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Bio: Alexandra Mackenzie is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice includes visual and installation art, composition and live musical performance. She lives and works in Montreal. Her project Petra Glynt combines politically charged lyrics and live drumming, with digital modulation and intervention. A through-line in her visual and recorded art might be her itinerant exploratory attention to detail and texture: searching out those worlds within worlds. Her new record ‘This Trip’ has just been released on Vibe Over Method, and it makes an excellent soundtrack to today’s political climate. Recording Notes: This interview was recorded at Alex’s former Bloor street apartment and home studio in downtown Toronto. In keeping with Alex’s habit, we left the windows open: along with the traffic you can at points hear one of Alex’s former roommates practicing guitar. Still uncertain what the track is that interrupted our interview from the trunk of someone’s car in the street below. If you know, please comment. The track used in the introduction is a Pale Eyes remix of Petra Glynt’s WAR CRY. You can download it here, if you’re interested: https://soundcloud.com/pale-eyes/war-cry-pale-eyes-whitmanic-1 Links: Artist: Artist's Website: http://www.petraglynt.zone/ Bandcamp: https://petraglynt.bandcamp.com/ The Devil’s Trap Teaser (scored by Alex): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zPh8OHi4-g References: Mitchell Stafiej: https://vimeo.com/mitchellstafiej ‘Her’ score (Owen Pallett): https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGRgA0JxN5RODeQ1fCuu5sIEArUNgfxSM Line 9 Pipeline Blockade: http://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/line-9-blockade-halts-work-on-enbridge-pipeline-1.2728262 ‘You’ll know it is time to turn the page when you hear the chime’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aULIkd85TjE Healing Power: https://healingpowertoronto.bandcamp.com/album/petra-glynt-of-this-land Photo by Pascha Marrow.
Man Man - "Hurly Burly" Boats - "O Telescope" Old Time Religion - "Daemon Meeting: Old & Weird - "Minstrel" The Sadies - "The Very Ending" The Sadies - "Another Tomorrow Again" SIRR - "Sultans of Suburbia" Cousins - "Die" Nouvelle Vague - "Heart of Glass" Heaven For Real - "You Are The One With The Iron Heart Device" Blonde Redhead - "Misery Is A Butterfly" Brazilian Girls - "Corner Store" Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Gold Lion" Billie Dre and the Poor Boys - "Bye Baby, Bye June" Pale Eyes - "Figure/Ground" The Winter Coats - "A Violent Little Band" The Flaming Lips - "Try To Explain" Deerhunter - "T.H.M." The Motorleague - "Every Man Needs A Cape Breton" Esther Grey - "The Hairy Ballerina" Zeus - "Are You Gonna Waste My Time?"
Man Man - "Hurly Burly" Boats - "O Telescope" Old Time Religion - "Daemon Meeting: Old & Weird - "Minstrel" The Sadies - "The Very Ending" The Sadies - "Another Tomorrow Again" SIRR - "Sultans of Suburbia" Cousins - "Die" Nouvelle Vague - "Heart of Glass" Heaven For Real - "You Are The One With The Iron Heart Device" Blonde Redhead - "Misery Is A Butterfly" Brazilian Girls - "Corner Store" Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Gold Lion" Billie Dre and the Poor Boys - "Bye Baby, Bye June" Pale Eyes - "Figure/Ground" The Winter Coats - "A Violent Little Band" The Flaming Lips - "Try To Explain" Deerhunter - "T.H.M." The Motorleague - "Every Man Needs A Cape Breton" Esther Grey - "The Hairy Ballerina" Zeus - "Are You Gonna Waste My Time?"
Billie Dre and The Poor Boys - "Weed Lean" Galaxius Mons - "Soundtrack Superdove" Chairs - "Three In The Morning/Breathe Underwater" DIANA - "Born Again" The Albertans - "Casa Aqua" Pat LePoidevin - "Hayden Lake, ID" Ashley Condon - "Sea And Land" B.A. Johnston - "I Don't Wanna Live In Windsor" B.A. Johnston - "Too Dumb To Live" B.A. Johnston - "Luke Skywalker Is A Whiney Baby" B.A. Johnston - "The Dishwasher Stands Alone" Howl - "Warriors" Howl - "Blackout" Howl - "Joe PunkRock" The Mark Inside - "Balloons" HSY - "Milk Chug" HSY - "Slimeball" Monomyth - "Coastal" Boats - "Sad Legs" Miesha & The Spanks - "Please Don't Blow" Sultans of String - "Emerald Swing" Pale Eyes - "Waves & Radiation" Adam Mowery - "Local Bands" Adam Mowery - "Come Around"
Billie Dre and The Poor Boys - "Weed Lean" Galaxius Mons - "Soundtrack Superdove" Chairs - "Three In The Morning/Breathe Underwater" DIANA - "Born Again" The Albertans - "Casa Aqua" Pat LePoidevin - "Hayden Lake, ID" Ashley Condon - "Sea And Land" B.A. Johnston - "I Don't Wanna Live In Windsor" B.A. Johnston - "Too Dumb To Live" B.A. Johnston - "Luke Skywalker Is A Whiney Baby" B.A. Johnston - "The Dishwasher Stands Alone" Howl - "Warriors" Howl - "Blackout" Howl - "Joe PunkRock" The Mark Inside - "Balloons" HSY - "Milk Chug" HSY - "Slimeball" Monomyth - "Coastal" Boats - "Sad Legs" Miesha & The Spanks - "Please Don't Blow" Sultans of String - "Emerald Swing" Pale Eyes - "Waves & Radiation" Adam Mowery - "Local Bands" Adam Mowery - "Come Around"