Kazoo! #102 Aug 28th: GRIMES / POP WINDS / DOLDRUMS + CS GALLERIES OPENING @ Ed Video
August 27, 2010 | No Comments
Ed Video, Kazoo!, and CS Galleries are teaming up to bring you a night of music, art, and spectacle. Check it out:
GRIMES:
myspace.com/boucherville
Grimes is Claire Boucher. Lack of musical training yields unpretentious but compelling composition in which electronic and organic sounds come together in a colourful goth-pop-noise medley. Drawing from classical medieval chorale and synth-pop, among other things, Grimes fuses contemporary instrumentation with classical vocal practices from around the world.
POP WINDS:
myspace.com/thepopwinds
Hailing from Ontario but residing in Montreal, Pop Winds formed in the spring of 2009. They have released one EP on Arbutus Records. Since then the trio has been spreading the gospel of their ambient psychedelic pop from loft space to bar stage armed with a guitar, a keyboard and a saxophone. Their first full-length, The Turquoise, was released in April 2010.
DOLDRUMS:
myspace.com/doldrumstoronto
“percussion-heavy, synth- and vocal-driven experimental psychedelic soup project” – Scott Gray, Exclaim Magazine
Doldrums is the project of Airick Woodhead (of Sprial Beach) joined by lots of percussion. Their first release was a VHS mixtape which you have to see to believe. Check it out on youtube.
CS GALLERIES:
CS Galleries is a collective of students and recent graduates from the University of Guelph’s fine art program who like to create conceptual public art projects, multiples, publications, and have a lot of fun. CS Galleries has decided to create a temporary sculpture park in a forest a few kilometers near the university campus. For a brief time, Guelph will have two official sculpture gardens, the other belonging to the Macdonald Stewart Art Centre. Ed Video will act as downtown headquarters for the new park, as a site to display documentation, marketing materials, live video feeds and speak to representatives.
@ Ed Video (40 Baker St)
All Ages
Doors 8pm, Show 9pm
$5 – $8 (sliding scale PWYC)
Poster by Dave Willekes
Kazoo! #101: Play Guitar / Innes Wilson & His Opposition – Aug. 5th @ eBar
July 23, 2010 | No Comments
After a short summer vacation, Kazoo! is back with a great show to kick off August.
INNES WILSON & HIS OPPOSITION
www.myspace.com/inneswilson
Innes Wilson are a Guelph based 4-piece that play a mix of folk and country heavily influenced by 90’s grunge bands. The band features Innes Wilson on guitar, Adam Sturgeon on bass, Kirsten Palm on keys, and Nathan Campagnaro on drums. Their newest album ‘Cardigan Summer’ was released on vinyl in March on local imprint Out Of Sound Records. The record has been getting great reviews and they’ve taken their live show on the road with an a few extensive tours in 2010.
PLAY GUITAR
www.myspace.com/playguitarplayguitar
“Canadian trio with a solid outside fix on pop dynamics. They have a jittery edge that recalls The Feelies a bit, but it’s wrapped in something both doughy and disjointed. Does that mean it sounds like The Bongos? Not really” -Byron Coley, WIRE.
Kazoo! #101: Thursday August 5th
@ e-Bar (41 Quebec St)
All Ages / LIC
Doors 9:30, Show 10pm Sharp
$5 – $8 (sliding scale)
Kazoo! #100: Polydactyl Hearts / Kite Hill + djs, visuals & more – June 10th @ eBar
June 4, 2010 | No Comments
Kazoo! has reached it’s 100th show and 4th anniversary. Our first show was June 2nd 2006 and since then we’ve hosted 3 city-wide arts festivals, published a quarterly arts zine, and hosted our year-round new music series. Over the years there are lots of people who’ve come together to make this happen; music lovers, artists, and organizers. So let’s celebrate together!!!
POLYDACTYL HEARTS
http://www.polydactylhearts.ca/
From the creators of Le Cyc, comes a new half hour multimedia performance entitled ‘Hello Adventure’. The project was commissioned by Wavelength and debuted at the Images Festival in April 2010, where it also received the Overkill Award.
In a series of six shorts, Hello Adventure uses stop-motion animation and a live musical score to create a wildly imaginative world in which the basic structures of society have begun to unravel. Rapid transformations of urban space, language, and biology cause upheaval and disorientation as characters search for an identity in a world where everything is changing. Illustrations and paintings by Dave Willekes are synchronized with original music composed and performed by a six-piece orchestra . Willekes’ stop-motion visuals are created using a range of mediums including oil paints, charcoal, pencil crayon, and cut and paste. The visuals are projected and synchronized using a game-pad to control the speed, panning, and zooming of the images to go along with the music.
The orchestra made up of Eihab Boraie, Claire Whitehead, Martin Eckart, Dave Bazinet, Brad McInerney, Dan Paille, and Andra Zommers uses electric bass, drums, piano, synthesizer, saxophone, clarinet, violin and vibraphone to create a soundtrack that ranges from instrumental scores to lyrically driven narratives. Composed collectively, the visuals and music are interwoven as images correspond to specific timbres and metric changes within the music.
With musical and visual styles in constant flux, the performance conveys the idea that often the way things change is more remarkable than what they change into.
KITE HILL (featuring members of Ohbijou)
http://www.kitehill.ca/
KITE HILL is a string, drum, and winds band from New Toronto, Canada. It is a union of people wholly fascinated with the wonder of our world. Songwriter and composer Ryan Carley takes active inspiration from old books, wildlife, and the rural landscape where he grew up. Sonic inspiration is processed much more passively. Songs, tunes, themes, drum lines, and voices of friends and family come together as a great and beautiful blended noise that continually washes over the writing of new works. Collaborators and composers Mika Posen, Steve Lappano, Anissa Hart, Tyler Belluz, and a host of friends, bring further artifacts and creations to the table; causing songs to tilt and sway, and revealing surprising movements and patterns. As such, Kite Hill wanders in and out of diverse musical territory, drawing lines through the borders of baroque pop, instrumental, and world music.
Always eager to cut their own path, the band often set their sights on less seen parts of their homeland. In August 2009 they headlined the first edition of the Inroads Festival, which brought a troupe of emerging songwriters and composers to seven locations in Bruce County, Ontario. In hopes of connecting deeply with the landscape, its people, and their stories, Kite Hill and their contemporaries joined with community members in the creation of original works centred on emblematic aspects of each town visited. The result was seven original songs, and a string of shows in locations rarely visited by New Toronto artists.
Later this summer, Kite Hill will release Rest & Run, a thirteen track exploration of potential and action that forms the first part of the series, The Wild, Wild World of Wood, Wind and String.
Kite Hill’s set at Kazoo! #100 will also feature projections created by Tim Fagan.
ANTS IN YOUR PANTS
between sets, Guelph’s own DJ Chadillac will be spinning an all vinyl set with visuals from Live ACtion Fezz controlled by an analogue video mixer. Together Chadillac and Live ACtion Fezz are hosting a new night called Ants in Your Pants at Atmosphere the last Thursday of each month. Check it out!
SEAN RICHARDSON
Sean is a Guelph photographer who has managed to capture some really special moments over the last five years. Be it a house show, a big festival, or a dance performance, Sean was likely there, taking photos. At Kazoo! #100, we’ll be featuring a selection of Sean’s photos from Kazoo! shows over the years.
Kazoo! #100 — 4th Anniversary Party
Thursday June 10th
@ eBar (41 Quebec St) – Doors 9:30, Show 10pm – All Ages / LIC
$5 – $8 (sliding scale)
Kazoo! #99: The Racoon Wedding / BA Johnston / The Lava & Ash – June 3rd @ eBar
May 21, 2010 | No Comments
THE RACOON WEDDING:
http://www.myspace.com/theracoonwedding
From country stomp to punk to dylanesque lyrical prowess, The Racoon Wedding play as loud or as soft as they please. Members of the band are also the founders of the all ages venue and art space The Ford Plant in Brantford, On. They have released one split 7″ with now defunct Guelph band Elbow Beach Surf Club. Their new LP “Gather Gather Bones/Rattle Rattle Truth” was released in October of 2009 on their own Ford Plant Recording Co.
BA JOHNSTON:
http://www.myspace.com/bajohnston
Ba Johnston has spent the last 4 years either living at his moms or touring Canada on the greyhound bus. he’s played in laundromats, laundry rooms, stag and does, church halls, legions, bars, bookstores, vegan cafes and other hell holes across this country. his music is nerd rock at its highest point, dork lullabyes and loser anthems. 5 albums later he is still eating mr.noodles in his moms basement and hoping to soon escape.
THE LAVA AND ASH:
http://www.myspace.com/thelavaandash
From Toronto, the Lava and Ash make garage rock sound like something entirely new. The band is made up of 4 members of Brantford’s Dead Love Triangle. Their new EP is a detailed playing card with a download code that was released on local Guelph label Out of Sound Records.
Kazoo! #99: Thursday June 3rd
@ e-Bar (41 Quebec St)
All Ages / LIC
Doors 9:30, Show 10pm Sharp
$5 – $8 (sliding scale)
Poster by Dave Willekes
Kazoo! #98: Braids / Live Action Fezz – Monday May 31st @ Ed Video
May 14, 2010 | No Comments
Kazoo! #98: Monday May 31st
Kazoo! & Ed Video present…
BRAIDS
http://www.myspace.com/braidsmusic
Braids were originally formed in Calgary and now call Montreal home. They make lush atmospheric songs with samplers and electronics. Their live shows and early recordings have garnered a lot of press and excitement, with good reason. This experimental pop band is not to be missed. They have released one 5 song EP and are currently on a cross Canada tour.
LIVE ACTION FEZZ
http://www.myspace.com/liveactionfezz
As “Live Action” Fezz from Green Go creates experimental and playful electronic music. Drawing on skwee influences, samples, and loops, he creates intricate looped dance music. For this show he will be performing with crazy projections.
** Dioscuri who were originally scheduled for this show have been replaced by Live Action Fezz **
Poster by Candace Sepulis
@ Ed Video (40 Baker st) – All Ages
$5-$8 (sliding scale) – 8pm
Kazoo! #97: Jenny Omnichord / JJ Ipsen – May 13th @ eBar
May 11, 2010 | No Comments
After Kazoo! fest 2010, our regular Kazoo! series returns with an exciting show featuring the Vinyl / Board Game release of Jenny Omnichord’s “All Our Little Bones” and JJ Ipsen.
JENNY OMNICHORD:
http://www.labelfantastic.com
http://www.myspace.com/jennyomnichord
Jenny Omnichord is a solo side-project of Jenny Mitchell, vocalist, song-writer and multi-instrumentalist for Guelph, Ontario’s noted young indie band The Barmitzvah Brothers. Her new album, the first release on her new label “Label Fantastic”, will be released on vinyl as well as CD, and the vinyl cover will double as a Cross-Canada board game! This show is her Guelph release party for the album & board game entitled “All Our Little Bones”. Jenny also recorded this album alongside a full backing band, who will be joining her for the Guelph release of “All Our Little Bones”.
JJ IPSEN:
http://www.myspace.com/jjipsen
J.J. Ipsen is a pretty simple guy. He uses what’s around him to create achingly catchy folk-torch pop diamonds-in-the-rough. “J.J. Ipsen’s Laundry” contains eight of these diamonds, inspired by books, film, love, friends and Labatt 50. Written in greenhouses, music shops, bedrooms and car seats, they’re your favourite shirt, your beaten-up jeans and your reliable sweater. Drawing on influences like Rufus Wainwright, Wilco and Brian Wilson, Ipsen writes songs that reflect a high degree of musicality and lyrics that are both thoughtful and insightful. With a strong background in English literature and music, J.J. and friends are currently hashing out new material for a full length recording and tour later this year. A fresh, comfortable and honest new voice in Toronto’s bustling music scene, “J.J. Ipsen’s Laundry” isn’t the second coming, it’s just a small collection of clever songs from the heart.
@ eBar (41 Quebec st) – All Ages / LIC
$5-$8 (sliding scale) – All tickets at door – Doors 9:30pm, Show 10pm
poster by John O’Regan – http://www.hypelighter.com
Kazoo! fest 2010 wrap up
May 1, 2010 | 1 Comment
Kazoo! fest 2010 was a huge success. Thanks to the performers, volunteers, and organizers who made something special happen over these 5 days. A city wide project like Kazoo! fest requires a lot people to come together and this years festival was the result of a whole community of people making things happen. So thank you!
Special thanks to Gregory Pepper for his lovely design work for this years festival. And thanks to our local business and community partners, without their support, this festival wouldn’t have been possible.
We’re already looking forward to more shows and events, as Kazoo! is a year-round endeavor. We’ll have more show listings up soon, and our regular series resumes Thursday May 13th with the vinyl release for Jenny Omnichord alongside JJ Ipsen.
Below are videos, podcasts, and photos from Kazoo! fest 2010:
Radio / Audio:
CBC Radio 3 Breakfast Club with Vish Khanna
On Sunday April 25th, we hosted a breakfast house show with Ghost Bees and Rae Spoon. Vish Khanna from CBC Radio 3 recorded a series of interviews at the show for his Breakfast Club show. You can download the podcast here. Or you can go to this link to listen to the full program.
Videos:
Gregory Pepper & His Problems – Feeling Underneath The Weather
Gregory Pepper & His Problems
D’urbervilles – New Song
Noah 23 – Resistance
Noah 23 – New Song
Rae Spoon – My heart is a piece of garbage, fight seagulls fight
Ghost Bees – New song
Richard Laviolette & the Oil Spills – Airtight: no sunlight
Maggie Macdonald @ Kazoo! Zine Fair – Saturday April 24th
“Mapping The Small Town Underground”
Part 1/3
Part 2/3
Part 3/3
Photos:
Sean Richardson on flickr – Photos from Brides, Lullabye Arkestra, Flowers From Hell, PS I Love You, and Diamond Rings.
Kazoo! fest day two
April 22, 2010 | No Comments
Thanks to everyone who came out to last nights events. The opening party was a blast, in case you missed it, the Ed Video gallery space (40 Baker St) is still open today and all day tomorrow. A huge thanks to Gregory Pepper & His Problems, The D’urbervilles, and Ben Gunning for making the first night of Kazoo! fest a memorable one.
We’ve got a few exciting events happening this evening, a house show at the Attic featuring Sean Nicholas Savage, Pop Winds, and Silly Kissers. This is an early show starting at 7pm sharp, details are here. Also, starting at 10pm, we are co-presenting WL #502 with Toronto’s longest running new music series Wavelength. The show will feature the Guelph debut of Soft Copy, the long awaited return of Brides, and the incredible Lullabye Arkestra. Don’t miss out! The show is at the e-Bar (41 Quebec St.) and tickets are only available at the door, so show up early, this show will sell out.
Also, don’t forget about our exciting events tomorrow, we’ve Bruce Peninsula, Flowers of Hell, and Katie Stelmanis playing at the Dublin St. church. Show starts at 8pm sharp. Advance tickets are still available at Ground Floor Music at 13 Quebec St. in Guelph, or for out of town folks, you can email milanovichlil@hotmail.com to reserve tickets at the door.
Vish Khanna of CBC Radio 3 hosted a special edition of the Breakfast Club featuring Kazoo! fest performers Noah 23 and Gregory Pepper & His Problems. Download it here.
Opening night party @ Ed Video
April 21, 2010 | No Comments
Our opening night party on Wednesday April 21st at 7pm will launch the festival and feature artwork as well as a dance performance entitled ‘Blank or Bust’ by Lindsay Roe. Presented by Kazoo! fest and Ed Video, the space will host a video installation by Windsor arts collective Broken City Lab chronicling their work over the past year and a half, a photo exhibit by Sean Richardson, and music video and documentary video shorts by Colin Medley. We will also have the ‘Kazoo! fun fur photo booth’ by Olivia Brown.
Everything happens at the Ed Video gallery space (40 Baker St). There will be $2 Wellington Brewery beers, free Salsateria food, and lots of fun people to hang out with. Doors open at 7pm, bar closes at 10pm sharp. After, Ben Gunning, Gregory Pepper & His Problems, and D’urbervilles will be at the e-Bar for our first show of the week. So get out early and let’s get this festival started!!
Kazoo! fest Podcast #4
April 21, 2010 | No Comments
The 4th installment of our Kazoo! fest podcast series is ready to go. This episode features Kazoo! fest volunteers Peter Bradley and Adam Sturgeon talking about the festival and Live Action Fezz of Green Go. It includes tracks from Silly Kissers, Sean Nicholas Savage, Flowers of Hell, Lullabye Arkestra, Green Go, Bocce, Soft Copy, Weird Weather. The podcast is produced by CFRU 93.3 FM radio host Boston Carlyle host of ‘Fishing With Boston’. The podcast is brought to you by CFRU 93.3 FM and Wellington Brewery.
Kazoo! fest Podcast #4
Kazoo! fest Podcast #3
Kazoo! fest Podcast #2
Kazoo! fest Podcast #1
Produced by Boston Carlyle at CFRU 93.3 FM in Guelph. The Kazoo! fest Podcast is brought to you by CFRU 93.3 FM and Wellington Brewery.
