FIMAV
Mette Rasmussen / Toshimaru Nakamura / Martin Taxt
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 20
PUBLISHED May 21, 2018
As outlined in Friday's Fang / Goldstein / Wiens review, there are improvisations that are highly cooperative. Then there are those, like t...
Anna Homler
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 20
PUBLISHED May 21, 2018
I don't know who "Breadwoman" really is, or what she represents. But in a short documentary made by RVNG Records for their 2016 reissue of...
Merzbow / Mats Gustafsson / Balás Pandi
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 20
PUBLISHED May 21, 2018
If you've seen Merzbow perform live, a question you probably wouldn't ask is, "How can we make that louder?" Well, the answer comes in the...
Afrirampo
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19
PUBLISHED May 20, 2018
Closing out the festival's evening of Japanese music, and capably saving it from slight disappointment, were Oni and Pika, collectively kno...
Phew / Saicobab
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19
PUBLISHED May 20, 2018
An evening of Japanese music at FIMAV kicks off with a double bill by Phew (Hiromi Moritani), and Saicobab, a trio led by Boredoms founder...
FIRE!
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19
PUBLISHED May 20, 2018
Fitness rock. Technirock. Steroid minimalism. I'm hoping to coin a new genre name that best describes the type of music a certain segment o...
Dálava
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19
PUBLISHED May 20, 2018
Julia Ulehla and Aram Bajakian, the husband and wife centre of Dálava, sing and play their way through the cabaret seated crowd on their wa...
Erwan Keravec
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19
PUBLISHED May 20, 2018
Confronted with the prospect of listening to an hour-long concert of solo bagpipes, a certain look of apprehension might creep across your...