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June 8 # William Parker Orchestra “Essence of Ellington”@ La Sala Rossa
Click here to buy a ticket. William Parker Orchestra “Essence of Ellington” Preeminent composer/bassist William Parker has been working with large ensembles from the very beginning of presenting his...
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June 11 # Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Marie-Douce St-Jacques, & Karl Lemieux +...
Click here to buy a ticket. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh, Marie-Douce St-Jacques, & Karl Lemieux Il y avait une porte entrouverte qui menait à la cour. Il y avait un sentier qui donnait sur la vallée. Il y...
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June 18 # 200 Years + Maica Mia @ Casa del Popolo
Click here to buy a ticket. 200 Years 200 Years is none other than those straw dogs of skull counting (and flowers!), Ben “Six Organs of Admittance” Chasny and Elisa “Magic Markers” Ambrogio. Yep,...
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June 19 # HOWL! Duets For Abdelrazik w/ Rebecca Foon, Radwan Mounmeh, Peter...
Click here to buy a ticket for 7pm. Click here to buy a ticket for 10pm. HOWL! Duets For Abdelrazik Album launches at Casa del Popolo as part of the Suoni per il Popolo festival. Tuesday, June 19th two...
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June 22 # Institutional Prostitution + Dreamcatcher + Nimalan Yoganathan @...
Click here to buy a ticket. http://www.villavillanola.com/suoni/wp-admin/post.php?post=2967&action=edit&message=1 Institutional Prostitution Ip is a band who would love to be either Jacques...
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June 16 # Days/Months/Years avec Sam Pilafian, Grisha Coleman, Eileen...
Tickets on sale at the door only 10 $. Days/Months/Years avec Sam Pilafian, Grisha Coleman, Eileen Standley, Eden McNutt, & Monica Page Interdisciplinary performance project In May 2011, at the...
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June 30 # The Goods + Foot Prints @ La Sala Rossa
Click here to buy a ticket. The Goods The Goods a vu le jour en août 2002 grâce à deux Djs résidents Scott C et Andy Williams avec pour but de fournir une chaude alternative aux soirées montréalaises....
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June 14 # Wyrd MTL @ La Sala Rossa
Click here to buy a ticket. US GIRLS + SLIM TWIG (Toronto) Continuing with Wyrd’s philosophy of unique collaborations, we’re proud to include a rare performance by Coca Cola. Combining the rhythmic...
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June 8 # Immerson 3 w/ Burkhard Stangl, Angélica Castelló, Chantale Laplante...
Chesterfield Guitarist Burkhard Stangl was born in 1960. He studied classical guitar and music ethnology, and has composed an opera (Der Venusmond, whose 1997 premiere was performed atop the Empire...
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June 12 # Sarah Kenchington + The One Ensemble @ Casa del Popolo
Click here to buy a ticket. Sarah Kenchington Sarah Kenchington builds her own remarkable mechanical instruments, including a pedal-powered hurdy-gurdy, a giant rotating kalimba and her own brass band,...
View ArticleJune 13 # Actions w/ Jean-Sébastien Truchy, Nimalan Yoganathan, Minibloc, and...
Jean-Sébastien Truchy 1:30PM at the corner of Metcalfe and Sherbrooke Jean-Sébastien Truchy, ex Fly Pan Am and Set Fire To Flames, now plays with Souffle, Labios, Femminielli and under his own name. He...
View ArticleJune 14 # Actions w/ Jean-Pierre Gauthier, Magali Babin, Marc-Alexandre...
Jean-Pierre Gauthier Noon at the corner of Marmier and avenue de Gaspé (escalier de viaduc Rosemont) Jean-Pierre Gauthier holds a graduate degree in art from Université du Québec à Montréal, and won...
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June 06 # Mr. Maddin’s Neighbourhood @ FOFA Gallery 8:00 PM
MR. MADDIN’S NEIGHBOURHOOD Short works by Guy Maddin and Friends Various Directors | Canada 1995-2010 | 55min. | Video To coincide with the exhibit GUY MADDIN: HAUNTINGS 1, this short survey of...
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June 01-10 # Guy Maddin’s Hauntings I @ FOFA Gallery 11 AM – 7 PM
Guy Maddin’s Hauntings I 11-channel installation, b&w and colour, silent Commissioned by TIFFBellLightbox, 2010 FOFA will be haunted by a series of short film installations – utilizing a unique...
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June 07 # Immerson 3 w/ Chesterfield (Burkhard Stangl & Angélica Castelló),...
Chesterfield Guitarist Burkhard Stangl was born in 1960. He studied classical guitar and music ethnology, and has composed an opera (Der Venusmond, whose 1997 premiere was performed atop the Empire...
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June 8 # No Joy + Valleys @ Casa del Popolo
Click here to buy a ticket. No Joy The female-fronted noise poppers are certainly content to mine the depleted fields of shoegaze and twee indie sounds for inspiration, the group creates a maelstrom of...
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June 13 # Alasdair Roberts + Tattie Toes @ Casa
Click here to buy a ticket. Alasdair Roberts Alasdair Roberts has been based in Glasgow for the past ten years. His first releases consisted of home-made four-track recordings of his songs under the...
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June 07 # “Tropismes” w/Pierre Hébert & Lori Freedman + “16 MM Experiments”...
Click here to buy a ticket. “Tropismes” w/Pierre Hébert & Lori Freedman Pierre Hébert, formerly an employee of the National film board of Canada where he directed over twenty animation shorts and a...
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June 11 # Jen Reimer & Max Stein @ Saint-Urbain Underpass
Jen Reimer & Max Stein Jen Reimer and Max Stein’s collaboration is influenced by a shared fascination with reverberant spaces and urban soundscapes. Drawing inspiration from the hidden harmonies...
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June 15 # Lethe (Kiyoharu Kuwayama) + Steve Bates @ Darling Foundry
Click here to buy a ticket. Lethe (Kiyoharu Kuwayama) Lethe is the nom de plume of Japanese sound specialist Kuwayama Kiyoharu, whose long running Catastrophe Point series and fruitful collaborative...
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June 14 # Wyrd MTL @ Casa del Popolo
Click here to buy a ticket. BOBO BOUTIN Ex-Les Georges Leningrad drummer, BOBO BOUTIN inhabits a delirious world of warped electronics. One man, yet an overwhelming performance slowly mounting into a...
View ArticleSignal to Noise Magazine review of Suoni 2011
A review of last year’s (2011) Suoni per il Popolo Festival just appeared in Signal to Noise Magazine, now on newsstands, or view the review here: http://lawrencejoseph.org/suoni2011.pdf
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June 8 # RISING TONES CROSS + DAY TRIP MARYANNE @ Videographe
Co-presented with Vidéographe RISING TONES CROSS Ebba Jahn | USA 1984 | 112min.| Video Starring Peter Kowald Quintet, John Zorn & Wayne Horvitz, Billy Bang’s Forbidden Planet, Charles Tyler...
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June 9 # Methods in musical madness @ Videographe
Co-presented with Vidéographe METHODS IN MUSICAL MADNESS This short film program explores the complementarity of music and visual art with animation, experimental shapeshifting, mathematical...
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June 10 # Voluptuous Sleep @ CinemaSpace at the Segal Centre
Co-presented with Cinemaspace Voluptuous Skin Betzy Bromberg | USA 2011 | 95min. | 16mm {I} Language is a Skin sound and music by Dane A. Davis, Zack Settel, Jean-Pierre Bedoyan, Pam Aronoff, James...
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June 16 # Sound Art in the Pool: Solar Year’s Waverly album launch @ Memorial...
Solar Year’s Waverly album launch A fully submersed aquatic sensory experience. Listen to the atmospheric sounds of Solar Year’s new album Waverly, floating and swimming through a quadrophonic...
View ArticleFIMAV 2012: The Wondrous, the Worthwhile and the Walkouts
The 28th annual Festival International de Musique Actuelle de Victoriaville presented 19 shows over 4 days, running May 17 to 20. About 4000 tickets were sold, meaning an average of just over 200 per...
View ArticleMini review: Tim Berne’s Snakeoil – June 1 at the Casa del Popolo
While The Suoni per il Popolo Festival officially runs from June 6 to June 23, there are a couple of excellent jazz shows scheduled just before and just after these dates. The first of these, Tim...
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Suoni through the eyes of Eileen English part 1
NO JOY 8 juin 2012 Casa Del PopoloUnlike Valleys’ weird ecliptic recorded tunes, their live show is delicate and beautiful. Listening to them prior to the show on headphones was like they were on a...
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Suoni through the eyes of Eileen English part 2
Omar Souleyman 10 juin 2012 Il MotoreThe Phedre set last night was interesting to say the least. Reminded me a lot of Of Montreal, or something zany that came out of the Brooklyn area circa 2009....
View ArticleSuoni through the eyes of Nairi Khandjian part 1
I seem to be the last of my friends to not have caught Omar Souleyman’s live act. His fame on this side of the Atlantic was a riddle to me for a while, but what demarks him from the slew of traditional...
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PREMIER WEED-END DU SUONI: LES PIONNIERS À L’OEUVRE! Le 7 juin à la Sala Rossa, nous avons eu droit à une rare performance de Voivod, légendaire groupe originaire de Jonquière qui n’a jamais cessé ses...
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Suoni through the eyes of Nairi Khandjian part 2 :: Penny Rimabud & Louise...
"You stare at me. I stare at you."Who the fuck is Penny Rimbaud? Crass may be legendary, but I didn’t know him by name until a few days ago. I’m not usually for the spoken-word thing but boy am I glad...
View ArticlePhotos by Thien – William Parker Quartet + Raining on the Moon Sextet
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Photos by Deanna – Nilsen/Lemieux, Hébert/Freedman
Tropismes + 16 mm Experiments + Maussade June 7 at Excentris images by deanna radford 16 mm Experiments: BJ Nilsen with Karl Lemieux Tropismes: Pierre Hébert with Lori Freedman
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Photos by Deanna – Rimbaud/Elliott, WRD2KU
Penny Rimbaud with Louise Elliott + We R Dying 2 Kill U June 10 at la Sala Rossa images by deanna radford
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Suoni through the eyes of Eileen English part 3
I have a love affair with two-piece bands and chick drummers. So, it’s easy to say that The Nymphets rocked my socks off last night at La Sala Rossa. No bullshit kind of music, just two voices, a...
View ArticleBilan à mi-chemin du Suoni – Mi figue, mi raisin
Ce n’est plus une nouvelle pour personne (ou presque), le Suoni nous offre depuis quelques années les perles du free jazz, qu’elles soient pionnières ou nouvelles venues. Et c’est sur cette note que...
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Trio 3 ou les intellectuels du jazz
Trois musiciens, trois mots qui résument le jeu de ces vétérans du free jazz : justesse, finesse et vivacité d’esprit. C’est à 21 h tapant que Oliver Lake (anches), Reggie Workman (basse) et Andrew...
View ArticleUn sextet exceptionnel de musique contemporaine
La dernière semaine du Suoni nous promettait une programmation de haut niveau du côté du free jazz. Mardi dernier, je n’ai vu que la deuxième partie du Trio 3, assez pour être très impressionné par...
View ArticleLa maîtrise du chaos
C’est le trio Subtle Lip Can (Bernard Falaise à la guitare, Isaiah Ceccarelli aux percussions et Josh Zubot au violon) qui ouvrait cette soirée, sous le signe de l’expérimental, le 20 juin à la Sala...
View ArticleDialogue à propos de Marc Ribot
Mathieu: « Hey Marie-Ève, le concert de clôture du festival était Marc Ribot en solo, une proposition unique et excitante! Quelles étaient tes attentes?» Marie-Ève: « Avec un guitariste de sa trempe,...
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Photos by Deanna
Lethe (Kiyoharu Kuwayama) + Steve Bates June 15 at Darling Foundry images by deanna radford
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Chris Corsano / Bill Nace / Steve Baczkowski drums / guitar / reeds June 18 at Casa del Popolo images by deanna radford
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