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Review :: Wyrd Alberta Traveling Festival
- Wyrd Alberta
- Wrap-Up
- (Weird Canada)
- Alberta
- ::photo/credit::
I spent a few days trying to figure out a way to summarize the behemoth that became the Wyrd Alberta Traveling Festival. Yesterday it dawned on me that I don’t have the time to go through every minute detail of the event. Instead, I’m just going to talk it out (see 2:42).
What started out as a phone call between Paul Lawton and myself on the successes of Mammoth Cave Fest and Wyrd Fest, quickly turned into a mad-hatted idea to both showcase Alberta’s burgeoning talent and bring bands from Canada’s abundant East to our beautiful, desolate West. Thus the Wyrd Alberta Traveling Festival was born; a traveling caravan of our favorite, genre-bending bands whose schedule permitted them to make it westward.
Paul and I proceeded to write up a list of “dream bands.” After a number of e-mails, deals, hand-shakes, phone calls, and deliberation, the first “final draft” of bands was concocted. We were lucky to work with Calgary’s premier indie-music festival Sled Island, granting us a Calgary date for the whole ordeal. Boom! We thought all the work was done there! Press releases went out, tickets went on sale, and my partner Marie LeBlanc Flanagan embarked on the unsane task of ensuring I didn’t work myself to death. In the interim we had some unfortunate drops (Dead Ghosts and Grand Trine) but we had some very fortune replacements (MYTHS and D’EON). The festival seemed on track…
After about a hundred hours of phone calls, venue cancelations, billeting, postering, painting, advertising, interviewing, soliciting and organizing volunteers, and trying to ensure the whole operation didn’t collapse under a pile of promoter entropy, the festival happened. There were many times I thought the whole thing would implode, nevertheless, it actually happened. Before my own eyes the whole thing unfolded like a chromatic Mobius strip undulating within some cosmic explosion. What an experience!
Mix :: Wyrd Alberta Mixtape
- Wyrd Alberta Mixtape
- Compiled by: Drew Marshall
- (Self-Released)
- Halifax, NS
- ::web/sounds::
From the midnight-mind of Drew Marshall:
Here’s a mixtape featuring some of the most radical bands in Canada that happen to be performing at the Wyrd Alberta Traveling Festival from April 30 – May 2. Each of the songs were selected from the ever-growing online database of Weird Canada reviews. Sole proprietorship of these tracks has long since been sourced out to the general broadband public and for good reason in today’s idea-swapping, music-sharing platform of the digital revolution. And what is it all for? well, as it happens to be we find our actualization in the accumulation of bodies that come together and celebrate our eager-mindless expressions and appreciate those of others. The next great collaboration takes place in a three-part series spanning the ever-expanding, always-contracting province of Alberta from April 30 to May 2. In preparation for this momentous occasion, we have packaged a kinetic stream of glitch-bots and odd entities to please those snow-burried souls back into oblivion. Please enjoy with severe caution. [The mix contains songs by: Nü Sensae, COSMETICS, Grand Trine, Krang, Grown-Ups, Omon Ra, Shearing Pinx, Myelin Sheaths, and Brazilian Money]
De l’état d’esprit de minuit de Drew Marshall:
(Traduit par Odile Leclerc)
Voilà un mix tape présentant quelques-uns des groupes les plus radicaux au Canada qui joue en ce moment au Traveling Festival de Wyrd Alberta du 30 Avril au 2 Mai. Chacune des chansons étaient sélectionnée des bases de données toujours grandissantes des critiques de Weird Canada. Le droit de propriété unique de ces pistes a depuis longtemps été mis sur la large bande du public général et pour une bonne raison dans les échanges d’idées et les plateformes de partage de musique d’aujourd’hui de la révolution digitale. Et tout ça pourquoi? Bien, il serait que nous nous trouvons notre actualisation dans l’accumulation de corps qui se rassemblent et qui célèbrent nos stupides expressions désireuses et apprécier celles des autres. La prochaine grande collaboration prend place dans une série en trois parties traversant la toujours-croissante, toujours-contractante, la province d’Alberta du 30 avril au 2 mai. En préparation de cette mémorable occasion, nous avons emballé un courant kinésique de robots à pépins et d’entités étranges pour faire plaisir à s’en rendre au néant à ces âmes enterrées sous la neige. S’il-vous-plaît, à apprécier avec beaucoup de prudence. [ le mix contient des chansons de : Nü Sensae, COSMETICS, Grand Trine, Krang, Grown-Ups, Omon Ra, Shearing Pinx, Myelin Sheaths et Brazilian Money.]
