| Name: | Ky Jessica Moss, Jessica Ackerley, Eliza Kavtion, Jean Néant Rob Grieve Skin Tone |
| City: | Canada, Quebec, Montreal |
| Time: | Fri Sep 15, 2023 @ 8:30pm |
| Description: | Jessica Moss:
Jessica Moss is a Montréal-based violinist and composer who began writing and
performing solo work under her own name in 2014; she has since made four
full-length albums. Moss uses amplified and processed violin (and voice) to
create works of expressive electronic- and drone-inflected post-classical
Minimalism and Maximalism, with a distinctive melodic sensibility that often
channels Klezmer, Balkan and Middle Eastern tropes, and an ear for textural grit
and timbral noise forged from her 15-year tenure in agitprop postpunk band Thee
Silver Mt. Zion (2001-2016).
Moss self-released her debut solo album Under Plastic Island, recorded with Guy
Picciotto, in fall 2015. Two acclaimed albums on the Constellation imprint
followed: Pools Of Light (2017) and Entanglement (2018); her third, Phosphenes,
was released in November 2021—all three co-produced with Radwan Ghazi Moumneh
(Jerusalem In My Heart, Matana Roberts, Suuns). A Closer Listen has described
Moss as “an artist whose solo work has surpassed her collaborative work, she
becomes her instrument and channels its harmonic power”; Loud And Quiet has
called her solo music “inventive, powerful, deeply engaging, carrying real
weight.”
Moss has performed extensively throughout North America and Europe, including
appearances at Big Ears, WSO New Music, Le Guess Who?, ATP, Supersonic and
Basilic Hudson 24-HOUR DRONE.
Ky:
Ky is the new project of Ky Brooks, best known as the vocalist of the noise-punk
trio Lungbutter. Here, along with weirdo music mainstays James Goddard (Skin
Tone, Egyptian Cotton Arkestra), Mathieu Ball (Big | Brave), Robert Grieve
(Blastronaut) and Farley Miller (FeeFawFum, Shining Wizard), they present Power
Is The Pharmacy, an album of cerebral and visceral outsider artpunk. This
emotionally electrifying collection of songs delivers an acute blend of incisive
socio-political observation and spiritual sadness, swirling through
disenchantment and re-enchantment.
Eliza Kavtion:
Eliza Kavtion is The performance vehicle of Tiohtiake based Kanien'kehaka
recording artist Eliza Kaheroton Santos.
Jessica Ackerley:
During the past decade, Jessica Ackerley has established themselves on the
Canadian and American music scenes as a unique and versatile guitarist, composer
and improvisor. Born in Alberta, Canada, Jessica now resides in Honolulu after
almost decade of being located in New York City. They have worked alongside
notable musicians such as Tyshawn Sorey, Daniel Carter, Marc Edwards, Luke
Stewart, Patrick Shiroishi, and Jason Nazary, to name a few.
Since 2017, Ackerley released thirteen albums as a bandleader and collaborator
to much acclaim, making critics’ year- end lists on Jazz Right Now, Avant Music
News, Free Jazz Blog and Jazz Times Magazine. Their music has also been featured
and reviewed in Wire Magazine, BBC Radio, Whole Note, Musicworks Magazine, New
York City Jazz Record, and Bandcamp’s monthly “Best of” lists. In 2019, they
founded The Brink Guitar Festival, a four-day event featuring some of the most
innovative players on the instrument such as Miles Okazaki, Elliott Sharp, Wendy
Eisenberg, and Dan Lippel, among others.
Jean Néant:
Joni Void is the artistic persona of Montréal-based French-British producer Jean
Néant (he/them), whose output and various projects showcase their interest in
experimentation, improvisation, collaboration and multi-genre explorations.
Self-described as ‘cinéma-tek/cameratronica’ music, the montage-based production
of Joni Void incorporates elements of electronic and sample-based beats, rap &
hip-hop, psychedelia, musique concrete, plunderphonics, ambient, drone, glitch,
minimalism & electro-acoustic/improvised music. By way of their platform
Everyday Ago [everydayago.bandcamp.com] Joni Void have extended their
sound practice into other collaborative and live-based projects, including
releases and performances with artists N NAO, Sarah Pagé (as Page Vide), and
Maya Kuroki, to name but a few.
skin tone:
skin tone is the (mostly) solo performance project of Ndebele-Canadian artist
James Nicholas Dumile Goddard. skin tone incorporates saxophone, voice, mbira
and electronics; it explores issues related to blackness, the canon, and the
future. Goddard also performs in a variety of experimental ensembles including
notably Egyptian Cotton Arkestra & NYON.
Rob Grieve:
Prairie born and raised, Rob Grieve spent over a decade in Toronto before
settling in Montreal. They are a multidisciplinary professional session musician
with experience playing in a wide array of musical contexts around the globe. In
their original work, they are interested in reifying the limit points of
maximalism and minimalism as its own homogenous sonic milieu. In other words,
they like to play a lot of notes very loudly.
SOURCE: [montreal.askapunk.net] |
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