New Music: Momy Fortuna, Darkside, Yael Wand and more
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Vancouver’s Momy Fortuna quartet evokes contemporary Gothic for their haunting beginnings.
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Mom Fortuna
Hexennacht | momyfortuna.bandcamp
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Kind: Dark wave
Key track: Natas Liah
Fans of author Peter S. Beagle’s 1968 children’s classic, The Last Unicorn, know all about Mommy Fortuna. The witch who runs the creature festival called the Midnight Carnival specializes in hypnotizing those who attend into believing that the mythical beasts on display are not just normal animals disguised by magic.
Fans of Vancouver psychobilly rockers Big John Bates know right bassist Brandy Bones very well.
The Montana Registry has made the city its home for the past decade, which has given it plenty of time to get to know like-minded musicians. Today, together with Mendozza drummer Bina Mendozza, keyboardist / singer Kat Bastow and electric violinist Emily Bach, Bones has formed Momy Fortuna, an âexperimental neoclassical with ritualistic, gothic and black metal influencesâ.
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The self-proclaimed Satan-worshiping granddaughters of Dead Can Dance have named their first Hexennacht, after the German holiday that translates to Witchnight. The eight tracks are unlike anything that has come out of the local music scene since the days of such goth rock bands as Family Plot and Der Mittelgang. It’s a unique piece of occult-laden horror sheet music that deserves a lot of tours before the days darken as summer fades away.
Here are five things to know about the drive.
1: Be rather. Only 10 seconds after the first song started and the animal barked and echoing choirs of haunted songs began. On a heavily chorused bass, the spooky chorus evokes an ambiance that wouldn’t be out of place in a particularly intense Macbeth production. It doesn’t take much imagination to see witches huddling around the cauldron stirring spooky dub riffs in the bubbling Sonic Stew. It’s made for Halloween.
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2: Natas Liah. For those familiar with the softer work of violinist Bach in the Dirty Spells group or with the Four On the Floor String Quartet, the violent sawing of her electric violin may surprise in this not-so-hidden reverse spelling tune. of “hello Satan”. The creepy tune begins with the shrill violin before transforming into a throbbing pulsation with the singers repeating the title in increasingly mutated fashion until the explosive end.
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3: Hexennacht. Underneath all of the orchestration, the title song is folk / blues straight enough to your soul’s signature to be free. The instrumental break in the middle is pure pleasure, with ghostly keyboards, a Bauhaus bass and more. It could be a simple one. Otherwise, it’s quite possibly the most likely lead to appear in a Hollywood North supernatural supernatural horror film.
4: Suspiria. A cover of the classic title track from the Italian horror film by progressive rock band Goblin, it’s a pretty straightforward take on the tune. He also has the best lyrics ever. Repeat “the” fourteen times. Say witch. Repeat.
5: Hi Satan. Who said darkwaves don’t have a sense of humor? The closing song is actually Natas Liah played backwards. It sounds completely rad.
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Dark side
Spiral | Matador discs
Kind: Progressive rock
Key track: I am the echo
Chilean electronic artist Nicolás Jaar and American multi-instrumentalist Dave Harrington haven’t released anything new under the Darkside banner since 2013’s acclaimed Psychic. The duo’s return to musical creation takes up the Pink Floyd qualities of the first and shifts them towards ever more experimental territory. It doesn’t mean that everything is there. There are also funk workouts in space like Limit, the moody grooves of Lawmaker, and the digital country effects of Liberty Bell. It’s easy to imagine that any of these songs could be rendered completely differently in a live setting.
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John R. Miller
Cushioning | Rounder records
Kind: Roots
Key track: Look over my shoulder
Moving to Nashville seems like the wrong place to seek sobriety, but the city of music is teeming with talent and competition that the vast majority of hats writing songs on the bottle letting them down don’t have time to sip whiskey. . Engine Lights frontman John R. Miller is a case in point, Burch or Jason Isbell. Miller can coax a lot of emotions from familiar lines like Sky is blue / And so am I. / While you were in there I got high / I was here to get by / Break all the golden rules in two-stage killer tramples such as Old Dance Floor or old stripped-down acoustic waltzes like Back and Forth. Expect to learn more about this artist.
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Lee aaron
Radio on! | leeaaron.com
Kind: Hard Rock
Key track: Let’s go
She was a jazz / pop singer and tried other styles. But Lee Aaron will always be the queen of metal in Canada. She’s in perfect shape on her latest album, getting dirty on songs such as the opening boogie Vampin ‘, the title track Heart-like or the straight rocker C’mon. Working with hard rock legend Mike Fraser, Aaron gets the most out of every power chord and chorus break. While this kind of finely crafted hair band riffage hasn’t been on the radio much in recent years, there’s still a lot to do to make you want to don your tune guitar and headbang on the album. Aaron sounds great too.
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Yaël baguette
Saltwater heartwood | Yaelwand.ca
Kind: Folk / pop
Key track: Ready or Not
Nominated for a BC Interior Music Award well known to fans of Canadian folk / roots music, singer / songwriter Wand took a long break between outings to do a lot of things. Lessons learned over the past decade inform the sophisticated and jazzy statement of intent that is That Needs Be Done and the touching folk of Navigate By Stars, as well as the longing and lonely longing of Flame. The backing band does a perfect job of never getting in the way of the album’s real instrument, Wand’s silky smooth vocals. It could range from a bluegrass eighth note to a smooth jazzy performance or some clean classic Canadiana folk.
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