Containr outdoor double bill
matthew cardinal + brick road
July 22nd 7PM
For our first live concert since before the pandemic hit, we’re thrilled to present a lush, outdoor double bill featuring Matthew Cardinal (of Nêhiyawak) and Brick Road (Ethan Bokma of Holy Drone Travellers). Both hailing from Edmonton, each musician offers unique soundways through ambient, drone, and free improvisation traditions.
Known primarily for his work in moccasingaze trio Nêhiyawak, Matthew Cardinal’s solo synthesizer project is a gift of bright jewel-tones circulating within a bewildering melodic ecosystem. As we wake from sixteen months in live-performance hibernation, this is a special opportunity to drift gently, traversing emotionally-resonant fragments of a crystalline auditory imagination.
Brick Road is an optimistic new solo offering from clarinettist-composer Ethan Bokma, who cut his teeth as a core member of the cosmic Hindustani free jazz band Holy Drone Travellers. Locating his sound within a diverse lineage of drone minimalism, his influences simultaneously include such Western composer luminaries as LaMonte Young, 21st Century disentanglings of the free sounds first brought to us by Sun Ra and Mingus, and a new punk era of maximalist improv perhaps most pointedly expressed by the Italian superforce Jooklo Duo. A treat for our ears to collide with.
presented in partnership with springboard performance & containr
https://springboardperformance.com/containr
July 22nd 2021
Doors at 7PM, Show at 8PM
ContainR - 1020 2nd AVE NW, Calgary AB
$15
Scroll all the way down for accessibility, health, & safety information.
Featuring
matthew cardinal
Matthew Cardinal is an amiskwaciy (Edmonton) -based musician, composer, and sound designer, known for his work with Polaris Short List nominee group nêhiyawak. Cardinal’s solo full-length album Asterisms was released in October 2020 on Arts & Crafts. His music moves from delicate, minimalist pieces to vast drones and sparkling, modular synthesizer compositions.
https://matthewcardinal.bandcamp.com/album/asterisms
photo by Chelsee Ivan.
Brick Road
Brick Road is a manifestation of one's own being; a documentation of ongoing personal growth and lessons learned from a past of callous elitism to being plunged in the cleansing sonic flood of John Coltrane, Ravi Shankar, and the like. Out of that monolithic undertow emerged Brick Road: A new state of being fixated on both the cosmic and joyous qualities of sound. Brick Road is one of many acolytes of "The Drone" and a creator of music that points towards something far greater than the musician.
health, safety, & accessibility
Health & Safety
The staff at New Works Calgary, and at ContainR, will continue to wear masks while on site. Though it is not a legal requirement, we are strongly encouraging the wearing of masks when patrons enter the site.
Th ContainR audience space has socially distanced bubbles, which a cohort or family can sit within and remove their masks. We are still asking patrons to safely distance themselves when waiting in lines for the box office, the bar, or the washrooms.
Accessibility
ContainR is a ground-level venue, with a wide entry area accessible to a motorized or manual wheelchair. There are two porta potties on site - one regular and one wheelchair accessible.
