Stained Productions presents
A MONTH OF SUNDAYS 2
A four-week series of live electronic & experimental music, featuring
artists from Toronto and around the world.
Sunday, November 7th:
MNEMOSYNE
WINTER EQUINOX
PRHIZZM
Sunday, November 14th:
LENA [from Belgium]
XINGU HILL [from Montreal/Belgium]
DISPLACER
Sunday, November 21st:
NAW [from Montreal]
ANDREW DUKE [from Halifax]
AKUMU
Sunday, November 28th:
JOHN CHANTLER [from Australia/UK]
BEEF TERMINAL
MN-L
Tequila Lounge, 794 Bathurst St. (at Bloor)
$5 at the door - doors at 8 PM, live music starts at 9 PM - 19+
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MNEMOSYNE
November 7th, 11 PM
Mnemosyne features Aidan Baker on guitars/vocals, Richard Baker on
drums/percussion, & Rodin Columb on bass/electronics. Collaborators in
various other projects, they finally formed their own band in late 2002 to
explore, within the context of a 'power trio,' fragmentary post/space-rock
ranging sonically from washes of ambient sound to walls of fractured
dissonance. Mnemosyne released their first recording, an EP entitled
"Spiritsized" on Arcolepsy Records in 2003. Their first full-length record,
"The Air Grows Small Fingers" was released in June 2004 on Toronto's
Piehead Records.
http://www.mnemosyne-music.tk
http://turn.to/arcolepsy
http://www.pieheadrecords.com
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WINTER EQUINOX
November 7th, 10 PM
Winter Equinox is a mostly instrumental quartet of musicians taking
influences from artists such as Tortoise, Do Make Say Think, Download,
Mogwai, Smashing Pumpkins, Radiohead, and others. The group consists of
Lauren Yakiwchuk & Robyn Yakiwchuk from Dundas, Ontario, and Dan Roberts &
Brad Weber from Waterloo, Ontario. The skills and talents that these four
members possess comprise the elements that make Winter Equinox a unique and
alluring listening experience. The group utilizes a wide array of
instruments such as keyboards, bass, guitar, drums, percussion, flute,
clarinet, and programmed rhythms to define their sound.
http://www.winterequinox.com
http://www.cronyrecords.ca
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PRHIZZM
November 7th, 9 PM
Prhizzm is electronic music producer Brendan Dellandrea. He is a trained
keyboardist and a patient programmer. He has been recording music since
2001. He has contributed to compilation releases on the Audiobulb and
c0c0s0l1dc1t1 labels. His debut EP will be released on Scotland's Benbecula
Records in early 2005. He uses a combination of digital wavetable, digital
analog modelling, and true solid-state analog synthesis. He does his
programming on a PC. He enjoys what he does very much.
http://www.prhizzm.com
http://www.benbecula.com
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LENA
November 14th, 11 PM
Mathias "Lena" Delplanque's adventure began in Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)
in 1973. Rocked by the sounds of disco, reggae, zouk and Congolese rumba,
he began his music studies (organ and piano) at a very young age. In an
atypical way, his musical horizons open up radically: Tom Waits, Art of
Noise, Public Enemy, Pierre Henry, Edgar Varèse, Stockhausen. In 2000, he
released his debut album "Bilder" (Harmsonic Records, UK) under the name
Bidlo. His stumbling upon Fauklner's writings, especially "Light in August"
gave birth to Lena, an alias inspired by the wanderings of one character,
Lena Grove. The debut album "Lane" (Quatermass, Belgium) came out in 2002
and featured a mix of deep digital dub, primitive art, and something close
to the German minimal techno-dub sound. This year saw the release of Lena's
second opus, "Floating Roots". At the crossroads of the various influences
he has absorbed since his African childhood, Mathias Delplanque reinvents
dub by crossing Lee Perry with Pole, giving life to a hybrid monster of sorts.
http://www.aavvrriill.com
http://www.quatermass.net
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XINGU HILL
November 14th, 10 PM
Xingu Hill is one of the numerous pseudonyms used by Canadian-Belgian
artist John Sellekaers. Born in Montreal in 1973 and raised in Belgium,
Sellekaers has recorded around 40 albums since 1995 - some solo, some in
collaboration with others - under names such as Dead Hollywood Stars,
Ambre, Ammo, Urawa, Moonsanto & Uncotones. He also runs Metarc, a mastering
and production facility aimed at off-beat musicians and labels. Recently
relocated back to his birthplace, Sellekaers continues to tirelessly work
on music, with a handful of releases due on various labels in coming months.
http://www.metarc.com
http://www.hymen-records.com
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DISPLACER
November 14th, 9 PM
Displacer is Toronto's Michael Morton, a young and multi-talented artist
who splits his creative time between music, illustration and web-design.
Raised in the country on a diet of comic books, sci-fi/horror movies and
heavy metal, Morton left home at 18 for college where he took interpretive
illustration and discovered industrial & techno music. Dreams of forming a
metal band changed to dreams of making electronic music, and in the year
2000, Displacer was born. He has since released two albums on France's
M-Tronic label, including this year's "Aroyo", and has played live shows in
Canada, the US and Europe.
http://www.dsplcr.com
http://www.m-tronic.com
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NAW
November 21st, 11 PM
Montreal native Neil Wiernik began his explorations in electronic music
making as early as 1988. Known to push the boundaries of his musical form,
from designing new or manipulating existing sound making devices and
software to creative uses of production environments and sound sources,
naw's music is a blend of sound manipulation/design, experimental music and
dub-tech rhythms. On the surface his music may sound quite simple, but it
incorporates a number of touches that steer him away from being simply
another minimal techno or experimental laptop artist. Neil has released
music on various national and international record labels, including
releases on Noise Factory, Worthy, Clevermusic, Complot, Piehead, A/S
Systems, Wabi and Future Rhetoric, and he has performed extensively along
side a variety of national and international artists both in and outside of
Canada. His latest album, "green nights orange days", will be released in
November on Noise Factory.
http://www.noisefactoryrecords.com
http://www.phoniq.net
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ANDREW DUKE
November 21st, 10 PM
Andrew Duke has been composing, producing, remixing, and performing music
since 1987. His music is consistently referred to by the media and
listeners alike as presenting a unique and distinct sound. Wrote The Wire
magazine (UK, September 2002): "Andrew Duke creates music that sounds like
it has a reason for living". His Sprung album (released on France's Bip-Hop
label in 2002) was nominated for Album of the Year (Electronica) at the
2003 annual Canadian Independent Music Awards. He has been commissioned for
over 40 remixes (for artists such as Aaliyah, Pink Floyd, Chicks On Speed,
David Kristian, and Heavy Meadows), has licensed over 100 tracks to
compilations, and has toured his live PA across Canada several times.
http://www.cognitionaudioworks.com
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AKUMU
November 21st, 9 PM
Created several years ago as a solo project by Toronto musician Deane
Hughes (Thrive, Alchemy), Akumu released a self-titled CD in 2000 featuring
shadowy beats and unsettling tones that have been described by reviewers as
"darkly passionate" and "beautifully imagined". The album reached #1 on the
National Campus Radio's Electronic Chart, and selected tracks resided in
the top ten on CBC Galaxie's Ambient Lounge digital music channel for over
6 months. This summer saw the long-awaited follow-up, "Fluxes", which finds
the sounds stripped down to deep drones and minimal ambient textures. On
stage, Akumu delivers an electronic barrage of ambience and dark, downtempo
rhythms, incorporating various sonic manipulations, mouse-clicking and knob
twisting to build on selections from Akumu's records with impromptu,
experimental creations, producing a bass-heavy, chill-out flow.
http://www.spiderrecords.com/akumu
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JOHN CHANTLER
November 28th, 11 PM
Australia's John Chantler released his debut CD "Monoke" on upstart
Australian label ::Room40:: in mid-2003. "Monoke" recieved glowing praise
from a number of quarters for its blend of electronic and organic sounds.
Recorded whilst living on the rural Japanese island of Shikoku, John
returned to Australia last year to continue work on the follow-up to
"Monoke" before relocating to London, England where he now lives, and where
he completed his second album, "Locked In Hands", which was released
earlier this year on Piehead Records. This sophomore effort has been just
as well received as his first album, with one reviewer saying " this
release bypasses well-known paths of post rock, IDM and microsound, and
instead has a home brew of his own mixture of all of these."
http://www.inventingzero.net
http://www.room40.org
http://www.pieheadrecords.com
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BEEF TERMINAL
November 28th, 10 PM
Beef Terminal was established in 1995 by Mike Matheson out of boredom and
complete lack of direction. The name comes from a building in Toronto's
West End, a building that once housed a meat packing plant and animal
slaughterhouse. Matheson's melancholy combination of lo-fi guitar and
electronics has captured listeners worldwide via three albums on Toronto's
Noise Factory label. His next release will be a limited edition collection
of out-takes and rarities on Worthy Records out of Hamilton, and a new
album for Noise Factory will be out in 2005.
http://www.beefterminal.com
http://www.noisefactoryrecords.com
http://www.worthyrecords.com
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MN-L
November 28th, 9 PM
The musical alter-ego of Toronto web-designer Matthew Nish-Lapidus, mn-l is
a project that brings together elements of melodic indie-rock and abstract
electronics to form an intriguing and satisfying contrast of sound. Equally
at home on stage at Wavelength or on the bill of an underground electronica
night, Nish-Lapidus has spent the last couple of years honing his sound at
live events around Toronto. His debut album, "Marathon Hangout", was
released this summer, and is best described by Eye Magazine's Sturart
Berman who says: "Everyone's talking about ways to bring indie-rock and
electronics together; on Marathon Hangout, m-nl would rather see the two
sides go to war."
http://www.mn-l.com
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