Badge Époque Ensemble + Ben LaMar Gay + Masahiro Takahashi

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Event type: All Ages / Licensed

BADGE ÉPOQUE ENSEMBLE (BANDCAMP)

Badge Époque Ensemble is a group of eclectic Toronto musicians, recruited by bandleader Maximilian Turnbull to play original compositions. Over the course of 3 albums, an EP, and a few compilation/archival releases (mostly on Toronto’s Telephone Explosion label) the scope of their work has come to include contemporary updates to library music, 70’s style jazz-funk, psych’d out soul, prog and esoterica. They have also released collage works, constructed by Turnbull (as well as a remix album in collaboration with Lammping) out of refashioned stems and loops of their own previous recordings. Taken as a whole, their catalog bears reference to a master beat digger’s crate of funky oddities. Fittingly, BÉE most recently collaborated with the rappers Boldy James & O.C. Other vocalists they have collaborated with include Jennifer Castle, Meg Remy & Dorothea Paas & James Baley. They have toured with artists such as Bill Callahan & U.S Girls, and have been longlisted for a Polaris Prize.
  
BEN LAMAR GAY’S CERTAIN REVERIES (BANDCAMP)

Ben LaMar Gay is an interdisciplinary composer who moves sound, color, and space components through folkloric filters producing brilliant electro-acoustic collages. An explorer of many mediums called a “visionary musician” by the New York Times; Gay has found a form of creative expression that begins with improvisation and expands beyond the limits of any single genre.

With more than 20 years in vibrant experimental music scenes, Gay’s talents have earned him residencies globally, most recently as a Mellon Foundation Archival Fellow, and is a member of the Association of the Advancement of Creative Musicians since 2010. Gay is a highly sought-after talent by some of the industry's most influential figures; he’s collaborated with George E. Lewis, Itibere Zwarg, Theaster Gates, Nicole Mitchell, Tomeka Reid, and Jeff Parker, to name a few. 

Gay earned a B.A. from Northeastern Illinois in Music Education. A worldwide performer, Gay’s creative projects are embraced by communities in the Netherlands, Brazil, Italy, France, Japan, Nigeria, Poland, Rwanda, Germany, Cuba, and more. He is adopting global visions while remaining true to his roots as a South-Side native of Chicago.
  
MASAHIRO TAKAHASHI (BANDCAMP)

Toronto-based Japanese composer-musician Masahiro Takahashi has been crafting gently spellbinding pieces that simultaneously embrace electronic abstraction and a palpable, even brittle, humanity. His delicate and evocative landscapes always seem to be illuminated in vibrant magic hour tones as golden synth lines emanate from between soft flickers of acoustic instrumentation. He has released music on an array of labels, such as Not Not Fun, Jj Funhouse, Slow Editions and his most recent record Humid Sun on Telephone Explosion Records.

TONE is made possible through the support of the Toronto Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, Long & McQuade, and Burdock Brewery.

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