slope's slow-burning obsidian ep is out now on low indigo. grab the music and get all the info here. thanks beatroute and lastdaydeaf for the nods. check out the free track from slope & kline loosely paired with the release, and also the perfectly alligned video from corinthian.
thanks KAMP and BASS COAST
had a stellar time in the BC interior that last couple weeks.
KAMP was a really sweet time. i would totally recommend. really enjoyed soaking up the "kamp" vibes and making a few new friends. did a sound journey workshop which i thought went particularly well, and might make a point to do more of, and had fun with the mainstage set on saturday night. go team blue
BASS COAST is pretty much a local legend and now a garunteed sell-out each year. so solid. through and through. didn't catch a set i wasn't feeling. it was gift to deliver an umcompromising live set on the closing night. very thankful to be part of that fam. long live bass coast.
cheers
souns @ pretty good not bad
wanted to take the time to thank the team from the first annual pretty good not bad festival in victoria, bc.
great performances from laurel halo, loscil, sean evans, chris dammeyar, compzit, magnetic ring, emp interactions, liquid transmitter, and the local dancers and drummers who opened the ambient picnic. it was especially a treat to live collab with loscil. had a good time during my souns set as well.
thanks all
chambers - sigma flare ll
sigma flare ll is out now on debacle records.
resident advisor announced it, tiny mix tapes did a premiere, ransom note had a first listen, and beatroute did an interview piece on it.
many thanks to all involved :)
music on boomkat
..always was a personal goal to get my music up on boomkat. they don't accept just anything. so pleased that i have a small handful of pieces up on there now. here's to many more.
..and thanks for stopping by the website, by the way. if you're reading this - cheers!
mysteries of the deep
a recording of one of my dj sets for vancouver symphony orchestra's new music festival made it to the mysteries of the deep podcast under the chambers umbrella. naturally, given the context, it features all ambient, solo piano, and neo-classical music. thanks to debacle and all else involved.
9 of cats videos
a belated announce about the moving abstract videos giorgio magnanensi created for the 9 of cats release this past march. was an effortless pleasure to get together with giorgio on this. thank you
chambers 'satellites' on beacon sound
full length cassette of edited live recordings from two intimate performances in vancouver in 2015. one at the emerald and one at the rio theatre (hence the track titles). very pleased to making the link with beacon sound on this - it's an incredible label that hosts a lot of great music. grab the digital/physical at bandcamp or the label website direct.
this is the second official release for chambers, with a third release soon hot on it's heels later this month on debacle.
souns live performance @ Nomadic Streams
video is up from last years festival. thanks so much to everyone involved. it was such a great weekend.
interview + show with ADSR
sat down with vancouver's ADSR for chat before my show with them on saturday. very much looking foward. excited to make the link. event link here
dipped 011
unlog complex #07
408 (a track i made when "wonky" was first being thrown around as a genre name) just came out on unlog complex #07. the whole compilation is worth checking out. happy to have made the connect with this team.
next EP announced for low indigo
9 OF CATS EP
coming APRIL 8 on all channels (bandcamp, itunes, juno, beatport, spotify, etc)
including videos for each song by giorgio magnanensi
tracklisting:
1 - why
2 - gwey from
3 - slow motion
4 - sirens
here's a piece of the write-up:
'gwey from' is an expression on the current state of earth. it views the more destructive side, earthquakes, large scale catastrophe, violence and suffering, .....and the massive aching beauty of it all. a world dying, swirling and collapsing into itself, while a world is re-born. the sound of evolution in progress and an even larger hope. gwey is "go away" in patois. so the literal translation "go away from" is an example of the basic ignorance that brought this current world to it's destructive end, but also an example of transcendence beyond literal language and feeling the correct meaning (new ways in a new world).
unlog complex 7
dropping this mid march - montreal based unlog drops it's 7th compilation. 28 songs deep, from around the globe, and my tune '408' is one there. keep a look out.
thanks to vso new music festival
HUGE thanks to vancouver symphony orchestra for having me this past weekend at their new music festival at the orpheum theatre. was a pleasure on so many levels. loved checking out so much work by local and canadian composers, many of who were in attendence. and having my dj work so well recieved that the symphony's conductor called me "quiet tasteful actually" on stage and some of the composers and players giving me compliments .. well, let's just say that carries a different type of weight than someone flashing their lighter at a rave (which, or course, is great too!). ..might be a mix or two that results from the affair as well. cheers! and til next time!
appearing at VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA's New Music Festival
Very pleased to announce that i will be DJ'ing in the lounge at the Orpheum Theatre to close out each night of next week's New Music Festival. Vancouver Symphony Orchestra, Kronos Quartet, Standing Wave, Rachel Iwaasa, and others will all be performing. New works from Jocelyn Morlock and more.
I did this last year and totally recommend. Take in the main concert, then have a drink after with me blending sounds/themes from the festival with modern electronic sounds.
Special deal for those that check the site: use the promo code "VSODJRED" to purchase half-priced tickets off the website.
Maybe see you there!
next low indigo release
okpk's ep is dropping in a matter of days. a lot of folks who hands on the pre release are buzzing about it.
winnie cooper just premiered the video, exclaim did a nice little piece on it as well, undone gave it some love, and a few radio stations are doing some featured interviews on it. check the cjsw bit here while the stream lasts (next up are victoria and montreal based campus radio stations) .
cats only club to celebrate this friday at the rattle. always a good time.
available on bandcamp, itunes, juno, beatport and all other major retailers.
..as we continue
discorder feature
thanks to discorder for the feature they printed in this month's issue. some interesting intreview questions that got me thinking. first one off that bat was something like, "how do you define sound art"? ..very nice.
download the whole issue here or check the piece directly below.
oh and cheers for letting my latest souns release onto your charts!
blind prophet collab
managed to catch some studio time with blind prophet while he was in vancouver, and we turned out a heavy 130bpm number we're both pretty pleased with. coming soon to a dancefloor near you..
low indigo news..
momemtums and navigations have started to level out a bit for low indigo as a label now. started with the bandcamp, then moved up to some proper distro which promptly folded just a few months in, then the following re-calibration, new distro, now smoothing out and approaching glide mode there. quite soon, if not already, all low indigo releases should be available on all the major retailers like itunes, juno, beatport, etc. ..and remain on bandcamp as well.
future release schedules, mists taking shape:
in less then a month we'll have okpk's latest 'hollow' ep out, paired with video curtosy of laine butler. cats only club / ep release party for that'll be friday feb 12 at a familiar location (stay tuned).
in march will be a 4 song EP from me, '9 of cats'. long time vancouver experimental music community shaper giorgio magnanensi has created four outstanding videos for that. one is in 3D even.
and in spring, slope is putting the final touches on his debut EP for the label, with long time collabortaor corinthian on deck for the video.
preperations are being made for a compilation slotted for late spring. some familiar names to label already, and some new ones. stay tuned!
..and lastly, as a nice cherry-on-top to the new year and fresh energies that come with - just caught wind of the lovely label spotlight piece FREQ printed in september. some months later, but the timing is actually perfect. thanks FREQ!