Recording: Matias Rozenberg

Artist: Matias Rozenberg

Song: unknown^*

Recorded at Burdock Music Hall, March 7, 2017.

Matias Rozenberg - unknown

This evening felt a bit like two shows in one, with two singer-songwriter sets followed by some abstract improvised expeditions. The first two sets also made it feel like a bit of a Blocks Music Club reunion with a pair of fine songwriters re-emerging to share some newer material. Matias Rozenberg, now re-settled in Hamilton, commented that he was "crawling out" from his recent musical inactivity, getting the creaks out of his joints and sharing some new work. This one is an "extremely liberal" reinterpretation of an Argentinean tune, a meditation on the dislocation and distance felt to his "maternal and foreign land".

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

Recording: Matias

Artist: Matias

Song: Medley: Wasted Time + Small Fires Burn Bright

Recorded at The Tranzac's Main Hall ("Blocks Final Concert"), May 9, 2015.

Matias - Medley: Wasted Time + Small Fires Burn Bright

Creating a place to release Matias Rozenberg's music was one of the original impetuses behind the creation of the Blocks Recording Club — the Matias Sucks cassette was the label's second release. After drumming the crowd hanging around outside of the Tranzac into the Main Hall, Rozenberg led his quartet through a short set, including this one that could now stand as a requiem for Blocks: small fires burn bright.