For Vancouver’s Debby Friday, there’s something natural about music that sounds distinctly non-human. As both a producer and a fan of noise music, she’s drawn to the genre for the sense of humanity it expresses. “We’re using these electronic devices to make these electronic sounds that wouldn’t exist without machines…and I just feel like it […]
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OBEY XII: Eartheater
As Eartheater, New York multi-instrumentalist Alexandra Drewchin creates lavish experimental songs rich with influences, sounds and references. Her music can be endlessly—rewardingly—analyzed: Songs match beautiful, delicate tones with shrieks, electronic muttering, mysterious bubbling. Being undefinable has defined Eartheater’s glorious output, and IRISIRI, her 2018 album, is a study in the complexities of the human voice, […]
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OBEY XII: Tomoko Sauvage
Flutters, loops, scrapes, ripples, drips and bubbles create worlds of lush, meditative sound with the work of Tomoko Sauvage. Her compositions can agitate or calm, expand and pull focus. Born and raised in Yokohama, Sauvage moved to New York to study jazz piano and then to Paris, where she became interested in Indian music, specifically […]
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OBEY XII: Nick Schofield
Like so many creative rabbit holes, the idea behind Nick Schofield’s first ambient record, Water Sine, presented itself after dark. Schofield says Water Sine emerged out of a series of sleepless nights. Instead of battling his insomnia, Schofield embraced it—he wanted to harness the creative energy of the night and try a “more intuitive approach” […]
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The Remains of Leanne Hoffman
It doesn’t feel right calling the new release from Leanne Hoffman a debut album. Technically What Remains is her first solo recording, but Hoffman is a Halifax music veteran. She was part of the now-defunct duo Magnolia up until five years ago, and has kept busy providing backing vocals and keys with other musicians over […]
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OBEY XII: Zamani
Zamani w/Strange Froots Friday, May 31, 4pm George Dixon Centre Greenspace 2501 Gottingen Street free (all ages) It’s pouring rain outside, but Zamani Bernard-Millar’s home studio in Clayton Park is filled with the warmth of family and music. The up-and-coming 18-year-old R&B producer, songwriter and singer—who performs under a mononym, her first name—is about to […]
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OBEY XII: Slaylor Moon
Sydney Koke, who has played with infamous Vancouver punks Shearing Pinx and rising rock trio The Courtneys, says she loves all sorts of music—but something keeps pulling her back to the weirder fringes of sound. “Experimental music is my first love,” she says. “My first band was a noise-rock band, and I really love post-punk […]
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Video premiere: Leanne Hoffman, “If I Leave Town”
Leanne Hoffman has been out on the road in support of her solo debut What Remains, which dropped May 10—produced by Erin Costelo, it’s the first release on Costelo’s new label Venue Records. Today we’ve got the premiere of the brand-new Mirror Image Media-produced clip for “If I Leave Town,” a string-laden mournful ballad, that finds her […]
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The form and fun of Snotty Nose Rez Kids
Snotty Nose Rez Kids w/DJ Kookum, Lex Leosis Friday, May 24, 9pm Reflections Cabaret, 5187 Salter Street $15, showpass.com F rom the jump, Snotty Nose Rez Kids grab your ears and attention. Even the name of the British Columbia-based hip hop duo acts like a sharp finger-snap, making the listener confront their internalized racism the […]
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First Aid Kit cancels all summer dates, including Halifax
The past weekend was made long in the bad way with an announcement that First Aid Kit, AKA sisters Klara and Johanna Söderberg, have cancelled all their summer dates, included a highly anticipated Halifax Jazz Festival appearance in July. The July 10 replacement act is set to be announced this week.
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Have a memorable Memorial Cup kickoff weekend with these Sure Things
A roller disco party, Mayworks Festival’s climate change cry, Motorhead-y metal from Pale Mare and, of course, the first weekend of the Memorial Cup makes for an extra-memorable weekend. the effects were cumulative and i almost didn’t notice Saturday Mayworks Festival—the fest blending arts and activism as it explores life for the working class—continues with […]
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Have the mother of all weekends with these Sure Things
Take a break from trying to comprehend camp and live it instead, with fun like an ABBA tribute band, a James Bond-themed art show and the mother of all vintage sales. 12 Tides Friday A swish sipping sesh celebrating Nova Scotia’s signature wine (Tidal Bay, duh) marks the release of the 2018 vintage. A blind […]