The Ping presents Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks + psychosomatic climax machine

["Scott M2" <scott@dreamstate.to>]

THE AMBiENT PiNG   http://www.theambientping.com
Free - Every Tuesday Night - doors open at 9pm - 1st set at 9:30
  @ club nia / C'est What - 19 Church St. at Front St. - Toronto
         3 blocks east of the Union Station subway.
         map - http://www.cestwhat.com/map.html
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This Tuesday March 9th - psychosomatic climax machine
and Building Castles Out Of Matchsticks with General Chaos

psychosomatic climax machine is the sweet sounds of robot love.
Fully improvised ambient space music with Anne Sulikowski
on keys, synths, microphones and found sounds, Jeff Sinibaldi
(phases, marsilioficino) and Phil Ogison (Devil In The Design)
on guitar, Vanessa Price (1 yr anniversary) and Scott Johnson
(Lonely Flight) on keyboards. Lights, moods and atmospheres
provided by General Chaos Visuals. www.worthyrecords.com

Building Castles out of Matchsticks is fragments recorded
and sequenced into new digital forms. Songs, doodles,
found sounds, synth pop and art collages are reversed,
stretched, amplified, cut up and rearranged to document
events that mark the life of Anne Sulikowski. Robots sing
about heartache, happiness, love, lust, space, time and
short wave radios. More visuals by General Chaos.
http://www.pieheadrecords.com/releases/pie025.html
http://www.generalchaosvisuals.com

Between Sets CD - "Seed" by Ma Ja Le / James Johnson
This beautiful collaboration between ambient electronic artists
Ma Ja Le (Christopher Short & Paul Vnuk Jr) and James
Johnson was recorded in 2000 and blends all their individual
strengths into a deeply spaced sonic universe. (Hypnos)
http://hypnos.com/mjljj-s.htm
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Coming Tuesday March 16th - Delta Forces & Michael Keith
http://www.michaelkeith.com
http://home.goodmedia.com/~dw
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rik maclean's *ping things* CD Reviews

Listening to the self titled debut by Titania I can't help but think
of the work of Kate Bush, the Cocteau Twins, other artists who
have celebated the beauty of the female voice. With this release,
Mandy Cousins and partner Michael Turner have created a disc
of stunning wonder, a collection of songs that showcase the
fact that sometimes the best music needs to be sung.

Digitaria with it's guitar arpeggios and simple percussion creates
a hypnotic effect that leaves the listener in a state of blissful
trance, euphoria. Rising and falling fretwork throughout this one
highlight Michael's mastery of the guitar.

Tribal percussion opens Pale Sister, minimal instrumentation
playing beneath Mandy's voice. Wonderful stuff here, rich
sweeping vocals that set the hair on the back of my neck
on end. Simply beautiful.

Smooth pads open track nine, Knowing and Not Caring,
majestic guitar slowly building in their wake. Brilliant.

Postscript is a lovely piece that sends shivers up my spine
it's so wonderful. A perfect piece of music where vocals,
instrumentation, tension and emotion all come together in
an ideal blend to form one of the most blissful pieces of
music I've heard all year.

Without doubt, Titania is a fabulous introduction to a
wonderful project that I hope to hear more from in the
future. Fans of the aforementioned Bush and Cocteaus will 
find this disc indispensible.

rik maclean - rik@pingthings.com

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The Ambient Ping presents free live performances by Toronto's
finest ambient, chillout and experimental music artists plus
performers from across the continent, every Tuesday at club nia
(aka C'est What) featuring a comfortable lower stage area, perfect
for attentive listening, plus a higher level with a bar, back room
and more seating that's great for conversation, good food and the
club's impressive beer, wine and whiskey selection. Musical treats
are on offer at the *ping things* ambient/experimental CD boutique.
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