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With a title referring to Subcommandante Marcos’ vision of a grassroots Zapatista uprising from out of the jungles of Chiapas – what Marcos himself called “pockets of resistance” – this suite of experimental pieces from Brandon Valdivia (Not the Wind Not the Flag, Picastro, Pachamama) draws on a variety of global and Western song...
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After over a decade of releasing music on other people’s record labels – including the always amazing Shrimper Records – French duo Herman Dune finally decided to create their own Strange Moosic imprint.
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This is Scott Foust’s second solo outing, yet the material found on this release was recorded at the same time as the material found on his debut release, “Jungle Fever.”
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2012 was the year that the world was supposed to end… …it was also a year of great music in all genres. It feels like every year is getting harder and harder to top, but this year was pretty epic, with old favorites jumping back in the game and new faces stepping forward. I’m...
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Hoover Party is the nom de guerre that Toronto’s Jonathan Adjemian uses when he goes it alone.
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Lilting synthetic drift flecked with sparkling noise dust.
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In chess, the Mortimer Trap is an opening series of moves in which one side deliberately plays a poor quality move in order to trick the other side into making a mistake.
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Québec’s Tenzier imprint is devoted to unearthing and disseminating archival recordings from the Québecois avant-garde.
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Montreal weirdo JLK meets British Columbia skuzz-wave progenitors Babysitter, hijinks ensue and a real juicy offspring is produced.
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There are 58 tracks on this release, which runs for a total of 12 minutes and 18 seconds.
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With the majority of the Summer festivals concentrating on more standard fare, it’s exciting that come Autumn, the more adventurous festivals arrive. The Music Gallery – initiated in 1976 by members of free improvisors CCMC – is a prime source in Toronto for jazz/global/out/whatever music. A few years ago, they initiated the X Avant...
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Italian sound artist Gianluca Becuzzi has been active since the 1980s – yet it was in 1999 that he started his (now retired) Kinetix project, which was devoted to exploring the possibilities offered by minimal electronics. In 2006, Becuzzi became interested in utilizing electroacoustic techniques to produce his delicate tapestries of micro-sounds.
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Since 1990, Pittsburgh’s Joe Roemer and Rodger Stella have been relishing in humanity’s deepest, darkest desires and impulses.
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