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March 22nd, 2012

New Canadiana :: Bataille Solaire – Baal Shamash et Son Char Céleste

Bataille Solaire - Baal Shamash et Son Char Céleste
Asäel Robitaille drifted listeners into an earthbound psych-pop lull on The Lemon Tape, but on this solo expedition he fires up the thrusters into uncharted space. Time-shifting arpeggios and soft comets of synth create a vessel for his sidelong explorations, seamlessly flowing from one zone to the next. Montreal main-stay Félix Morel contributes a perfectly tripped collage for the foldout, part Mati Klarwein and part Barbarella. A+ all around.

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Bataille Solaire – Part One

March 21st, 2012

New Canadiana :: Le Quatuor de Jazz Libre du Québec – 1973

LE QUATUOR DE JAZZ LIBRE DU QUÉBEC - 1973
Deep within le Petit Québec libre, a group of stalwart jazz freaks began bridging the divide between improvised music and contemporary avant-garde. After releasing an LP on the infamous CBC Transcription service, Le Quatuor De Jazz Libre Du Quebéc began a welcomed transfiguration into a revolutionary ensemble championing the art of experimentation and revolt. This reissue, lovingly packaged by Quebec’s finest avant imprint (Tenzier), captures an unreleased session at the zenith of their creative expression (1973). Droves of intense skronk and burning percussion lace the energetic action with unfettered fire. A paragon within Quebec’s outstanding free scene. Must grip.

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Le Quatuor de Jazz Libre du Québec – Sans Titre

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Le Quatuor de Jazz Libre du Québec – Studio 13

March 20th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Burro – Burnt Monument

Burro - Burnt Monument
The scorched ferocity barely tethers Burnt Monument‘s searing atonal bliss to our malignant reality. Revelling within the distorted chaos of a guitar-driven daily dance, Burro decimate every squalid soundscape in their pursuit of tautolic wretchery. It’s the ultimate display of damaged purity; a cacophony of annihilation; a treatise on the fundamental nature of obliteration. Ultimate Shred™.

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Burro – Burnt Sonic Toast

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Burro – Red Eye

February 22nd, 2012

New Canadiana :: Self Surgery – Psychedelic Cadaver

Self Surgery - Psychedelic Cadaver
If your parent’s parents were terrified by the satanic vibes emanating from backward playing records, they best stay away from Psychedelic Cadaver all together. The hiss sticking to the back of your throat may cause discomfort, but the feedback drowns your ear in micro-waves that erase all memories of silence. It’s music for people who love airports mixed with Chalupa and cigarettes. This album is what’s under your car in the parking garage and leering at you from the window as you baby sit. Cry if you want, but the demons will never rest.

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Self Surgery – Shot Fuse

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Self Surgery – Wired Flexible

February 13th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Matthew A. Wilkinson – sSs EP

Matthew A. Wilkinson - sSs EP
Quick as a cricket, Grand Prairie’s holiest warbler zaps us through the post with his latest enchantment. The sSs EP picks up right where the spellbinding Namers left off, spiraling into black echoes for a series of cinematic miniatures, scraped strings, plucked banjos and touched electronics. The creeping horror culminates in “Cen eTe neR”, a nine-minute scorched earth awakening of cooing kitties and the post-rock dawn of its “secret song.” Discover Alberta.

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Matthew A. Wilkinson – yYy

January 30th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Depatterning – The Blasted Health

Depatterning - The Blasted Health
Wist Rec.’s clever Book Report series earns a crackling, bubbling 3” CD soundtrack from prairie elder label chief Gary Mentanko. The stately soundwaves coaxed through the ether of H.P. Lovecraft’s 1927 tome spew forth from the disk tray with m-Log outerspacials, disembodied radio plays and guttural gurgles from the belly of the bog. A cherished grip for literati and object fetishists alike.

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Depatterning – Framgent 1

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Depatterning – Fragment 2

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Depatterning – Fragment 3

January 23rd, 2012

New Canadiana :: Denim Reptile – Custody

From the manufactured landscape of Southern Ontario a new hybrid emerges. The Denim Reptile moves nimbly on warbling electronic feet across man made hills, but its tough exterior is defined by unabashed parking lot guitar solos. Donning an Iron Maiden T-shirt, the lizard king compresses roadhouse blues through a Windows 95 soundcard. A much needed flashback to basements of the early digital era.

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Denim Reptile – Smokin’ Broken Glass

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Denim Reptile – Heavy Duty Mama

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Denim Reptile – Bodice Ripper

January 19th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Dixie’s Death Pool – The Man With Flowering Hands

Dixies Death Pool - The Man With Flowering Hands
Shuffling and smiling through a moon-hung Ren. Faire when the dandelion wine has kicked in for the minstrels, electroacoustic jazzbo Lee Hutzulak dips into that crazy river. Tucked underneath his faded poncho, the twinkle-eyed lifeguard of Dixie’s Death Pool unleashes a squadron of steam punk arachnids to undertake his mystical bidding. Rev up your electric flute, grab a Mackie Blackjack and get jiggy.

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Dixie’s Death Pool – Paper That Folds Itself

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Dixie’s Death Pool – Tranquilizer

January 13th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Philia – Arma Tribute 1. and 5 Pieces

Philia - Arma Tribute 1. and 5 Pieces
Not all of us can take the trip that is the Assiniboine Music Armada, canoeing from Brandon to Winnipeg with psych-folk band Twin to communities through wilderness, but some can certainly admire the spirit, for those of us who believe in spirits anyhow. Phantom embodied, Greg Hanec’s tribute to the tour (performed and recorded at Twin’s return show to Winnipeg) plays like an NFB nature doc — expansive, quiet stretches, sounds of water splashing, and birds chirping — accompanied by Philia’s concentrated atonal arsenal. Elsewhere, he’s making music out of whatever he can get his hands on: cello samples, the open back of a piano, and his own field recordings of a bus door opening and closing. What’s at play is what usually isn’t played, and the subdued floats on down, up, and by.

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Philia – Arma Tribute 1

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Philia – Cellogroove

December 14th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Nick Storring – Rife

As a compilation of Storring’s electroacoustic variété, Rife hints at the hidden majesty lurking within his many mental membranes. The searing vision lies between the strung wisdom of his violin and the electroacoustic prowess harnessed by modern digitalia; dense ethnographic footprints imprinted within our curious minds. The heavy THX moves coalesce within beds of a private world processed for our unguided meditation. A valiant expression of creative experimentalism worth all the honours stowed upon him. Freeze-dried for a gripper’s safe keeping.

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Nick Storring – artifact 2

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Nick Storring – artifact 3

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