Wednesday, April 12, 2023
Doors at 7:00pm – Show at 7:30pm
CMC Presents : Pursuit Grooves and Masahiro Takahashi
Ticket price:
General Admission. $15 Advance / $20 at the door
CMC Members and Arts Workers. $12 Advance / $15 at the door
Students. $10 anytime
Venue:
Canadian Music Centre
20 St. Joseph Street
Toronto, ON
M4Y 1J9
416-961-6601 x202
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Pursuit GroovesBased in Toronto, Canada, originally from the Washington, DC area, Pursuit Grooves (Vanese Smith) started producing music as a teenager to accompany the lyrics she was writing. She has been obsessed with sound ever since.
She makes music that is sonically adventurous, oscillating between moments of jittery tension and silky release, producing chopped-up basslines, woozy cinematic melodies and improvisatory funk in order to create a beautiful balance of light and dark, fragility and toughness, seamlessly blending deep machine soul, dismantled hip-hop instrumentals and heavy hitting, genre-bending dub.
Masahiro TakahashiFor the good part of the past decade, Japanese composer-musician Masahiro Takahashi (https://masahirotakahashi.bandcamp.com/) 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. His latest album Humid Sun will be released on March 31 on Telephone Explosion. For this presentation, Takahashi will be joined by Matthew Bailey (https://matthewbailey.bandcamp.com/album/peachfruit) and Carl Schilde (https://funinthechurch.bandcamp.com/album/europop) from Playdate (https://playdate.bandcamp.com/album/manitoulin-tapes).
