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the PiNG presents Arms Full of Sound



THE AMBiENT PiNG   http://www.theambientping.com
Tuesdays @ HACiENDA - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor - Toronto 
(upstairs - directly across from the Bathurst subway station) 
Doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30 - PayWhatYouCan 

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THiS Tuesday February 7th . Arms Full of Sound
"Journey To Ambientia Winter"

Journey to Ambientia 2: Seasons, is the year long project from 
Arms Full of Sound that will take you back to that special place, 
deep within the ambient mind. On the last journey, you were taken 
to the powerful place called Ambientia, where you were able to 
explore its strange ways of music. The Traveler is still there 
trapped in the timeless world of music. We now embark on the 
year-long journey to help the Traveler come home. We return 
to Ambientia and experience what the Traveler has 
learned so that we may help him home.

The seasons change one into another and back again. Our journey 
begins again. All must end where it began.

Arms Full of Sound is an Ambient-Electronic music performer formed
4 years ago by Paul Needler. Using a large compliment of analog, 
digital and software synthesizers, Arms Full of Sound produces live 
blends of ambient music, usually all improvisational.
http://www.armsfullofsound.com

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Before Sets CD . Phaedra by Tangerine Dream 
To get us in the mood, we phade all the way back to 1974 
for this classic ambient sequence album by electronic music 
pioneers Tangerine Dream.  http://www.tangerinedream.org

Between Sets CD . Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts 
by Angelmark
This week we feature Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts 
the second disc by Michael Turner's solo project Angelmark. 
Read more about it here in rik's *ping things* CD review 
below and hear it Tuesday @ the PiNG. 
http://www.resplendent.ca/angelmark

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COMiNG February 14th  . The Sweetheart Sessions with
- Subduction Current (Phil Ogison and Catherine Tammaro)
- 1 Year Anniversary (Jeff Sinbaldi and Vanessa Price)
- Love Puppets (Matt David and Anne Sulikowski)

Cupid comes to the PiNG for Valentine's Day to bring us 
The Sweetheart Sessions from our loveable friends at 
Worthy Records.

Subduction Current - an experi-pop-ambijazz duo, comprised 
of Catherine Tammaro and her husband Phil Ogison. They believe 
that their studio recordings should be representative of their live 
performances, and therefore are always recorded in one take. 
Catherine contributes many years of musical history having 
played briefly in Steal This Book and for her collaborations with 
Tom Third and Dr.Limbo in several projects. She is an accomplished 
vocalist and soundscapist. Phil Ogison is known to PiNG audiences 
for his project The Devil In The Design and his collaborations with 
Anne Sulikowski (BCOM, Lovepuppets) in A Pretty Sonic Splatter 
and Psychosomatic Climax Machine. Music for 'The Sweetheart 
Sessions will be from the upcoming release on Worthy Records 
"In This House" http://tditd.tripod.com
http://www.myspace.com/ogison
http://www.room101.net/index.htm

1 Yr Anniversary - Foundsounds, artsounds & sweetheart recordings 
by v.price & j.sinibaldi. http://www.worthyrecords.com

LOVE PUPPETS - as+md ... hearts carved in a tree ... a walk on the 
moon with a short-wave radio .... http://www.worthyrecords.com
http://www.myspace.com/lovepuppetss

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rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews

Angelmark "Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts"

I like beautiful things, things that make me stop and appreciate the 
world around me, things that give me pause to think and wonder. 
"Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts" is the second disc by Michael 
Turner's solo project Angelmark and it is undoubtedly a beautiful 
collection of music that inspires the stop, appreciate, pause, think 
and wonder response in me.

"Equipoise" opens the disc with a repeated melody slowly gaining 
strength and volume, drifting into a more pronounced lead line that 
dances and floats around the same melodic ideal. A steady rhythm 
guitar plays underneath as lines blend and blur with each other 
leading into a gradual dissolve of sounds. It's a stunning opening, 
something wonderful.

"Mam Tor" vibrates and oscillates with a beautiful intensity. 
A background drone provides accompaniment and a sense of 
movement that suggests displacement, relocation. It's a very 
evocative piece, surprisingly effective given it's minimalist nature.

The third track "Fleeting Moment..." has a strong cinematic quality 
to it, suggesting rebirth and reawakening. I like this one, it has a 
serenity and grace that appeals to the optimist in me.

Track four "Wintermute" is a stunningly beautiful piece, a delicate 
guitar melody that weaves in and out through a cascade of 
chiming bells and enveloping rhythm work. It's a truly wonderful 
piece that spirals and dances through the ether, and it's only 
fault is that it ends too soon.

"Others Distant" follows a similar form, a minimal bass line anchoring 
a droning wall of guitar, a sense of oblique motion, drifting amongst 
stars. I wonder if this and "Wintermute" are flipsides of the same 
coin? They certainly complement each other well...

"Unseen" has a sense of tension and displacement to it, nothing so 
harsh as to be unsettling, but definitely an anxious feeling about it. 
Guitar notes throughout the track feel choked and forced and 
background drones try to gain shape and form, but never quite 
succeed. It has a sense of claustrophobia to it, something 
uncomfortable. And yet despite all of that, it still has a 
feeling of beauty and charm about it. Lovely work.

"Twilight World" offers some relief from the claustrophobia of 
"Unseen", soft shapes and forms growing underneath swirling 
backdrops and soothing lead lines. It's something beautiful and 
shoegazerish, something that a Slowdive or Cocteaus fan would 
adore, something that would be right at home in a film with 
Rose McGowan and Johnathan Schaech driving through 
the desert. Powerful.

"Flowers Washed Down By the Rain" closes the disc, a minimal 
piece employing solemn piano and sweeping guitar playing 
overtop the steady sound of rain. A very nice environment 
is created in this one, something very lush and full, while 
maintaining a delicate quality, a sense of fragility. 
Very nice.

Over the course of these nine songs, Turner creates a beautiful 
and magical environment for the listener to discover. His sense 
of space and production is impeccable and his ability to develop 
and expand on melody is outstanding. Certainly "Uncertain 
Futures and Fading Pasts" is a release by an artist at the 
top of his game, and certainly deserves repeated 
listening and further exploration.

"Uncertain Futures and Fading Pasts" by Angelmark 
is available now at ping things!

http://www.pingthings.com/ANGELMARKfutures.htm

rik maclean - rik@pingthings.com

http://www.pingthings.com = ambient + electronic + chill things 

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* Other Toronto area sonic/visual events of interest this week:

* Monday, February 6th . Esprit Orchestra presents a Benefit 
   Screening and Party for the launch of Burnt Toast a television 
   film of eight short comic operas about love, directed by 
   Larry Weinstein. The music is composed by Alexina Louie 
   with a libretto by Dan Redican, and features Canada’s 
   best opera singers: Isabel Bayrakdarian, Russel Braun, 
   Jean Stilwell, Michael Colvin, Krisztina Szabo, Benjamin Butterfield, 
   Shannon Mercer, and more. The star-studded cast of actors and 
   comedians includes Paul Gross, Colm Feore, Jessica Holmes, 
   Scott Thompson, Leah Pinsent, Colin Mochrie, Debra McGrath, 
   Cathy Jones, and Seán Cullen. The event will be hosted by 
   Mark McKinney and will include performers from the Esprit 
   Orchestra playing excerpts from the film.
   8:00 PM at Theatre D Digital – 555 Mount Pleasant Road.
   Tickets $30 each, or 2 for $50, Patron Ticket - $100*
   For Tickets and Information Call: (416) 815-7887
   or email: info@espritorchestra.com   www.espritorchestra.com

* Wednesday, February 8 - 11th . The Brampton Indie Arts Festival  
   more info: http://www.friendlyrich.com/iaprogram2006.html
   The Heritage Theatre: 86 Main Street North, Brampton
   Beaux Arts Gallery: 74 Main Street N. Brampton
   Festival Pass: $25 festival pass - only 100 passes are available
   Nightly tickets (at the door): $12 each or $6 student 
   Advance ticket price per night: Just $10

* Wednesday, February 8 . The Sea Gone Off with the Sun
   rob clutton: bass, ilana waniuk: violin, 
   brandon valdivia: percussion
   9 pm the red guitar 603 Markham St.

* Thursday, February 9th . URBAN FIELD SPEAKER SERIES
   R. Murray Schafer - The iconoclast composer and 
   notorious anti-urbanist, on the sound of the city
   Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art
   401 Richmond Street West, Suite 124
   8pm $5 Prefix Photo Subscribers and Students $8 Non-subscribers

* Thursday, February 9th . Wavelength Anniversary
   Wavelength 300 Panel Discussion, featuring Stuart Berman, 
   Amy Hersenhoren, James Klassen, Doc Pickles, Misha Glouberman, 
   Trevor Coleman, Jonny Dovercourt, Bernard Kadosh, Dan Vila, 
   Dylan Reibling, Liz Forsberg, Ryan McLaren, Carl Wilson, 
   Christina Zeidler and James Anderson 
   7pm @ The Speakeasy, 120 Church St., PWYC $5-$10

* Thursday, February 9th . Wavelength Anniversary
   Wavelength Anniversary feat. Anagram, Republic of Safety, 
   Kickers, Feuermusik + DJs Shaniquin 
   9pm @ The Speakeasy, 120 Church St., PWYC $5-$10 

* Friday, February 10th . Leftover Daylight Series
   in association with Arraymusic and AIMT
   i - Aldcroft / Clark / Fisher w/ ken aldcroft - guitar, 
   dave clark - drums, colin fisher - tenor sax
   ii - Brandon Valdivia w/ brandon valdivia - solo drums
   iii - Nick Fraser and Justin Haynes w/ nick fraser- drums, 
   justin haynes- guitar
   9pm ARRAYMUSIC Studio 60 Atlantic Ave., Ste 218 $10/6

* Friday, February 10th . Wavelength Anniversary
   Wavelength Anniversary feat. LAND (Lullabye Arkestra + 
   No Dynamics), Lenin i Shumov, The Bicycles, Castlemusic + 
   DJ Shit la Merde 
   9pm @ The Boat, 158 Augusta Ave., PWYC $5-$10

* Saturday, February 11th . Wavelength Anniversary
   Wavelength Anniversary feat. The Hylozoists, Picastro, Ohbijou, 
   Woodhands + DJ Matt Blair 
   7:30pm @ The Music Gallery at St. George-the-Martyr Church, 
   197 John St., PWYC $5-$10

* Saturday, February 11th . Alternative to the Alternative Series
   (The Brampton Indie Arts Festival)
   8:15 - catch London, Ontario's Boot Disk is an experimental 
   audio/visual performance trio that mixes sound and image live. 
   Part electronic music/part cinematic cut & paste; Boot Disk is 
   at the forefront of a/v experimentation. Boot Disc is a 
   collaboration between electronic musician Thomas Cermak, 
   turntablist Matti Paquiz, and video guru Skot Deeming. 
   9:00 - Poet Lynn Harrigan reads from her new book "Moon 
   Sea Crossing" (Black Moss Press) accompanied by ambient 
   soundscape artists dreamSTATE (Scott M2 and Jamie Todd).
   9:45 - The Houseplants like to sing and write songs with friends. 
   Featuring Perry Joseph, Gordon Shawcross, and Michael Herring. 
   Beaux Arts Gallery 74 Main Street N. Brampton
   $12 each or $6 student - Advance ticket price per night: $10

* Sunday February 12th . Canadian Music Centre Continues
   Province-Wide Professional Readings Series in 2006
   The Elmer Iseler Singers and invited musicians, conducted by
   Lydia Adams, read previously unperformed choral music works by 
   composers Clifford Ford, David Lidov and Micheline Roi.
   3 – 5 PM Walter Hall, Faculty of Music, University of Toronto
   FREE ADMISSION

* Sunday February 12th . The NOW Series presented by 
   AIMT and the NOW Lounge
   3:00pm - Workshop Improvisation - Scott Thomson
   5:00 - Wilson / Keith / Newman / Fisherr 
   w/ john wilson - guitar, michael keith - guitar, 
   paul newman - tenor sax, colin fisher - tenor sax
   6:00 - Anthony / Luciani / Norton 
   w/ colin anthony - voice    and percussion, jeff luciani - drums, 
   alice norton - voice, electric guitar 
   4pm-7pm The NOW Lounge 189 Church St. $6

* Sunday February 12th . Dave Clark's Woodshed Orchestra 
   Tania Gill, Blake Howard, Mike Overton, Monica Fedrigo, 
   Lina Allemano, Julia Hambleton & Dave Clark 
   8pm @ the Pepperjack Cafe 35 King St E Hamilton, Ontario

* Sunday February 12th . Soundstreams Canada 
   THE WEAVING MAIDEN Chan Ka Nin composer + 
   THE GHOST OPERA Tan Dun composer
   Ivars Taurins conductor, VERONICA TENNANT narrator, 
   Xin Wang soprano, PATRICIA GREEN mezzo soprano, 
   ERIC SHAW tenor, Nathaniel Watson baritone 
   Tafelmusik Chamber Choir Accordes String Quartet 
   Wen Xing Zhao pipa plus Kim Morris (dizi), George Gao (erhu), 
   Vivian Xia (yangqin), Calla Tan (guzheng), 
   Beverley Johnston (percussion)   
   8 pm Glenn Gould Studio 250 Front St. West
   $30 adult $20 senior $5 student (with valid I.D.)

* Sunday, February 12th . Wavelength Anniversary
   Wavelength Anniversary feat. Henri Faberge and the Adorables, 
   Ninja High School, The Secret Handshake, The Phonemes + 
   DJ Davy Love 
   9pm @ Sneaky Dee's, 431 College St., PWYC $5-$10

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THE AMBiENT PiNG is a social sound/art event presenting live 
performances by Toronto's finest ambient, chillout, improv and 
experimental music artists plus performers from across the continent, 
every Tuesday evening at HACiENDA - 794 Bathurst Street at Bloor. 
http://www.theambientping.com 

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