good evening,
This week the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to welcome Bry Webb back to the program at 8:05 AM EST.
Bry Webb (on right)
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vk
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Grand Analog is a raw collective created in 2006. Its members are seasoned record collectors, musicians and self described beat junkies from around the way. You can easily find each of these characters honing the role of DJ at various local pubs and clubs in Toronto or Winnipeg. Band leader and creator, Odario Williams, describes the Grand Analog sound as a beautiful mess of rap’n’roll, dub and soul. “Grand Analog is unbalanced and dirty; never clean. Grand Analog is fuzzy with three coats of dust and reads like an old manual no longer in use”. Calligraffiti, the debut album, has an array of soundscapes you can travel through: ‘Touch Your Toes’ boasts James Brown style drums, rock guitar and a New Orleans style horn break. ‘Around This Town’ can only be described as a ska-pop-hiphop joint and ‘Simmer Me Down’ carries a smooth infectious jazz-funk bump to it. The latest album entitled Metropolis Is Burning keeps these traditions alive by fine tuning what is now the Grand Analog sound.
Each character in this collective brings something unique to the table. Odario and DJ Ofield blame their father, a reggae DJ from the 80s, for cursing them with the love of music, bass and trouble. DJ Catalist on keyboards was also born into a musical family inheriting a few dusty analog keys for the lab (Arp Odyssey, Mini Korg K2, Sequential Circuits Six Trak, Roland Jupitor 6 among others). Warren Bray has a punk funk history and is now appointed GA’s doctor of bass while Damon Mitchell brings his guitar savvy to the recording process. The live show adds soul to the bloodline along with frequent stage jams and off the wall spontaneity.
D-Sisive is a one man music machine cruising to the hum of his own engine. After last year’s triumphant return to the hip-hop limelight with both his Polaris Prize nominated gem Let The Children Die, and his second classic full length of 2009, the acclaimed Jonestown, one would think the accomplished Toronto MC would be content to rest on his ever-expanding laurels. Not D-Sisive. The enigmatic one is back – and this time taking things to an entirely new level with the epic Vaudeville.
Produced in tandem with Andrew ‘Fresh Kils’ Kilgour and featuring a surprise cameo from legendary Canadian songsmith, Ron Sexsmith, Vaudeville is filled with incredible hip hop tracks, and slight of hand tricks. Smoke and mirror gags mixed with punch lines, and intense stories. An album that showcases the wide variety of influences and themes which only an enigmatic master of ceremonies like D-Sisive could pull off.
Despite his prolific nature, it seems unlikely we’ll ever know everything that motivates D-Sisive. Still through all the smoke and mirrors, the tricks and the treats, it’s a love of rocking the microphone unlike few others today that sustains D-Sisive’s enduring appeal.
Special Guest:
Thursday November 18, 2010
The Ebar 41 Quebec St. Guelph
Doors at 10:00 PM
All-ages/Licensed
$12 with non-perishable food item
$14 without
Tickets Available:
The Bookshelf – 41 Quebec St. – Guelph
Orange Monkey – 005 Princess St. – Waterloo
CSA Office – University of Guelph – UC Room 274
(non-perishable food items will be accepted at ticket outlets)
All proceeds benefit Out on the Shelf
All food items collected will benefit the Guelph Food Bank.
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UPCOMING KYEO/CSA SHOWS:
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 12: JASON COLLETT – AL TUCK – BRY WEBB @ Dublin Street United Church – 68 SUFFOLK ST. W. – GUELPH – 8:00 PM – $14 Student/$18 General – AA www.sundaycinema.ca www.arts-crafts.ca
THURSDAY NOVEMBER 18: GRAND ANALOG – D-SISIVE @ Ebar – 41 QUEBEC ST. – GUELPH – 10:00 PM – $12 w/food donation /$14 – AA/LIC benefit for: www.outontheshelf.ca www.myspace.com/grandanalog www.myspace.com/dsisive
WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 15: STAY OUT OF THE MALL IX – RICKWHITEALBUM – ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS – RICHARD LAVIOLETTE & THE OIL SPILLS @ Ebar – 41 QUEBEC ST. – GUELPH – 9:30 PM – $10 w/food donation /$12 – AA/LIC benefit for: www.cancer.ca www.myspace.com/rickwhitealbum www.myspace.com/1hundreddollars www.myspace.com/richardlavioletteandtheoilspills
THURSDAY DECEMBER 16: STAY OUT OF THE MALL IX – ZEUS – METZ – PS I LOVE YOU @ Ebar – 41 QUEBEC ST. – GUELPH – 9:30 PM – $10 w/food donation /$12 – AA/LIC benefit for: www.cancer.ca www.themusicofzeus.com www.myspace.com/metztheband www.myspace.com/psiloveyouband
good afternoon,
This week, the Mich Vish Interracial Morning Show! is pleased to welcome Sufjan Stevens back to the program at 8:05 AM EST.
Sufjan Stevens
This interview was conducted a couple of weeks ago for a piece in the new issue of Exclaim! Magazine. The conversation covered a range of topics and here are some brief excerpts from our chat:
On hip-hop culture and his recent use of Auto-Tune:
“I don’t listen to hip-hop. I’m aware of it peripherally; it’s such a massive part of popular culture with such a huge influence. So, I’m obviously aware of it. I think there’s massive collaboration now between all kinds of artists and hip-hop is especially known for its malleability and accommodation for all other kinds of music. So, I feel it’s kind of normal to bring in dance, vocoders, and Auto-Tune; it’s just part of today’s musical culture.”
On calling his own new music “crazy” on-stage:
“It’s the kind of music for psychological discursion. I’m really focused on instinct and impulse on this record and the psychology of my interior life and dealing with basic primal needs, like touch, feel, or sensation. Because of that, there’s a kind of madness that’s induced in the process of working through this material. With the sound as well, I’m utilizing less banjo, piano, and guitar, and more synthesizers, pedals, and drum machines. The sonic quality has this hysterical, frenetic madness to it.”
On taking his music in a surprisingly electronic, new direction:
“Hopefully people can understand that decision because I feel like I’ve earned it in some ways. I’ve just grown to perceive a lot of my previous work as being really fussy and studious and that the safety of the pretension of scholarship, history, or geography—the veneer of all that started to feel really fake. I felt like, through the process of conceptual songwriting, I’d lost sense of my self. So, this record is extremely self-centred, almost to the point where it’s kind of grotesque; some of it’s a little bit embarrassing. But I feel like it’s, in some ways warranted, and also completely necessary for me personally.”
On his new songs and whether they intertwine woes from his personal life and recent illness:
“Oh certainly. I mean the fact that the songwriting process over the past year has been like a therapy session, explains my approach where I use music as a psychological language to work out personal problems. The song is a vernacular, a language in itself that creates its own symbols that ordinary conversations can’t manage. I’ve seen therapists and gone to doctors and there’s a limit to what I can communicate in that context. But the song allows for a real deepening and broadening of language and it allows me to work through this love sickness that I wouldn’t be able to otherwise.”
So yes, you’ll hear Sufjan discuss all of this and more on this week’s show. To learn more about listening live or downloading/streaming this show later, please visit this link or perhaps even this link to hear this and/or other recent episodes.
thanks a lot,
vk
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