'The latest from Kee Avil finds the Montréal producer exploring wide open spaces, decorating them with closely-miked field recordings and breathily diaristic recantations,' finds Jon Buckland for The Quietus. Album launch on May 30 at Centre PHI PHI.
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We're quite fond of this one.
'A blend of rumbling minimalism and hypnotic spoken word (...) Erika Angell creates a space marked by blurred boundaries, a space-time journey with fleecy tremors, traversed by disquieting ghosts and elusive shadows.'
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Kee Avil is currently touring Europe in support of latest album Spine (a Bandcamp Album of the Day + Der Spiegel Album of the Week).
Final solo shows in Germany, Czech Republic & Denmark, prior to a homecoming concert at Montreal's Centre PHI on May 30th.
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'A heavily textured collection with layered voices, ringing guitar strata and other, less certain sounds, calcifying into sedimentary stone (...) Spine is a pretty cold world. Kee Avil’s the only thing getting us through it.' - Kurt Gottschalk on Spine.
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Last Friday we released Kee Avil's second album Spine. She is currently on tour in Europe, and will be launching the album at Centre PHI in Montréal on May 30th.
cstrecords.com/pages/kee-avil
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A Benefit for Gaza Mutual Aid Collective show will take place this Saturday 11 May at Bar le Ritz PDB in Montreal. Feat. music by Radwan Moumneh, Markus Floats, Ky + Andrés and a reading by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. Show 8pm, suggested donation $15-20
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Jessica Moss is embarking on a short European tour later this week. She will be performing shows in Belgium (Dunk! Fest in Ghent), France (Les Embellies Fest in Rennes), The Netherlands, Poland, Berlin (residency at Morphine Raum), Spain and Portugal. cstrecords.com/pages/jessica-…

'At times, the stripped down recordings and layered vocals feel like an update of early 2000s lo-fi bedroom pop and digital folk. Two decades and one global pandemic later, Kee Avil's skeletal grooves hit with an urgent intimacy.'
Kee Avil's Spine in the latest The Wire Magazine.

'Avil excels at writing things that are song-formed and seem to have all the ingredients of music, but everything's skewed. The mastery comes in nevertheless creating something haunting out of this discomfort.'
Peter Hollo x FBi Radio on Kee Avil's Spine.
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Kee Avil's Spine is DER SPIEGEL's Album of the Week. The Canadian producer's sophomore album is released today.
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'Spine is straightforwardly experimental in its deconstruction of rhythm and tonality; its genius ploy is to remain accessible by incorporating these blistering yet appealing sound design elements.' - Line of Best Fit on Kee Avil's sophomore album Spine.
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'With its shuddering percussion and harsh frequencies, as well as the upfront vocals, this is a challenging work. And this is a good thing: art should be challenging, and the quality is outstanding.' - Aural Aggravation on Kee Avil's sophomore album Spine.
auralaggravation.com/2024/05/01/kee…

Recommended listening:
Another splendid broadcast by Alaricus Mantovani Alarico Mantovani for Fango Radio, this time including 'Dress of Stillness' from Erika Angell's new solo album The Obsession With Her Voice. Also, one cannot ever go wrong with Broadcast.
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Baker's Dozen is one of my favourite features The Quietus so I was delighted that Eric Chenaux - a man of exquisite musical taste - was asked to take part. The result is one of my favourites ever:
thequietus.com/articles/34103… Constellation Murailles Music

'Folk music from another planet.'
Kee Avil's sophomore album Spine is a Bandcamp Album of the Day. By Ted Davis.
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Spine releases this Friday 03 May.

Ahead of a new trio album and a show at this year's Acid Horse Festival in the UK, Eric Chenaux takes The Quietus through the thirteen albums that changed him, from the avant-garde to hip hop, traditional folksong to vintage Brazilian psychedelia and more.
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'Echos' is an exquisite video series imagined and produced by Julien Courquin for Murailles Music.
This month's episode features the one and only Eric Chenaux, whose latest album Delights Of My Life is co-released by Murailles and Constellation.
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Benefit for Gaza Mutual Aid Collective on Saturday 11 May at Bar le Ritz PDB in Montreal.
Feat. music by Radwan Moumneh, Markus Floats, Ky + Andrés and a reading by Eli Tareq El Bechelany-Lynch. Artwork by Nadia Moss.
Show 8pm, suggested donation $15-20
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Our first release of 2024, Erika Angell's solo album The Obsession With Her Voice, is holding steady at the top of CISM 89.3 FM's charts for the second week in a row.
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Sam Shalabi will be joining Steve Bates for a series of solo, duo, trio, and quartet performances happening at Casa del Popolo in Montreal on Monday 29 April 2024. With Elizabeth Anka Vajagic, Tim Herzog (from Godspeed You! Black Emperor), and Mark Molnar.
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