Here's some info about the next in the irregular series of events that we
(Stained Productions) have been presenting at Now Lounge in Toronto.
If you live in Toronto, and you have ANY interest in seeing more of these
sort of artists live in the comfortable and intimate Now Lounge, I *highly*
encourage you to come out to this show! The manager of the venue has
decided that they will no longer be actively booking live music on a
regular basis since private parties do a lot better for them from a
financial standpoint, BUT he is going to allow us to continue doing our
events there for the time being since we've been getting half-decent crowds
out so far.
So if this show (and the series we're presenting there in November - more
on that soon!) does well, we'll continue doing stuff there. If not - well,
there'll be one less venue in town for small-scale electronic nights.
Here's the scoop...
Stained Productions presents
the CARPARK/TOMLAB TOUR
an evening of fractured ambience
and warm electronics with
TAKAGI MASAKATSU
from Japan - Carpark Records
JON SHEFFIELD
from Missouri - Tomlab Records
INKBLOT
from Texas - Tomlab Records/Audiodregs
Monday, October 15th, 2001
Now Lounge - 189 Church St. (south of Dundas) - Toronto
$8 at the door - doors open at 8 PM - 19+
www.carparkrecords.com
www.tomlab.de
www.stainedproductions.com
TAKAGI MASAKATSU
[
http://homepage.mac.com/utono/ ]
Takagi Masakatsu is a video maker who creates music. Takagi Masakatsu is a
musician who creates video. Or maybe Takagi Masakatsu is a documentary
filmmaker. Whichever one you prefer, Takagi is an artist who is wholly
dedicated to exposing and preserving the human experience at the start of
our burgeoning new century.
Bringing new meaning to the phrase "think globally, act locally," Takagi
has travelled the world collecting pieces of sound and video in which he
constructs a fluid and timeless snapshot of our current human condition.
Takagi employs samples of speaking children with other "real" sounds such
as the weather, his own piano playing, and various recorded sounds
throughout his and other people's homes. After collecting this raw
material, Takagi blends it into his laptop arrangements and manipulations
to create a very new type of ambient music.
Having brought his video to other japanese musician's sound pieces over the
last few years, Takagi has decided to go solo on both the audio and video
end of things. The results of his first solo endeavor have been brought
together on "Pia", a two CD set to be released on New York's Carpark label
in mid-October. One CD comprises the melodic ambient nature of Takagi's
audio creations, while the other disc is a CD-ROM featuring 5 audio/video
pieces that have been presented in various galleries and live settings
throughout Japan.
JON SHEFFIELD
[
http://spiderbytes.com/ambientrance/intshefld.htm ]
Born on December 3rd, 1971, Jon Sheffield has lived most of his life in the
American mid-west and is currently based in Columbia, Missouri. He has
experimented with sound since an early age, and has developed an amazing
ease for merging electronic sounds with acoustic instruments (like
melodica, guitar) and wonderful voice samples that slip in between,
bringing a strong emotional aspect to his work.
Sheffield's first two albums, "Calves Valves" and "Shore Hoses", were
released on the small Subversal label. His latest disc is the stunning
"It's been so long since I've seen the ocean", a release on the German
Tomlab imprint that has drawn strong and positive comparisons to the early
work of Mouse On Mars and other melodic electronica greats.
INKBLOT
[
http://www.audiodregs.com/artists/inkblot.html ]
Inkblot is Jeremy Ballard, a 22 year old Texan who incorporates highly
textural and organic experimental electronic compositions with playfully
bubbly beats. With more emphasis on warm melodies than most electronic
artists these days, Austin's one-man future-pop deconstructuralist, melts
rhythms into vaporous trails then glues them back together between bits of
found sounds, self-sampled instrumentation on guitar, synthesizer, piano
and more.
Inkblot's debut album "The Language Game" was released last year on Tomlab,
and has been described by one reviewer as "a combination of To Rococo Rot,
B. Fleischmann, Mouse On Mars and Steve Reich". A second album entitled
"Love Your Mother" has been completed and will be released very soon on the
Audio Dregs label of Portland, Oregon.
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