Results for "Vancouver"

Asef Releases 'Confluence,' Blending Middle Eastern Musical Traditions With Contemporary Jazz

November 7, 2026

Vancouver-based jazz quartet Asef has released its debut album, Confluence, an exploration of musical traditions, improvisation and the creative possibilities that emerge when different cultural influences meet. Led by saxophonist and composer Saul Berson, Asef brings together guitarist Itamar Erez, acoustic bassist Sam Shoichet and drummer/percussionist Liam MacDonald. The quartet draws inspiration from Middle Eastern musical ...

Ora Cogan: Hard Hearted Is How You Survive

by Lawrence Peryer
June 27, 2026

Today, we're putting The Tonearm's needle on singer and songwriter Ora Cogan. Ora Cogan's music pulls from folk, country, psychedelia, and gothic rock. She holds all of it without flinching, as heard on the fantastic album Hard Hearted Woman, her latest release on Sacred Bones. Ora has worked as a photojournalist and ...

Meredith Bates: The Quiet Science Of Sound Worlds

by Lawrence Peryer
May 30, 2026

Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on Meredith Bates, a JUNO Award-winning violinist and composer based on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia.Meredith's recent double album, The Observer Effect, spans roughly 140 minutes of electroacoustic music built from violin, viola, field recordings, and electronics, composed and recorded live in the studio, with very few edits. ...

Mal Wadron, Sam Rivers, Nick Fraser, Meredith Bates, and much more

by Lawrence Peryer
May 21, 2026

An hour of creative music where archival recordings and new releases share equal footing. Irreversible Entanglements and a newly surfaced 1984 Mal Waldron-Sam Rivers improvisation open the show; Alabaster DePlume, a Daunik Lazro-Joëlle Léandre-Paul Lovens trio, Work Money Death, and Nick Fraser carry the middle sets; and Vancouver composer Meredith Bates closes it out with music ...

Noah Franche-Nolan: Music-Making As Spiritual Practice

by Lawrence Peryer
February 7, 2026

Today we're putting The Tonearm's needle on pianist and composer Noah Franche-Nolan. Noah's latest album, Rose-Anna, is named after his Acadian great-grandmother, a church organist from Grand Falls, New Brunswick. The Acadians are French-speaking people with deep roots in Canada's Maritime provinces. The Acadians were expelled from their land by the British in the ...

The Beatroot Road Champion Post-genre Music, Unite Artists From Across The Globe On 'Humanimal'

December 28, 2025

The Beatroot Road continue their mission of fearless artistic creativity, which unites artists from around the globe spanning nearly every subgenre, while somehow tying it into a singular, powerful theme on the expansive new album Humanimal Released on October 25th, this release is connecting, meaningful, visceral and exciting. This is truly a genre-defying journey, reminiscent in ...

The Beatroot Road

The Beatroot Road is a brand new project with new releases every 6 weeks starting October 2024.

It’s a varied collection of international and intercultural songs with half a century of history, conceived during lockdown in a recording studio in the forest on a mountain near Vancouver BC.  All have Beats at the core, but show deliberate disrespect to genres and conventions wherever possible. We use the wrong instruments in the wrong styles with the right intentions. We got tired of the same old same old.

​This music, at its heart, is heavily processed recorded performances of music for dancing by human musicians.

Mike Clark: Standard Deviations

by Paul Rauch
August 6, 2025

Bringing new life to jazz standards is a longtime tradition in jazz, whether it be on the bandstand or in the studio. With their latest Sunnyside recording, Standard Deviations, the iconic drummer Mike Clark and Los Angeles-based tenor saxophonist Michael Zilber venture there once again, following Mike Drop, their 2021 Sunnyside release. The result is a ...

Stefan Smulovitz: Painting Music, Making Light

by Lawrence Peryer
December 20, 2024

Stefan Smulovitz sits in his Roberts Creek studio, studying a delicate watercolor painting of circles and mountain forms. A gong rests nearby, ready to echo the round shapes that dance across the page. This is how “The Pier," the opening track of his album Bow & Brush (RedShift, 2024), came to life, finding musical gestures within ...

Gordon Grdina: The Axe Man Cutting Down Borders

by Lawrence Peryer
September 7, 2024

Today, the Spotlight shines On JUNO Award-winning oud player and guitarist Gordon Grdina.Gordon's work defies limitations, be they geographical, distance, time, or genre. His music incorporates avant-garde jazz, free improvisation, indie rock, and the Arabic tradition.So much music, so many collaborators, and so much ground to cover in our talk. We made ...