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Hello all,

This email will finally reveal some further details of two things I've been teasing for some time.

First off, I'm delighted to announce the digital festival I've programmed for the Canadian Music Centre, CMC Presents : MultilocationI will also be sharing further details of my forthcoming recording Newfoundout.

In addition to that, I'm sharing news of the re-launch of Eric Chenaux and Martin Arnold's amazing label Rat-drifting, and the new exquisite-corpse style online concert series Understory, as well as recent releases from Rose Bolton, Jessica Ackerley and more.

I cordially invite you to scroll down for further information. (LOL eww did I actually just say that?)

Thank you, and hope you're all hanging in there!
Nick

 

                                                           
CMC Presents : Multilocation
July 12th-23rd

I'm very excited to finally be sharing news of the CMC Presents: Multilocation event which will be happening online (at the link below) from the 12th to the 23rd of July.  New and exciting content will be revealed each day including video, audio, talks, interactive pieces and more.  The line-up includes: claire rousay, Andrew Wedman—creator of the bass piano, Rob Clutton, Jessica AckerleyColin Fisher, the duo of percussionist and composer Isaiah Ceccarelli and early keyboard specialist Katelyn ClarkSonia Paço-RocchiaRobin HatchGrace Scheele, Nicole RampersaudWilliam KuoLuciane Cardassi, India Gailey, Rose Bolton, Christina Petrowska-Quillico (paying tribute to Ann Southam), and we're teaming up  FAWN Chamber Creative to present Dame Cook... and there's more in store! 


More information and updates can be found at the following link:  
https://cmccanada.org/multilocation/

Please RSVP on Facebook here : 
https://www.facebook.com/events/544049383447477


                                                             
UNDERSTORY
starting July 15th

Understory is an all-new web-based concert series dedicated to showcasing improvising artists working across Canada,  and to building a network between the artists and their audiences. It's the brainchild of trumpet-player Nicole Rampersaud, violinist Parmela Attariwala, and percussionist Germaine Liu—three of the country's most exciting experimental musicians and it puts artists into remote exquisite-corpse-style collaborative scenarios where their disparate contributions are woven together. 

Its launch happens July 15th in tandem with the CMC Presents: Multilocation festival above, but will continue on monthly basis thereafter. Its exciting and wide ranging roster of artists draws from many different aesthetic perspectives and includes the likes of chik white, Debashis Sinha, Mira Martin-Gray, Ben Grossman, Aisha Sasha John, and Naomi McCarroll-Butler (click through for the full-lineup).
 
The first event will see the following delightful collisions taking place:  
Cheldon Paterson (aka Slowpitchsound) — turntables/ electronics, Lan Tung — erhu, Gabriel Dharmoo — voice

and

Bianca Palmer — percussion, 
Nilan Perera — guitar, Randy Raine-Reusch — zheng & suling.

You can follow Understory at the following online locations for further updates:
www.understorysound.ca
Facebook
Instagram: @
Understory_Ca

                                                             
Rat-drifting's triumphant return
July 16th

Many of you will probably fondly remember the label Rat-drifting that Martin Arnold and Eric Chenaux ran from 2002-11, (until the latter moved from Toronto to France.) In that time, they released a staggering and consistently excellent array of material from the scruffy-but-sumptuous harmonies of The silt to the wayward jazz of Drumheller, and from the strange standards of the Reveries to the Allison Cameron Band's eccentric blend of contemporary composition and various folk idioms. 

Well... good news!  Not only are they putting all 22 of the earlier albums up on Bandcamp on July 16th, they're also starting up again with three new releases.  Said trio of albums includes a new one from the Draperies — an improvising trio featuring Chenaux, Ryan Driver and Doug Tielli, Golden Melody Awards — the duo of Driver and Kurt Newman, as well as a recording devoted to the music of eldritch Priest.


How to proceed:
1. Follow them on Bandcamp.
2. Have a look at what Tim Rutherford-Johnson (of Wire infamy) had to say about this.
3. And check out this throwback playlist featuring a track from each of the initial releases.


                                                             
Nick Storring — Newfoundout 
(CD/DL out: July 16th on mappa editions)

1. Dome   2. Dome Extension   3. Frood   4. Khartum   5. Silver Centre
6. Vroomanton    7. Newfoundout

Newfoundout is my 7th full-length release following last year's acclaimed My Magic Dreams Have Lost Their Spell (Orange Milk Records).  While maintaining a similar methodology that uses acoustic and electromechanical instruments exclusively, it trades its predecessor's cello-heavy quasi-orchestral sound for something that's more elusive but also driving emphasizing wind and percussion instruments.  CDs and digital versions will be available from the amazing Slovak label mappa editions (whose catalogue you should definitely explore).  Click above to preview three of the seven pieces.



                                                             

RECENT RELEASES
Rose Bolton — The Lost Clock
(CS/DL out: June 25th on Important Records/ Cassauna) AVAILABLE NOW!

The JUNO-nominated Rose Bolton’s first release for Important Records subsidiary Cassauna manages to reconcile the disparate streams of its composer’s rich artistic practice. The shadowy sound palette and delicate volatility of form are a testament to Bolton’s imagination and varied experience, which, in addition to electronic music, encompasses chamber and orchestral works, installation, film scores, and beyond. Her extensive work with instrumental forces is reflected in her meticulous sound design here. Although synthetic in origin, this poignant soundworld teems with a dynamic, breathing, tactility.  The Quietus recently called it ""softly addictive, suspending time like staring out over the flickering city lights at night."

PREVIEW + ORDER CASSETTE HERE
PREVIEW + ORDER DIGITAL HERE

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Jessica Ackerley — Morning / mourning
(CD/CS/DL out: May 28th on Cacophonous Revival) AVAILABLE NOW!

This richly textured solo guitar offering serves as an intense and intimate portrait of Jessica Ackerley’s sonic personality. The Canadian-American guitarist and composer became a fixture of the New York scene, performing alongside the likes of Tyshawn Sorey, Daniel Carter, Marc Edwards, Luke Stewart, Ryan Sawyer, Gabby Fluke-Mogul, Nick Fraser, Elisa Thorn at venues including The Stone, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Blue Note. She was recently featured on Adult Swim’s compilation New Jazz Century alongside heavyweights such as Matana Roberts, Anna Webber, Makaya McCraven, and Jaimie Branch.

Recorded during a period of self-isolation, the music on Morning / mourning confronts grief and questions of identity, while paying homage to two of her primary mentors Vic Juris and Bobby Cairns—both of whom passed away recently. The result is a nuanced and idiosyncratic collection of work that embraces lyricism and sonic exploration in equal measure, its poignant and personal performances only amplified by the way in which they were captured.


 PREVIEW + ORDER HERE

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Intersystems — #IV
(LP/CD/DL out: April 30th on Waveshaper Media) AVAILABLE NOW!



"Intersystems create visceral listening experiences that transport you into netherworlds. It’s good to feel uncomfortable sometimes because inside the darkness we find new pieces of ourselves. #4 is one wild ride." — Brad Rose, Foxy Digitalis

Infamous psychedelic multimedia collective, Intersystems, makes a surprise return with their first album since 1968, #IV, out April 30th from Waveshaper Media (of I Dream of Wires notoriety). Comprised of architect Dik Zander, light sculptor Michael Hayden, poet Blake Parker, and musician John Mills-Cockell (of Syrinx, Kensington Market and more), this groundbreaking Torontonian group was known for its hi-tech pan-sensory events, and a trilogy of defiant and disorienting records that have since become coveted collector’s items (and seen lavish reissue via Alga Marghen)

Nearly fifty years on, Hayden and Mills-Cockell decided to revive the long-dormant project with a series of sessions at Hamilton, Ontario’s storied Grant Avenue Studio. This music, documented #IV remains congruent with the project’s original impulse, yet is irrefutably of the present moment. Taking cues from its stark predecessor, a modular Moog synthesizer system is the primary instrument, but here the sonorities that Mills-Cockell conjures are dynamic and diverse. Meanwhile, Parker’s texts are rendered in computer-synthesized voices that alternate between an eerily life-like delivery and slurred cybernetic faltering, bringing a glossy dystopian veneer to the group’s anxious surrealism.


"#IV is an album we have played several times and still remains totally confusing. [...] This album isn’t them mellowing with age or getting cosy. If anything, the huge gap in their discography has just made their uncompromisingly wild art even more concise and elegant than ever. The entire album is an unexpected but gratefully received gift – amazing stuff."
John Nicol, Obladada 

 PREVIEW + PURCHASE HERE

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Tim Brady — Actions Speak Louder
(3xCD/DL out: April 23rd on Redshift Records) AVAILABLE NOW!

Award-winning Montréal composer and guitarist Tim Brady has spent the good part of four decades unfolding a potent and polymorphous body of work. Once hailed by Guitar Player as one of the 30 most important guitarists for the future of the instrument, Brady’s virtuosity palpably drives his music, generating a surging energy that even illuminates moments of repose. Yet this same energy also propels his imagination well beyond the confines of the guitar. His catalogue bounds effortlessly from symphonic heft to moody electroacoustics, from sinewy chamber works to art-song mutations, all which can be heard over the course of the Actions Speak Louder triptych, sold both separately and as a set from Vancouver's Redshift Records.

"Brady is very much a contemporary composer, equal parts post-Steve Reich and post-King Crimson (and a great example of the kind of compositional thinking that comes when the main instrument is the electric guitar), and so by extension with roots in Bach, Stravinsky, Robert Fripp, Glenn Branca, and others. That’s still a sweet spot for contemporary compositional thinking."
George Grella, Kill Yr Idols


PREVIEW + PURCHASE HERE



                                                            
ADDITIONAL TITLES FROM R~M ARTISTS

Recent coverage for Riparian Media Artists:
Jessica Ackerley and Rose Bolton mentioned in Avant Music News' Best of the First Half of 2021
Rose Bolton — The Lost Clock in Obladada
Rose Bolton — The Lost Clock in The Quietus
Rose Bolton — The Lost Clock in The Whole Note
Jessica Ackerley — Morning / mourning in The Whole Note
Jessica Ackerley — Morning/ mourning in PopMatters
Jessica Ackerley — Morning/ mourning in textura
Tim Brady interview in PanM360
Tim Brady — Actions Speak Louder in San Francisco Classical Voice
Intersystems — IV in Foxy Digitalis
CJSW's Noise featuring a number of R~M artists


                                                            
FURTHER BANDCAMP SOUNDS...
Album — Album (Telephone Explosion)
FET.NAT and Last Ex's Olivier Fairfield and Simon Provencher (Victime) team up for this engrossing study in bent grooves.

Powerdove — Machination (Murailles Music)
Annie Lewandowsky's Powerdove returns with arrestingly textural songs that is sure to appeal to fans of Ashley Paul, Insides, and This Heat.

Lucia Nimcová & Sholto Dobie — DILO (mappa editions)
A wondrous and strange fusion of field recording, Ukranian folk music and abstract collage.  

Tikkun Olam — World Ov Light (Jewel Garden)
Colin Fisher and Ilyse Krivel join Brad Rose's label the Jewel Garden for this shimmering summery outing.

Kenneth Kirschner & Joseph Branciforte —  From the Machine: Volume 1 (greyfade)
Two captivating, slow-moving, side-length chamber pieces.


For more recommendations, check out my collection (and wishlist) on Bandcamp : https://bandcamp.com/nickstorring


                                                             

 
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