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shows:

WEEDS CAFE (1903 20th AVE NW), 8-10pm, PAY WHAT YOU CAN

  • Feb 10:
    • No Homo (Eric Hamelin of Nomoreshapes + Pat Flegel and Chris Reimer of Women)
    • Cat! (Ryan Scott and Aaron Sereda)
  • March 10 - NSE Trio + Ultra Bon Bon + Chris Dadge
  • April 10 - Larry McDowell + Alan Briks + tba

new releases are out:

Pink Saliva
Hardcore: La Brique
bim-27, winter 2009

gordon allen, trumpet
michel f. côté, drums + feedback
alexandre st-onge, electric bass + laptop

Hardcore: La Brique is a live recording of a bizzarrely rude trio of Montreal-based musicians. For the most part, St-Onge and Côté neatly sidestep any conventional bass & drum roles. Their playing is split between casting dark swaths of sound, which provide churning, dirty backdrops for Allen's trumpet, and occasionally allowing skeletal rhythmic and melodic fragments to spill forth, here betraying a more rock-informed approach to their instruments. Allen's masterful, unadorned playing constitutes a similar refuting of his instrument's known voice, often rendering the trumpet indistinguishable from the laptop & feedback noise. This is some strange, excellent, head-scratching group playing.

Super Deluxe Gas Jockey
Some Sappy Title Dan Would've Hated
bim-28, winter 2009

janet turner, words, vocals and oddities
lyle pisio, sax and oddities
mark dicey, percussion and oddities

It would be difficult to imagine Bug Incision and the current Calgary scene of players without the foundation set by this trio, along with the late Dan Meichel, the recipient of this album's dedication and an integral figure in the development of improvised music in the city. Dicey, Turner, and Pisio (along with Meichel and a handful of others) formed a constellation of bands throughout the 80s to the present day, including Scum de Terre, tokyosexwhale, Book Lily Dead Posie, tomato tomato, and Street of Crocodiles. This show, recorded live at Weeds (the home of the current Bug Incision concert series) by Brad Hawkins, presents a fantastic set from what would have been Scum de Terre, minus Meichel.

The music includes the trademark elements of each player's approach, but also sees them moving in new directions Dicey's extremely visceral approach to junk/object-based percussion is in full flight, but his kit playing has taken on a new fluidity and more overt sense of group interaction. Turner's vocals, as always, seem to be find  new ways to integrate themselves, and a (first-time?) dose of toy keyboards keeps things suitably off-kilter. Pisio's restless alto playing is beautifully dispersed with typical elegance and economy. A valuable addition to the Bug Incision catalogue.

lab coast
bookflames
bimm-3

chris dadge & david laing

Before becoming the song-based pop group that it is today, Lab Coast was, first, a rethink of a handful of old Scottish folk tunes David used to sing as a lad, and second, or possibly first and then also second, it was a one-off cassette recording of a very odd jam in Dadge's old basement. This is a recording of that second incarnation, in edits. Perversely, this also serves as the debut release under the name Lab Coast.

3" cdr w/ plastic sleeve, edition of 33

bent spoon duo
cover prince
bimm-2

chris dadge, violin & acoustic guitar
scott munro, viola & partial trombone

Monty & Dadge once again hit the road with Crocker & Hamelin from nomoreshapes to play some shows outside of town. Jim Vaughan set up a show for the dual bill along with a Dadge/Vaughan set. They played to some strangers and an old friend of Dadge's, and her friends. They paid for their food and decided to play through Crocker's guitar amp. This is the show from BSD with the most stripped down instrumentation thus far. More recordings of string duo to come.

live in edmonton, november 2009

3" cdr w/ plastic sleeve, edition of 30

new releases coming soon:

A Band - Amphibians (bic-01)
Gino Robair/Birgit Ulher/Tim Perkis - Pogiff (bim-29)
Gino Robair - solo tba (bim-30)
Mike Khoury - Airwaves (bim-31)
Simeon Abbott with Bent Spoon Duo - Saigon, You Crazy Diamond (bim-32)
Simeon Abbott + Chris Dadge - A Menu Isn't A Meal (bim-33)
Darren Williams with Bent Spoon Duo - TBA (bimm-4)
Simeon Abbott with Bent Spoon Duo - TBA (bimm-5)