Katharsis Feb. 26 '12

Chris Reimer 1986-2012

Heartbreaking news

Chris was an amazing artist, and a great guy. He accomplished a lot in his 26 years and we can take heart in the fact that he was able to tour the world doing what he loved: playing awesome music with friends. He will be missed by all who had the pleasure of his acquaintance. Read more about him here

This week's show was a tribute to Chris. I first met him in 2005 when he played live on my show with Beneath These Idle Tides and again in 2006 with Azeda Booth. Over the years I saw him play a few times around town with Azeda Booth, with Women, and as a solo artist. I always enjoyed catching up with him at these and other local shows. He was very gracious, down-to-earth, and humble; a super guy.

I am privileged to have known him, however briefly/peripherally, and to have been impacted by his considerable musical talent.

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Women - Eyesore - Public Strain (Flemish Eye)
Azeda Booth - Landscsape (with Grass) - Live on Katharsis Oct. 9 '06
Beneath These Idle Tides - Untitled - Live on Katharsis Aug. 8 '05
Chris Reimer - Benelux - Eye Spy (Flemish Eye Compilation) (Flemish Eye)
Esmerine - Why She Swallows Bullets and Stones - Aurora (Madrona Records)
Tiny Vipers - Dreamer - Life on Earth (Sub Pop)
Greg Haines - Snow Airport - Slumber Tides (Miasmah)
Peter Broderick - Asleep - http:\\www.itstartshear.com (HUSH/Bella Union)
Gareth Dickson - Noon - Quite a Way Away (12K)
Orcas - Arrow Drawn - Orcas (Morr Music)
A Whisper in the Noise - Sad, Sad Song - To Forget (Exile on Mainstream)
Sleepingdog - Horse Lullaby - With Our Heads in the Clouds and Our Hearts in the Fields (Gizeh Records)
Marsen Jules - Birkengeflüster - Golden (Genesungswerk)
Oren Ambarchi - Fractured Mirror (Ace Frehley cover) - Audience of One (Touch)
Mark Kozelek - Duk Koo Kim (10" version) - The Finally LP (Caldo Verde)
Ryan Teague - Shadow Play - Field Drawings (Village Green)
From The Mouth Of The Sun - The Crossing - Woven Tide (Experimedia)

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Katharsis Feb. 19 '12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Sharon Van Etten - Kevin's - Tramp (Jagjagjuwar)
Loom - Wholesome - Epyllion (Self-Released)
Damien Jurado - Life Away from the Garden - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Cold Specks - Holland - Holland (Arts & Crafts)
Mark Lanegan Band - St. Louis Elegy - Blues Funeral (4AD)
Birds of Passage - Disaster of Dreams - Winter Lady (Denovali Records)
Damian Valles - Taxa - Skeleton Taxa (Drifting Falling)
Crooked Fingers - The Hatchet - Breaks In The Armor (Merge)
Piiptsjilling - Ferware (Worn Down) - Wurdskrieme (Experimedia)
The Field Register - Dreams - Miles Distant - Eastern Shore (Ships at Night)
Hammock - Sora - For Nihon (Unseen Music)
Shearwater - Insolence - Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
Lowercase Noises - Persistence - Migratory Patterns (Self-Released)
Colin Kenniff Featuring Hollie Kenniff - Wind and Distance - For Nihon (Unseen Music)
Peter Broderick - Colin - http://www.itstartshear.com (Bella Union/HUSH)
Andrew Bird - Desperation Breeds... - Break it Yourself (Mom+Pop/Bella Union)
Alog - Et Besøk - Unemployed (Rune Grammofon)
Amiina - Púsl - Puzzle (Sound of a Handshake)
1982 - 03:52 - Pintura (Hubro)
Beans - Moon - Inner Cosmosis (Foreverbad)
Beans - Earth - Inner Cosmosis (Foreverbad)

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Katharsis Feb. 12 '12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Marion Williams - The Day is Past and Gone - The Gospel Sound (Disc 2) (Columbia)
Tindersticks - A Night to Still - The Something Rain (City Slang/Constellation)
Mark van Hoen - Holy Me - The Revenant Diary (Editions Mego)
Xela - Recitation - Exorcism (Self-Released)
Clinker + Blake Carrington - Dust Flights, Mirror Softly and Moan - Iron: Dragon's Eye Sixth Anniversary (Dragon's Eye Recordings)
Windy & Carl - Fainting in the Presence of the Lord - We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Larkian & Yellow 6 - Sequences Inversees - Offtempo (Basses Frequences and three:four records)
Bry Webb - Get You Up in Peace - Provider (Idee Fixe)
Fennesz + Sakamoto - 0402 - Flumina (Touch)
Slow Six - This is Your Last Chance (Before I Sleep) - Private Times In Public Places (Western Vinyl)

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Katharsis Feb. 5 '12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Mother Falcon - For Papa - Alhambra (Self-Released)
The Drift - Luminous Friend - The Blue Hour (Temporary Residence Ltd.)
Shearwater - Run the Banner Down - Animal Joy (Sub Pop)
The Caretaker - Increasingly Absorbed in His Own World - Patience (After Sebald) (History Always Favours the Winners)
Songs of Green Pheasant - Deaf Sarah - Soft Wounds (Rusted Rail)
Woodpigeon - For Paulo (Acoustic) - For Paulo (Boompa)
Williamette - Always in Postscript - Always in Postscript (Own Records)
Xiu Xiu - The Oldness - Always (Polyvinyl)
Heidi Hazelton - Head Down - N/A (N/A)
Jannick Schou - We Are Safe in This Room with Cold Sunlight - Sequence2 (Futuresequence)
Burls - How Have You Been? - Burls EP (Bandcamp)
Birds of Passage - Hollow - Winter Lady (Denovali)
Scissors and Sellotape - I Say 'get used to it' - For the Tired and Ill at Ease (Fac-ture)
Damian Valles - Ascent of the Past - Skeleton Taxa (Drifting Falling)
Borealis - Skyhall - Sequence2 (Futuresequence)
Steve Hauschildt - The Impossible Flower - Tragedy & Geometry (Kranky)
Radere - Good Evening, Ghosts (Version) - I'll Make You Quiet (Futuresequence)
Swod - Largo - Drei (City Centre Offices)
Windy and Carl - Spires - We Will Always Be (Kranky)
Zvuku - Cold - Sequence2 (Futuresequence)
Sean McCann - Transplanted Heart - Sincere World (Amethyst Sunset)
Morgan Greenwood - 58936juiceboxe - Winter (Bandcamp)

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Katharsis Jan. 29 '12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Cass McCombs - The Same Thing - Humor Risk (Domino)
Sharon van Etten - Serpents - Tramps (Jagjaguwar)
Jessica Jalbert - O Evening Colors - Brother Loyola (Old Ugly)
Damien Jurado - Nothing is the News - Maraqopa (Secretly Canadian)
Scars & Scarves - Montserrat - Chimes At Midnight (Self-Released)
Jung People - To Leave A Home - Tenterhooks (Self-Released)
= (equals) - Garden Thief - Snow Battered Shine (Self-Released)
Dark Captain - 3 Years to Go - Dead Legs & Alibis (Loaf)
Thee Silver Mount Zion Memorial Orchestra - I Built Myself a Metal Bird - Kollaps Tradixionales (Constellation)
Aquarelle - A Strange Sweet Woe - Sung in Broken Symmetry (Students of Decay)
Fennesz - Liminal - Seven Stars (Touch)
Christopher Willits - Sun Body - Tiger Flower Circle Sun (Ghostly International)
Tycho - Melanie - Dive (Ghostly International)
Umber - Spark Mountain - Morning's Pass EP (Bandcamp)
Ilyas Ahmed - Now Sleeps - With Endless Fire (Immune)
The Nocturnes - The Cradle - Aokigahara (Bandcamp)
Emma Ruth Rundle - Goteborg - Electric Guitar 1 (Bandcamp)
Christina Vantzou + Loscil - And Instantly Take Effect (Loscil Remix) - No 1 Remixes (Kranky)
From the Mouth of the Sun - Like Shadows in an Empty Cathedral - Woven Tide (Experimedia)
Derek Rogers - Firm Implantation - The Exhaustion of Emotion (Bridgetown)
Danny Clay - Winter Veil - I Am A Poor Wayfaring Stranger (Heat Death Records)
Emmalee Crane - Pretty in Pink (Psychedelic Furs cover) - Pretty in Pink Single (The Streetlight Farm)

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Katharsis Jan. 22 '12

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The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]

Jon McKiel - Quils - Tonka War Cloud (Youth Club)

Dixie's Death Pool - Chuck Will's Widow - The Man With Flowering Hands (Drip Audio)

Doug Tielli - The Deepest End - Swan Sky Sea Squirrel (Blocks)

Bry Webb - Lowlife - Provider (Idee Fixe)

Loom - It is Love - Epyllion (Self-Released)

Laura Arkana met Peter Broderick - Het Vuiilnis - Lentemusiek (HUSH)

Laura Gibson - Crow/Swallow - La Grande (Barsuk)

Aaron Martin - Open Knife - Worried About The Fire (Experimedia)

Crooked Fingers - Our New Favourite - Breaks In The Armor (Merge)

Lanterns On The Lake - I Love You Sleepyhead - Gracious Tide Take Me Home (Bella Union)

Sandy Cassels - Championship Banners - Championship Banners b/w Otto Bauer 7" (Periphrasis)

Benoît Honoré Pioulard - A Land Which Has No End - Plays Thelma (Desire Path Recordings)

Threadbare Brother - Goodness - When the War is Over (Self-released)

Ryan Teague - Undone - Causeways (Sonic Pieces)

Trespassers William - Bells (Quiet version) - New Songs & Outtakes (Self-released)

Rue Royale - Crater - Guide to an Escape (Self-released)

Poor Man's Fantasy - Shoreline - Drifter (Desperate Living)

Richard Knox & Frederic D. Oberland - The Wreck of Hope - The Rustle of the Stars (Gizeh)

Julia Holter - Try to Make Yourself a Work of Art - Tradgedy (Leaving Records)

Naph & Chihei Hatakeyama - Age - Air (Whereabouts Records)

Bernice - Don't - What Was That (Self-Released)

The Boats - The Ballad of Achievement - Ballads of the Research Department (12k)

Amiina - In the Sun - Puzzle (Sound of a Handshake)

1982 - 6:02 - Pintura (Hubro)

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Katharsis Jan. 15 '12 - Mark Templeton Interview

Tonight, a phone interview with Edmonton-based sound sculptor Mark Templeton. Mark played at the Epcor Centre on Thurs. Jan 19 as part of the Soundasaurus festival.

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(From Mark's web site:)

Canadian sound artist Mark Templeton utilizes acoustic instruments, found sounds and sampled material to construct textured, collage-like electronic compositions. Since the release of his critically acclaimed “Standing on a Hummingbird” in 2007, his sound has been called "pastoral," but also "painterly" in an attempt to describe how his sources are crumbled and reconstructed into new forms; a process further developed and realized on subsequent releases for Anticipate Recordings, Staalplaat and Sweat Lodge Guru.

Templeton's works have been commissioned by organizations of contemporary dance, film and audiovisual disciplines. His live performances have at times been accompanied by Edmonton-based experimental filmmaker aAron Munson's visuals. In 2009 this ongoing collaboration resulted in the release of M. Templeton & aA. Munson: Acre Loss on CD and DVD.

Templeton has performed at international festivals and alternative spaces such as MUTEK Festival (Montreal), Unsound Festival (Krakow), Eat This Festival (Utrecht), Galapagos (New York), Send + Receive Festival (Winnipeg), Half Die Festival (Rome), Café OTO (London) and Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival (Montreal).

Along with filmmaker/photographer Kyle Armstrong Mark presented EXTENSIONS - an audiovisual performance at the Epcor Centre. EXTENSIONS refering to McLuhan’s book Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man. The performance took place on Thursday, January 19th. The show was both aurally and visually arresting with moments of blissful pastoral beauty and gut-rumbling low frequency noise. Mark's wizardry with the tape loops and effects were mesmerizing and Kyle's visual imagery (looped/spliced/processed film footage etc.) was not just a beautiful visual accompaniment, but visually engaging, both conveying ideas and affecting emotions. The set totally lived up to my expectations. Hopefully it will be recorded for posterity and released in the future.

The interview starts at about the 43 minute mark of the recording and lasts for about 40 minutes. The rest of the show went as follows: The Drift - The Skull Hand Smiles/ May You Fare Well from "Blue Hour" (Temporary Residence Ltd.), Simon Scott - Betty from "Bunny" (Miasmah), Morgan Greenwood - Fur Unison from "Winter" (Bandcamp), Oneohtrix Point Never - Power of Persuasion from "Replica" (Mexican Summer/Software), The Caretaker - When the Dog Days Were Drawing to an End from "Patience (After Sebald)" (History Always Favours The Winners), Saito Koji - Music from "Music" (Resting Bell), Mark Templeton - Beginnings from "Sea Point" (Anticipate), Mark Templeton - Scotch Heart from "Scotch Heart" (Sweat Lodge Guru), [Mark Templeton Phone Interview], Nicola Ratti - Cathrina from "220 Tones" (Die Schachtel), Maps & Diagrams - Hide Yourself in Silence from "Lights Will Call On You" (Nomadic Kids Republic), Kreng - Petite Grimoire from "Grimoire" (Miasmah), Jacaszek - Evening Strains to be Time's Vast from "Glimmer" (Ghostly International), Ben Frost & Daniel Bjarnason - Saccades from "Solaris" (Bedroom Community), Grouper & Ilyas Ahmed - Flickering from "Visitor" (Social Music's Record and Tape Club), Two Bicycles - The Ocean (Part One) from "The Ocean" (Crash Symbols), and Poor Man's Fantasy - Riley Park from "Drifter" (Desperate Living).

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