CERTAIN LABELS are very much the product of a particular vision and exude cohesion of an almost iconic order—one that even seems to magically weather shifts in taste and approach. ECM [...]
Sound notes
Kamancello explores a new duo dimension
SPIKE MUSIC
“Kamanche means little bow in Kurdish and Farsi,” says Shahriyar Jamshidi, the kamanche player in Kamancello, his Toronto-based duo with cellist Raphael Weinroth-Browne. The pair [...]
Rebecca Bruton Lets The World In
Rebecca Bruton describes her work as an “understated, Surrealist folk music”—music that’s experimental but also simple, with a sensuousness and a weirdness to it. [...]
Features
Victoria Composers Cultivate a Place to Listen
COMMUNITY GARDEN
Why has a vibrant community of emerging composers chosen British Columbia’s cozy, scenic capital over more bustling contemporary-music hubs?
THERE'S A DEEP HUSH in the[...]
Saxophonist Karen Ng Sets The Scene
GROUP DYNAMICS
THINK OF ANY STYLE OF MODERN saxophone playing, and chances are Toronto’s Karen Ng has done it, and done it beautifully. Her tone can be eerily high and pure, rich and fluid, deep[...]
The Sonic Transmissions of Geronimo Inutiq
MIXTAPE LIVING
Winter was ending. You could tell, because the sun had returned. Geronimo Inutiq borrowed his sister’s Ski-Doo and rode it past the Iqaluit city limit. The horizon stretched out in all[...]
Hans-Joachim Roedelius floats against the current
BY THIS RIVER
On an unseasonably warm night in October, Toronto’s Monarch Tavern was packed to the rafters for a living legend. German electronic and ambient music pioneer Hans-Joachim[...]
Visions of sound
Julie Andreyev and Simon Lysander Overstall’s Biophilia
HUMAN. NATURE.
November, some might say, is not the ideal time to visit the wild West Coast. The days are short, the leaves are down. In any normal year, monsoon season will have kicked in, producing [...]
Reviews
Pauline Oliveros and Connie Crothers. Live At the Stone.
Impress: Records, IMPREC450.
George Lewis & Splitter Orchestra. Creative Construction Set™.
Mikroton Recordings, MIKROTON CD 50.
Jamie Drouin & Hannes Lingens. Alluvium; The Holy Quintet. Borough.
Intonema, int021; Mikroton, cd 55.
Andrew Raffo Dewar / Andrea Centazzo / Anne LeBaron. Encantamientos.
pfMentum, CD 104.
send+receive: a festival of sound, v.19
Winnipeg, Manitoba. October 12–15, 2017.