Recording: Heart Structure Quartet

Artist: Heart Structure Quartet

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at The Tranzac (Tiki Room), October 18, 2018.

Heart Structure Quartet - unknown

This "improvising audio visual quartet" (featuring Del Stephen, Bree Rappaport, David Parker and Jeff Sinibaldi), who were out on a mini-tour, seemed designed as much as an extended hangout for pals from different cities as a musical endeavour. The casual yet exploratory sound-world flowed from that, with tunes and pieces bumping into each other around like at a casual living room session. That made the show perfectly situated in the Tranzac's Tiki Room, packed full, but still feeling more like a house party with a gig, with some old slides and handcrafted overhead projections enhancing the music. Though the songs touched on topics like ghosts and knocking on death's door, the vibe was punctuated with joyful outbursts of laughter — the true sounds of a heart's structure.

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

Recording: Happy Baby

Artist: Happy Baby

Songs: Salty + Lapis Lazuli^*

Recorded at The Dupe Shop (Quiet Bedrooms presents QB3), October 1, 2017.

Happy Baby - Salty

Happy Baby - Lapis Lazuli

Videographer/archivist Brandon Caswell Douglas' efforts to bring quiet listening experiences (complete with a request for quiet applause!) continued at The Dupe Shop, afternoon sunlight streaming in, and sidewalk flâneurs pausing to peer in at the sounds drifting by. It was a delight to discover this self-professed "aggressively earnest soft noise twinkle pop band" (operating at three-quarters of their full capacity) whose m.o. appeared to operate around a will to co-operate and an innovative spirit. Sharing one microphone for the purposes of collaborative looping, they mixed keyb, banjo, clarinet, water bottle slurp-gurgles and more into songs and soundscapes.

[Quiet Bedrooms' next event — QB5 for those keeping score at home — is this Friday (November 10th) at LP's LPs and features and excellent lineup of Carl Didur, NPNP & Deenzi. Happy Baby (or perhaps a different subset thereof) will be playing at Del Stephen's Tranzac Tiki Room show on Tuesday, November 21st alongside Slow Man Tofu and "a variety of grass-themed poetry and art".]

^* Thanks to the band for passing along the titles to these!