Recording: Blunt Chunks

Artist: Blunt Chunks

Song: [two excerpts]

Recorded at 1161 Dundas St W. (Endless City: Invoking The Spirit), January 31, 2016.

Blunt Chunks - [excerpt 1]

Blunt Chunks - [excerpt 2]

Located in the former Cooper Cole Gallery at Dundas and Ossington, the Endless City pop-up had farmed out curation to a variety of local music presenters over the course of the month, leading with a weekend booked by Jay Pollard's Invocation. After two nights dedicated to invoking Mind and Body, the Sunday-afternoon chaser was dubbed "Invoking the Spirit" — a series of ambient/drone sets with one performance merging seamlessly into the next. Caitlin Woelfle O'Brien closed out the afternoon with an extended set based in ethereal vocal loops — rolling waves that would endure past focus and distraction and aim for surrender.

Recording: Fog Spirits

Artist: Fog Spirits

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at 1161 Dundas St W. (Endless City: Invoking The Spirit), January 31, 2016.

Fog Spirits - [excerpt]

Located in the former Cooper Cole Gallery at Dundas and Ossington, the Endless City pop-up had farmed out curation to a variety of local music presenters over the course of the month, leading with a weekend booked by Jay Pollard's Invocation. After two nights dedicated to invoking Mind and Body, the Sunday-afternoon chaser was dubbed "Invoking the Spirit" — a series of ambient/drone sets with one performance merging seamlessly into the next. Brian Random brings a heavy dollop of infinite echoplex to this loop/drone project, with minimalist stereo-skirtchings receding into the horizon and aggregating into a sort of hypnotic effect.

Recording: Cetacea

Artist: Cetacea

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at 1161 Dundas St W. (Endless City: Invoking The Spirit), January 31, 2016.

Cetacea - [excerpt]

Located in the former Cooper Cole Gallery at Dundas and Ossington, the Endless City pop-up had farmed out curation to a variety of local music presenters over the course of the month, leading with a weekend booked by Jay Pollard's Invocation. After two nights dedicated to invoking Mind and Body, the Sunday-afternoon chaser was dubbed "Invoking the Spirit" — a series of ambient/drone sets with one performance merging seamlessly into the next. Bryan W. Bray (also of Gates) can sometimes bring some volume with this ambient alter ego, but this set was altogether quieter and less "guitar-y", moving from some vocal loops as he created a segue from Cares' preceding set into a gentle glacial thrum.

Recording: Cares

Artist: Cares

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at 1161 Dundas St W. (Endless City: Invoking The Spirit), January 31, 2016.

Cares - [excerpt]

Located in the former Cooper Cole Gallery at Dundas and Ossington, the Endless City pop-up had farmed out curation to a variety of local music presenters over the course of the month, leading with a weekend booked by Jay Pollard's Invocation. After two nights dedicated to invoking Mind and Body, the Sunday-afternoon chaser was dubbed "Invoking the Spirit" — a series of ambient/drone sets with one performance merging seamlessly into the next. James Beardmore operates as half of Isles Day and solo as Cares, here mixing some gently-yawing synthnoises with theremin-guided zworping pillows of sound.

Recording: Cyclopean Wall

Artist: Cyclopean Wall

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at 1161 Dundas St W. (Endless City: Invoking The Spirit), January 31, 2016.

Cyclopean Wall - [excerpt]

Located in the former Cooper Cole Gallery at Dundas and Ossington, the Endless City pop-up had farmed out curation to a variety of local music presenters over the course of the month, leading with a weekend booked by Jay Pollard's Invocation. After two nights dedicated to invoking Mind and Body, the Sunday-afternoon chaser was dubbed "Invoking the Spirit" — a series of ambient/drone sets with one performance merging seamlessly into the next. I was familiar with four of the five acts on the bill, leaving Noah Gadke, whose Cyclopean Wall project opened the day, as the key moment of discovery. Armed with a six-string bass and a pedalboard he generated some very pleasing ambient rumbles. I have his bandcamp marked for exploration and am looking forward to hearing more of this.