dangdut

"dangdut cassettes are made by stars, and by newcomers the producers hope will become stars. although the big stars do not perform live, the live performance scene is sustained less by them than by innumerable minor singers who have not a prayer of stardom... the cassette versions by the stars are definitive, and the job of the minor singers is simply to imitate those versions as best they can, meanwhile showing off their costumes and their movements and providing an environment in which the audience can dance"

-from the liner notes of smithsonian folkways recording "indonesian popular music"

Feb 2, Leftover Daylight

I will be playing a set of solo improvised bass music + sound on February 2 at 9:00
Geordie Haley and Alex Chadsey will perform at 10:00

part of the ongoing Leftover Daylight Series. @ Arraymusic, 60 Atlantic Avenue

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a unity of practitioners

On Sunday, January 21 I will be providing sounds for an open yoga class with teacher Allison Alexander at Jivamukti Yoga Toronto.

These events are always engaging, as the paradigm shifts from audience/performer to a unity of practitioners, simultaneously and synergetically aligning energy with environment.

There will be electronic pieces, tribal rhythms, bells, chimes, bowls, improvisations, sounds of the jungle, vine, bird, monkey, stars moon and sun.

visit the jivamukti yoga toronto website for more info.