Monday Roundup #107

Concert announcements:

A Josh Cole Trio + Strings [Lina Allemano/Josh Cole/Blake Howard/Aline Homzy/Nick Storring] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-02-08 (Wednesday) [FB event]

Ayal Senior and Friends (feat. Ayal Senior/Kurt Newman/Andrew Furlong / Greydini / Fuzzy Nibesh / Nick Flanagan) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-02-12 (Sunday – 2:30 p.m.). $pwyc. [FB event]

DAS RAD [first show in 6 1/2 years!] (Blue Light / Stella) / Owl's Club 2021-02-17 (Friday) [more info]

Dunge (SAP / Group Therapy) / Monarch Tavern 2023-02-18 (Saturday). $14, 19+. [FB event]

Wolf Eyes (Drainolith / Death Kneel) / The Garrison 2023-03-05 (Sunday). $24.19, 19+. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Mike DeiCont’s Northern Danger [Mike DeiCont/Rebecca Hennessy/Mack Longpre/Chris Pruden/Alexei Orechin/Brodie West] / The Rex Hotel 2023-01-29&30 (Sunday & Monday). $19. [FB event]

Burn Down The Capital & Nick Fraser Present (feat. Jessica Pavone & Tristan Kasten Krause / Lina Allemano Four / Jelly Ear) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-01-31 (Tuesday). $12 / pwyc. [FB event]

CMC Presents (feat. Yang Chen / Andrew Noseworthy) / Canadian Music Centre 2023-02-01 (Wednesday). $15 Advance / $20 at the door; CMC Members and Arts Workers: $12 Advance / $15 at the door; Students: $10 anytime. [FB event]

Icterus [Patrick O'Reilly/Robert Grieve/Mark Godfrey/Stefan Hegerat] (Future Proof [Bea Labikova/Raphael Roter/Yunjin Claire Lee] / Caleb Klager) / The Baby G 2023-02-02 (Thursday). $15. [FB event]

The Three Glutes (Miserable Weekend / Crying High) / Monarch Tavern 2023-02-02 (Thursday). $14, 19+. [FB event]

Stefan Hegerat Group feat. Jacob Sacks (Plastic Babies) / Annette Studios 2023-02-03 (Friday). $20/$15 (students)

Tania Gill Quartet [Tania Gill/Lina Allemano/Rob Clutton/Nick Fraser] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-02-03 (Friday – early). $pwyc. [FB event]

Harry Bartlett Group [Harry Bartlett/Aline Homzy/Michael Eckert/Andrew Furlong] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-02-03 (Friday)

Batuki Music Society presents (feat. Naxx Bitota) / Alliance Française 2021-02-04 (Saturday). $20.11 / $17.99 (Students & Seniors). [FB event]

Long Winter (feat. Jazz Dads / Loathing / J3M / By Divine Right / Heaven For Real / Ace of Wands / Jenn Nucum / Waxlimbs / Not A Band / No Frills) / The Tranzac 2023-02-04 (Saturday). $22.39, pwyc entry available at the door, all ages. [FB event]

Marker Starling [LP Release!] (Roy & Hieronymus Harry [acoustic duo!]) / The Monarch 2023-02-04 (Saturday). $17.50, 19+. [FB event]

landings: a night of electroacoustic harp [EP release!] [feat. Grace Scheele] / Annette Studios 2023-02-04 (Saturday). $22.63/$27.96, family-friendly. [FB event]

The Coltrane Sutras [Jonathan Kay/Andrew Kay/Pat LaBarbera/Roberto Occhipinti/Dhaivat Jani] / The Rex Hotel 2023-02-05&06 (Sunday & Monday) [FB event]

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Bandcamp corner:

• Bandcamp Friday returns this week (February 3rd), so it'll be a good time to support the musicians you admire! Here's a couple things on my list:

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It happened this week...

• ... on January 31, 2019 at Handlebar.

Invisible Out - [excerpt]

• ... on February 3, 2019 at Array Space (Audiopollination 68).

Del Stephen/Michael Ramey/Rod Campbell - [excerpt]

[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.]

Recording: Invisible Out

Artist: Invisible Out

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Handlebar, January 31, 2019.

Invisible Out - [excerpt]

A sort of radiophonic workout from this duo, with some midi piano, contact mic'd objects and manipulated popsong samples in their livestream.

Recording: Invisible Out

Artist: Invisible Out

Songs: [noisy section] + [unknown song]^*

Recorded at Yonge-Dundas Square (Intersection – Day 3), September 2, 2017.

Invisible Out - [noisy section]

Invisible Out - [unknown song]

In recent years, the Intersection Festival would normally consist of a paid concert, usually the night before the day-long extravaganza in Yonge-Dundas Square. This year, however, under the continued guidance of Burn Down The Capital's Tad Michalak the festival expanded to four events, including a pair of concerts at The Jam Factory. The day-long marathon in the concrete canyon of commerce remains at the festival's heart, though, exploring the frissons of experiencing strange and occasionally abrasive sounds competing with the city's mersh heartbeat.

Bringing back some of the guitar noise and rock-star moves that they explored in their proto-Invisible Out phase, Xuan Ye and Jason Doell brought some conceptual art-rock to the square, though this time 'round the execution was a bit more practised and thought-through in its attempt to deconstruct itself.

[Invisible Out will be ping-ponging back to their quieter side, playing this weekend's edition of Christopher Willes' Quiet Concerts series at the Scarborough Civic Centre branch of the Toronto Public Library.]

[You can see some footage from this set over at Brandon Caswell Douglas' Intersection playlist.]

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

Recording: Invisible Out

Artist: Invisible Out

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at The Steady Café (Track Could Bend #30), August 1, 2017.

Invisible Out - [excerpt]

Changing their sound and setup to suit their environment, Xuan Ye and Jason Doell brought less electroacoustic bricabrac this time around, depending more on laptops and social media feed-loops. Hewing to the mellower side of things, the mantra for this set was "no peaks" — a fitting start to a night of drone-drift.

[Track Could Bend returns on Tuesday (September 5th) with some excellent voices and other sounds featuring MAMALIA, Lash Pandiculations (Tova G. Kardonne, Heather Saumer, Ali Berkok) and jiggy jiggy jiggy (Christopher Willes, Thom Gill, Phil Melanson).]

Recording: Invisible Out

Artist: Invisible Out

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at Burdock Music Hall (TONE Festival – Show #2/Music Gallery Departures Series), June 15, 2017.

Invisible Out - [excerpt]

Although the local "jazz" festival is anticipated in some quarters, it seemed that too often there was no home there for adventurous and experimental creators. Thus, out of necessity, the TONE Festival was born to give these touring musicians a chance to connect with local audiences and artists. A collaboration between Burn Down the Capital's Tad Michalak, Ron Gaskin (a.k.a. Rough Idea) and Karen Ng and Daniel Pencer, the goal was to create shows that were rewarding for players and listeners alike. Multitasking Tad Michalak managed to use his position as curator for the Music Gallery's offsite Departures series to bring some big names under the TONE banner, but he also included some slight-of-hand counter-programming in deploying an entirely different sort of improvising project to start the night off. I've seen Xuan Ye and Jason Doell doing plenty of things in their own projects, but this collaborative set pushed some of their individual quirks and tricks into a different zone. Call it "ring pop pop", with all sorts of apps, found sounds and found objects being deconstructed and rewired into their sound-field.

[My recording of the whole set can be found over on IO's bandcamp. Xuan Ye will be celebrating her new double album You've Just Become Part of Me with an evening of performances at the Tranzac on Sunday, July 16th, with guests Heraclitus Akimbo & Jason Doell, Brigitte Bardon't and Zoë Alexis-Abrams & Johnny Spence joining in.]

Recording: APA + Jason Doell

Artist: APA + Jason Doell

Song: History [Duck Fight Goose cover]^*

Recorded at Double Double Land (NASA – Noise Against Sexual Assault), July 10, 2016.

APA + Jason Doell - History

Envisioned as "a night of noise, dark electronic, and doom rock in support of sexual assault survivors and in solidarity with Larkin Grimm", this event was programmed as a counter-gig to Swans' local appearance. It was also an attempt for DIY spaces to face up to the problems of taking responsibility for what happens within their walls and to begin a discussion of some "best practices" to create safer spaces.

Xuan Ye (a.k.a APA) has brought a different sort of noise — from howling piano to erhu skronking — every time I've seen her perform, but I was surprised once again when for this set she pivoted to full-on "rock star", channelling her inner PJ Harvey on a cover of "To Bring You My Love". She was backed for this mini-set by Jason Doell — recently seen as a composer or noise-maker — making a rare atavistic throwback appearance to his rock'n'roll days.

^* Thanks to APA for passing along the title to this one.