Monday Roundup #215

Concert announcements:

Stranger Still [Pete Johnston/Mim Adams/Randi Helmers/Rob Clutton] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-03-04 (Tuesday – early). $pwyc

Tania Gill presents: The Blues (feat. Victor Bateman/Ken Kawashima (aka Sugar Brown)/Jean Martin/Blake Howard) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-03-07 (Friday – early) [more info]

The Harry Vetro Trio [Harry Vetro/Harrison Argatoff/Bennett Young] / The Emmet Ray 2025-03-07 (Friday). $12. [more info]

Audiopollination (feat. Kayla Milmine/Jonathan Kay/Anita Katakkar / Adriana Monti/Yasmine/Piers Oolvai / Ryan Kinney/Harry Vetro/Magick / Mickle32/Del Stephen) / Array Space 2025-03-14 (Friday). Livestream available. [FB event]

Freesound presents: IDENTITY [works for solo vibraphone by Adrian Knight, José Manuel López López, Steve Reich, Massimo Lauricella, Von Hansen] (feat. Matthew Lau) / Array Space 2025-03-16 (Sunday – 2 p.m.). $22.63. [FB event]

Freesound presents (feat. Transsonic / Jason Doell) / Array Space 2025-03-22 (Saturday). $22.63. [FB event]

Not Dead Yet Presents (feat. Kali Malone) / Trinity St. Paul's 2025-03-22 (Saturday). $43.35/$48.39, all ages. [more info]

We Are Busy Bodies presents Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren (feat. Absolutely Free) / Hot Docs T-- R----- Cinema 2025-03-26 (Wednesday). $26.77, all ages. [more info]

Garlic Jr. (Body Butter / Tommy Tone / Battle Milk) / Low Bar 2025-04-04 (Friday). $10

Not Dead Yet Presents (feat. Claire Rousay & More Eaze / You Can Can) / Monarch Tavern 2025-04-11 (Friday). $26.42, 19+. [more info]

Casper Skulls [Kit-Cat album release!] (Twist / Kurt Marble) / The Garrison 2025-04-26 (Saturday). $25.38, 19+. [FB event]

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Shows this week:

Patrick O'Reilly presents: Carded! (feat. Patrick O'Reilly/Samuel Little/amiel ang/Samuel Laramee/Omar Yazaw/Leah Reavster/%%30%30/Annie Elgie) / Walter Hall 2025-02-24 (Monday). $free. [more info]

Colin Fisher/George Koller/Jeff Luciani/Diane Roblin / The Emmet Ray 2025-02-25 (Tuesday – 6:30 p.m.). $12. [more info]

Clue Note — Trivia and Creative Music: Malicious Appliance (feat. Raster-Noton is for lovers [Niamh Girling/Mira Martin-Gray/Sarah Peebles/Johnny Spence]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-02-25 (Tuesday – early) [more info]

Ronley Teper & the Lipliners / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-02-26 (Wednesday). [more info]

Cici Arthur [album release party!] [a new supergroup featuring Chris A. Cummings, Joseph Shabason and Thom Gill, playing with a fifteen-piece band including a horn and string section] (Dorothea Paas) / The Tranzac (Main Hall) 2025-02-27 (Thursday). $33.28. [more info]

All-Set! Presents (feat. Molehill [Mike Smith/Pete Johnston/Jake Oelrichs wsg Laura C. Bates]) / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-02-28 (Friday – early). $PWYC. [more info]

Exit Points #57 - 5th Anniversary Show! (feat. Xina Gilani/Ben McCarthy/Heather Saumer/Sara Constant /Jamie Eriksen / Pursuit Grooves/Anh Phung/Tara Kannangara/Martin Gomes/Michael Palumbo / switchemups) / Array Space 2025-02-28 (Friday). Tickets: $15 early bird, $20 adv, $25 door. [FB event]

AloneKitty (Yound / Output 1:1:1) / See-Scape 2025-02-28 (Friday). $10. [more info]

The Ryan Driver Sextet / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-02-28 (Friday). $pwyw. [more info]

Tenebrae Of Good Friday [works by Tomás Luis de Victoria] (feat. The Tallis Choir) / St. Patrick's Church 2025-03-01 (Saturday). $30 General, $25 Seniors, $10 for Students (at the door). [FB event]

Liquid Architecture presents "The Call of Cthulhu" [silent film with live musical accompaniment] (feat. ARRC [Ryan Kinney/Colin James Gibson/Rod Campbell/Ambrose Pottie) / Mischief Makers 2025-03-01 (Saturday). $10 advance, $12 at the door, 18+. [FB event]

The Patrick Smith Trio [Patrick Smith/Lowell Whitty/Dan Pitt] / Sellers and Newell 2025-03-02 (Sunday). $20 minimum donation. [more info]

Michael Davidson's Adjacent Spheres / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2025-03-02 (Sunday) [more info]

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It happened this week...

• ...on February 27, 2019 at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Music by Harry and Furlong S1E5).

The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 4 - [excerpt from first piece, part 1]

• ...on February 28, 2019 at Jam Factory (Feast In The East 72).

Badge Époque - Badge Theme

• ...on March 2, 2019 at The Baby G (MFS 10th Anniversary Celebration / A Night of Rock Music!).

Man Made Hill - I'll Swallow You Whole

[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: The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 4

Artist: The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 4

Song: [excerpt from first piece, in two parts]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Music by Harry and Furlong S1E5), February 27, 2019.

The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 4 - [excerpt from first piece, part 1]

The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 4 - [excerpt from first piece, part 2]

"The Search For Eternal Happiness" seems to be drummer Harry Vetro's catch-all for ad hoc ensembles brought together to explore new works or new sounds. This iteration brought together Kristian Fourier (piano/electronics), Nelson Moneo (viola) and Cheryl O (cello) to mix some sweepingly romantic sounds (flowing strings'll do that) with occasional jagged edges (delay pedals and feedback'll do that). Really lovely stuff — at set's end, I booked the band to play another one.

[That reprise will see the group — now re-christened "Kerhachne" — play Track Could Bend at Wenona on Tuesday, May 7th. Meanwhile, the next manifestation of Vetro's Search For Eternal Happiness will unfold tonight (April 24th) at The Tranzac, where he'll be joined by Ben Frost, Karen Ng, and Patrick O'Reilly.]

Recording: The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 2

Artist: The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 2

Song: Dog Pound [composer: Caleb Klager]

Recorded at The Tranzac's Southern Cross Lounge (Music By Harry and Furlong, S1E3), November 28, 2018.

The Search For Eternal Happiness Pt. 2 - Dog Pound

This "episode" of this new-ish Tranzac residency delivered exactly what its title promised: music curated and performed by Harry Vetro and Andrew Furlong. As a musical unit, Vetro's Search For Eternal Happiness seems to be as conceptual as the titular metaphysical pursuit, with different iterations bringing a rotating series of musicians to join him.

This set saw him on drums backing a sort of double trio that included Dan Pitt and Harry Bartlett on guitar plus Jill McKenna and Caleb Klager on double bass. It's possible that it's an expanded version of a trio containing Bartlett, Klager, and Vetro that recorded some tunes together — including the ode to the Alberta village heard here. Carefully-arranged countrypolitan twang, this was "jazz" as filtered through the influence of Bill Frisell, whose work was also tackled during the set.

[Music By Harry and Furlong continues at The Tranzac on Wednesday, January 23rd, with a new The Search For Eternal Happiness configuration (with Harry Vetro plus saxophonist Harrison Argatoff as well as dancers Alison Keery and Mateo Gilando) plus a duo set from Patrick Smith and Mike Gennaro.]