Articles by Eric Hill

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  Bang on a Can All-Stars

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 16

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2019

  Bang on a Can, from NYC, have been around in some form or other for almost as long as the 35 years of the Festival International de Musique...

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  Peggy Lee

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 16

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2019

  FIMAV's 35th edition kicked off with a veteran of the festival. Vancouver's Peggy Lee first performed here in 1997, with her eight-month-ol...

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  Political Ritual

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 16

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2019

  Midnight shows at FIMAV are generally given over to the more fringe elements and emerging artists in the "musique actuelle" realm. Montreal...

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  Simon Scott

  Soundings

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2019

  Described by the artist as a kind of travelogue, gathered, edited, composed and considered over a four-year period that included the reunio...

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  Hauschka

  A Different Forest

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2019

  Institutional respectability appears to have found, captured and enshrined Volker Bertelmann, aka Hauschka. Well into the second decade of...

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  Phurpa

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 20

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2018

  Me: Hmmm. According to the program a Russian guy named Alexey Tegin formed Phurpa after an early stint in industrial music, and he adopts m...

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  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...

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  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...