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THE AMBiENT PiNG http://www.theambientping.com Tuesdays @ HACiENDA - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor - Toronto (upstairs - directly across from the Bathurst subway station) Doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30 - PayWhatYouCan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THiS Tuesday February 7th . Arms Full of Sound "Journey To Ambientia Winter" Journey to Ambientia 2: Seasons, is the year long project from Arms Full of Sound that will take you back to that special place, deep within the ambient mind. On the last journey, you were taken to the powerful place called Ambientia, where you were able to explore its strange ways of music. The Traveler is still there trapped in the timeless world of music. We now embark on the year-long journey to help the Traveler come home. We return to Ambientia and experience what the Traveler has learned so that we may help him home. The seasons change one into another and back again. Our journey begins again. All must end where it began. Arms Full of Sound is an Ambient-Electronic music performer formed 4 years ago by Paul Needler. Using a large compliment of analog, digital and software synthesizers, Arms Full of Sound produces live blends of ambient music, usually all improvisational. http://www.armsfullofsound.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Before Sets CD . Phaedra by Tangerine Dream To get us in the mood, we phade all the way back to 1974 for this classic ambient sequence album by electronic music pioneers Tangerine Dream. http://www.tangerinedream.org Between Sets CD . Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts by Angelmark This week we feature Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts the second disc by Michael Turner's solo project Angelmark. Read more about it here in rik's *ping things* CD review below and hear it Tuesday @ the PiNG. http://www.resplendent.ca/angelmark . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . COMiNG February 14th . The Sweetheart Sessions with - Subduction Current (Phil Ogison and Catherine Tammaro) - 1 Year Anniversary (Jeff Sinbaldi and Vanessa Price) - Love Puppets (Matt David and Anne Sulikowski) Cupid comes to the PiNG for Valentine's Day to bring us The Sweetheart Sessions from our loveable friends at Worthy Records. Subduction Current - an experi-pop-ambijazz duo, comprised of Catherine Tammaro and her husband Phil Ogison. They believe that their studio recordings should be representative of their live performances, and therefore are always recorded in one take. Catherine contributes many years of musical history having played briefly in Steal This Book and for her collaborations with Tom Third and Dr.Limbo in several projects. She is an accomplished vocalist and soundscapist. Phil Ogison is known to PiNG audiences for his project The Devil In The Design and his collaborations with Anne Sulikowski (BCOM, Lovepuppets) in A Pretty Sonic Splatter and Psychosomatic Climax Machine. Music for 'The Sweetheart Sessions will be from the upcoming release on Worthy Records "In This House" http://tditd.tripod.com http://www.myspace.com/ogison http://www.room101.net/index.htm 1 Yr Anniversary - Foundsounds, artsounds & sweetheart recordings by v.price & j.sinibaldi. http://www.worthyrecords.com LOVE PUPPETS - as+md ... hearts carved in a tree ... a walk on the moon with a short-wave radio .... http://www.worthyrecords.com http://www.myspace.com/lovepuppetss . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews Angelmark "Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts" I like beautiful things, things that make me stop and appreciate the world around me, things that give me pause to think and wonder. "Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts" is the second disc by Michael Turner's solo project Angelmark and it is undoubtedly a beautiful collection of music that inspires the stop, appreciate, pause, think and wonder response in me. "Equipoise" opens the disc with a repeated melody slowly gaining strength and volume, drifting into a more pronounced lead line that dances and floats around the same melodic ideal. A steady rhythm guitar plays underneath as lines blend and blur with each other leading into a gradual dissolve of sounds. It's a stunning opening, something wonderful. "Mam Tor" vibrates and oscillates with a beautiful intensity. A background drone provides accompaniment and a sense of movement that suggests displacement, relocation. It's a very evocative piece, surprisingly effective given it's minimalist nature. The third track "Fleeting Moment..." has a strong cinematic quality to it, suggesting rebirth and reawakening. I like this one, it has a serenity and grace that appeals to the optimist in me. Track four "Wintermute" is a stunningly beautiful piece, a delicate guitar melody that weaves in and out through a cascade of chiming bells and enveloping rhythm work. It's a truly wonderful piece that spirals and dances through the ether, and it's only fault is that it ends too soon. "Others Distant" follows a similar form, a minimal bass line anchoring a droning wall of guitar, a sense of oblique motion, drifting amongst stars. I wonder if this and "Wintermute" are flipsides of the same coin? They certainly complement each other well... "Unseen" has a sense of tension and displacement to it, nothing so harsh as to be unsettling, but definitely an anxious feeling about it. Guitar notes throughout the track feel choked and forced and background drones try to gain shape and form, but never quite succeed. It has a sense of claustrophobia to it, something uncomfortable. And yet despite all of that, it still has a feeling of beauty and charm about it. Lovely work. "Twilight World" offers some relief from the claustrophobia of "Unseen", soft shapes and forms growing underneath swirling backdrops and soothing lead lines. It's something beautiful and shoegazerish, something that a Slowdive or Cocteaus fan would adore, something that would be right at home in a film with Rose McGowan and Johnathan Schaech driving through the desert. Powerful. "Flowers Washed Down By the Rain" closes the disc, a minimal piece employing solemn piano and sweeping guitar playing overtop the steady sound of rain. A very nice environment is created in this one, something very lush and full, while maintaining a delicate quality, a sense of fragility. Very nice. Over the course of these nine songs, Turner creates a beautiful and magical environment for the listener to discover. His sense of space and production is impeccable and his ability to develop and expand on melody is outstanding. Certainly "Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts" is a release by an artist at the top of his game, and certainly deserves repeated listening and further exploration. "Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts" by Angelmark is available now at ping things! http://www.pingthings.com/ANGELMARKfutures.htm rik maclean - rik@pingthings.com http://www.pingthings.com = ambient + electronic + chill things . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . * Other Toronto area sonic/visual events of interest this week: * Monday, February 6th . Esprit Orchestra presents a Benefit Screening and Party for the launch of Burnt Toast a television film of eight short comic operas about love, directed by Larry Weinstein. The music is composed by Alexina Louie with a libretto by Dan Redican, and features Canada’s best opera singers: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Russel Braun, Jean Stilwell, Michael Colvin, Krisztina Szabo, Benjamin Butterfield, Shannon Mercer, and more. The star-studded cast of actors and comedians includes Paul Gross, Colm Feore, Jessica Holmes, Scott Thompson, Leah Pinsent, Colin Mochrie, Debra McGrath, Cathy Jones, and Seán Cullen. The event will be hosted by Mark McKinney and will include performers from the Esprit Orchestra playing excerpts from the film. 8:00 PM at Theatre D Digital – 555 Mount Pleasant Road. Tickets $30 each, or 2 for $50, Patron Ticket - $100* For Tickets and Information Call: (416) 815-7887 or email: info@espritorchestra.com www.espritorchestra.com * Wednesday, February 8 - 11th . The Brampton Indie Arts Festival more info: http://www.friendlyrich.com/iaprogram2006.html The Heritage Theatre: 86 Main Street North, Brampton Beaux Arts Gallery: 74 Main Street N. Brampton Festival Pass: $25 festival pass - only 100 passes are available Nightly tickets (at the door): $12 each or $6 student Advance ticket price per night: Just $10 * Wednesday, February 8 . The Sea Gone Off with the Sun rob clutton: bass, ilana waniuk: violin, brandon valdivia: percussion 9 pm the red guitar 603 Markham St. * Thursday, February 9th . URBAN FIELD SPEAKER SERIES R. Murray Schafer - The iconoclast composer and notorious anti-urbanist, on the sound of the city Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art 401 Richmond Street West, Suite 124 8pm $5 Prefix Photo Subscribers and Students $8 Non-subscribers * Thursday, February 9th . Wavelength Anniversary Wavelength 300 Panel Discussion, featuring Stuart Berman, Amy Hersenhoren, James Klassen, Doc Pickles, Misha Glouberman, Trevor Coleman, Jonny Dovercourt, Bernard Kadosh, Dan Vila, Dylan Reibling, Liz Forsberg, Ryan McLaren, Carl Wilson, Christina Zeidler and James Anderson 7pm @ The Speakeasy, 120 Church St., PWYC $5-$10 * Thursday, February 9th . Wavelength Anniversary Wavelength Anniversary feat. Anagram, Republic of Safety, Kickers, Feuermusik + DJs Shaniquin 9pm @ The Speakeasy, 120 Church St., PWYC $5-$10 * Friday, February 10th . Leftover Daylight Series in association with Arraymusic and AIMT i - Aldcroft / Clark / Fisher w/ ken aldcroft - guitar, dave clark - drums, colin fisher - tenor sax ii - Brandon Valdivia w/ brandon valdivia - solo drums iii - Nick Fraser and Justin Haynes w/ nick fraser- drums, justin haynes- guitar 9pm ARRAYMUSIC Studio 60 Atlantic Ave., Ste 218 $10/6 * Friday, February 10th . Wavelength Anniversary Wavelength Anniversary feat. LAND (Lullabye Arkestra + No Dynamics), Lenin i Shumov, The Bicycles, Castlemusic + DJ Shit la Merde 9pm @ The Boat, 158 Augusta Ave., PWYC $5-$10 * Saturday, February 11th . Wavelength Anniversary Wavelength Anniversary feat. The Hylozoists, Picastro, Ohbijou, Woodhands + DJ Matt Blair 7:30pm @ The Music Gallery at St. George-the-Martyr Church, 197 John St., PWYC $5-$10 * Saturday, February 11th . Alternative to the Alternative Series (The Brampton Indie Arts Festival) 8:15 - catch London, Ontario's Boot Disk is an experimental audio/visual performance trio that mixes sound and image live. Part electronic music/part cinematic cut & paste; Boot Disk is at the forefront of a/v experimentation. Boot Disc is a collaboration between electronic musician Thomas Cermak, turntablist Matti Paquiz, and video guru Skot Deeming. 9:00 - Poet Lynn Harrigan reads from her new book "Moon Sea Crossing" (Black Moss Press) accompanied by ambient soundscape artists dreamSTATE (Scott M2 and Jamie Todd). 9:45 - The Houseplants like to sing and write songs with friends. Featuring Perry Joseph, Gordon Shawcross, and Michael Herring. Beaux Arts Gallery 74 Main Street N. Brampton $12 each or $6 student - Advance ticket price per night: $10 * Sunday February 12th . Canadian Music Centre Continues Province-Wide Professional Readings Series in 2006 The Elmer Iseler Singers and invited musicians, conducted by Lydia Adams, read previously unperformed choral music works by composers Clifford Ford, David Lidov and Micheline Roi. 3 – 5 PM Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto FREE ADMISSION * Sunday February 12th . The NOW Series presented by AIMT and the NOW Lounge 3:00pm - Workshop Improvisation - Scott Thomson 5:00 - Wilson / Keith / Newman / Fisherr w/ john wilson - guitar, michael keith - guitar, paul newman - tenor sax, colin fisher - tenor sax 6:00 - Anthony / Luciani / Norton w/ colin anthony - voice and percussion, jeff luciani - drums, alice norton - voice, electric guitar 4pm-7pm The NOW Lounge 189 Church St. $6 * Sunday February 12th . Dave Clark's Woodshed Orchestra Tania Gill, Blake Howard, Mike Overton, Monica Fedrigo, Lina Allemano, Julia Hambleton & Dave Clark 8pm @ the Pepperjack Cafe 35 King St E Hamilton, Ontario * Sunday February 12th . Soundstreams Canada THE WEAVING MAIDEN Chan Ka Nin composer + THE GHOST OPERA Tan Dun composer Ivars Taurins conductor, VERONICA TENNANT narrator, Xin Wang soprano, PATRICIA GREEN mezzo soprano, ERIC SHAW tenor, Nathaniel Watson baritone Tafelmusik Chamber Choir Accordes String Quartet Wen Xing Zhao pipa plus Kim Morris (dizi), George Gao (erhu), Vivian Xia (yangqin), Calla Tan (guzheng), Beverley Johnston (percussion) 8 pm Glenn Gould Studio 250 Front St. West $30 adult $20 senior $5 student (with valid I.D.) * Sunday, February 12th . Wavelength Anniversary Wavelength Anniversary feat. Henri Faberge and the Adorables, Ninja High School, The Secret Handshake, The Phonemes + DJ Davy Love 9pm @ Sneaky Dee's, 431 College St., PWYC $5-$10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE AMBiENT PiNG is a social sound/art event presenting live performances by Toronto's finest ambient, chillout, improv and experimental music artists plus performers from across the continent, every Tuesday evening at HACiENDA - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor. http://www.theambientping.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Please forward this e-mail to any friends who may be interested in live ambient, chillout and experimental music performances or to any of your appropriate newsgroups. Thanks.