Recording: Horseman, Pass By.

Artist: Horseman, Pass By.

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Tiki Room (Somewhere There and Mechanical Forest Sound present), March 6, 2019.

Horseman, Pass By. - [excerpt]

Havelock's Bennett Bedoukian (drums/electronics) and Ottawa's Mark Molnar (cello/electronics) returned to town in the midst of a tour celebrating the official release of their All Curses Are Mirrors, whose vinyl version is a beautiful thing with its silk-screened and letter-pressed inserts. The album has also been deliberately conceived as a recording, and something different than their live sets — whereas the latter unfold as a series of continuously-roiling simmer and shred zones, the album has more carefully-constructed standalone pieces. (The album also has a companionpiece, Under Ben Bulben, which veers from the live set in a different way with its gorgeous longform dronescape.)

This set featured the requisite peaks and valleys, channelling ghostly radio transmissions and manipulated thrums into a galloping haze.

Recording: Horseman, Pass By

Artist: Horseman, Pass By

Songs: [two excerpts]

Recorded at Burdock Music Hall, November 11, 2018.

Horseman, Pass By - [excerpt 1]

Horseman, Pass By - [excerpt 2]

Coming at the end of a short run of tour dates with Vampire Belt, Havelock's Bennett Bedoukian (drums/electronics) and Ottawa's Mark Molnar (cello/electronics) were right in their zone here — building up layers of sound on top of each other, then letting them fade away. As usual, the pair explored a range of textures, from ascending drones to futzing sizzles to punkish shredding.

Recording: Horseman, Pass By

Artist: Horseman, Pass By

Song: [last section]

Recorded at Belljar Café (Track Could Bend #36), March 6, 2018.

Horseman, Pass By - [last section]

A very exciting opportunity for the series to play host to this duo of Havelock's Bennett Bedoukian (drums/electronics) and Ottawa's Mark Molnar (cello/electronics). Over the course of their set, the pair managed to range from punk shredding to skewed grooves to tense textures. A long-awaited album from the pair is said to be coming soon, so that will hopefully draw them back to these parts before too long.

[Track Could Bend returns on Tuesday (May 1st) in a special "studio" edition featuring Jen Wardle & John Mark Sherlock, David Sait and Hank Powell (a.k.a. Karen Ng + D. Alex Meeks).]

Recording: Horseman, Pass By

Artist: Horseman, Pass By

Songs: [two excerpts]

Recorded at Burdock Music Hall (Somewhere There Presents), June 29, 2016.

Horseman, Pass By - [loud excerpt]

Horseman, Pass By - [quiet excerpt] (edited)

This Ottawa/Peterborough duo has a low-key online presence and shouldn't be confused with a couple other bands also lifting the same Yeats reference. The pairing was new to me, but I had caught Bennett Bedoukian (drums and electronics) and Mark Molnar (cello) a few months back as half of Dust Scored Dark. On their own, they generated some industrial rumblings and intense noisebursts in between stretches of tense stasis. Very tasty stuff and a worthy rumble to start a percussive night.