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Experience ten hot days and nights of the coolest music in town at this year's 36th Annual TD Victoria International JazzFest, starting June 21, 2019! Buy tickets today to discover world class artists and immerse yourself in the jazz, blues and more that contribute to Victoria's exceptional arts scene! Previously announced headliners appearing in the Marquee Series at the Royal Theatre and McPherson Playhouse are Raul Midón and Lionel Loueke & Laila Biali. The Suffers, Patricia Barber Trio, Joey Alexander Trio, Jesse Cook, Gregory Porter, and Jacob Collier. For more information on tickets and other acts, please visit our website at jazzvictoria.ca
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Claude
August 29th 2023
All four members performed like demi-gods. Erika was simply stunning. At times i thought she might levitate spontaneously …her delivery , of songs we all know to be flights of poetry in themselves… being so fluid. Like waves. She was in command from the first note. She sings as if she was sailing on some ship, reading mythology aloud. And she wore lipstick. OMG … Simon delivered his unusual palette of colours with a vengeance. He is a sonic painter of a unique kind. Swift…sudden…with a calculated attack…that he always ends on a sixteenth. You would swear he’s improvising ferociously but experience teaches otherwise… he handles the brushes the way he uses the colours themselves. Nervous. Raw. Planned. Brilliant but never overdone. Claire Devlin’s horn must have had more orgasms than a night full of stars and fireflies ! She was, at more than just a few moments… in full command of the ship. Loud. Lovely. Precise. Exact on the tone of ferocious secrets imbedded in the meanders of those Songs. Dave the drummer ( memory serve me well here please ! ) was so full of economy at times… the newcomer might wonder if he knew how to drum at all… until 6 beats later when he’d show just how much genius in restraint there was in every single stroke of his. Opening and closing doors and windows with the ease of a ventilation artist. Then, when you’d think he was just an apt player sitting for the gig, in the uniquely gifted group Thus Owls is… he does an Arborescent solo on a mini 5 piece drum… to show everyone how to adequately fly a paper plane while keeping beat. Need i say that the 8 or so numbers they played, were nothing short of Magic and Mastery from a Rare and Free band. The Angells are a total paradox. They are Rare and Free. How can anything be this Rare and still be free ? Look to them for an answer. That might very well be the greatest aspect of their Genius of Love. I came back home to Montreal with my mind swimming. 💐
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THUS OWLS Biography
Montreal's dark pearl Thus Owls, aka Swedish-Canadian couple Erika and Simon Angell, have since their debut in 2009 become an original and independent voice on the alternative music scene. Simon's harshly charismatic guitar sound blends with the urgency of Erika's vocals to create a sound that bends and stretches their unusual compositions into ever newer and surprising shapes. It is in the constantly shifting scenery that Thus Owls find their sound. Their soulful adventurousness and musical fluency borrows from every corner of popular music, while pushing boundaries beyond any hackneyed genre classification. Pop and rock song forms are refracted through lenses of free noise, punk-rock skronk and jazz precision.
The two met in Amsterdam 2007 on tour. Simon, as a member of Patrick Watson's band, and Erika with the Swedish band Loney, Dear. The immediate musical attraction grew into something more personal. Before long, they were married and the collaboration that is Thus Owls was born. In support of their three LP's; Cardiac Malformations, Harbours, Turning Rocks (nominated for the Canadian Polaris Prize 2014) and the EP Black Matter they have toured regularly in Scandinavia, Europe and North America. During these tours they have shared stages with artists like José Gonzales, St. Vincent, My Brightest Diamond, Patrick Watson, Timber Timbre, Suuns and Little Dragon to mention a few.
For their fourth full-length album Thus Owls has collaborated with a seven piece large band. The core trio of Erika, Simon and drummer Samuel Joly (Marie-Pierre Arthur, Fred Fortin), is surrounded by three additional guitar players; Laurel Sprengelmeyer (Little Scream), Nicolas Basque (Plants and Animals) and Michael Feuerstack (The Luyas). The record also features Marc-André Landry (Matt Holubowski) on bass, Jason Sharp on bass saxophone and Emil Strandberg from Sweden on trumpet. The full band was recorded live off the floor, at Hotel2Tango in Montreal, to capture the passion that exists in their powerful and dynamic live performances. The new album, entitled The Mountain That We Live Upon, is slated for release September 28th, 2018 and will be the first release on Erika and Simon’s new independent label and artistic home; For The Living And The Dead.
Read MoreThe two met in Amsterdam 2007 on tour. Simon, as a member of Patrick Watson's band, and Erika with the Swedish band Loney, Dear. The immediate musical attraction grew into something more personal. Before long, they were married and the collaboration that is Thus Owls was born. In support of their three LP's; Cardiac Malformations, Harbours, Turning Rocks (nominated for the Canadian Polaris Prize 2014) and the EP Black Matter they have toured regularly in Scandinavia, Europe and North America. During these tours they have shared stages with artists like José Gonzales, St. Vincent, My Brightest Diamond, Patrick Watson, Timber Timbre, Suuns and Little Dragon to mention a few.
For their fourth full-length album Thus Owls has collaborated with a seven piece large band. The core trio of Erika, Simon and drummer Samuel Joly (Marie-Pierre Arthur, Fred Fortin), is surrounded by three additional guitar players; Laurel Sprengelmeyer (Little Scream), Nicolas Basque (Plants and Animals) and Michael Feuerstack (The Luyas). The record also features Marc-André Landry (Matt Holubowski) on bass, Jason Sharp on bass saxophone and Emil Strandberg from Sweden on trumpet. The full band was recorded live off the floor, at Hotel2Tango in Montreal, to capture the passion that exists in their powerful and dynamic live performances. The new album, entitled The Mountain That We Live Upon, is slated for release September 28th, 2018 and will be the first release on Erika and Simon’s new independent label and artistic home; For The Living And The Dead.
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