Kevin Press
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Toronto is hosting a five-day festival next month featuring “experimental sounds from rock, jazz, hip hop, chamber music and more,” according to organizers. The Intersection Festival runs Sept. 1 to 5. A new augmented reality app designed to deliver generative, site-specific listening experiences for transit users will launch in conjunction with the festival’s opening. A…
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Contemporary music from everywhere.
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Gintas Kraptavičius says his new album Mountains, runlets, caves & cascades reflects nature in a manner similar to the writing of American horror legend H.P. Lovecraft. “There was a lot of meaning behind Lovecraft’s descriptions of mountains and nature in general,” says the artist, who records under the name gintas k. “His descriptions were seldom…
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This week’s favourites: Brown Calvin – d i m e n s i o n // p e r s p e c t i v e (AKP Recordings) Cape Canaveral – The Observatory (Machine Records) Rachika Nayar – Heaven Come Crashing (NNA Tapes) THLTTLDBB – SeeUSearching (Somewherecold Records) Vagantpoesi – Onomatopoeia (Shimmering Moods) Plus…
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Multimedia artist Mike Hansen was a turntablist before he’d ever heard of turntablism. Now a successful painter and music producer, Hansen has released a collection of recordings inspired by the color field works of Leon Berkowitz and Thomas Downing.
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Promising more than 200 concerts, the POP Montreal festival is back after a COVID hiatus. It runs Sept. 28 to Oct. 2. in multiple venues. “The notion of ‘going back to normal’ isn’t really POP Montreal’s jam,” reads a press release from event organizers. “We will forever be moving forward, doing our best to care…
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