Tag Archive for the term: suoni + review

Tren Brothers, Mary Margaret O’Hara and Bernier/Trottier at Sala Rossa for the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, Thursday, June 19th.
Bernier/Trottier started the night with an atmospheric mixture of acoustic guitar and laptop. “Welcome to this summer evening”, it said. The laptopist shifted brushes along a snare drum, sampling these textures on top of field [...]

I was pleased to discover upon arriving at Casa Del Popolo this past Wednesday that the Marissa Nadler cancellation had opened up a spot for some good friends of mine to play at the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival this year. For what was billed as a Rotating Sphere and The Festering Gases presentation, we [...]

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I arrived early for the Richard Bishop/ Alan Bishop show on Wednesday evening. A small crowd gathered outside to smoke, chat, hang out and kill time before the performance. I couldn’t help but notice a slightly melancholic vibe that hung over the small crowd, as if the spirit of Charles Gocher were present and longing [...]

Sandro Perri played after Tradition at Monday’s Suoni Festival show at Sala Rossa. I missed Tradition, but he’ll be back in August for a very special Fixture Records show that I’ll announce very soon…(suspense suspense).

Nathan posted about Sandro Perri’s Constellation release Tiny Mirrors a few months ago. I really enjoyed Perri’s set on Monday. [...]

Ideal Lovers opened Saturday’s Suoni Festival show at a packed Sala Rossa. They played funky blues that would be well-suited to an outdoor venue at the Jazz Festival. The standing crowd danced a bit and the band did a good job of warming us up, but I was anxious to see Vic Chestnutt and tired [...]

On Sunday when I arrived at Casa del Popolo, I had no idea what to expect, and no idea what I was in for. Drawing me to the 15th soiree of Festival Suoni Per Il Popolo’s programming were Ian Ferrier, Pharmakon and a mysterious Sadio Sisshoko, who I considered to be opening the show from [...]

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SPACE IS THE PLACE!
These are the words of the mighty Sun Ra (aka Sonny Ray, Sonny Lee, Le Sonra & Herman Poole Blount), legendary jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher. He left this planet back in 1993 to journey into the cosmos (which he already knew so well) [...]

Mount Eerie is about trees and rocks and being around people.
Phil Elverum played as the Microphones until his 2003 album, Mount Eerie, after which he took on the name as a performing persona. It actually seems like less of a persona and more a case of experimenting with melding yourself and an idea or a [...]

Spirits converged upon the old Spanish social club once again last night for the Suoni Per Il Popolo festival, to be immersed in the magnetism of a group of musicians partially responsible for building the foundation of the Montreal music community. There was a sign on the door that read “100% Sold Out” and people [...]

This is protest music, and when the wave of sorrowful lament and resistance sweeps over you with all its lifting counter melodies and strings there is a water welling in your brain stem effect, the waves of generations of the hopeful heart broken by war and greed, longing to make music and love in peace. [...]