Sunday, March 17, 2013

Katharsis Mar. 17 '13 (Bitter Fictions Live Set)

This week Bitter Fictions played live in-studio.

Bitter Fictions is the project of local writer, musician, and 'outside' music guru Devin Friesen. He was in the studio to play some tracks from his catalog including a track from his forthcoming LP which will be released Sunday March 24 at Local 510.

You can get a taste of what to expect from this live set.

Download a recording of the show (including Devin's live set) in mp3 format here. The performance starts around the 38 min. mark.

Up until last year, Devin also hosted one of my favourite cjsw programs, Each One Teach One, focusing on the noisier, more experimental side of rock music. You can still catch him doing an occasional show fill on programs such as this one, Off-duty Trip, or Noise.

Devin also brought some records of significant influence to him to play and talk about.

The tracks: [format: Artist - Song - Album (Label)]
Suuns - Edie's Dream - Images Du Futur (Secret City/Secretly Canadian)

Yo La Tengo - Cornelia & Jane - Fade (Matador Records)
Dump - Superpowerless - Superpowerless (Brinkman Records/Morr Music)
Broken Water - Normal Never Happened - Calvin Johnson & The Believer present: The "Love Songs for Lamps" (Believer Music)
Stagnant Pools - Consistency - Temporary Room (Polyvinyl)
Thought Forms - Landing - Ghost Mountain (Invada Records)
Mere - II - Gizeh Records 2013 Sampler (Gizeh Records)
Bitter Fictions - This Is How It Started (live in studio @ cjsw)
Bitter Fictions - Blueprints (live in studio @ cjsw)
Bitter Fictions - Rue Pavée (live in studio @ cjsw)
Bitter Fictions - Slip Away (live in studio @ cjsw)
Bitter Fictions - Raise - Bitter Fictions LP (Shaking Box)
Roy Montgomery - Just Melancholy - Just Melancholy 7" (Ajax Records)
Disolve - 8 Wire - That That Is ... Is (Not) (Kranky)
Bedhead - Bedside Table - WhatFunLifeWas (Trance Syndicate Records)
Unwound - Arboretum - Live Leaves (Unwound Archive)
Sarin Smoke - Atmen Ein - Vent (Mie Music)
Bitter Fictions - Under - Bitter Fictions LP (Shaking Box)

Thanks to Devin for the great performance and to Matt for teching the set.

Local experimental electronic musicians, Valiska and Citadel will be opening for Bitter Fictions at the LP launch, beginning roughly at 9pm next Sunday Mar. 24 at Local 510.

Make sure to tune to Katharsis on April 7 for a live set from Valiska.

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