Showing posts with label weyes blood. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weyes blood. Show all posts

Monday, January 16, 2023

Monday Roundup #105

Concert announcements:

Michael Snow Memorial ["there will be a performance from the extended CCMC ensemble as well as other mementoes for Michael's life and career"] / The Music Gallery 2023-01-26 (Thursday). $free. [FB event]

Aurochs with special guest Chris Pruden / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-01-27 (Friday – early!). $pwyc.

Joyful Joyful (Picastro / Loom) / Tibet Street Records 2023-01-27 (Friday). $22.63. [FB event]

The Ryan Driver Sextet featuring Tania Gill as Ryan Driver / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-01-27 (Friday) [FB event]

Posi Vibez presents Aquarius Vibez (feat. Bile Sister / Jodie Jodie Roger / Zoo Owl) / Handlebar 2023-01-28 (Saturday). $pwyc, suggested $10

Cosmic Homeostasis XVIII / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-01-29 (Sunday – 2:30 p.m.). $pwyc. [FB event]

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]

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]

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]

Track Could Bend #76 (feat. Xicada / Adversarial Networks [Caleb Klager/Chris Pruden/Luan Phung/David Lipson]) / Wenona Lodge 2023-02-07 (Tuesday). $pwyc. [FB event]

U.S. Girls (Jane Inc.) / Velvet Underground 2023-04-27 & 28 (Thursday & Friday). $34.31. [FB event]


Shows this week:

Lula Music & Arts with Batuki Music Society present: Calefaction (feat. Butterfly Band / Lady Yetunde [album launch!]) / Lula Lounge 2023-01-18 (Wednesday). $free to $49.56 [FB event]

Only God Forgives (The Crime Family / Accelerant / Cootie Catcher) / Monarch Tavern 2023-01-19 (Thursday). $15, 19+. [FB event]

Drew Smith & Friends (Troglos) / The Dakota Tavern 2021-01-19 (Thursday) [FB event]

Portage / [George Koller/Diane Roblin/Bruce Cassidy] / The Tranzac (Southern Cross Lounge) 2023-01-19 (Thursday) [FB event]

Rockabilly Birthday Bash! (feat. Ichi-Bons / The Trophies) / Monarch Tavern 2021-01-21 (Saturday). $16, 19+. [FB event]

Daniel Barnes Quartet [Daniel Barnes/Brodie West/Stacy McGregor/Marc Zubek] / Hirut Café 2023-01-21 (Saturday). $15

Spruce Needles (Dun Dun Man / Isabel Zaw-Tun / Asaf Gerchak) / Bar Orwell 2021-01-22 (Sunday) [FB event]


Livestream nation:

  • subsume, a new piece by Bekah Simms premieres on Sunday (January 22nd) as part of NMC's 50th Anniversary Commissions for Distanced Ensemble Digital Broadcast. The piece features visuals from artist Dan Tapper and sounds from (deep breath!) Leslie Newman, Anthony Thompson, Amahl Arulanandam, Tim Brady, Christopher Gongos, David Pell, Branko Džinović, Phil Albert, Rick Sacks, Alison Melville, Wesley Shen, Lina Cao, Njacko Backo, Gurpreet Chana, Demetrios Petsalakis. Keep an eye on the facebook event or the NMC website for a link to catch this.

It happened this week...

  • ...on January 16, 2015 at Array Space.

Meandering Streams of Consciousness - [excerpt from first set]

  • ...on January 19, 2015 at Smiling Buddha.

Weyes Blood - Ashes

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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Recording: Weyes Blood

Artist: Weyes Blood

Song: Ashes

Recorded at Smiling Buddha, January 19, 2015.

Weyes Blood - Ashes

I was drawn to this show on the basis of the stellar contingent of local support acts, so I was surprised to find a packed house on a Monday night. Evidently NYC's Natalie Mering, who has just released her second album as Weyes Blood, has some buzz. I'd heard that she had a rep as a bracingly-spare, dark-edged folk minstrel, but here she led a backing trio that put her tunes in a bit more of a poppy light — mid-70's folk-rock AM gold, to be precise. Or, perhaps, in more current terms, something like Cate le Bon with the weirdness filtered out. Mering had the pipes (and the tunes) to pull it off without sounding merely pleasantly generic, and I was especially taken by this one, which flipped the dial over to the FM and let the groove take over a bit more.