Post-Everything May 30 '08 (showfill)

I filled in for Stan this week on his fantastic show Post-Everything (Friday mornings, midnight to 2 am)...

Stan does a great show, definitely one of my favourites on the station. Stan is off on a musical vacation to Montreal where he is attending Mutek arguably one of the world's finest if not the best avant garde electronic music festival and Suoni Per Il Popolo (Sounds for the People), a festival of "avant garde and experimental liberation music" put on by Godspeed You! Black Emperor bassist, Mauro Pezzente and his partner Kiva Stimac, founders of the infamous Casa del Popolo (The House of the People) and La Sala Rossa (The Red Room) clubs in the Mile End district of Montreal). Casa Del Popolo is a family-run neighborhood vegetarian restaurant, part fair-trade café, part music venue, part bar, and part art gallery. The Arcade Fire, Sam Roberts, Dears, Stars, Metric, and Patrick Watson and many other now widely-acclaimed Montreal acts played some of their first shows here. La Sala Rossa is just across the street and is a beautiful room in a historic Montreal building built by the left-wing Jewish community in 1932 and has also hosted an amazing array of musical performances.

Hopefully Stan won't have his mind so blown by the astounding plethora of incredible musical performances over the next few weeks (and by the beautiful city of Montreal) that he decides not to come back.

In Stan's absence, I played some Spring Heel Jack, Arve Henriksen, Bohren & Der Club of Gore, Kangding Ray, Murcof, Jacaszek, Klimek, Steven Hess & Miles Tilmann, Erik Levander, Christopher Bissonnette, Bersarin Quartet, Marsen Jules, Skyphone, Tim Hecker, Growing, Max Richter, and Sonic Youth. Sorry, I was not able to record the show as my computer is in the hospital.