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FYEAR is a power octet led by composer, electronic producer and reed player Jason Sharp and poet/writer Kaie Kellough. Since the early beginning of their collaboration before it became this ensemble, they fuse spoken word voices (Kaie Kellough and Tawhida Tanya Evanson) with multi-genre creative music including electronics, two drummers (Tommy Crane and Stefan Schneider), processed saxophones (Jason Sharp), pedal steel guitar (Joe Grass) and two violins (Jesse and Josh Zubot). An immersive visuel environment of images, videos and lights have been created by Kevin Yuen Kit Lo.
Drone, dark ambient doom metal, post-hardcore, free-jazz or electroacoustic are melting in our ears as an unified ensemble/aesthetic. Kellough and Evanson “convey acute political-existential themes and plays elemental, cut-up instrumental/semiotic roles.” Polycrisis of capitalism, democracy and terrestrial environment are sensitively evocated by the writers / speakers while the musician draw sonically the sountrack of what is meant or expressed through spoken words.
Sharp and Kellough have built wordsound projects since for may years until 2016, then the project entitled FYEAR emerged and played a few times across Canada. Last April, the ensemble has released an excellenbt eponymous album on Constellation label, the band is about to play its repertoire at Centre PHI, on Wednesday October 16th. For PAN M 360, Alain Brunet met Kaie Kellough and Jason Sharp before their immersive experience in MTL.
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