Happy 2014!

Happy New Year! Nothing like a new calendar year to force you to complete last year’s “to do list”, and posting this footage from the Summer was on there….definitely a favourite 2013 moment.

lightsweetcrude @ The Tranzac Club, Toronto – 8/16/2013

Fort York – Toronto Art Spin, June 2013

Getting set up @ Fort York for Art Spin Toronto 6/27/2013

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— Art Spin (@artspintoronto) July 2, 2013

This one is going up a little late, but a great multi-sensory collab  went down at Toronto Art Spin last week, which evolved from that “Sound & Light” residency last Spring at Somewhere There . Guitarist Arnd Jurgensen, whom Michael Kaler had recruited to be part of a few ‘random’ ensembles, was this time in  position to do some recruiting, and did just that, putting together an ensemble that included Kaler, saxophonist Paul Newman, and drummer Ambrose Pottie. I held the projection chair, and our spontaneous performance at Fort York was one of several stops on the bike trail for this edition of Art Spin.

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— Zombie Liberation Co (@ZombieLC) June 28, 2013

An outdoor projection at the ArtSpin afterparty… Walnut Studios, Toronto

Feed Your Head #5

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“There’s no such thing as improvisation. There’s only composition. Only you do it quickly; you’re composing on the spot.”
-Jerry Garcia

The projectors will crackle, Kyle Haight will be doing live painting, and some other guests TBA will be in the house to complete the experience. Join us.

**canceled**

Synaesthesia @ The Garrison

4 humans + 1 machine + 1 projector with liquids

Garrison Jan 11th/2013 photo by @thebradee

Backstage: Ancient runes from previous musical civilizations, warning of bad monitor mixes…

Garrison Jan 11th/2013 Photo by Kenneth Laing Herdy

Photo by Kenneth Laing Herdy

January’s Offering

Psyched to return to The Garrison for an Exhale event…

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@lightsweetcrude on right now and getting us all feelin groovy. Great psychedelic rock. twitter.com/thebradee/stat…

— Bradley Dee (@thebradee) January 12, 2013

Somewhere There Light Projections #3

L to R: Jamie Thompson flute, Erik Colin Ross, keys, Andy Yue, keys, Michael Kaler, bass, Arnd Juergensen, guitar, and Paul Newman, sax.

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Homegrown Hamilton

File under: *awesome night*
Photos courtesy of Rob Rush (upper) and Paola Martinez Hernandez.

A Jammer In The Hammer

Hard to believe we’ve played Owen Sound twice, and not once in this great city right next door. Not that it hasn’t been on my radar since we started gigging in 2009. It has. Somehow since my last Grateful Dead concert (ironically Copps Coliseum on 1990-03-22), and my popping my head up out of the studio trenches in 2007, curious once again about the ‘jamband scene’ (always a dubious term, but we’ll save that discussion for another time), Hamilton had become Ontario’s hub. Obviously bands traveling in from the US were more likely to stop in TO, but not always – Garaj Mahal and a few others were notable exceptions, adding a stop in the Hammer to their short North-of-the-border schedule, or playing exclusively there.
How did this come about? I personally have no idea. There’s always a reason, though. Fill me in.
Must Stash Hat were uber-kind to ask us to open for them at what I’ve heard is a great venue: Homegrown Hamilton. We really dug MSH’s set when we gigged together at The Bovine in February – very tight, almost hypnotic, groove-oriented jamming, that really floored me. I was struck again by how many different approaches exist under the ‘improvised music’ umbrella, all taking us to the same place, but along different paths.

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Crosswires #9

Crosswires is a recently launched pwyc night Sundays at The Garrison, curated by Doc Pickles of TO’s Wavelength crew. So far the lineups have been very interesting, and tastefully eclectic, with visuals by General Chaos being a regular feature of each gig. Nice!
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— Crosswires (@CrosswiresTO) April 23, 2012

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