M A</a> · <a href="https://soundcloud.com/alllmaa/other-new-age-one" title="Other New Age One" target="_blank" style="color: #cccccc; text-decoration: none;">Other New Age One</a></div><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">As well as being a musician I am also a dancer and death doula. I recently made a Death, Dying & Grief Workbook that included a guided meditation on impermanence. I wanted to include this meditation because It dances around themes expressed in the other 4 tracks, but is also something that requires a different kind of listening and engagement.</p><iframe width="400" height="225" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M90bJoVvEY0?si=E3uxJdeeLrcozQWf" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Congrats to Joe on 15 amazing years of MFS. I've had the pleasure of participating at TCB a few times, once with a group and once as a solo. We are incredibly lucky to have Joe doing this amazing and important work of documenting the experimental music scene and through that documenting the history of something that means so much to so many people. I feel honoured to be included and so lucky to have connected with Joe and so grateful to all the work that he's been doing with MFS. Here's to 15 more years!<br />Happy 15th Anniversary.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-54716718331946895462024-02-20T12:16:00.000-05:002024-02-20T12:16:00.251-05:00#mfs15 playlist: Jason Doell<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from Jason Doell.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">[<i><b>Ed. note:</b> Well, this is a slightly strange experience. Most of these are the literary equivalent of "dance like no one is looking", but besides some snark, I guess I more or less can stand by the things younger Joe wrote.</i>]</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">"<i>I pondered whether my </i>grand mal <i>seizure would be an awkward bringing-people-together moment</i>..."</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Seemingly unable to follow instructions, I haven't collected a playlist of music; instead, in the spirit of celebration, I give you a reading assignment.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Collected in the links below are some of the lengthier blog entries from the early days of MFS.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I love MFS for many reasons. Today, reading through some posts, feeling a tinge of nostalgia, I loved being reminded of what is gone - bands, venues, dear friends. But moreover, I loved hearing Joe's voice in my head. While Joe has chronicled and catalogued cultural events in the city on MFS for the last fifteen years, the more significant project, in my opinion, is how much he has also told us about himself.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Hear Joe here:<br /><a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2010/01/2009-in-review-concert-reflections.html">2009 In Review: Concert Reflections</a><br /><a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2011/09/essay-nevermind-what-was-it-anyway.html">Essay: Nevermind (What Was It Anyway)</a><br /><a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2011/02/art-event-mfa-party.html">Art Event: MFA Party</a><br /><a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2013/06/nxne-2013-moments-of-transcendence.html">NXNE 2013: Moments of Transcendence</a><br /><a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2015/04/recording-russ-strutt.html">Recording: Russ Strutt</a></p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>
Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-13575566709997799252024-02-19T18:10:00.000-05:002024-02-19T18:10:00.129-05:00#mfs15 playlist: Del Stephen<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from <a href="https://delstephen.bandcamp.com/">Del Stephen</a>.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">i'm very glad to be participating in this 15-year anniversary celebration of a real good thing: talking about mechanical forest sound (MFS). i've said it many times before, to various people who enjoy music, as well as joe strutt himself, and still i worry that it hasn't been said enough just how immensely valuable MFS is. as a fellow sound recording archivist, i have to believe that the kind of (life's!) work that joe has been doing all these years with MFS is the kind that will drastically increase in value as time goes on, just like so many of the recordings/posts on the site already have, i would say. honestly, i'd even be willing to say that it's thanks to archives like MFS that certain events will eventually become what we consider to be positively 'historic' (and i've touched on this a little bit in 1 of my selections). so here i am wondering aloud and inviting joe to respond when it suits him: let us know what we can do to help ensure MFS continues to serves the community (+ extended community) for years to come. thank you joe strutt for your continued devotion and for being my friend.<br />see below for some long-winded (as per usual) scribbled notes on 5 selections from the archives. the common thread is that i happened to deeply enjoy being at each of them. next birthday party i'll pick a few that i did not attend (there are so many that i've experienced solely through joe's recorded excerpts).</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2017b.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/121344933/Zacht%20Automaat%20-%20Lay%20Lady%20Lay%20%28live%202017-09-23%29.mp3">Zacht Automaat - Lay Lady Lay</a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Matt Durant Studio (<i>Feast In The East 64</i>), September 23, 2017.</p></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">this was the best! matt durant's studio is/was quite far away from the apartment i lived at the time; i recall deciding to take the long way there to properly charge up for this show (a straight queen street car from 1 end of the line to the other...all the way to the depot, wow!). it was a packed house for feast in the east. and yummy food- maybe there was a samosa or 2 left by the time i arrived (late, but just in time for this set by 1 of my favourites). listening back today, i'm still bobbing my head in every direction! i love when music makes me laugh because of how good it is, especially at a show, and i definitely laughed a lot at this 1. colin fisher blew a hole in the ceiling with his saxophone and grasshopper was all over the place with his camcorder. 'lay lady lay' to end the set made me feel happy; it was a sweet interpretation of the tune and a wonderful time. i remember 1 of the first things i noticed upon arriving was seeing what i presumed to be a couple of joe's recorders positioned up on a fireplace mantle(?) or some sort of shelf on a wall opposite the stage. it was a real good and safe spot, and i was glad to prop my own portable tape recorder right up there too. thank you zacht automaat for always leaving everything out there on the court and for defending your championships approximately once a year.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2PedMDBNG5o/Wfi4IkY7hRI/AAAAAAAARlQ/QqSmA927DJAdz0wKamc82MMOakqHOGSUACLcBGAs/s1600/zacht%2Bautomaat%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2PedMDBNG5o/Wfi4IkY7hRI/AAAAAAAARlQ/QqSmA927DJAdz0wKamc82MMOakqHOGSUACLcBGAs/s400/zacht%2Bautomaat%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="128" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="385" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2020.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/137534007/Karen%20Ng%20-%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202019-11-02%29.mp3">Karen Ng - [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at a house party, November 2, 2019.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">this was up around dufferin/davenport in the basement of andrew finlay stewart's, a great friend and creative partner of mine. it was a party and then there'd be music. a lot of people huddled up in this tiny living room (or at least it felt tiny for the amount of people that had filled it), without being able to make such a choice, i happened to be sat right in front of karen ng's decided 'stage' and there was nowhere for me to run. so i sat there and enjoyed this set very much, no choice (and no choice necessary) but to welcome the warm sonic embrace/blast/whispers of her saxophone. i remember there were a lot of friends, friends of friends, and friends of friends of friends in attendance. the next time that i witnessed karen playing a solo set was the complete opposite: alone on the couch in the kitchen area of arrayspace while her and the rest of the audience sat on the other side of the closed door. a story for another time. thank you karen ng for every note and for always being real.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nPSZUsP7X4Q/XfEvZdv4UVI/AAAAAAAAVBk/IWym06J1ThE1bB4h_JCgh-SPLfY3rEdcACLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/karen%2Bng%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nPSZUsP7X4Q/XfEvZdv4UVI/AAAAAAAAVBk/IWym06J1ThE1bB4h_JCgh-SPLfY3rEdcACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/karen%2Bng%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="225" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="675" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2016b.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/113269687/Off%20World%20-%20%5Bthird%20section%5D%20%28live%202016-10-23%29.mp3">Off World - <i>unknown</i></a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Ratio (<i>Off World LP 1 Release Weekend</i> – Night 3), October 23, 2016.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"> i went to this show by myself and didn't know anybody that was there, at least not personally, as i knew a bunch of local artists in attendance but they surely didn't know who i was. i recognized joe though, which indicated that i was indeed in the right place at the right time. just a few minutes into the off world set, i fell asleep on the floor (or on some cushion) and ended up drifting in and out of sleep multiple times throughout the show. i have a funny memory of joe chuckling as he noticed me waking up in a somewhat startled state at 1 point before passing out again. and unless i have it mixed up with the only other time i attended a show at ratio, i also have a vivid memory of seeing mike smith in the kitchen, who i also hadn't formally met at that time, but who offered me a friendly smile. thank you sandro perri and lorenz peter for the off world dreaming and for every song (if you noticed me sleeping during your set i hope i did not offend).</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kzxrxbzMN2o/WDYXsQChMKI/AAAAAAAAP5s/t7zEyosDGq00yDX65R7rjngA5yMbuwIsACLcB/s1600/off%2Bworld%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-kzxrxbzMN2o/WDYXsQChMKI/AAAAAAAAP5s/t7zEyosDGq00yDX65R7rjngA5yMbuwIsACLcB/s400/off%2Bworld%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" width="400" height="394" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2019.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/135171531/Orechin-Fraser%20-%20%5Bfirst%20section%5D%20%28live%202019-07-02%29.mp3">Orechin/Fraser - <i>unknown</i></a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Wenona Lodge (<i>Track Could Bend #52</i>), July 2, 2019.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">i just loved this set by alexei orechin and nick fraser at track could bend so much- i guess enough to still remember it 5 years later. it was hot in that basement, and probably thunderstormed earlier in the day as i noticed it always did (Without fail) every 1st tuesday of the month for a long time. i was really blissing out in my seat and remember having 1 of those moments where i was moving/swaying in body and mind. seriously hard to believe the piece was only 12 or 13 minutes - felt like a lifetime. this was also back when 241 pizza at bloor/havelock had 2 slices + a pop for $1.75 and a big window banner so the whole neighbourhood knew what was up. people would travel from other parts of the city just for the deal. and listening back now, that perfect splash when nick fraser enters the fold is like opening the can of pop and taking that first sip (i'm not really a pop drinker, but it was more expensive if you just bought the 2 slices on its own). thank you alexei orechin and nick fraser for this particularly good time and for often playing well with others.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MRCN0GyGk2k/XWaT5a6yewI/AAAAAAAAUqE/S3wdKC97dTwoBbUoZkrCPu0dEZXTgF0OgCLcBGAs/s1600/Orechin-Fraser%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-MRCN0GyGk2k/XWaT5a6yewI/AAAAAAAAUqE/S3wdKC97dTwoBbUoZkrCPu0dEZXTgF0OgCLcBGAs/s400/Orechin-Fraser%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="225" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="675" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2018.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/127805289/Nicole%20Rampersaud%20-%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202018-06-05%29.mp3">Nicole Rampersaud - [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Baby G (<i>Track Could Bend #39</i>), June 5, 2018.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">i can't tell you how many times i've brought up this set in conversation since it happened. i recall there only being a handful of us in attendance, though i could be wrong, and it should be stated that this (obviously) has nothing to do with the incredible music that nicole rampersaud offered us on this date. that being said, i bring up this (possible) fact because over the years i've come to realize that some of my favourite concerts are ones where at some point during the set, while listening to the music, i catch myself looking around the room, noticing each individual audience member, then drawing my visual attention back to the artist, and thinking something like "hah, this is wild, we are the lucky ones!" - i wonder if you do this too? of course there are a ton of shows that come to mind where this has happened, and it seems to me that whether these gigs are recorded/archived or not truly makes no difference to the fact that in another world or in front of another audience or at a different time in history they might be considered 'legendary'. anyway, i'm rambling! thank you nicole rampersaud for all your music and for your kindness.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nw9EPcxwvRc/W1tno-BUuXI/AAAAAAAAS4Y/bITtsJvXHt8vetxrPcFY0qehVn7wGaO2gCLcBGAs/s1600/nicole%2Brampersaud%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nw9EPcxwvRc/W1tno-BUuXI/AAAAAAAAS4Y/bITtsJvXHt8vetxrPcFY0qehVn7wGaO2gCLcBGAs/s400/nicole%2Brampersaud%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="300" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="900" /></a></div><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-75908985480316325252024-02-19T13:49:00.001-05:002024-02-19T13:49:00.127-05:00Monday Roundup #162<noscript><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3mFKFiKqmDA/YASiUV0PPJI/AAAAAAAAV3E/wso9kPtQs8IAavQ2g_OZ8hrUqPXOVGduwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/mfs%2Blogo%2B-%2Bmonday%2Broundup.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Concert announcements:</b></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Rob Clutton Trio</b> / The Emmet Ray 2024-02-28 (Wednesday)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Cosmic Ship</b> [Andrew Kay/Chris Pruden/Tyler Emond/Mack Longpre] / Drom Taberna 2024-02-29 (Thursday – 6:30 p.m.) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/387523480544844/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Tommy Tone</b> (Esther Splett / Erin Corbett) / No-No Room 2024-03-01 (Friday). $10, 19+.</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Track Could Bend #89</i></b> (feat. mutepack / Piers Oolvai) / Wenona Lodge 2022-03-05 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/774188241223088/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Equinox and Solstice Residency</i></b> (feat. Ghostlight) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2024-03-06 (Wednesday). $10 suggested. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/975844147234297/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Otterville</b> [Andrew Downing/Michael Davidson/Nick Fraser/Tara Davidson/Paul Mathew/Christine Bougie] / The Rex 2024-03-06–09 (Wednesday–Saturday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1840793096372748/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Audiopollination</i></b> (feat. Uuxe/Collette Andrea/Nirvana Sagar / Connor Crone/ Bicyclops/ Raymond Carruthers / Bill Gilliam/Andrew Finlay Stewart/Émilie Fortin / Jenna Geen/Abby Silvera/Mickle32) / Array Space 2024-03-08 (Friday). $10 or PWYC. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/409350111453880/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Ayal Senior & Friends</i></b> (feat. Ayal Senior/Kurt Newman/Blake Howard/Andrew Furlong / Eye-Duh Kho / Jonathan Adjemian / Nick Flanagan) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-03-10 (Sunday – 2:30 p.m.) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1722371544918715/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Maria Chávez</b> (Debashis Sinha) / The Music Gallery 2024-03-14 (Thursday). $10 MG members, $10-$20 pay what you can afford. [<i><a href="https://musicgallery.org/events/maria-chavez/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Escote</b> (Ex Corpse / Liz Lima / Brian Fog) / Bar Orwell 2024-03-28 (Thursday). $15 / pwyc / notaflof. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1400439387258500/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Small World Music Series & The Music Gallery present</i></b> (feat. Nadah El Shazly & Sarah Pagé / Khôra / Honeypaw) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2024-04-02 (Tuesday). $15 advance, $20 door, $10 MG members, low income, arts workers. [<i><a href="https://musicgallery.org/events/nadah-el-shazly-with-sarah-page-khora/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="border: 2px solid red;font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;text-align: center;"><b>Is your show missing from this list? Submit it via <a href="https://forms.gle/WMiDr3xzSdpVZSU68">this form</a>!</b></p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Shows this week:</b></p></ul><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Music Hosted by Karen Ng</i></b> (feat. Lina Allemano/Mateos Labbe-Phelan/Kieran Maraj/Karen Ng / McGill Chamber Jazz Ensemble) / Wenona Lodge 2022-02-20 (Tuesday)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Triio</b> [Tom Fleming/Stefan Hegerat/Bea Labikova/Alex Fournier/Michael Davidson/Naomi McCarroll-Butler] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-20 (Tuesday) [<i><a href="https://www.tranzac.org/event/triio-tranzac-mini-tour/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Dave Clark</b> / Sellers & Newel 2024-02-22 (Thursday). $15 Minimum donation. [<i><a href="https://www.sellersandnewel.com/literary-society.html">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>CCMC</b> [Al Mattes/Casey Sokol/Paul Dutton/John Oswald/John Kamevaar with guest Pierre Mongeon] / Array Space 2024-02-22 (Thursday). $free, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gpb9kaErlZI">livestream</a> available</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Karen Ng Presents</i></b> (feat. Chris Banks [<i>solo synth & electronics, debut performance!</i>] / The Adjacence [Lina Allemano/Ryan Driver/Nick Fraser/Karen Ng]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-22 (Thursday) [<i><a href="https://www.tranzac.org/event/karen-ng-presents-3-5/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>All-Set! Presents</i></b> (feat. Molehill) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-23 (Friday – <i>early</i>)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Dave Bidini</b> / Sellers & Newel 2024-02-23 (Friday). $20 Minimum donation. [<i><a href="https://www.sellersandnewel.com/literary-society.html">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Experimental Link</i></b> (feat. Niloufar Shiri / Caleb Klager) / Small World Centre 2024-02-23 (Friday). $19.56. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/930101534780468/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Exit Points 46: 4th anniversary concert</i></b> (feat. Marz/Prince/Robbie Ahmed/Kasey Pocius/Paul Stillwell / R. Flex/Saba Zameni/Maneli Jamal/Gabrielle Couillard/Michael Palumbo / Switchemups!) / Array Space 2024-02-23 (Friday). $20 at the door, cash/card/mobile. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/385193127493550/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Fortunato Durutti Marinetti</b> (Picastro) / Burdock Music Hall 2024-02-23 (Friday). $15. [<i><a href="https://burdockbrewery.com/products/fortunato-durutti-marinetti-with-picastro?variant=40438689857623">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>WQW Throwback House Party</i></b> (feat. Carlin Nicholson & Mike O'Brien / Brendan Canning + David French / Amy Millan / Andrew Whiteman / Ariel Engel / controller.controller / Gentleman Reg / Begonia) / The Drake Hotel 2024-02-23 (Friday). $25. [<i><a href="https://www.sevenrooms.com/experiences/thedrakehotel/wqw-throwback-house-party-10360186448">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>The Ryan Driver Sextet</b> / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-23 (Friday). $pwyw. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/777312117642347/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Batuki Music Society presents</i></b> (feat. Alpha Yaya Diallo and Bafing) / Spadina Theatre @ Alliance Française 2024-02-24 (Saturday). $20.50. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1132637287723669">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>coexisDance #101</i></b> (feat. Saysa/Kel Mansaray/Steph Hark/Tania Gill/Apple/Chantelle Mostacho/Y Josephine/Estella Heansel/Patrick O'Reilly/Marie-Elena LeBlanc Bellissimo/Heather Saumer) / Canadian Contemporary Dance Theatre 2024-02-24 (Saturday). $15 Sliding Scale. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/958145609243597/">FB event</a></i>]</p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>It happened this week...</b></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>... ten years ago, on February 21-23, 2014 at The Tranzac's Main Hall (<i>The Second Annual Somewhere There Creative Music Festival</i>).</li></ul><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2014.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/75949952/Kyle%20Brenders%20Quartet%20-%20Noir%20%28live%202014-02-21%29.mp3">The Kyle Brenders Quartet - Noir</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2014.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/75949958/Alaniaris%20-%20%5Bset%202%2C%20track%202%5D%20%28live%202014-02-21%29.mp3">Alaniaris - <i>unknown</i></a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2014.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/75949961/Broomer-Bull-Vespaziani-Lee-Stach%20-%20%5Bfirst%20part%5D%20%28live%202014-02-21%29.mp3">Stuart Broomer/Arthur Bull/Bob Vespaziani/David Lee/Eric Stach - [<i>excerpt from an improvization</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2014.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/75953354/Hat%20%26%20Beard%20-%20Jackie-ing%20%28live%202014-02-22%29.mp3">Hat & Beard - Jackie-ing</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2014.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/76130237/King%20Weather%20-%20%5Bfirst%20piece%5D%20%28live%202014-02-23%29.mp3">King Weather - [<i>first piece</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">[<i>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.</i>]</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mU97UGykA2s/UxOGBHkFTVI/AAAAAAAAKNs/eC14E7RuZXM/s1600/king+weather+-+rec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mU97UGykA2s/UxOGBHkFTVI/AAAAAAAAKNs/eC14E7RuZXM/s400/king+weather+-+rec1.JPG" /></a></div></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-66704368114298717012024-02-18T14:36:00.000-05:002024-02-18T14:36:00.266-05:00#mfs15 playlist: Ian McPhedran<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from <a href="https://bodiesthatmatter.bandcamp.com/">Ian McPhedran</a>.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Fifteen years is an unfathomable milestone for most endeavours and yet here we are. Joe’s tireless effort to build and preserve this archive is no small feat, and still he makes it look easy. While searching the archive to prepare the list, I was surprised at times to find that recordings I assumed would be there were not, mainly because it has always felt like he was at every single show ever (I really wanted to find the recording of DAS RAD at the Silver Dollar when Bo shouted “The power of Christ compels you!” and then cut his hand with a razor blade and blood ran all over the stage resulting in a later hospital trip, but does that even exist?). The collection is a testament to the fantastic and diverse body of work created by the city’s music communities since 2009. That it is freely searchable and accessible is a gift and an opportunity that we should all take advantage of. As with your curation work and your own musical endeavours, it captures a spirit of openness, inclusivity, and support that encourages exploration and risk-taking, which are vital for fostering new projects and ideas. Thank you Joe.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Doing a deep-dive in the archive reminded me how strongly music is tied to memory, so I have organized my list around shows that had a significant impact on me as “footnotes” for the collection. </p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.pbworks.com/f/Easy%20Targets%20-%20%5Btrack%201%5D%20(live%202010-03-13).mp3">Easy Targets - Secret Door</a></p></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Silver Dollar (<i>Canadian Music Week</i>), March 13, 2010.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">The Targets were always great, but I’m glad Joe recorded this one. There was always something menacing just lurking under the surface with the band, and it really explored that territory that night, which I think translates into the recording. Playing CMW or NXNE is always a somewhat frustrating endeavour for bands and that night was no exception, and this in part fueled the energy and the overall vibe in the room, which the Targets picked up on. The one downside to Nick Kervin being such an incredible drummer is that his great skills as a songwriter and guitar player are sometimes forgotten. The crucible of this project directly led to some other great projects that also produced stellar work, namely, Mimico, B-17s, Cellphone (and pretty much everything else Colin has done), and of course Scott Hardware. </p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/S9TsbcXw6UI/AAAAAAAABA0/LU90HOUf2dg/s1600/easy+targets+7+-+resized.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 230px;" title="Easy Targets, live at The Silver Dollar Room, March 13, 2010. (CMW 2010)" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/S9TsbcXw6UI/AAAAAAAABA0/LU90HOUf2dg/s400/easy+targets+7+-+resized.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5464252204123744578" /></a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/51395891/The%20Hoa%20Hoa%27s%20-%20Going%20Out%20With%20Her%20%28live%202011-04-29%29.mp3">The Hoa Hoa's - Going Out With Her</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Boat, April 29, 2011.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Going out with Her is an underappreciated song from one of the finest groups this city has ever produced. Performed on the first night of their weekend of final shows, there is something about the quality of Richie’s voice that always gets me, and that night, made me teary. It really punctuated the bittersweet feeling of the evening.</p><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sYQou0OrQfg/T0-p6Y_KkuI/AAAAAAAADdg/5shRM9uxAZ0/s1600/hoa%2Bhoa%2527s%2B4%2B-%2Bresized.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 185px;" title="The Hoa Hoa's, live at The Boat, April 29, 2011." src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sYQou0OrQfg/T0-p6Y_KkuI/AAAAAAAADdg/5shRM9uxAZ0/s400/hoa%2Bhoa%2527s%2B4%2B-%2Bresized.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5714973272761340642" /></a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2020.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/146124420/Nidus%20-%20the%20gauzy%20meshwork%20of%20an%20invisible%20thought%20%28excerpt%29%20%5Blive%202021-09-12%5D.mp3">Nidus - the gauzy meshwork of an invisible thought [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Cedarvale Ravine, September 11, 2021.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Desperate times call for desperate measures and sometimes yield the most exciting results. As a safety-workaround during Covid, Nidus brought a generator and an impressive amount of gear into a cavernous section of Cedarvale Ravine and proceeded to blow minds. The mosquitos were terrible and the police showed up to end the evening at the behest of the owners of the multi-million dollar homes that line the ravine (although some of their children seemed to enjoy what was going on). You can’t make this stuff up. It also features the contributions of my absolute favorite Toronto composer Jason Doell.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qu9uhJU_j_4/YT5ETjUEqwI/AAAAAAAAWMI/iXqtQfS5muwp5j_z63k6h7ZWLB4KTxazACLcBGAsYHQ/s1200/nidus%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0;"><img alt="" border="0" width="384" data-original-height="675" data-original-width="1200" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qu9uhJU_j_4/YT5ETjUEqwI/AAAAAAAAWMI/iXqtQfS5muwp5j_z63k6h7ZWLB4KTxazACLcBGAsYHQ/s400/nidus%2B-%2Brec1.jpg"/></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2012.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/59411662/Beard%20Closet%20-%20%5Bpart%202%5D%20%28live%202012-09-30%29.mp3">Beard Closet - Compassionate Fascism</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Holy Oak Café (<i>Taking drugs to play music for kittens to take drugs to</i> – Chi Chi Fundraiser), September 30, 2012.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I wanted to include one of Phil Hamilton’s projects and my first choice, the Samesex performance at the Holy Oak on September 26, 2014 was MIA (I swear this was posted at one point). [<i><b>Ed note:</b> possibly <a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2014/11/recording-bodies-that-matter.html">this one</a>? From a time when project names were in flux.</i>]<br />This is vintage <a href="https://beardcloset.bandcamp.com/track/dissolving-parliament">Dissolving Parliament</a> era Beard Closet that still makes my skin crawl in the best possible way. The fact that Phil played a benefit for a cat despite clearly being a “dog person” demonstrates all of the warmth, love and generosity of spirit lurking beneath that rough exterior. The recording captures Beard Closet’s fearless sense of experimentation that made the evening so much fun.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KjT2YWTsHDQ/UGoQtVfmcMI/AAAAAAAAF8U/nWujawJzClY/s1600/beard%2Bcloset%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="300" width="400" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-KjT2YWTsHDQ/UGoQtVfmcMI/AAAAAAAAF8U/nWujawJzClY/s400/beard%2Bcloset%2B-%2Brec1.JPG"></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2020.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/149410482/Cosmic%20Homeostasis%20XV%20-%20%5Bset%201%2C%20excerpt%201%5D%20%28live%202022-05-29%29.mp3">Cosmic Homeostasis XV - Blah, Blah, Blah [<i>excerpt 1</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), May 29, 2022.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I tried to avoid picking any recordings I played on, but as both a frequent participant and as an observer, I think Cosmic Homeostasis is one of the most fascinating gatherings in the city. It presents a real challenge to the conventional privileging of the role of the performer in live music since the listeners and participants both play an equal role and intermingle throughout the room. Every ambient sound captured as a treasured part of the piece. This one was special because it was the first show I played with my son Sterling and he got to name the songs. I was nervous, but everyone was very patient playing alongside a four-year-old.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-31816089036722982902024-02-17T11:30:00.000-05:002024-02-17T11:30:00.130-05:00#mfs15 playlist: Matthew Fava<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from Matthew Fava.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Happy anniversary, Mechanical Forest Sound, and resounding thanks to Joe Strutt! I set out to compile 5 or 6 recordings from the site, but have instead prepared links and reflections for 4. This activity was a challenge for me because Joe has become increasingly central to my creative network, and the cultural/historiographic role of the site is that much more meaningful/inarguable, so there is quite a lot to say.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">And on that note, brevity eludes me at the best of times, and here we are at the apex of a months-long moment when I have talked openly and frequently with friends about moments of hopelessness. I have grown increasingly dependent on external factors to transfuse some hopefulness as I attempt to reset or reconsider emotional patterns.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Writing these thoughts down for Mechanical Forest Sound was a helpful exercise. I got to revisit the last 10 years of my life and inevitably travel further in time as I chased each enfolded memory.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">So let’s start with the hard one.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2016b.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/112835014/The%20Woodshed%20Brass%20Band%20-%20%5Btrack%201%5D%20%28live%202016-10-07%29.mp3">The Woodshed Brass Band - Love Letter To New Orleans</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac's Main Hall (<i>Tribute to the Life of Ken Aldcroft</i>), October 7, 2016.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I remember where I was when I learned that Ken Aldcroft had passed. Jeremy Strachan, David Dacks, and I were set up at the CMC for an early installment in the Music Gallery’s History series (which invites various local figures to reflect on periods, places, and people that have been central to experimental music making in the city). Jeremy was the guest speaker. One of the attendees arrived early and let us know that Ken passed. We were shocked. We had a quick huddle and expressed disbelief, sadness. We ended up sharing the news at the start of Jeremy’s talk for the folks who assembled. I remember the gasps.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">David shared a lovely reflection (with his unique penchant for the reverential and indexical-historical); Jeremy improvised a section of his lecture and reminisced about catching one of Ken’s performances in the Southern Cross at the Tranzac. We parted ways after the event, fully expecting to gather again to honour Ken.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Several days later, one of my oldest friends, Joseph Calarco, wanted to meet up. He was in the city visiting family. He had moved to San Francisco, and extended visits to Toronto were rare. He met up with me and another old friend, Rick, for dumplings. We had this lovely meal together, and we walked together along College Street. Rick parted ways when we got to U of T, and I said goodbye to Joseph a few blocks later. He hopped on the subway at Queen’s Park, and I continued on back to work at the CMC.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">A few days later, Rick and I received an email from Joseph’s brother. Joseph had passed away suddenly when he had gotten back to his home in San Francisco.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">A few days later, Rick and I said goodbye to Joseph again, sitting amongst many mutual friends from our past. I had never grieved the loss of a close friend. It proved overwhelming.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">The day after Joseph Calarco’s funeral, I showed up at work solely because Allison Cameron was performing (October 6, 2016). Allison was being interviewed by Kristel Jax, and was going to improvise a set with Joe Strutt. In my mind, after a weekend prostrating on my floor, and two days of emotional prostration in a funeral home, I had a desperate need to regain my footing in the world. Joe Strutt arrived at the CMC early. Once he saw me, he came right over and gave me a massive hug. I needed it. I cry thinking about it. I needed to see my friends.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">The day after Allison’s performance, I showed up at the Main Hall in the Tranzac for the Toronto celebration of life of Ken Aldcroft (October 7, 2016). Ken and I had only interacted a few times (when I would go up to him after a show to buy an album, when he played an open rehearsal at the CMC earlier in 2016). Feeling that proximity to and admiration for his music and organizing, knowing that my heart was struggling to heal from compounding loss, wanting to honour the artistic constellation in which Ken burned brightly, I went.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">His family, close friends, and collaborators organized a moving event with touching stories and mesmerizing performances. The night started with the Woodshed Brass Band, captured in these recordings by Joe Strutt. The band and all the event attendees marched along Brunswick, marched through the alleys, marched along Bloor, sounding joyous songs. Songs for Ken. It is a Toronto memory I cherish.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I collapsed into the arms of many friends that night at the Tranzac. Folks were grappling with a deep loss, and many made room for me to share my grief about my friend Joseph Calarco as well.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">When we lose our friends we lose access to a particular part of ourselves, too. The part that our friends saw vividly and lovingly, the part they could share back to us when we forget.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">When I think about my friend Joe Strutt I think about the fact that he has worked so hard to let us know how he cares about us, to take what might otherwise be a fragile memory and celebrate it, document it, photograph it. To help us remember ourselves.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pEoobh_P9TA/WCOESGEHHCI/AAAAAAAAPw8/KhHc0Gf3XzENnyeX8w-EGjy783pvVvwtwCLcB/s1600/woodshed%2Bsecond%2Bline%2B1%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bmy%2Bmf.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-pEoobh_P9TA/WCOESGEHHCI/AAAAAAAAPw8/KhHc0Gf3XzENnyeX8w-EGjy783pvVvwtwCLcB/s400/woodshed%2Bsecond%2Bline%2B1%2B-%2Bphoto%2Bmy%2Bmf.jpg" width="400" height="300" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2023.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/154865055/little%20window%20-%20Feel%20it%20all%20at%20once%20%28live%202023-09-30%29.mp3">little window - Feel it all at once</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac (Living Room), September 30, 2023.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Luca Capone and I have this long history together. Our grandparents came from the same mountain village in Italy—we used to see each other at the festas at Mary Lake that marked the end of every summer growing up. I was in the same grade as Luca’s brother Geremy, and would sometimes show up at the Capone household (including during Italy’s run at the ‘94 world cup when we made signs and celebrated a victory at the end of the Capone driveway, trying to get cars to honk at us).<p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Our paths converged again at CHRY on York University campus. We both developed an abiding love for community radio, which Luca has actively maintained through his programming of the Night Shift. If I recall correctly (I sometimes do), we were hanging out in the offices at CHRY in late 2008 early 2009 and got onto the topic of playing music together. So we had a casual jam with my brother Joseph (yes there is another Joseph in my ramblings). I picked up bass guitar since Joseph was on guitar and Luca was on drums. It was the first time I played bass guitar.<p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">That evening marked the beginning of the longest creative/artistic collaboration of my life. Luca and I have played music together in several configurations over the past 15 years. Luca is especially good at tempering my impatience as a musician, while also being willing to engage in a kind of rapid prototypical playing as we continually inject some variant rhythm, articulation, tone. It is fun to make music with Luca.<p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">It is also safe to say that 90% of my musical output and performance history is the result of Luca inviting me to tag along after he establishes a connection with kindred musicians.<p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Several months ago Luca began working with Eli Howey, and was passing notes to let me know how excited he was about Eli’s music. Their project, Little Window, played a show back in September at the Tranzac. I missed it, but Joe Strutt did not!</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">To my delight, and in keeping with the pattern mentioned above, Luca asked me to tag along during a recording session with Little Window in January. I have not played in a band that plays songs in a long time, but I was available and would never decline a chance to leap into it (music) with Luca. It reminded me of our early days together. Learning Eli’s music was immense fun, and this recording captures that rough-hewn, ethereal, and transfixing quality in their writing/playing, complete with that propulsive drumwork from the “grizzled veteran” Luca—Joe’s description!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFt9fw-WuIFKvOq_Q6pnVru20SNUzk0ANjHp_vpouRfT6lIriD6U4V_ItS2chqg3-WWG5v4NIhasmYlbDiL7UuGpI-qjNRJrgThAvYXLYNeOxaR39OLYm69qqYrJnURxHA34zmXGGIthL8jyEj_v2oQcbftFRgE1E7gVuTPsL1Oi5-4PuV_l6FSCFCahU/s1800/little%20window%20-%20rec1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1154" data-original-width="1800" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFt9fw-WuIFKvOq_Q6pnVru20SNUzk0ANjHp_vpouRfT6lIriD6U4V_ItS2chqg3-WWG5v4NIhasmYlbDiL7UuGpI-qjNRJrgThAvYXLYNeOxaR39OLYm69qqYrJnURxHA34zmXGGIthL8jyEj_v2oQcbftFRgE1E7gVuTPsL1Oi5-4PuV_l6FSCFCahU/s400/little%20window%20-%20rec1.jpg"/></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2020.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/138652758/M.%20Mucci-Kh%C3%B4ra-Totenbaum%20Trager%20-%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202020-01-19%29.mp3">M. Mucci/Khôra/Totenbaum Träger - [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Array Space (<i>Remembering Arachnidiscs</i>), January 19, 2020.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">While I was working at CHRY in the music department, I was responsible for receiving mailers from labels, distributors, and artists. I would give them a partial listen (there were a lot of submissions), enter them into the database, deface/label the cover, and then update the studio playbox and library. It was a rewarding job in many ways.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">On one occasion we received an album from Michael Mucci in Guelph. I was not familiar with his prior work, but quickly fell into a lengthy listen. I wrote him a short email to confirm that we received the album, and to let him know how much I enjoyed it. He responded with appreciation.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">A few years later I was listening through the catalogue of Arachnidiscs records, and purchased what was then a new album from Michael, Secret Midnights. This album was a favourite of mine from the 2010s, and I still listen to it several times a year.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Our story leaps into January 2020. Jakob Rehlinger decided to wrap up operations of Arachnidiscs Records, and organized a funereal gathering at Arrayspace to mark the occasion (if I am not mistaken, a certain Joe Strutt insisted that such an event take place through some self-described “moderate prodding” lol).</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Several Arachnidiscs alumni, myself included, got to join in the performances that night. I ended up playing in a live realization of Jakob’s BABEL ensemble alongside Michael Mucci, Dominic Marion and Kayla Milmine, which was humbling and lovely.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">As part of a separate set, Dominic (Totenbaum Träger) proposed a live re-imagining of Michael’s Secret Midnights album, and performed a set with Michael and Matthew Ramolo (AKA Khôra). Dominic opened the set with the signature sparse + icy guitar phrasing that welcomes listeners to the original album. The set unfolded with a placid mysticism, a sonic undertow, the kind that pulls you into unexpected spaces.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Once more time, space, history, and memory converged.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8OLGSNKONIU/Xk6sfDW9cBI/AAAAAAAAVTc/3r8iwRxNsCg_6UO5yt2iy5hyGKJjA7apgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/M.%2BMucci-Kh%25C3%25B4ra-Totenbaum%2BTrager%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8OLGSNKONIU/Xk6sfDW9cBI/AAAAAAAAVTc/3r8iwRxNsCg_6UO5yt2iy5hyGKJjA7apgCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/M.%2BMucci-Kh%25C3%25B4ra-Totenbaum%2BTrager%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="182" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="547" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2017.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/114248227/Heather%20Saumer%20-%20Shenandoah%20%28live%202016-12-06%29.mp3">Heather Saumer - Shenandoah</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Dundas Video (<i>Track Could Bend #21</i>), December 6, 2016.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">There has been an inescapable change in my (our?) relationship to Mechanical Forest Sound since the last time I contributed a playlist to the site—during the celebration of the 6th anniversary. In particular, Joe has been far more active as a curator, organizer, and artist, and the contents of the site take on an entirely new quality in response.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">As Octavia tells us, all that you touch you change, and all that you change changes you. Joe continues to change, and be changed by, the musical tributaries that define Toronto.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">So I had to include a recording from Track Could Bend (TCB).</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">TCB, Joe’s ongoing series, was a part of my monthly routine for a time, especially during the Dundas Video Days. I would shift my hours at work, and make an appearance at shows before heading home. And yes I would play Blades of Steel, and Mario Kart, and TMNTII (NES) between sets, but I wasn’t a complete misanthrope. Joe would often do the thing he is so good at: he would say “Matthew, you should meet [insert name here]”; “Matthew, can I introduce you to [insert name here]”; or “Matthew, you and [insert name here] are both into [insert obscure musical thing here], you should talk.” So yeah, I didn’t ONLY play video games between sets, and Joe was the consummate event host.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">TCB artists were/are always a draw. That the contents remained unknowable until the set began was key to the appeal. Joe made artists feel safe taking risks, doing something new, sharing something that was potentially error-prone in front of people. And these experiments would often generate seismic soundings. One such earth-altering performance featured Heather Saumer.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">As a former trombone player (who never took it to the streets) it has always been inspiring to see+hear Heather give voice to the instrument in novel ways. During this performance at TCB I was spell-bound by the inventive manipulation of water with the mouthpiece of the trombone, and the nostalgia-stirrings brought on by the use of the overhead project (the shallow pool of water was rested on its glass platen) which brought the rippling tides of the sonic textures to life in the space. There is a wonder to the sound. I thank Joe continually for making space for the sonic incantation, and I thank Heather for the magic.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qqmyW18DCCk/WG2WbDrbC-I/AAAAAAAAQG8/ffvehV9Hua4F_93-n-DGHUEwuuqBVjNvwCLcB/s1600/heather%2Bsaumer%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-qqmyW18DCCk/WG2WbDrbC-I/AAAAAAAAQG8/ffvehV9Hua4F_93-n-DGHUEwuuqBVjNvwCLcB/s400/heather%2Bsaumer%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" width="400" height="240" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Ending.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I had an additional 6 recordings that I picked out after my preliminary brainstorm for this piece… but it might take me to the next anniversary to tell you why each one matters to me. Perhaps it is sufficient to say that Joe matters to me; that his ongoing choice to show up for us in every way he can is inspiring to me.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Thanks for being a friend to so many of us, Joe.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-13497509578860506422024-02-16T18:30:00.001-05:002024-02-16T18:30:00.134-05:00#mfs15 playlist: Chris Trotter<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from <a href="https://www.iderdown.com/">Chris Trotter</a>.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Thank you for all the wonderful and good work that you put into this project!<br />It's astounding and amazing.<br />Here's some selections for the playlist.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2016.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/107121723/David%20Jones%20%2B%20APA%20-%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202016-04-05%29.mp3">David Jones + APA - [<i>excerpt</i>]</a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Dundas Video (<i>Track Could Bend #13</i>), April 5, 2016.</p></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">wonderful space and sonic entanglement</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs9.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/98004745/Within%20-%20%5Btrack%204%5D%20%28live%202015-07-02%29.mp3">Within - Balkan Song</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Holy Oak Café, July 2, 2015.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">such a joy to have this moment captured</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YKq3GJQiV5Y/VafrT0i29jI/AAAAAAAANEA/MC_Jev_pkBU/s1600/within%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-YKq3GJQiV5Y/VafrT0i29jI/AAAAAAAANEA/MC_Jev_pkBU/s400/within%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2019.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/135060960/Cosmic%20Homeostasis%20XI%20-%20Out%20Among%20the%20Reeds%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202019-06-30%29.mp3">Cosmic Homeostasis XI - Out Among the Reeds [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge, June 30, 2019.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">amazingly delicate work by so much interplay</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p5VsWb0IwQI/XV61X5Fc0hI/AAAAAAAAUo4/FoA7PqsgvQYhcbEkH_3i1ta2DYrN89JewCLcBGAs/s1600/cosmic%2Bhomeostasis%2Bxi%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-p5VsWb0IwQI/XV61X5Fc0hI/AAAAAAAAUo4/FoA7PqsgvQYhcbEkH_3i1ta2DYrN89JewCLcBGAs/s400/cosmic%2Bhomeostasis%2Bxi%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="106" data-original-width="1600" data-original-height="423" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2017b.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/121531926/iderdown%20%2B%20abigail%20trotsky%20-%20%5Blast%20piece%5D%20%28live%202017-10-03%29.mp3">iderdown + abigail trotsky - <i>unknown</i></a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Steady Café (<i>Track Could Bend #31</i>), October 3, 2017.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Greatful for the archive of such a fun night!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JNDAUCNrNss/WgSHILuAwlI/AAAAAAAARqM/5_7GEixorz8kkjbbZnvIFwVWVT5ke-TdwCLcBGAs/s1600/iderdown%2B%252B%2Babigail%2Btrotsky%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JNDAUCNrNss/WgSHILuAwlI/AAAAAAAARqM/5_7GEixorz8kkjbbZnvIFwVWVT5ke-TdwCLcBGAs/s400/iderdown%2B%252B%2Babigail%2Btrotsky%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="225" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="675" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2016.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/104945025/Cares%20-%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202016-01-31%29.mp3">Cares - [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at 1161 Dundas St W. (<i>Endless City: Invoking The Spirit</i>), January 31, 2016.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">carried off on a dark fractal</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-akicv8zbplY/VrdzaOCtAsI/AAAAAAAAOS4/VGU2m3Oqcu8/s1600/cares%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-akicv8zbplY/VrdzaOCtAsI/AAAAAAAAOS4/VGU2m3Oqcu8/s400/cares%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" /></a></div><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>
Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-74611284945163302662024-02-16T13:31:00.000-05:002024-02-16T13:31:00.129-05:00#mfs15 playlist: Luca Capone<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from Luca Capone.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Hello there!<br />Luca Capone here, producer and host of <a href="https://linktr.ee/lucacapone">The Night Shift</a>, a weird and warm community radio program that airs across different cities in Canada and the US.<br />I had the great privilege of participating in celebrating <a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2015/02/six-yearssix-pack-luca-capone.html">the 6th anniversary of Mechanical Forest Sound back in 2015</a>, and so, when Joe demanded that I participate in celebrating the 15th anniversary, I was overjoyed, but a little worried.<br />There's such an infinite amount of great music and musicians that Joe has supported over the years, and my mind was struggling to sift through all the possibilities.<br />Who would I choose? WHO!?!?? SO MUCH PRESSURE ARGGHHHHSDHASDH MY KNEES!!!!!!!!!!!!<br />This past Sunday, in a state of confusion, hunger and my mind still muddled as fuck, I doused a plate of my father's bbq ribs with a large amount of his friend Frank Carnevale's Mom's special chili powder, a substance that is said to possess intense psychedelic properties.<br />I was hoping this experience would unfog my mind, however, I was not prepared for the consequences... The combination of chili powder, plus the Italian mountain-troll crafted digestif that I had dranken previously sent me on a cosmic voyage into another dimension...... THE ALTERNATE WOODBRIDGE-X3 REALM.<br />It was an environment extremely similar to our own, except for slight differences.<br />It was there I met my alternate version, Dante Pietrangelo, who in that world, actually shared a work space with Joe Strutt's alternate: John Stratt.<br />They ran a communal barber shop/greasy spoon called <b>Fiorentina Turner's</b>.<br />Kind of like a combination of <b>Vesta Lunch</b> and <b>Joseph's Hairstyling For Men</b>, where musicians and artists could eat and get their hair cut for free (though, not at the same time; nobody wants clumps of their own hair in their curry rice. I know I don't!)<br />I explained my quandary to Dante, and invited them to peruse the Mechanical Forest Sound website (My phone still was connecting with info from my dimension).<br />They went way back, and coincidentally, landed on classic performances from musicians near and dear to my heart.<br />Even across alternate dimensions, I guess musical tastes still hit the same, and phenomenal community music archives are still essential.<br />I applaud Joe with everything I have, and I wish him and MFS all the best for the future.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfsarchive.pbworks.com/f/The%20Owle%20Bird%20-%20Jewelled%20Beasts%20(live%202009-06-30).mp3">The Owle Bird - Jewelled Beasts</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at the Silver Dollar Room, June 30, 2009.</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/SkvR0ev-ARI/AAAAAAAAANY/1QpVP3GMQsk/s1600-h/owle+birds+-+resized.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 258px;" title="The Owle Bird live at the Silver Dollar, June 30, 2009." src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/SkvR0ev-ARI/AAAAAAAAANY/1QpVP3GMQsk/s400/owle+birds+-+resized.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5353603281597628690" /></a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfsarchive.pbworks.com/f/Bruce%20Peninsula%20-%20Steamroller%20(live%202009-09-27).mp3">Bruce Peninsula - Steamroller</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at the <i>eye Weekly</i> Music Tent, Word on the Street Festival, September 27, 2009.</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/SswLo1AkBvI/AAAAAAAAAcg/r1FIvKytxZ4/s1600-h/bruce+peninsula+1+-+resized.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 262px;" title="Bruce Peninsula at Word on the Street, September 7, 2009." src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/SswLo1AkBvI/AAAAAAAAAcg/r1FIvKytxZ4/s400/bruce+peninsula+1+-+resized.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5389695650107754226" /></a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfsarchive.pbworks.com/f/04%20Cliff%20Jumps.mp3">Ohbijou - Cliff Jumps</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Third Floor Session, December 5, 2009.</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/SzAtdkCaoFI/AAAAAAAAArY/wt5hbd5G1Qs/s1600-h/ohbijou+2+-+resized.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 244px;" title="Ohbijou, live in session at the Third Floor Studios, December 5, 2009." src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/SzAtdkCaoFI/AAAAAAAAArY/wt5hbd5G1Qs/s400/ohbijou+2+-+resized.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5417880337639972946" /></a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.pbworks.com/f/Ostrich%20Tuning%20-%20%5Btrack%208%5D%20(live%202010-04-10).mp3">Ostrich Tuning - Gender Trouble (Bodies That Matter)</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Garrison, April 10, 2010.</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/TAw5AgH1dMI/AAAAAAAABF8/tDTQn5PoE_0/s1600/ostrich+tuning+4+-+resized.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 293px;" title="Ostrich Tuning, live at The Garrison, April 10, 2010." src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/TAw5AgH1dMI/AAAAAAAABF8/tDTQn5PoE_0/s400/ostrich+tuning+4+-+resized.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5479817527388632258" /></a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2016.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/106692156/Witch%20Prophet%20-%20Funeral%20For%20a%20Killer%20%28live%202016-03-19%29.mp3">Witch Prophet - Funeral For a Killer</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Great Hall's Conversation Room (<i>Long Winter 4.5</i> – Night 2), March 18, 2016.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lwTQuHTI0gE/Vv1zRV_OXGI/AAAAAAAAOno/WKA8WYeWnwIqNx7mRJI39rEy3FYsYNl6A/s1600/witch%2Bprophet%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-lwTQuHTI0gE/Vv1zRV_OXGI/AAAAAAAAOno/WKA8WYeWnwIqNx7mRJI39rEy3FYsYNl6A/s400/witch%2Bprophet%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2018.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/128189196/Eiyn%20Sof%20-%20Heavy%20Low%20%28live%202018-06-24%29.mp3">Eiyn Sof - Heavy Low</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac (Main Hall), June 24, 2018.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q2JZ37rR_A8/W3mHGtZ9vcI/AAAAAAAAS8w/KRRuS6SfpwgVsdLVuJFvd9j8FLglCTzYwCLcBGAs/s1600/eiyn%2Bsof%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-q2JZ37rR_A8/W3mHGtZ9vcI/AAAAAAAAS8w/KRRuS6SfpwgVsdLVuJFvd9j8FLglCTzYwCLcBGAs/s400/eiyn%2Bsof%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="268" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="804" /></a></div><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>
Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-21962911358027497622024-02-15T18:00:00.002-05:002024-02-15T18:41:45.143-05:00#mfs15 playlist: styrofoamNosebleedPrincess<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from styrofoamNosebleedPrincess.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">For the past decade and a half, one of Toronto’s most devoted music fans has been extremely busy organising and documenting more than a few metric fucktonnes of concerts. It is in this latter capacity that we now celebrate the hard work of the one and only Joe Strutt. It was after his recording a performance of Alison Cameron playing solo at a Quiet Bedrooms show that I first met Joe. Before long, I’d see him at many more concerts. From freak folk to modern composition to chimurenga, Joe’s taste in music is highly eclectic. Since I also enjoy a wide range of musical styles, Joe’s always been an interesting person to talk with about music, to attend concerts curated by, and to use as a yardstick. To wit, if you’re at a concert and you see him there, you know you’re in for a treat. Meeting people at a Joe-show is also often a good time in its own right. So here are five recordings from Mechanical Forest Sound which stand out to me. Keeping it down to so few was no simple challenge, with the abundant wealth of his collection.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2013.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/65720826/Spires%20That%20In%20The%20Sunset%20Rise%20-%20%5Btrack%203%5D%20%28live%202013-04-25%29.mp3">Spires That In The Sunset Rise - <i>unknown</i></a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The White House (<i>Burn Down the Capital presents</i>), April 25, 2013.</p></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2016.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/105859158/Craig%20Dunsmuir%20and%20Dun-Dun%20Band%20-%20%5Btrack%203%5D%20%28live%202016-02-19%29.mp3">Craig Dunsmuir and Dun-Dun Band - Untitled (12→13→14→15→16→12→21)</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Great Hall (<i>Long Winter 4.4</i>), February 19, 2016.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m-p3GXEQxtg/Vtx1ZLBjcKI/AAAAAAAAOaQ/oE_AgvjBHWI/s1600/dun-dun%2Bband%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-m-p3GXEQxtg/Vtx1ZLBjcKI/AAAAAAAAOaQ/oE_AgvjBHWI/s400/dun-dun%2Bband%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/42190887/Thomas%20Mapfumo%20-%20%5Btrack%204%5D%20(live%202011-07-10).mp3">Thomas Mapfumo & The Blacks Unlimited - Nhamo </a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Afrofest (Queen's Park), July 10, 2011.</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F3KMTZW_4zo/Thp_mf5A1qI/AAAAAAAACGw/W26Ho7m6wgQ/s1600/mapfumo%2B-%2Brec1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 312px;" title="Thomas Mapfumo, live at Afrofest (Queen's Park), July 10, 2011."src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-F3KMTZW_4zo/Thp_mf5A1qI/AAAAAAAACGw/W26Ho7m6wgQ/s400/mapfumo%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5627950983725242018" /></a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2022.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/150432588/Brodie%20West-Naomi%20McCarroll-Butler-Patrick%20O%27Reilly%20-%20%5Blast%20piece%5D%20%28live%202022-09-01%29.mp3">Brodie West/Naomi McCarroll-Butler/Patrick O'Reilly - <i>unknown</i></a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Humber Loop (<i>A More Beautiful Journey</i> Launch Event), September 1, 2022.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguiiq8Eqm9qKQmoaiMZc6SeqeoBJwW_Avq7C7Z6z2Rl3OkUIEZaHxpZg0dF7KR5bQhIM64iYogv_3YAtYymMudWr7yg6W5bCDlZ7End0H0rzOjfHCMsTTs7b2I5Nz1zTmgIRSwjdD65NC6J7euonvNO21nd8mvtHsaKtsteLm5BCAm388XQhE6aiVH/s1800/west,%20mccarroll-butler,%20o%27reilly%20-%20rec1.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" height="400" data-original-height="1800" data-original-width="1142" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEguiiq8Eqm9qKQmoaiMZc6SeqeoBJwW_Avq7C7Z6z2Rl3OkUIEZaHxpZg0dF7KR5bQhIM64iYogv_3YAtYymMudWr7yg6W5bCDlZ7End0H0rzOjfHCMsTTs7b2I5Nz1zTmgIRSwjdD65NC6J7euonvNO21nd8mvtHsaKtsteLm5BCAm388XQhE6aiVH/s400/west,%20mccarroll-butler,%20o%27reilly%20-%20rec1.jpg"/></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2019.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/136136394/Sarah%20Hennies%20%26%20Germaine%20Liu%20-%20Sisters%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202019-08-29%29.mp3">Sarah Hennies & Germaine Liu - Sisters [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Sheppard West Station (<i>Intersection Day 1: Music For Subways</i>), August 29, 2019.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-utf9cRj4mgI/XZ37GonnPpI/AAAAAAAAUxs/7INJwNsybYYD3FgJiCM1gBuWPgg0ZV90wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Sarah%2BHennies%2B%2526%2BGermaine%2BLiu%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-utf9cRj4mgI/XZ37GonnPpI/AAAAAAAAUxs/7INJwNsybYYD3FgJiCM1gBuWPgg0ZV90wCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Sarah%2BHennies%2B%2526%2BGermaine%2BLiu%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="148" data-original-width="1600" data-original-height="592" /></a></div><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>
Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-50504778991236375892024-02-15T13:05:00.000-05:002024-02-15T13:05:00.256-05:00#mfs15 playlist: core<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from core.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">please accept this quiet drifting ode to the incomparable JOE STRUTT - citizen, writer, listener, maker, musician, fan, devotee and enthusiast, group drone organizer, promoter of improvised offshoots, and possibly the nicest most generous inclusive person in the whole modern tkaronto/toronto music scene. also, in the running for best name award.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2023.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/155670741/Scott%20M2-kat%20estacio-Heraclitus%20Akimbo%20-%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202023-12-30%29.mp3">Scott M2-kat estacio-Heraclitus Akimbo - [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (<i>Cosmic Homeostasis & Audiopollination: Pre-NYE gathering + celebration</i>), December 30, 2023.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">a recent show by some local favourites that i missed but was delighted to listen to safely from home</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2019.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/136716366/Liu-Martin-Gray-Ng%20-%20%5Bfirst%20piece%2C%20part%203%5D%20%28live%202019-09-17%29.mp3">Germaine Liu/Mira Martin-Gray/Karen Ng - [<i>first piece, part 3</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Wenona Lodge (<i>Music Hosted by Karen Ng</i>), September 17, 2019.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">playful dynamic experimentations on full display</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9kqDba2j8Ew/XcCVjNz-3CI/AAAAAAAAU5Y/QM-V5lo7BmkOSHB2LE2AzboDNfwBW7auQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1600/Liu-Martin-Gray-Ng%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-9kqDba2j8Ew/XcCVjNz-3CI/AAAAAAAAU5Y/QM-V5lo7BmkOSHB2LE2AzboDNfwBW7auQCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/Liu-Martin-Gray-Ng%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="225" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="675" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2018b.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/129850974/Cosmic%20Homeostasis%20-%20She%20Sells%20Moondust%20Down%20by%20The%20Sea%20of%20Tranquility%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202018-09-3.mp3">Cosmic Homeostasis - She Sells Moondust Down by The Sea of Tranquility [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (<i>Cosmic Homeostasis VIII</i>), September 30, 2018.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">shout out to the cosmic homeostasis crew, this afternoon was memorable for the guest appearance of my friends' kids, wolfgang and annika whose improvised vocal contributions can be heard in the mix xo</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-80CXmvvkzQ0/W9hnacwBQVI/AAAAAAAATZY/iK3CFCDjqgM42-F5AOAj3A0No2TwQdj7gCLcBGAs/s1600/cosmic%2Bhomeostasis%2Bviii%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-80CXmvvkzQ0/W9hnacwBQVI/AAAAAAAATZY/iK3CFCDjqgM42-F5AOAj3A0No2TwQdj7gCLcBGAs/s400/cosmic%2Bhomeostasis%2Bviii%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="300" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="900" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2017.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/118022640/Abigail%20Trotsky-Chris%20Trotter-Mike%20Spears%20-%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28live%202017-04-08%29.mp3">Abigail Trotsky/Chris Trotter/Mike Spears - [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Array Space (<i>Audiopollination #53.1</i>), April 8, 2017.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">a rare and treasured collaboration with my longtime partner and our longtime friend xo</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BaxiDG1ufRE/WRYmBN0r63I/AAAAAAAAQsE/8tT5tRBONFk343VfmMXbSYQTmFD0MgyiwCLcB/s1600/Abigail%2BTrotsky-Chris%2BTrotter-Owen%2BLyons%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://2.bp.blogspot.com/-BaxiDG1ufRE/WRYmBN0r63I/AAAAAAAAQsE/8tT5tRBONFk343VfmMXbSYQTmFD0MgyiwCLcB/s400/Abigail%2BTrotsky-Chris%2BTrotter-Owen%2BLyons%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="225" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2016b.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/109754338/Brigitte%20Bardon%27t%20%2B%20SlowPitchSound%20-%20Sylvia%20Anne%20Virginia%20%5Bforest%20noise%20scene%20redux%5D%20%5Bexcerpt%5D%20%28.mp3">Brigitte Bardon't + SlowPitchSound - Sylvia Anne Virginia [<i>forest noise scene redux</i>] [<i>excerpt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Double Double Land (<i>NASA – Noise Against Sexual Assault</i>), July 10, 2016.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">with thanks for creating a soundtrack to safer spaces through solidarity and digital noise forests</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NtjuxzjUyjU/V5aKxQ4UNmI/AAAAAAAAPNQ/hKWXagGpwrUGqugYquDbzQPbmoVg7IkeQCLcB/s1600/Brigitte%2BBardon%2527t%2B%252B%2BSlowPitchSound%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-NtjuxzjUyjU/V5aKxQ4UNmI/AAAAAAAAPNQ/hKWXagGpwrUGqugYquDbzQPbmoVg7IkeQCLcB/s400/Brigitte%2BBardon%2527t%2B%252B%2BSlowPitchSound%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="266" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">thanks for everything,<br/>corinne aka core aka abigail trotsky aka lane/louise
</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>
Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-78859759805433918662024-02-14T19:00:00.000-05:002024-02-14T19:00:00.326-05:00#mfs15 playlist: Nick Fraser<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from <a href="https://nickfraserthedrummer.com/">Nick Fraser</a>.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Thanks for all you do, Joe! 🙂</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"<a href="http://mfs2014.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/73986461/Drumheller%20-%20Nguyen%20Ngoc%20Loan%20%28live%202014-01-28%29.mp3">Drumheller - Nguyen Ngoc Loan</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), January 28, 2014.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Oh Boy. A piece that I ended up feeling was unsuitable for Drumheller, but that survives somehow. Also, this piece never turned out to feel more suitable for anything else.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A0WStQMV--s/Uup4IZzCKXI/AAAAAAAAKAk/8IlZr8DwqhU/s1600/drumheller+-+rec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-A0WStQMV--s/Uup4IZzCKXI/AAAAAAAAKAk/8IlZr8DwqhU/s400/drumheller+-+rec1.JPG" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2017b.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/120109725/Fraser-Qu-Fournier%20-%20Jupiter%20%28live%202017-08-16%29.mp3">Nick Fraser/Bryan Qu/Alex Fournier - Jupiter</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge), August 16, 2016.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">You know, I just entered names in to the Mechanical Forest Sound search bar, and when I entered my own, things came up. I had forgotten that some of these had ever happened. But I like it all!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oAWqQvgiTps/WbRCuggl4qI/AAAAAAAARQ4/3AYr0IrqxUMJuZutLDVqfCCegJEA06nNACLcBGAs/s1600/Nick%2BFraser-Bryan%2BQu-Alex%2BFournier%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-oAWqQvgiTps/WbRCuggl4qI/AAAAAAAARQ4/3AYr0IrqxUMJuZutLDVqfCCegJEA06nNACLcBGAs/s400/Nick%2BFraser-Bryan%2BQu-Alex%2BFournier%2B-%2Brec1.jpg" width="400" height="225" data-original-width="1200" data-original-height="675" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">You know... when I started thinking about it (and searching), it seemed (seems) to me that all of the MFS recordings are worth sharing. So <a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/search?q=NIck+Fraser">here</a> are some of "mine." (searches of "nick fraser")</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">And <a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/search?q=drumheller">here</a> are searches for "drumheller"</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">[<i>Ed. note: you can also click the tags for "<a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/search/label/nick%20fraser">Nick Fraser</a>" and "<a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/search/label/drumheller">Drumheller</a>"!</i>]</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</i></p></div>
Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-61294348602984937482024-02-14T13:00:00.001-05:002024-02-14T13:00:00.183-05:00#mfs15 playlist: Mira Martin-Gray<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;"><i>MFS has turned fifteen! My introductory thoughts on this landmark can be found <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">here</a>, but long story short: I asked some folks from the MFS community to help me celebrate by picking some selections from the archives, and possibly sharing some thoughts or stories.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>Today's list is from <a href="https://miramartingray.bandcamp.com/">Mira Martin-Gray</a>.</i></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I met the blogger behind this venerable operation in October 2017 at a <a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2017/11/recording-allison-cameron.html">show</a> at the gone-but-not-forgotten Dupe Shop. But I first saw Joe about ten years earlier, at one rock club or another. Rancho Relaxo? Silver Dollar Room? Surely not <i>The Reverb</i>? I was an underage indie rocker sporting skinny jeans and oversized glasses gigging with my high school band, and often as not, <i>that guy</i> was in the crowd again, messenger bag in tow. Ah, 2007. Somehow all these years later Joe and I have found ourselves in the same-but-different music scene, and again, at least as often as not, we find ourselves at the same concerts – now friends and peers.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">What a pleasure to dig through the Mechanical Forest Sound archive, a delicious mixture of nostalgia and discovery. I’ve chosen to focus on older stuff. Some of my selections represent cherished memories, and some offer glimpses of moments I wish I could have witnessed.</p><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfsarchive.pbworks.com/f/Laura%20Barrett%20-%20Sorting%20Hat%20(live%202009-06-20).mp3">Laura Barrett - Sorting Hat</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Rolly's Garage (<i>Daps All-Ages & No Shame Afternoon Extravaganza</i>), June 20, 2009.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">It was June 2009, the Ossington strip was newly "happenin," and I was a couple months shy of 19. Hooded Fang’s Dan and April ran a much needed series of weekend afternoon all-ages shows, often showcasing young bands and cheap eats. I came to this particular gig to hear percussive powerhouse Pick a Piper, with whom I’d shared a bill at the PWYC Pitter Patter Festival the year before (with DAPS side project HUT, IIRC). I was also happy to hear surprise guests Spiral Beach, the ultimate art rock teen idols. But the performance that I remember most fondly was Laura Barrett’s, and it seems she was the highlight for Joe as well. Barrett’s songs were quirky, feminine, complex – just what I needed to hear as an androgynous wannabe-intellectual indie kid. Soon after, I went out and bought a kalimba at African Drums and Arts Crafts in Kensington Market, and carried it around in my messenger bag.</p><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/SkFxlzflHkI/AAAAAAAAALA/CQzF8kvbJys/s1600-h/Laura+Barrett+1+-+resized.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 384px;" title="Laura Barrett, live at Rolly's Garage, June 20, 2009." src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_htDNVIOhzaU/SkFxlzflHkI/AAAAAAAAALA/CQzF8kvbJys/s400/Laura+Barrett+1+-+resized.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5350682726584622658" /></a><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2012.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/58626402/Weaves%20-%20%5Btrack%202%5D%20%28live%202012-09-12%29.mp3">Weaves - <i>unknown</i></a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Clinton's Tavern, September 12, 2012.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I started working at the same restaurant as Jasmyn Burke about a year after this sparkling clip was recorded. She was so cool, I wasn’t, and we talked music in the dish pit. Sadly I never saw her perform as Weaves in solo project form, but later went on to catch the full band incarnation at <a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2014/10/recording-weaves.html">Wavelength</a> a few times, and proudly wore their T-shirt and pinback button. I even wrote a little blurb about their record for the dearly departed Weird Canada. Damn, they were good. They made rock cool again. But 2012 was very much the peak era of the solo loop pedal artist, and this version of Weaves is a shining example. Jasmyn’s voice just does things to you.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gxHkipb9zZM/UFGEU8zH6nI/AAAAAAAAFyI/E8WLE_1Zkxo/s1600/weaves%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left:1em; margin-right:1em"><img border="0" height="400" width="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-gxHkipb9zZM/UFGEU8zH6nI/AAAAAAAAFyI/E8WLE_1Zkxo/s400/weaves%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" /></a></div><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs9.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/103567915/Les%20Mouches%20-%20%5Blast%20track%5D%20%28live%202015-11-30%29.mp3">Les Mouches - Winter = Dead Time</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">Another one to file under local indie hero whose career skirts the weirder edge of things. I recently gushed about Owen’s first solo album on a <a href="https://www.attnmagazine.co.uk/crucial-listening-129-mira-martin-gray/">podcast</a>. Pallett’s music has been close to my heart since high school, but I hadn’t heard of this sui generis post-rock outfit until Orchid Tapes reissued their old Blocks Recording Club album. Sadly I didn’t hear about this show at the time, but based on the blog entry, it was an under the radar affair. Luckily the man with the recorder whom we all know and love was in attendance!</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs8.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/96222732/c_RL%20-%20%5Bfourth%20piece%5D%20%28live%202015-05-08%29.mp3">c_RL - [<i>fourth piece</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at Ratio, May 8, 2015.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">This is not the same c_RL show in my memory bank, but it’s close enough in the space-time continuum to stand in for it. It's a vivid memory because it was the first time I had ever seen free improv. In 2012 I was playing loop pedal-core in a guitar-drums duo. We had a gig at the Tranzac in the late slot and as we were loading in, I was lucky enough to witness Germaine Liu doing unspeakable things to a snare, shaking it like she was rousing the drum from a dream. It was almost certainly upside down at one point. I had no idea what was happening and it was wonderful. It took me several more years to rediscover the door to Narnia that is our local experimental music scene, but that was my first peek into another world.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2016.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/106054563/Kyle%20Brenders%20Ensemble%20-%20Grasslands%20%5B4th%20mvt%5D%20%28live%202016-02-27%29.mp3">Kyle Brenders Ensemble - Grasslands [<i>4th mvt</i>]</a></p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Recorded at The Tranzac's Main Hall (<i>Somewhere There Creative Music Festival</i> – Show 3), February 27, 2016.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">I wanted to choose a recording that reveals what I was missing out on before fully cluing in to the scene. This blog affords the rare opportunity to dig into ongoing history. Some of the players in this large group are now well-known to me, others I have only heard of, and a few names are totally unfamiliar. Calling to mind Otomo Yoshihide’s New Jazz Orchestra, I love this style of electroacoustical comprovisational big band music. It would be great to hear more of this kind of thing, but goodness knows it’s not always easy to get so many talented people in one place. It takes a special combination of creative vision and organizational skills, traits that don’t always arise as a pair. Thank goodness we now have Women From Space’s Big Bang to fill the void!</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QgdS9nIdcrc/VuMNCSowXNI/AAAAAAAAOfA/nRnBsPqdv10UsD6f1e2K84_-JOWhi3sdw/s1600/kyle%2Bbrenders%2Bensemble%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QgdS9nIdcrc/VuMNCSowXNI/AAAAAAAAOfA/nRnBsPqdv10UsD6f1e2K84_-JOWhi3sdw/s400/kyle%2Bbrenders%2Bensemble%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" /></a></div><hr /><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 8pt; text-align: justify;">You can always click on the tags below to look for more stuff from these artists. Has there been five or so songs posted here that made an impact on you? If you'd like to get in on the action and make a list, feel free to send me an email: mechanicalforestsound@gmail.com.</p></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-27482940318426416882024-02-13T19:42:00.003-05:002024-02-13T19:43:21.180-05:00Download: "Selections, Vol. 2"<noscript><img src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheH8eXmXk60GXOn6NKgVIPEGSr8rzA19EiSi3uJ6U7YTuGDj0fiYmkLuDGmllZu9z38mKtIn1d1DriW2ncvGagJQIms1JQljbZCZDvrBZo4TFxTKS9h523iB2VDWWuXACTlmGE33k8Tbugj7v8a-RKb01uldPHP-VVm8of6F39LZbfNREDE2Z_cG99Rac/s400/bandcamp%20cover.png" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">While thinking upon <a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2024/02/mfs15.html">the blog's fifteenth anniversary</a>, my mind went back to the last time I made a big deal of my blogiversary. To celebrate MFS' 10th, I put together a pair of shows, split into "<a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2019/04/recording-man-made-hill.html">rock</a>" and "<a href="http://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2019/04/recording-allison-cameron-band.html">experimental</a>" varieties.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">The original idea was that each of those realms was also going to be represented by a tape compilation, in the style of my <a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.bandcamp.com/album/selections-vol-1">5th anniversary tape</a>. In that, my reach somewhat exceeded my grasp. The "experimental" tape, though I had a rough running order and permissions from the artists, never quite came together; the "rock" tape was at least a thing — I did a small run of hand-duped copies to give to artists and to have a few to sell at that 10th anniversary gig. The idea was that from there I'd get a proper run done at Duplication to put out into the world. For various reasons, that never happened, and the tape kinda slipped out of existence.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Well, it's just too damned good to languish like that. Besides containing some of the artists that meant a lot to me in the course of the blog's history, at five years further along, it feels like a poignant little piece of history. A lot of the spaces where the music was recorded are gone now, and while the people are still around (although quite a few have moved along from T.O.), a lot of the groups have wound down or gone quiet.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">So let's celebrate and let them not be forgotten. Head on over to bandcamp and grab yourself a download or just listen to some rather excellent music.</p><iframe style="border: 0; width: 100%; height: 120px;" src="https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=900562987/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/" seamless><a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.bandcamp.com/album/selections-vol-2">Selections, Vol. 2 by Mechanical Forest Sound</a></iframe><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><i>My deepest thanks to the artists who agreed to be a part of this five years ago!</i></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheH8eXmXk60GXOn6NKgVIPEGSr8rzA19EiSi3uJ6U7YTuGDj0fiYmkLuDGmllZu9z38mKtIn1d1DriW2ncvGagJQIms1JQljbZCZDvrBZo4TFxTKS9h523iB2VDWWuXACTlmGE33k8Tbugj7v8a-RKb01uldPHP-VVm8of6F39LZbfNREDE2Z_cG99Rac/s1400/bandcamp%20cover.png" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="1400" data-original-width="1400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEheH8eXmXk60GXOn6NKgVIPEGSr8rzA19EiSi3uJ6U7YTuGDj0fiYmkLuDGmllZu9z38mKtIn1d1DriW2ncvGagJQIms1JQljbZCZDvrBZo4TFxTKS9h523iB2VDWWuXACTlmGE33k8Tbugj7v8a-RKb01uldPHP-VVm8of6F39LZbfNREDE2Z_cG99Rac/s400/bandcamp%20cover.png"/></a></div></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-85899566273820735462024-02-13T17:07:00.000-05:002024-02-13T17:07:00.163-05:00#mfs15<div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Every year, as Family Day approaches, something twigs in the back of my mind, and I check back to this blog's <a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2009/02/statement-of-purpose.html">first-ever post</a> — and when the anniversary rolls around, I usually post a link to it and leave it at that. I am a sucker for the significant numbers, though, so there was no way I could let MFS' 15th blogiversary pass without... something.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">Even in these more gently-paced times — for various reasons, I didn't make it out in January to any of the shows I wasn't putting on myself — I still feel like this is just part of what I do, so I guess it's not time to hang it up quite yet. Partially that's down to me being better at keeping going with things than with starting or ending them. But it's also down to that back-of-my-mind notion that the realization <a href="https://mechanicalforestsound.blogspot.com/2016/03/talk-music-as-community.html">I had long ago</a> — that having a "job" to do in my community, as well as a sense that I belong to a community to do it in — kept me and keeps me from stumbling through the world as a miserable sad-sack.</p><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">So: this.</p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;">It's no fun to celebrate alone, and though I'm perfectly capable of tooting my own horn, I try and remember it's better to let others speak to whether I've had any sort of positive impact. So I've started asking some folks from the "MFS universe" to help out. For the next few days, expect to see some guest posts here, with mini-playlists pulled from the site's archives. There's so many stories to be told in the over five thousand (!) recordings posted that I'm thrilled there are folks out there willing to share 'em.</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s669/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg" style="display: block; padding: 1em 0; text-align: center; "><img alt="" border="0" width="400" data-original-height="669" data-original-width="669" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEih-Vw8Nak4bY7v4_xDsu8-ss92YfmmeISCe2GwMl0a4dTlxQT-AERBch_3UBmPjPDLSnhNijVVZvpmFa_ux-_tWMAmDHxTPBGsLSbE1EZtimfI3tYz8TjMfLMAjGsCNPz8vi8Gzajh7niKWTz2WdSxtWhiv9fWl9I4l_JugjDAxeWSTkXAbUNhyphenhyphenqvo9c0/s400/mfs15%20%5Bsquare%5D.jpg"/></a></div></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7259316759178966074.post-10937098479593676662024-02-12T13:13:00.001-05:002024-02-12T13:14:07.253-05:00Monday Roundup #161<noscript><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3mFKFiKqmDA/YASiUV0PPJI/AAAAAAAAV3E/wso9kPtQs8IAavQ2g_OZ8hrUqPXOVGduwCLcBGAsYHQ/s400/mfs%2Blogo%2B-%2Bmonday%2Broundup.jpg" /></noscript><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Community notes:</b></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>Garage sale season starts early this year! The Tranzac is clearing out a lot of gear — both backline and instruments — at their <a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/830581372169114/">equipment sale</a> on Sunday.</li><li>Speaking of the Tranzac, there is a newly-issued <a href="https://www.tranzac.org/call-for-apps-performance-residency/">call for performance residencies</a>, so you have until March 1st to submit your concept. Let's keep The Tranzac vibrant with new/weird ideas/sounds!</li></ul><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Concert announcements:</b></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Moodset [<i>album release show</i>]</b> [Jacqueline Teh/Alexa Belgrave/Madeleine Ertel/Caleb Klager/Mackenzie Read] / Annette Studios 2024-03-01 (Friday). $15 advance, $20 door. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/7913920691957803/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Coward Patrol and More Noise Please present</i></b> (feat. The Nausea / Compactor / Andrew Nolan / Death Kneel) / See-Scape 2024-04-04 (Thursday). $15. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2307745042897717/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="border: 2px solid red;font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;text-align: center;"><b>Is your show missing from this list? Submit it via <a href="https://forms.gle/WMiDr3xzSdpVZSU68">this form</a>!</b></p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>Shows this week:</b></p></ul><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>TEMOM (Toronto Electronic Music Open Mic)</i></b> / Handlebar 2024-02-12 (Monday)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>a Josh Cole trio+ strings</b> [Lina Allemano/Aline Homzy/Nick Storring/Josh Cole/Blake Howard] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-13 (Tuesday). $10/pwyc [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/381214811321247/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>The Brodie West Quintet</b> [Brodie West/Tania Gill/Josh Cole/Nick Fraser/Evan Cartwright] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-14 (Wednesday – <i>early</i>) [<i><a href="https://www.tranzac.org/event/the-brodie-west-quintet/2024-02-14/">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Never Was</b> [Brandon Davis/Madeleine Ertel/Kelvin Mansaray/Racha Moukalled/Patrick O'Reilly/Adrian Russouw/Joe Sorbara] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-14 (Wednesday)</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Makam Nights</i></b> [<i>performance and workshop: "Bring your instruments, questions, ideas and curiosity!"</i>] (feat. Araz Salek / Soheil Sadeghi) / The Tranzac (Living Room) 2024-02-15 (Thursday). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/385566254124247/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Theo Vandenhoff</b> (Cinder / Memorex) / The Baby G 2024-02-15 (Thursday). $23.57, 19+. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/751433603516263/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><strike><i>Computer Age</i></b> (feat. Escote / Greydini / Tommy Tone) / Tallboys 2024-02-15 (Thursday). $11.98, 19+.</strike> <i>postponed!</i></strike></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Cluttertones</b> / Array Space 2024-02-16 (Friday) [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/676343804489641/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Hope Street</b> [John Millard/Rob Clutton/Chris Pruden] / Sellers & Newel 2024-02-17 (Saturday). $20 minimum donation. [<i><a href="https://www.sellersandnewel.com/literary-society.html">more info</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>DIG presents</i></b> (feat. Hot Garbage [<i>Precious Dream</i> record release] / Mother Tongues / Luge) / Lee's Palace 2022-02-17 (Saturday). $22.12, 19+. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/6574566412654602/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b><i>Michael Palumbo’s Friends #2: A Free-Improvisation Joint</i></b> [Jaz Tsui/Chibuzr/Ron Johnston/Donovan Locke/John Kameel Farah/Uuxe/Michael Palumbo) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-17 (Saturday). $pwyc. [<i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/1220160205419615/">FB event</a></i>]</p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><b>Moonbliss [Julian Anderson-Bowes/Chris Pruden/Leland Whitty/Eric West]</b> (Folding Trio [Steven Noronha/Keon Narinesingh/Aiden McConnell]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2024-02-18 (Sunday) [<i><a href="https://www.tranzac.org/event/moonbliss-and-folding-trio/">more info</a></i>]</p><hr align="left" size="1" width="100%"><p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 11pt; text-align: justify;"><b>It happened this week...</b></p><ul style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;"><li>...on February 12, 2012 at Halo Halo Village (<i>Medusa YEAR 2 Showcase</i>).</li></ul>
<p style="font-family:Arial; font-size: 10pt; text-align: justify;"><a href="http://mfs2.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/50857793/Steve%20Gunn%20-%20%5Bslide%20guitar%5D%20%28live%202011-02-12%29.mp3">Steve Gunn - <i>unknown</i></a></p><p style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 8pt;">[<i>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.</i>]</p><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qaAJ1RSWu2I/TziejS_DMtI/AAAAAAAADUM/9W9fKcF9xRU/s1600/steve%2Bgunn%2B-%2Brec1.JPG"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 300px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-qaAJ1RSWu2I/TziejS_DMtI/AAAAAAAADUM/9W9fKcF9xRU/s400/steve%2Bgunn%2B-%2Brec1.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5708486856921002706" /></a></div>Mechanical Forest Soundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11591173844557539619noreply@blogger.com0