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Electronic

Transmission 10 x MAPP MTL

by Patrick Baillargeon

For its 10th mission, Transmission joins forces with MAPP MTL to present the MURAL launch party. Starting at 6pm, Hologramme and Francorama get things rolling, followed by Nana Zen and Monosourcil at 7pm, and finally Nate Husser and LeBicar + Dj Alta to close the event. All the money raised will be split between DESTA Black Youth Network and the artists and technicians.

You can also order your cocktail kit, designed and assembled by mixologist Mickey Rizk from Le Mal Nécessaire and Pamplemousse. 100% of the profits from the sale of the cocktails will be donated to DESTA Black Youth Network, a Montreal-based organization created in Little Burgundy that supports black youth aged 18 to 35 in achieving their educational, employability and entrepreneurial goals. For more information, click here.

Classical / Contemporary / Electronic

Musicity at Home

by Rupert Bottenberg

For a decade now, BBC Radio 3’s Nick Luscombe has organized a global array of site-specific musical commissions, under the banner of Musicity, a project aiming to “reclaim our relationship to space and architecture with sound and music as a guide”. As part of the London Festival of Architecture, Luscombe is hosting a special seven-hour livestreamed event, Musicity at Home. It’s a guided tour of South London you can enjoy from your couch, with musical interventions by, among others, Suitman Jungle. That’s Marc Pell of Micachu & the Shapes (pictured above), mixing rush-hour drum & bass live on the kit with jaded reflections on the corporate clockpuncher’s existence. Also on board for this trip along London’s Low Line are violinist Chihiro Ono, domestic disco queen Laima, Angèle David-Guillou (recently interviewed here at PAN M 360), and more.

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Hip Hop

Suoni Per Il Popolo: Q052 and Heathers

by Patrick Baillargeon

Q for Quentin, and 052 for the official name of the Gesgapegiag reserve where he grew up, Mi’kmaq rapper Q052 returns to Suoni Per Il Popolo to tell the story of the reality of the rez and the problems faced today by the Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island in the Gaspé Peninsula. Bumping old-school, funky hip hop, Quentin began writing in the hope that his music could inspire systemic change, as evidenced by his most recent album, Qama’Si (Lève-toi), released in November 2019, and prior to that, 2018’s Rez Life. An ardent defender of Indigenous youth and women fighting for their rights, and ever hopeful of a better future, the rapper’s words are highly topical and confront governments as well as individuals.

Earlier in the evening, the post-punk/grunge band Heathers present the world premiere of their new album.

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Coldwave / Darkwave / Gothic / Post-Punk

She Passed Away and guests

by Patrick Baillargeon

For this exclusive performance, the crepuscular coldwave duo present many tracks that they never, or very rarely, play live. B-sides, unreleased tracks and a whole series of appropriate visuals… the Turkish twosome, who played to a packed house the last time they were in Montreal, offer an event that is unlikely to happen again. And since there is always the possibility that the pair may not be able to perform as scheduled on September 8 at the Fairmount, this is an opportunity to be seized. The entrance fee entitles you to a 10% discount on the band’s Bandcamp catalogue. 

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Electro-Jazz

Serious Livestream Session: Million Square

by Rupert Bottenberg

The potent pairing of Duncan Eagle’s saxophone and Max Luthert’s modular synths, U.K. duo Million Square impressed with the effective electro-jazz of their recent EP “Spirit Bloom”. They square off live this Friday, June 12, 2pm EST, a free stream care of British arts agency Serious. More info here.

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Alternative Rock / Avant-Garde / Prog Rock

POP Montreal’s Funhouse: Night of the Living Dead with music by members of Yamantaka // Sonic Titan

by Rupert Bottenberg

A terrifyingly timely cine-concert happens this Sunday, 7:30pm, at POP Montreal’s weekend-long, anything-goes online Fun House event. The festival presents George Romero’s enormously influential and remarkably subversive 1968 zombie classic Night of the Living Dead, with an original score with members from Yamantaka // Sonic Titan, followed by a pertinent discussion on how the film reflects on anti-black violence.

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Classical / Contemporary

The thunderbolts of Tristan Murail

by Michel Rondeau

On Monday, June 1 at 1:30pm (EST), a concert by the Internationale Ensemble Modern Akademie, originally scheduled for early April, will be broadcast live.

Raising the curtain, the IEMA ensemble promises Quintette pour hautbois et quatuor à cordes (2007) by Vienna’s Friedrich Cerha. That will be followed by Framed (2011), a piece by Slovenian composer Vito Zuraj, and Acid Rain (1986) by American composer Michael Gordon. co-founder of the Bang on a Can ensemble.

The main course of this programme will be a nearly half-hour-long piece by the spectralist Tristan Murail, one that’s never been recorded: Liber Fulguralis, for instrumental ensemble, electronic and video synthesis (2008). Inspired by the art of interpreting lightning flashes among the oracles of antiquity, the work is a creation whose musical and visual components were developed simultaneously by Murail and visual sequence designer Hervé Bailly-Basin.

After the live broadcast on Monday, the video of the concert will be available until Friday, June 5.

Drone / Dub Techno / Electronic / House / Techno

Transmission 08 x Mutek

by Patrick Baillargeon

It’s none other than MUTEK Montreal who take the reins for the next edition of TRANSMISSION. This live evening will take you from experimental ambient and dub, to drone and techno, to a selection of spellbinding house sounds, all coloured with stunning visuals. For this 8th edition, MUTEK has called upon the services of veteran Pheek, who will be accompanied by VJ Diagraf at the beginning of the evening, then Gene Tellem and VJ BunBun will take over, followed by Wheelie Houdini and M.E.Winks. Karkata and VJ TIND will have the privilege of closing this evening, which will serve as a kind of test for the next edition of the MUTEK festival, taking place from September 8 to 13. The Zoom link for the evening will be revealed today at 6pm, here.

Celtic / Punk / Rock

Dropkick Murphys live du Fenway Park

by Patrick Baillargeon

Boston’s legendary Celt-punk combo offers a free, all-electric live show from Boston’s Fenway Park! And as if that wasn’t enough, they’ve invited their friend Bruce Springsteen to join them remotely. The Dropkicks and the Boss will play together – one of their songs, and one of his… It’s quite an event since no band has ever played a full show in an empty sports stadium! This means that you can take part in this show with your boisterous children and neighbours from your own living room or garden…

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Power metal / Symphonic Metal

Sonata Arctica

by Christine Fortier

The Finnish band wanted their first foray into the world of online concerts to be out of the ordinary. The musicians, who released their 10th album Talviyö in September 2019, decided to offer acoustic concerts on May 29 and 30. The set list each night will be slightly different, and the performance will take place at the Mustakari. The concerts will then be available for 48 hours.

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Garage Punk

Memorial Day Meltdown

by Rupert Bottenberg

Memorial Day will be memorable this year, thanks to this streamed festival curated by the labels Goner, Burger, and Slovenly, foregrounding garage punk and related sleazy business. Expect 12 solid hours of bite-size sets from several dozen acts, including Chicano punk pioneers The Zeros, Japanese neo-kawaii squad Chai, Frizzy-haired siblings White Mystery, Bloodshot Bill and Elephant Stone representing the 514, and Dwarves frontman Blag Dahlia, still young and good-looking after all these years. Hosting duties are handled by New Orleans thrift-shop power couple Quintron and Miss Pussycat, the mighty King Khan (his progeny, Saba Lou and Bella & the Bizarre, plays sets), and Eric Oblivian. 

There’s more info on the event’s Facebook page, and it’ll be streamed live here.

Electronic

MUTEK SF Nexus Experience

by Patrick Baillargeon

Given that the third edition of MUTEK San Francisco will not take place, for the reasons that are obvious, the team is trying the online festival experience. So on May 23 and 24, you can see and hear live a plethora of DJs and VJs, installations in a virtual art gallery, some short films and artists’ workshops. In short, the MUTEK adventure, almost as if you were there, and also a good test for the upcoming Montreal edition, which, since we’re on the subject, has been pushed back to September 8 to 13.

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