POP Montréal & Debaser present:
Tiger Balme + R. Flex + Kee Avil + Magbeta
Thursday, September 29, 2022
Casa del Popolo
Doors: 8:30PM | Show: 9:00PM
10$ online
The story of Toronto-based Tiger Balme is the story of Yang Chen, Estyr, Danielle Sum, and Anda Zeng coming together to sing songs they could only sing once they had found each other. With members taking turns writing and singing their own stories, Tiger Balme’s alt-indie heart beats with hues of disco, rock, and 90s acoustic pop—the grounding forces of drums, guitar, and bass shimmering with the addition of vibraphone, harp, and soaring harmonies. Since 2018, they have created sonic spaces of tender resilience at festivals, intimate art shows, and music fixtures around Toronto and Southern Ontario. Their upcoming debut album, the self-titled Tiger Balme produced by Paul Chin, is an embrace of the wounds that shape us and the connection that heals us, an ode to the courage that arises from being true to one’s own heart.
Get to know the future of R&B: R. Flex. Named as Now Toronto’s Artist to Watch in 2022, R. Flex is scrupulously revealing their vision for 2022. Having just released their incredible second EP FLEX WITH BENEFITS, R. Flex is ready to rock the world. Simply put, R. Flex is an underground star in the making. They were one of the first artists to perform on Club Quarantine: one of the world’s biggest online dance parties to emerge at the beginning of the pandemic. Their new EP FLEX WITH BENEFITS was named one of the best soul releases of April by Bandcamp and an album you can't miss by Exclaim Magazine. Their showstopping performances have caught the eyes of Lido Pimienta, Shad, & LAL. It’s time for you to CHECK THE FLEX.
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Led by Montréal producer Vicky Mettler, Kee Avil combines guitar, voice,and electronic production to create songs that teeter on the edge of collapse while oozing forward, like sticky wax picking up and shedding disparate elements along the way. Kee Avil evolved from playing guitar with broken cymbals and drumsticks to forging askew tempos and templates glued together by samples of screws dropped into crystal bowls.
Her self-titled debut EP, released in 2018 on Black Bough Records, harnessed her improvised music and prepared guitar background toward a newfound structural sensibility and arresting vocal/lyrical experimentation; she has been immersed in the exploration of distinctive compositional architectures ever since, expanding her sonic palette with increasing and intensive detail, where twitchy, finely wrought postpunk avant-pop songs are meticulously assembled to resemble disassembly.
Kee Avil’s emerging body of work signals a vital, viscous, virtuosic new voice in experimental songcraft–where touchstones include Juana Molina, Scott Walker, Fiona Apple and Eartheater; where PJ Harvey meets Pan Daijing or Grouper melds with Autechre. Kee Avil released her debut album ‘Crease’ in early 2022 (Constellation Records).
Montreal-based Congolese musician MAGBETA uses hard-hitting electronic pulses to dive deep into nostalgia’s darkest shadows, creating a uniquely haunted yet energized atmosphere as they entrance audiences with their unrelenting poetic vulnerability. Fusing the raw catharsis of alternative folk-soul with lively afro-latino rhythms, MAGBETA tastefully blends influences as they expose the infernal truths of their heart’s history, performing with an infectious passion from which no one is immune.
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