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Songforms of conventional and highly unconventional sorts tonight, taking in folk traditions from around the world, jazz, the outer limits of metal and more, plus strange twistings of clubforms, impressionist composition of the early 20th century, field recordings and more… LISTEN AGAIN, unconventionally. Stream on demand from fbi.radio, podcast right here. Wendy Eisenberg – Take A Number [Joyful Noise/Bandcamp] Wendy Eisenberg – Curious Bird [Joyful Noise/Bandcamp] We’ve heard from brilliant guitarist, sometime banjoist, songwriter, improviser & composer Wendy Eisenberg in many contexts in the last couple of years: there’s the amazing postpunk/art-rock trio Editrix, Bill Orcutt’s Guitar Quartet, their avant-garde songwriting collaboration with Caroline Davis, and most recently their appearance on their now-partner Mari More Eaze Rubio’s brilliant solo album sentence structure in the country. But the highlight for me remains Eisenberg’s breathtaking final track, “In The Pines”, from their 2024 album Viewfinder. So for all their jazz guitar chops and restless experimentation, I’m already primed to love Eisenberg’s most pure songwriting on this album. There’s definitely a statement in self-titling a mid-career album, and Wendy Eisenberg presents as a straightforward album of songwriterly storytelling, deeply grounded in their newfound love with Mari Rubio. There’s definitely more than a little country in these songs, as well as folk-revivalist styles from Britain, Appalachia etc, but whatever genre, Wendy’s particular melodic sensibility comes through. Supporting this, however, are the utterly essential, sumptuous string arrangements from Mari Rubio, who also co-produced the album with Eisenberg and added pedal steel and synths. With longtime bandmates Trevor Dunn on bass (known for Mr Bungle, Secret Chiefs 3, many John Zorn-related lineups etc) and Ryan Sawyer on drums (of too many collaborations including a time in At The Drive-In and long-ago UFog faves Stars Like Fleas), there’s a homely feel to these songs, songs which contemplate identity, life’s trajectory, past trauma and coming into a hard-won happiness. Margareth Kammerer – Gift [Ftarri/Bandcamp] Margareth Kammerer – Amor [Ftarri/Bandcamp] Weirdly, when I did my DJ set for Art After Hours/Liquid Architecture/Sydney Biennale in March (stream it here) I decided to play a track by Berlin-based Italian singer & composer Margareth Kammerer, and only a day or two later I discovered that she’d just released a new album, The Garden. I’ve been a fan of hers since, I would say, the mid 2000s, when she released the extraordinary album To Be an Animal of Real Flesh, full of odd, experimental songs. Following a few years later came two wonderful, mysterious albums with The Magic I.D., a quartet with Christof Kurzmann on electronics and vocals next to her own guitar & vocals, and the two clarinettists, Kai Fagaschinski & Michael Thieke, who also play bewitching, alien music as The International Nothing. So it’s reasonable to say she’s been deconstructing and re-examining songform for some decades by now. Released by Japanese label Ftarri (also a tiny experimental music venue & store in Tokyo), The Garden is of a piece with her earlier albums – the last of which came out a mere 12 years ago… Her oddly beautiful songs are supported by many important fellow travellers including our own Chris Abrahams of The Necks etc, double-bassist/electronicist Werner Dafeldecker, experimental musician Valerio Tricoli and experimental cellist Bo Wiget. I remain in awe. Espen Reinertsen – Til noens dype muskelvev [SusannaSonata/Bandcamp] Espen Reinertsen – Skal jeg følge deg til havet [SusannaSonata/Bandcamp] What astonishing beauty to stumble upon without warning! Espen Reinertsen is a name I’ve known for a while, as his saxophone and woodwinds – or his mixing skills – are credited on many a Norwegian release, including those from Trondheim Jazz Orchestra, Erik Honoré, Kim Myhr, Jenny Hval and Christian Wallumrød Ensemble. But these are his own songs, with sparse live drums and drum machines, sparse keyboards and gorgeous woodwind & trumpet arrangements which frequently shift into unexpected voicings and harmonies. You’ll hear a lot of Radiohead here – albeit more jazz-informed – but it’s also one of those rare cases when the post-rock-as-in-Talk-Talk tag is completely justified. Reinertsen’s melodies are simple until they spin off into some harmonically distant galaxy, and his layers of woodwinds are delicately emotive, merging invisibly with synthesizers just as Erik Nylander’s acoustic drums somehow have the precision of drum machines and also the sparkle of jazz drums. What a blessing. Marianna Sangita Angeletaki Røe & Trondheim Jazz Orchestra – Kori [Puritone/Bandcamp] So, Trondheim Jazz Orchestra are a collective with a varying lineup of Norwegian improvising musicians, who enlist different musicians to collaborate with them, with reliably extraordinary results. On this album, they work with Greek-Norwegian singer & composer Marianna Sangita Angeletaki Røe, who has titled the album ΣΠΙΤΙ (SPITI), which is Greek for “Home”. Marianna Sangita explores her own search for belonging, caught between two very different places, and she sings in four different languages: Norwegian, Greek, English, and Sámi, the latter being a people indigenous to the Sápmi region across northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland and part of Russia. The music, too, draws from many different traditions, with Greece’s proximity to the area Europeans call the “Middle East” evident in its traditional musical forms, and the combined vocals of Sangita, Ina Sagstuen and Sissel Vera Pettersen (and other musicians at times) evoking Eastern European musics as much as Nordic. The musicianship is uniformly brilliant, the songs sparkling, moving, joyful. Highly recommended. Mayssa Jallad – Taamir (Bahriyyeh) [Ruptured Records/Bandcamp] A few years back, Beirut label Ruptured put out an amazing album by Lebanese singer/songwriter and researcher Mayssa Jallad called Marjaa: The Battle of the Hotels. In touching experimental songs, Jallad chronicled the beginning of the Lebanese Civil War in 1975, in which Christian Nationalists and pro-Palestinian leftists fought a violent battle amongst the high-rise hotels in Beirut, leading to the Green Line dividing the city, a rift that lasted for 15 years. Since then the album has been remixed in spectral dub fashion by Civilistjävel!, and in 2024 Mayssa created a stunning piece about a Palestinian woman displaced from her village in the Nakba. That single was created out of an instrumental track by Tunefork Studios & Ruptured Records’ Fadi Tabbal, and her new song “Taamir (Bahriyyeh)” is a musical collaboration with Tabbal, featuring drums from Postcards & SANAM‘s Pascal Semerdjian. Jallad is an urban researcher as well as a musician, and urban history is the basis of all these works. This song is about the Taamir social housing project, built in the wake of a destructive earthquake in 1956. By the time the project started, the Ain el Helwe refugee camp had already existed for 8 years, and the juxtaposition of Palestinian refugees, unfortunates who lost their homes in the earthquake, and those more fortunate, is explored by Jallad in this moving, experimental piece, with rumbling, clattering drones and field recordings surrounding Jallad’s voice. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh & Frédéric D. Oberland – Squeal Of Swine خنخنة خنازير [Constellation/Bandcamp] Montreal’s storied Constellation label here brings together a Canadian and French artist for their first duo work. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh has been deeply involved in the Montreal postrock & experimental music in Quebec for over 2 decades, and he’s the co-owner of the mighty Hotel2Tango, originally a performance & artists’ space co-run by members of Godspeed You! Black Emperor and A Silver Mt. Zion, but his main musical outlet has been Jerusalem In My Heart, begun as an audiovisual project with Erin Weisgerber, with Moumneh’s stunning melismatic vocals fed through granular processing to create a contemporary Arabic music ahead of its time in the mid-2010s. Frédéric D. Oberland is a key figure in Paris’s psych & avant-rock scenes, although he also began making films on Super8 & video. Among many bands & collaborations, he leads the incredible Oiseaux-Tempête, a collective whose music draws on psych, krautrock, postpunk and electronic music, with many collaborators and a deep connection to SWANA artists. Moumneh & Oberland had worked together via Oiseaux-Tempête and other projects, but had long intended to collaborate as a duo. Some works were started at Hotel2Tango in 2023, but as Moumneh puts it, since the genocide began he’d experienced sever writer’s block, so he took himself off to Paris in 2024 to complete the work. Four of the seven tracks do feature Moumneh’s voice, but here it’s Oberland taking more of a driver’s seat. Nevertheless, as well as Moumneh’s pain-filled voice Moumneh plays both buzuk and rababa, and there’s daf in the mix along with lots of electronic drones, drum machines and Oberland’s sax and clarineau. This is immersive music of great emotion. Maryam Saleh – Nedaa نداء [Simsara Records/Bandcamp] I first heard Egyptian singer Maryam Saleh as part of the magnificent trio release Lekhfa back in 2017. There, Saleh’s voice combined with the voice and instruments of Palestinian-Egyptian musician Tamer Abu Ghazaleh and the production wizardry and music of Maurice Louca – a masterpiece of Arabic indie music. As far as I can see, her new album, coming some 9 years later, is her first since that collaboration. Produced by Maurice Louca, it also features multiple instruments and creative mentoring from Paris-based Palestinian musician Kamilya Jubran, who founded the organisation Zamkara in Paris to support artistic projects. After three years of development, the result is Syrr سِرّ, the Arabic word for secret, which also happens to be the name Saleh gave her daughter. The album is imprinted by heavy events in Saleh’s life, particularly post-natal depression and divorce. Released by Sarah El Miniawy‘s Simsara Records, this is a creative take on Arabic music, leaning into trip-hop at times, into acoustic instrumentation at other times, carried by Saleh’s beautifully expressive voice and the confident hands of Jubran and Louca, and the impeccable musicianship of the other instrumentalists who join them. But one of the highlights is “Nafas نفَس”, in which Saleh is accompanied solely by Jubran’s oud and exquisitely-harmonised vocal shadows from the two of them. All in all, not to be missed! Taroug – Sirocco [Denovali/Bandcamp] On his second album with Denovali Records, Chott, Düsseldorf-based Tunisian musician Taroug (aka Tarek Zarroug) presents a highly varied mixture of styles. When Zarroug wants to make beat-based bass music, he hits all the right production notes with a healthy dose of north African percussion, while elsewhere there’s dreamy postrock with vocals by the artist himself. Honestly it’s uncanny how the album flits between genres, displaying Zarroug’s ancestry here, slipping into UK bass there or indie guitar music elsewhere. A really impressive album. Wraz. – Twist [Deep Dark & Dangerous/Bandcamp] Rites, the second full album from Montreal dubstep master Wraz., is released through Deep Dark & Dangerous, the label run by New Zealand’s longstanding dubstep duo Truth. As usual, heavyweight dubstep gear, sci-fi aesthetics, surprising melodies… Battery Operated – Stutter [YUKU/Bandcamp] Battery Operated – Casting Shadows [YUKU/Bandcamp] It should be obvious by now that YUKU delivers the goods, but here they are again with something insanely great. The artist behind Battery Operated is also known as PS95, an outlet for mangled jungle breaks that draws our attention to the fact that the Playstation was launched in 1995, the heyday of jungle. On the other hand, Battery Operated has thus far been an alias for deliciously lo-fi tape loops – see their Instagram for videos of their beautifully-modded cassettes & players. But the debut Battery Operated album for YUKU, TYPE I, combines these two strands in stunning fashion. From what I can tell, PS95 & the recording artist Battery Operated are the same person, but the tape loop “art” projects are done with his brother. So this ain’t dance music, not primarily, but nor is it dreamy loop-jelly. Breaks surface from tape hiss, tape loop experiments are layered & sequenced into melodies and sonic narratives, often sounding like a half-analogue/half-digital current-day version of IDM. Wonderful. Thugwidow – IT DIDN’T NEED EXPLAINING [Thugwidow Bandcamp] Thugwidow – pristine heart [Thugwidow Bandcamp] Jungle may be having a renaissance right now, with no end in sight, but Welsh producer Alex Lowther-Harris was on the jungle train way before most. The first Thugwidow releases were around 2017, and for a few years he was fiercly prolific, released mostly on cassette and digital, with a couple of CDs and some vinyl further down the track. His lo-fi early work gave way to slicker production chops as time went on, and the creative firehose slowed by around 2021-22. So it was a joyful shock to see something new appear on his bandcamp, only… it’s a swan song? Yes, SWUN SUNGZ does do what its title suggests, but it also shows that this prolific artist had more up his sleeve – it’s just that the pleasure had drained from it, he was feeling stuck… So here’s *ahem* 121 tracks, going for almost 11½ hours, and there’s a lot of quality material here, including a bunch of collaborations, and productions ranging from hardcore jungle-techno to advanced rhythm science. It’s a helluva way to go out! Note also that not only is all the money likely going to the British bird & wildlife charity RSPB, but he says most of his earnings from the project were always given away to charity. CRZKNY – 009 [Virgin Babylon Records] Japanese experimental electronic producer CRZKNY (which I’ve just learned stands for “CRAZY KENNY”) has brushed shoulders with experimental genre-mashing legend (and seminal UFog artist) World’s End Girlfriend before, on WEG productions and on his label Virgin Babylon, but this is a bit of a special release – a bit like Thugwidow’s above, this is a massive collection of unreleased tunes, here all just numbered as they’re pieces that CRZKNY has played at the Nagoya club GOODWEATHER. CZRKNY put this collection together to help support the club’s founder Eri Ishii after she suffered both an aortic dissection and a cerebral thrombosis, leaving her in a coma for some weeks. She is now on a long road of rehabilitation, and CRZKNY wants to give back to a person who built this perfect live space for his music. Lots of great techno, including glitchy shit and tasty breakbeats, for a good cause. deafkids – CICATRIZES [Neurot Recordings/Bandcamp] Brazilian band deafkids may nominally be classed as “punk”, but hardcore punk mixes with industrial and noise in their sound, along with electronic music of all shapes. They released the incredible uncategorizable Metaprogramação on Neurosis‘ Neurot Recordings in 2019, and then when the pandemic hit, they put out a series of EPs that mixed Latin rhythmic complexity with guitar pedal and software experimentation, collected now on the album Ritos do Colapso. Except before that in 2020 came their collaboration DEAFBRICK with cross-continental noise-metal-industrial-electronic duo PETBRICK. So with various collabs and oddities in the interim, their forthcoming CICATRIZES DO FUTURO (Scars of the Future) is their first album proper since Metaprogramação. It looks to be more electronic, more intense, more angry than ever, a visceral reaction to the state of the world. Highly rhythmic and danceable, it shifts between hardcore punk, industrial, Latin American and club sounds with abandon. I can’t wait to hear the whole thing. Lint – Balsam of Peru [Lint Bandcamp] OK so, you know, like Scattered Order? A band who I have referred to in the past as “Sydney postpunk/post-industrial/experimental electronic legends”. Mitch Jones is a founding member of said legendary band, active since the early ’80s or possibly slightly earlier, post-etc as described above. Drusilla Johnson aka Dru Jones has been a member of said legendary band at times, and has contributed some brilliant artwork in various phases of their existence. She’s also Mitch’s wife, and they live now in Mt Victoria, in the Blue Mountains on Dharug and Gundungurra country, and at times they release music together as Lint. It’s instinctual, artistic, splashes of colour washed over detailed line drawings… It’s the sound of Air in the taps, but it’s also the sound of over four decades building and trashing and rebuilding a musical language, and you can hear it in every dialogue sample and every wonky beat and the occasional guitar noise solo. It’s so lovely to have a seemingly endless font of new music from these folks in many changing combinations. Roman Rofalski – Ondine (radio edit 1) [Puddle Label/Bandcamp] Last time we heard from German pianist Roman Rofalski – only a few weeks ago – he was deconstructing his piano… again, following his wonderful Fractal from 2024, which shredded piano and prepared piano into constellations of granular sound and rhythm. Ravel Reimagined does just what it tells you – but to be clear, Rofalski does it really well. Over four tracks, Rofalski excerpts four celebrated piano works by the beloved impressionist composer and deconstructs them – and it’s notable that these are live performances, with Rofalski playing grand piano and simultaneously sampling himself, then reworking phrases into loops & glitchy constructions, overlaying them with synths and even beats at times. Maurice Ravel was famously prickly, was not fond of the borrowed artistic term of “impressionism” being used for his music (nor was his elder, Debussy), and was underappreciated in his time. He’s also one of my favourite composers, who I believe advanced composition in directions hitherto unimagined. Rofalski’s extrapolations push Ravel far beyond his imaginings, and it’s quite likely he would be horrified to hear what’s been done to his pieces – but now we’re imagining a composer unmoored by over a century from his origins; these prickly pieces require decades of context to situate them here and now. The virtuosic pianism outlining harmonies full of augmented and diminished intervals, whole-tone scales, melodies woven through corruscating hemidemisemiquavers (hear the original here) are thrown immediately into digital reverberation and gradual distortion until they’re glitched and chopped, then crash into long-ringing tones, a fragmented sample bleating around Ravel’s melody as the piece comes to a close. Bravo. OD – Arrival [Driftworks/Bandcamp] Alex O’Donovan is a recording & mixing engineer, but as OD he makes his own music. On Svalr, O’Donovan documents time spent in Svalbard, an island archipelago in the Arctic which is also home to Norway’s Global Seed Vault (the subject of another beautiful sound work by Ecker & Meulyzer). This album is part of a new project called SITE, co-curated by Audiobulb and Driftworks. O’Donovan took extensive field recordings of the diversity of natural sounds (including glaciers!) as well as the built environment, and found commonalities in all these sounds that formed the basis of his compositions. Remote as it is, Svalbard is inevitably encroached upon by anthrogenic climate change, and as the EP goes on, the sounds of water & ice & animals are swept up in almost industrial impulses, and glitched beat constructions. OD’s Svalr makes compelling music around its highly engaging field recordings. Sandscape – half closed eyes [Octopoda Records/Bored of Works/Bandcamp] Sudanese-Scottish “ethereal grunger” Eliza Shaddad and screen composer Daniel Sonabend team up as Sandscape on the forthcoming album Phenomenology, and first single “half closed eyes” is like hearing a dusty 7″ record playing in a different room of your house – a beguiling piece of ambient-dub-jazz with both artists’ vocals, soft but saturated piano, and muffled drumming from Liam Hutton. Unexpected harmonisations flow over the looping music, but not long after it fades away like a dream – “half closed eyes” indeed. The album promises noise-laden trip-hop, muffled jazz and an exploration of the mixed Arab/British/Jewish heritage between the members… Keen to hear more. Stine Janvin / Morten Joh – Leaving home – O Verden, Hav Da Gode Nat! (feat. Lucy Railton) [Futura Resistenza/Bandcamp] Stine Janvin / Morten Joh – Before the burial site – Jeg Raader Eder Alle [Futura Resistenza/Bandcamp] Returning now to Norway, we finish with beautiful strangeness from Norwegians Stine Janvin and Morten Joh, adapting funeral procession music (“Liksongen” = corpse songs) from Ryfylke, Norway. Janvin’s voice forms the basis of these works, but the ceremonial music is rendered alien through extensive electronic processing and additional electronics, and occasional vibraphone from Joh. Two guests, both with innovative approaches to their instruments, contribute further: Berlin-based Australian guitarist Jules Reidy and British cellist Lucy Railton. But one of the most magical moments must be when Janvin’s voice is shadowed by its electronic twin in warbling harmony. On the second last track, the alien elements mostly give way to the acoustic sounds of voice and vibraphone, although the album concludes with stentorian synths playing J.S. Bach. Not for the faint of heart, but rewarding listening. Listen again — ~208MB

Howard Bilerman went from taping punk shows as a teen to co-founding Hotel2Tango, one of Montreal's most iconic recording studios.Learn more about sponsor message choices: podcastchoices.com/adchoicesNPR Privacy Policy

This is a mix that features both unreleased practices and experimentations, as well as recorded tracks. This mix is an homage to a long musical relationship with Norman Nawrocki, a Ukrainian-Canadian musician and activist. I felt that it would be nice to share the lo-fi tracks on this mix and also put them in a context of broader collaborations. Norman and I have played many fundraising events, recorded for albums. Also I have included tracks from many of Norman's projects, below is the track listing. The accompanying photo is of Norman Nawrocki reading a poem, playing violin and speaking at the Gaza solidarity encampment that took place at McGill University in Montreal. The photo is by Hamza. 01. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff duet experiment, guitar and violin, March 2024. 02. Norman Nawrocki solo track from the ne pas plier - Artists Against Austerity project, recorded at La Sala Rossa by Adrian Roy Taylor, produced by Stefan Christoff. 03. Bakunin's Bum, People Already Know (Adian Girt and Norman Nawrocki), from the album, Fight to Win! 04. Rhythm Activism, Venimos a la guerra, from the album Blood and Mud. 05. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff duet experiment, piano and violin, recorded 2023. 06. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff, Duet for Abdelrazik (from the album Duets for Abdelrazik), recorded by Radwan Ghazi Moumneh at Hotel2Tango. 07. Palestine String Solidarity, by Norman Nawrocki, recorded for broadcast on Radio AlHara in Palestine. 08. Stefan Christoff explains the mixtape. 09. Norman Nawrocki and Stefan Christoff, Duet for Abdelrazik live at La Sala Rossa for benefit concert to support the Awan family who was facing deportation and took sanctuary in a church as a political action to demand status, the family won their status in the end as a result of their action and a major community mobilization. 10. Norman Nawrocki plays the song of Giovanni Passannante in Italy, video recording. 11. Helen Armstrong, Rhythm Activism (an excerpt) from the album Jesus Was Gay. (extended excerpt)

Lors de cet épisode, directement de ma cuisine sans électricité, je m'entretiens avec Emilien, Chris, Mike et Stephanie de The Last Mile.  On jase de leur nouveau split avec Pezz sur Rad Girfriend Records, enregistrer au Hotel2Tango, la rencontre avec Pezz, la rencontre entre les membres de TLM, Atoms of Silence, Stephanie et The Shrugs / Jesse Le Bourdais, Mike dans Abyme, Emilien dans Kill Cops et les légendes The Nils / Moving Targets, ouvrir pour NOFX, où est le prog à Montréal, The Nils au Centre Bell, Mike et Emilien rebels au cegep, Pavones Records, l'entraide dans la scène, Answers, le fanzine de Chris, leurs autres projets (Couturier, Noe Talbot, Ire, Saez, Kiran, Prevenge, PL Mafia, Broadcats, Heisenbeards, Sangomas, All the Answers, Whiskey Trench, Public Spirit, Le détails absent, Unshell, Giving In), la 1ere tournée de Flacid et autres fun facts.   Tous droits réservés aux artistes respectifs : The Last Mile –Split avec Pezz – Malfeasance The Last Mile –Split avec Pezz – Red Paint   THE LAST MILE www.tlmpma.com PREVENGE https://prevengetheband.bandcamp.com/ PAVONES RECORDS https://pavonesrecords.bandcamp.com/ BLURRY EYES https://blurryeyes.bandcamp.com/album/break-the-tv NEXT SEASON https://nextseasonalliance.bandcamp.com/ ATOMS OF SILENCE https://atomsofsilence.bandcamp.com/ OFFSIDE https://offsidemtlhc.bandcamp.com/ BRIXTON ROBBERS https://brixtonrobbers.bandcamp.com/album/carved-livers THE SHRUGS https://theshrugs3.bandcamp.com/ PL MAFIA https://plmafia.bandcamp.com/ DONE OVER https://blueberry-tea.bandcamp.com/track/done-over-d-capitation-rose-remix ABYME https://linktr.ee/abyme.musique HEISENBEARDS https://heisenbeards.bandcamp.com/ BROADCATS https://broadcats.bandcamp.com/ ANSWERS https://answersmtl.bandcamp.com/ JESSE Le BOURDAIS https://jesselebourdais.bandcamp.com/album/grief-intensity-friendship MÉFAIT https://mefait.bandcamp.com/releases MOVING TARGETS https://deadbrokerekerds.bandcamp.com/album/humbucker THE NILS https://thenilsmtl.bandcamp.com/ THE SANGOMAS https://thesangomas.bandcamp.com/ OAKHEARTS https://oakheartsmtl.bandcamp.com/album/oakhearts DEEPER WELL https://deeperwell.bandcamp.com/ GIVING IN https://givinginpunk.bandcamp.com/   LE CLASH https://linktr.ee/leclashpodcast Logo ‘'Le Clash Podcast'' par Maxime Bonenfant (tous droits réservés à Philippe Vaillancourt) Montage par Simon Pelletier Thème d'introduction de ‘'Le Clash Podcast''par Lazy Workforce (tous droits réservés à Felix Bolduc, Julien de Kermadec, Jonathan Miron, Philippe Vaillancourt)

Esta semana, en un nuevo episodio de Rebelión Sónica, los invitamos a escuchar dos discos de proyectos integrados por el importante guitarrista, cantante y músico experimental canadiense, Efrim Manuel Menuck (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion). En primer lugar, revisamos material de “Darling The Dawn”, el disco debut del dúo de Menuck con Ariel Engle (La Force, Broken Social Scene), All Hands Make_Light, que el 21 de abril fue editado por el sello Constellation. El proyecto surgió ya que ambos músicos son amigos desde hace mucho tiempo y colaboradores e incondicionales de la comunidad post-punk de Montreal, pero, sin embargo, este es su primer proyecto completo juntos. La etiqueta explica que el disco “entreteje dos voces únicas a través de lustrosos zarcillos de tonos estridentes y drones, imbuidos de una abrasadora calidez conmovedora y altísimas melodías”. El dúo comparó el trabajo con un “‘amanecer' que se avecina para nosotros en el mundo real”. “Estos tiempos son tiempos intermedios” dijo Efrim Manuel Menuck. “Las cosas viejas se están hundiendo con sus manos alrededor de nuestra garganta”. Pero, agregan que en el disco, se acerca un mundo más brillante: “habrá aún más belleza allí, durante el desmoronamiento, y aún más después de que terminen los tiempos oscuros”. “La esperanza melancólica pero resuelta del disco brilla a través de un shoegaze electrónico impregnado de freak-folk, kosmische music, darkwave y post-industrial. Fluyendo desde el minimalismo ambiental hasta el maximalismo palpitante, conjurando canciones tradicionales cantadas en la neblina de la luz más temprana acompañadas de tableros de circuitos saturados que funcionan con cables sin conexión a tierra”, continúa el texto de la disquera. Según Ariel Engle, “música inspirada en la música ancestral, chozas marinas para mares que nunca hemos navegado”. Los créditos señalan que Engle está en la voz y Menuck en los ruidos (noise), además de los invitados Liam O'Neill en batería y Jessica Moss en violín, todo grabado en el estudio Hotel2Tango, mezclado por Jace Lasek y masterizado por Harris Newman. Al final del programa, viajamos al pasado en la obra de Menuck, para escucharlo con música del sexto disco de Thee Silver Mt. Zion, “Kollaps Tradixionales” de 2010. El álbum fue grabado bajo el nombre de Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra y también fue lanzado por Contellation.

Brock Pytel, best known as the singing drummer for late 80's Montreal pop-punks The Doughboys, has just released his new solo single, Anemic Heart. The single is the follow up to his 2022 single, Hurrah Hooray. The Vancouver transplant's two latest singles were both from a session he did in 2011 at Montreal's Hotel2Tango with Howard Bilerman (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Arcade Fire) after some Doughboys reunion tour dates with The Foo Fighters. The track features two of his former bandmates, Jonathan Cummins on the Jazzmaster, and Jon “Bond Head” Asencio on bass (both of whom are in Montreal's The Low Sixes) and was mastered by Ronan Chris Murphy (Gwar, King Crimson). The song meanders from jangly verses that seem to be pulled from The Rolling Stone's “Their Satanic Majesty's Request” into melodic choruses that call to mind 90's pop crossovers like The Fluid or Afghan Whigs. Accompanying the new single is Pytel's video for Anemic Heart, filmed and edited by prolific Vancouver artist RD Cane. The video features blurry cityscapes, fires and idyllic beach scenes that compliment Pytel's melancholic lyrics and harmonies, painting the contrast of a love gained, then lost. In the years between the sessions for the singles and their subsequent releases, the recordings fell into an extended dormancy. Pytel was buried under seemingly endless hours working in Vancouver's film industry where eventually the  stress and lack of sleep caught up with him. Reflecting on his mortality, (after serious health issues in 2020) Pytel explained, “One of the things that really hit me at that time was how little music I'd put out into the world compared to how big a part of my life making music is. I was really motivated to get things going in that regard. These digital singles are me clearing my plate, so to speak, and making room for the new. When things seem to be lagging with the SLIP~ons (waiting for mixes, etc.) it helps with the frustration of working on getting these songs out.” With renewed vigor and determination, Pytel plans to complete more solo singles from the H2T sessions in the months ahead, and unleash a 5-song vinyl EP of his power pop band SLIP~ons in Summer 2023.  D I S C O V E R Bandcamp: http://brockpytel.bandcamp.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/brockpytelFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/brock.pytelSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1NQdziyMx6vWJyVlUv27a0?si=obKMIc9cR5e-SsftdX7RJA Brought to you by AIXdspShop now and get up to 50% off on all plugins.Website: HEREPledge monthly with Patreon https://www.patreon.com/apologueShop Apologue products at http://apologue.ca/shop

Radwan Ghazi Moumneh on Jerusalem In My Heart's Qalaq, Constellation Records and his engineering/producing work at the Hotel2Tango, his family fleeing Beirut and why Lebanon is a hopelessly failed state, culture clashes in Montreal, getting into music via Misfits and Sonic Youth, why music, film, visual art, and live performance are integral to JIMH, future plans and more! Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad's Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Charlotte Cornfield is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto.   Like many other musicians she spent most of 2020 writing and eventually recording a new album.  The new release Highs in the Minuses (out Oct. 29 co/released on Polyvinyl and Double Double Whammy Records), is sonically simpler than her previous release, but lyrically still retains a space for personal reflection and self awareness.   In this episode Joe and Charlotte discuss why she felt this new record was best suited for a band performance, how and why she got back into skateboarding and what it means for an introvert to lose social skills.  Charlotte also shares her experience at Banff Center for the Arts and Creativity and how that led her to her working with Howard Bilerman at Hotel2Tango. Music by Charlotte Cornfield and Joe PlummerUse Code Fret10 for a free month of Music Production Suite Pro and a 10% discount on all other software. Visit Izotope.com

Efrim Menuck (godspeed you! black emperor) and Ariel Engle (La Force, Broken Social Scene, AroarA) of ALL HANDS_MAKE LIGHT discuss their band and new self-titled album, pandemic life and speculative capitalism, 1990s Montreal and the Hotel2Tango, synthesizers, textured vocals, and whether lyrics really matter, a 2021 Pop Montreal show, other future plans, and much more! Supported by you on Patreon, Blackbyrd Myoozik, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad's Donuts. Support Y.E.S.S. and Black Women United YEG. Follow vish online. Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/kreative-kontrol. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Esta semana, dedicamos un nuevo capítulo de Rebelión Sónica, a la destacada agrupación de rock experimental de Montreal, Canadá, Fly Pan Am. En primer lugar, escuchamos la banda de sonido que el cuarteto compuso para la obra de danza contemporánea, “Frontera” y que editó de manera independiente el pasado 21 de mayo con el sello Constellation. Según la disquera, en el soundtrack el grupo “yuxtapone electrónica cruda con ritmos motorik y avant-rock minimalista, capturando magníficamente la partitura en vivo intensamente evocadora que Fly Pan Am desarrolló para la obra de danza, en estrecha colaboración con Dana Gingras y su compañía de baile Animals Of Distinction”. La disquera agrega que “esta música también funciona poderosa y excepcionalmente bien por sí sola: oscila entre la tensión y la liberación; evocando interzonas abiertas, ansiosas y espacios cerrados, claustrofóbicos”. A su vez, señala que a la partitura creada por el cuarteto, se le suman las grabaciones de campo aportadas por David Bryant (Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Set Fire To Flames), que también se transforman en parte la materia prima sonora. Fly Pan Am está integrado por Jonathan Parant en sintetizador y guitarras amplificadas y computarizadas, Roger Tellier-Craig en computador y sintetizador, Jean-Sébastien Truchy en compuatdor, sintetizador, batería programada, bajo y voz y Félix Morel en batería y platillos “scrap”. Luego de girar profusamente con la obra por distintas partes del mundo y de que las restricciones de la pandemia fueran suavizadas, Fly Pan Am pudo reunirse con el productor de Constellation, Radwan Moumneh, en el estudio Hotel2Tango de Montreal para grabar la banda sonora. Como es costumbre, en la parte del final del programa, viajamos al pasado en la historia de nuestros invitados, esta vez retrocediendo a 2004, con material del tercer disco de Fly Pan Am, titulado “N'écoutez pas”, en español, algo así como “No escuchas”. Este álbum fue grabado y mezclado por Thierry Amar de Godspeed You! Black Emperor en el estudio Hotel2Tango de Montreal. Rebelión Sónica sale al aire por radio Rockaxis todos los miércoles a en tres horarios: 10, 17 y 23 horas -se repite los domingos a las 19-, con la conducción de Héctor Aravena.

New album Save Our Hearts by Indigenous artist Madisyn Whajne has been released!  Save Our Hearts recorded live to tape in Montreal at Hotel2Tango with engineers Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire) and Shae Brossard (Bahamas, The Dears) who she met singing backups for Canadian indie-folk star Basia Bulat. The album is imbued with a visceral sense of loneliness and longing, a burning desire for connection and companionship that propels it endlessly forward in pursuit of something perpetually out of reach. https://www.madisynwhajne.com/ Photographer Jen Squires Cover Art Design by Tania Willems

Indigenous artist Madisyn Whajne has spent most of her life searching: for her purpose, her family, and herself. She was taken from her family, like tens of thousands of other native children, before the age of two by the Canadian government in the Sixties Scoop. Save Our Hearts recorded live to tape in Montreal at Hotel2Tango with engineers Howard Bilerman (Arcade Fire) and Shae Brossard (Bahamas, The Dears) who she met singing backups for Canadian indie-folk star Basia Bulat. The album is imbued with a visceral sense of loneliness and longing, a burning desire for connection and companionship that propels it endlessly forward in pursuit of something perpetually out of reach. Madisyn is releasing her first album Save Our Hearts this December 11th which you can preorder on her website. https://www.madisynwhajne.com/ Photographer Jen Squires Cover Art Design by Tania Willems  

Meg Remy on the excellent, star-studded new U.S. Girls album, Heavy Light, its conceptual lyrics about how our relationships with our parents shape us as people, the musical choices on this record, Bob Dylan, and much more! Supported by Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad's Donuts. Please take this listener survey. 

Gestur þáttarins að þessu sinni er tónlistarkonan Una Stef sem mætir með uppáhalds ROKKplötuna sína kl. 21.00. Hún er með hljómsveit sem heitir The Beatles. Plata þáttarins er Funeral, fyrsta stóra plata kanadísku rokksveitarinnar Arcade Fire sem kom út 14. September 2004, fyrir 15 árum og nokkrum dögum síðan. Platan heitir Funeral (jarðarför) vegna þess að liðsmenn sveitarinnar höfðu margir nýlega misst fólk nákomið sér. Einn missti ömmu sína og annar afa, og einn tvær frænkur, allt á stuttum tíma. Grunnar plötunnar voru teknir upp á einin viku í ágúst 2003 á hóteli í Montreal í Quebec í kanada sem heitir Hotel2Tango. Hún var svo kláruð eftir áramótin 2003-2004. Fimm af lögum plötunnar voru gefin út á smáskífum og þeirra vinsælasta varð Rebellion (Lies) sem náði 19. Sæti breska vinsældalistans. Annað lag, Wake up, notaði U2 sem opnunarlag tónleika sinna í Vertigo tónleikaferðinni 2005-2006 og David Bowie söng lagið með sveitinni á New York fashion rocks 2005 en það var í eitt síðasta skiptið sem Bowie kom fram á tónleikum. Platan var tilnefnd til Grammy verðlauna í flokknum „Best Alternative Music Album“. Hún fékk frábæra dóma oig sveitin eignaðist hratt og örugglega fjölda aðdáenda um allan heim. Þegar tónlistarárið 2004 var svo gert upp í upphafi árs 2005 lenti Funeral á fjölda lista yfir bestu plöturnar. Eina platan sem lenti oftar á topp 10 á þessum árslistum það árið var Kid A með Radiohead. Funeral er á nýjasta lista Rolling Stone yfir bestu plötur allra tíma í sæti 151. Við heyrum nokkur lög Funeral í Füzz í kvöld. Óskalagasíminn verður opnaður (5687-123) um kl. 20 og A+B er svo að þessu sinni með gömlu ensku hljómsveitinni The Tornados. lagaisti þáttarins: Fræbbblarnir og Halli Reynis - Fölar rósir Slade - Far far away Tame Impala - Elephant Pink Milk - Drömmens skepp Leaves - Catch Steppenwolf - Magic carpet ride Steppenwolf - Smokey factory blues (vinur þáttarins) Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) (plata þáttarins) Rebecca Lou - No surrender SIMATÍMI Sigur Rós - Stormur Sabaton - Bismarck (óskalag) Skálmöld - Kvaðning (óskalag) Tool - Invincible Steppenwolf - Born to be wild Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) (plata þáttarins) GESTUR FUZZ - UNA STEF Una Stef band - Rock steady (Live Airwaves) UNA II The Beatles - Drive my car UNA III The Beatles - I´m looking through you Patti Smith - Dancing barefoot King Crimson - Epitaph (óskalag) A+B The Tornados - Telstar (A) The Tornados - Jungle fever (B) Foghat - Sweet home Chicago Arcade Fire - Wake up (plata þáttarins)

Gestur þáttarins að þessu sinni er tónlistarkonan Una Stef sem mætir með uppáhalds ROKKplötuna sína kl. 21.00. Hún er með hljómsveit sem heitir The Beatles. Plata þáttarins er Funeral, fyrsta stóra plata kanadísku rokksveitarinnar Arcade Fire sem kom út 14. September 2004, fyrir 15 árum og nokkrum dögum síðan. Platan heitir Funeral (jarðarför) vegna þess að liðsmenn sveitarinnar höfðu margir nýlega misst fólk nákomið sér. Einn missti ömmu sína og annar afa, og einn tvær frænkur, allt á stuttum tíma. Grunnar plötunnar voru teknir upp á einin viku í ágúst 2003 á hóteli í Montreal í Quebec í kanada sem heitir Hotel2Tango. Hún var svo kláruð eftir áramótin 2003-2004. Fimm af lögum plötunnar voru gefin út á smáskífum og þeirra vinsælasta varð Rebellion (Lies) sem náði 19. Sæti breska vinsældalistans. Annað lag, Wake up, notaði U2 sem opnunarlag tónleika sinna í Vertigo tónleikaferðinni 2005-2006 og David Bowie söng lagið með sveitinni á New York fashion rocks 2005 en það var í eitt síðasta skiptið sem Bowie kom fram á tónleikum. Platan var tilnefnd til Grammy verðlauna í flokknum „Best Alternative Music Album“. Hún fékk frábæra dóma oig sveitin eignaðist hratt og örugglega fjölda aðdáenda um allan heim. Þegar tónlistarárið 2004 var svo gert upp í upphafi árs 2005 lenti Funeral á fjölda lista yfir bestu plöturnar. Eina platan sem lenti oftar á topp 10 á þessum árslistum það árið var Kid A með Radiohead. Funeral er á nýjasta lista Rolling Stone yfir bestu plötur allra tíma í sæti 151. Við heyrum nokkur lög Funeral í Füzz í kvöld. Óskalagasíminn verður opnaður (5687-123) um kl. 20 og A+B er svo að þessu sinni með gömlu ensku hljómsveitinni The Tornados. lagaisti þáttarins: Fræbbblarnir og Halli Reynis - Fölar rósir Slade - Far far away Tame Impala - Elephant Pink Milk - Drömmens skepp Leaves - Catch Steppenwolf - Magic carpet ride Steppenwolf - Smokey factory blues (vinur þáttarins) Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) (plata þáttarins) Rebecca Lou - No surrender SIMATÍMI Sigur Rós - Stormur Sabaton - Bismarck (óskalag) Skálmöld - Kvaðning (óskalag) Tool - Invincible Steppenwolf - Born to be wild Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) (plata þáttarins) GESTUR FUZZ - UNA STEF Una Stef band - Rock steady (Live Airwaves) UNA II The Beatles - Drive my car UNA III The Beatles - I´m looking through you Patti Smith - Dancing barefoot King Crimson - Epitaph (óskalag) A+B The Tornados - Telstar (A) The Tornados - Jungle fever (B) Foghat - Sweet home Chicago Arcade Fire - Wake up (plata þáttarins)

Gestur þáttarins að þessu sinni er tónlistarkonan Una Stef sem mætir með uppáhalds ROKKplötuna sína kl. 21.00. Hún er með hljómsveit sem heitir The Beatles. Plata þáttarins er Funeral, fyrsta stóra plata kanadísku rokksveitarinnar Arcade Fire sem kom út 14. September 2004, fyrir 15 árum og nokkrum dögum síðan. Platan heitir Funeral (jarðarför) vegna þess að liðsmenn sveitarinnar höfðu margir nýlega misst fólk nákomið sér. Einn missti ömmu sína og annar afa, og einn tvær frænkur, allt á stuttum tíma. Grunnar plötunnar voru teknir upp á einin viku í ágúst 2003 á hóteli í Montreal í Quebec í kanada sem heitir Hotel2Tango. Hún var svo kláruð eftir áramótin 2003-2004. Fimm af lögum plötunnar voru gefin út á smáskífum og þeirra vinsælasta varð Rebellion (Lies) sem náði 19. Sæti breska vinsældalistans. Annað lag, Wake up, notaði U2 sem opnunarlag tónleika sinna í Vertigo tónleikaferðinni 2005-2006 og David Bowie söng lagið með sveitinni á New York fashion rocks 2005 en það var í eitt síðasta skiptið sem Bowie kom fram á tónleikum. Platan var tilnefnd til Grammy verðlauna í flokknum „Best Alternative Music Album“. Hún fékk frábæra dóma oig sveitin eignaðist hratt og örugglega fjölda aðdáenda um allan heim. Þegar tónlistarárið 2004 var svo gert upp í upphafi árs 2005 lenti Funeral á fjölda lista yfir bestu plöturnar. Eina platan sem lenti oftar á topp 10 á þessum árslistum það árið var Kid A með Radiohead. Funeral er á nýjasta lista Rolling Stone yfir bestu plötur allra tíma í sæti 151. Við heyrum nokkur lög Funeral í Füzz í kvöld. Óskalagasíminn verður opnaður (5687-123) um kl. 20 og A+B er svo að þessu sinni með gömlu ensku hljómsveitinni The Tornados. lagaisti þáttarins: Fræbbblarnir og Halli Reynis - Fölar rósir Slade - Far far away Tame Impala - Elephant Pink Milk - Drömmens skepp Leaves - Catch Steppenwolf - Magic carpet ride Steppenwolf - Smokey factory blues (vinur þáttarins) Arcade Fire - Neighborhood #1 (Tunnels) (plata þáttarins) Rebecca Lou - No surrender SIMATÍMI Sigur Rós - Stormur Sabaton - Bismarck (óskalag) Skálmöld - Kvaðning (óskalag) Tool - Invincible Steppenwolf - Born to be wild Arcade Fire - Rebellion (Lies) (plata þáttarins) GESTUR FUZZ - UNA STEF Una Stef band - Rock steady (Live Airwaves) UNA II The Beatles - Drive my car UNA III The Beatles - I´m looking through you Patti Smith - Dancing barefoot King Crimson - Epitaph (óskalag) A+B The Tornados - Telstar (A) The Tornados - Jungle fever (B) Foghat - Sweet home Chicago Arcade Fire - Wake up (plata þáttarins)

Fly Pan Am's Roger Tellier-Craig and J.S. Truchy discuss the band's new album, C'est ça, Montreal and Constellation Records, why Fly Pan Am went away for almost 15 years and why they came back, future plans, and more! Supported by CFRU 93.3 FM, Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, Planet Bean Coffee, and Grandad's Donuts. Please take this listener survey. 

Jessica Moss is a well-respected and talented musician currently based in Montreal, Quebec. Perhaps best known for her membership in Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, Moss is a violinist who has also played prominent roles in Black Ox Orkestar, Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista, and collaborated with Vic Chesnutt in the last years of his life. Though accustomed to working with others, Moss recently made her first solo record; it’s a compelling one called Pools of Light, now available via Constellation Records, prompting her to tour across England and Ireland after upcoming shows in Montreal and Brooklyn respectively. Jessica and I caught up for a conversation, in which we discussed meeting Leonard Cohen during a Silver Mt. Zion recording session at the Hotel2Tango studio, being abroad when Trump was chosen to turn the United States of America into a failed casino, parenting in a weird world, working with Kevin Doria and receiving encouragement to write her own music, global warming, and much more. Sponsored by Pizza Trokadero, the Bookshelf, and Planet Bean Coffee.   

Efrim Menuck is a founding member of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, and the esteemed Hotel2Tango recording studio in Montreal. Menuck has led a very prolific artistic life; this past fall GYBE won the Polaris Music Prize for their album Allelujah! Don’t Bend! Ascend! and on Jan. 21, a new SMZ […]