Hamilton Musician Media

Montreal violinist Jessica Moss has performed and recorded with a wide spectrum of ensembles over the last two decades. Best known as a permanent member of Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra, she was also a founding member of avant-klezmer group Black Ox Orkestar, recorded and toured with the Vic Chesnutt band for the two albums released on Constellation, and worked extensively with Carla Bozulich’s Evangelista. She has also performed and recorded as a guest with many of Montreal’s best known artists, most recently with Big|Brave on their acclaimed 2016 record for Southern Lord. She was featured in Jem Cohen’s Empires of Tin project, and joined members of Godspeed, Fugazi, White Magic and Dirty Three to perform the live score to Cohen’s film We Have An Anchor in various locations at Europe and the USA. Most recently she’s been collaborating and performing with the band Laniakea, featuring Daniel O’Sullivan (Ulver, Grumbling Fur, Æthenor, This Is Not This Heat) and Massimo Pupillo (Zu).

Though she’s been playing violin practically her entire life, Jessica has always felt most at home in a collaborative setting and has been steadfastly devoted to the practice of ensemble playing. This has generally meant creation ‘in the service of’: the other parts being played, the lyrics being sung, the structure of the song, and/or the recording and mixing at hand. The practices inherent in group creation and performance inform her very person in many ways and have given her a deep understanding and respect for both group dynamics and ‘working communities’ in general.

Moss’ catalyst to create solo work was a 2014 virtual collaboration with Olympia, USA musician Kevin Doria, who creates intensely rich and layered minimalist drone music under the moniker Total Life and with his bands Growing and Hiss Tracts. Simultaneously she was commissioned by La Biennale de Montréal to create a site specific composition that reflected on the theme of the 2014 exhibition.

Alone in her practice space equipped with the tools, methods, and experiences gleaned from years in studios, rehearsal spaces, performing and touring, Jessica commenced building her unique style and structure. The music that came was longform and narrative, conjuring images with sounds and melodies and occasional lyrics, and telling exigent stories of troubled times. Written by ear and memory and never committed to paper, Moss conceives for live performance, where she makes use of violin, a myriad of pedals, a microphone, and three amplifiers.

Moss says she feels aligned with the transportive nature of storytelling tradition. By creating narrative music around subjects already on many minds, she aims to create a space for collective reflection. She believes sharing such “transporting moments” can be both balm and a catalyst to engagement .

In 2015 Jessica self-released the cassette Under Plastic Island, a beautiful, swirling meditation on the island of plastic trash floating in the ocean, the result of a trip to Brooklyn during which she spent time in the basement recording studio of friend and occasional collaborator Guy Picciotto.

In the last 18 months she has been invited to perform solo at Le Guess Who in Utrecht, ATP in Wales, Pop Montreal, La Biennale de Montréal, and Suoni Per Il Popolo. For the 2017 edition of Big Ears Festival (Knoxville, USA), Moss will perform solo as well as undertake multiple collaborative performances with Cohen’s Gravity Hill project (featuring Guy Picciotto, Jim White, Matana Roberts and others).

May 2017 heralds Jessica Moss’ first official full-length solo release. Comprised of two side-length multi-movement compositions, Pools Of Light is a stunning work that unfolds at a stately, inexorable pace, combining sound-art and signal-processed timbres, extended melodic and contrapuntal lines, and the periodic deployment of stark, minimalist vocals. Recorded with kindred spirit Radwan Ghazi Moumneh and released on the only label home she knows, Jessica says she “is feeling fucking grateful to be doing what I’m doing right now” and hopes to see you on the road.

http://jessicamoss.net/

JESSICA MOSS

Tixs here https://www.bruha.com/event/4065

LIVE AND DIRECT from the Tokyo rockabilly scene comes JOHNNY PANDORA and his band of leather-clad rockers!! With special guests, The Dreamboats!

Johnny Pandora, star of the recent Sapporo beer commercial and Youngblood’s viral ‘5 Seconds of Summer’ music video, is the new face of the Tokyo Rockabilly scene! Come and party with Johnny and his band at his FIRST SHOW in Canada at This Ain’t Hollywood in Hamilton, Ontario!!

Supporting Johnny Pandora is Mississauga’s own internationally touring rock n’ rollers, THE DREAMBOATS, fresh off of their California tour!

GET YOUR TICKETS IN ADV. HERE
https://www.bruha.com/event/4065

DOORS: 8:00 PM
19

Johnny Pandora : Daigo Yamashita
WEBSITE: www.johnny-daigo.com

The Dreamboats
WEBSITE: www.thedreamboatsband.com

Tixs here https://www.bruha.com/event/4065

LIVE AND DIRECT from the Tokyo rockabilly scene comes JOHNNY PANDORA and his band of leather-clad rockers!! With special guests, The Dreamboats!

Johnny Pandora, star of the recent Sapporo beer commercial and Youngblood’s viral ‘5 Seconds of Summer’ music video, is the new face of the Tokyo Rockabilly scene! Come and party with Johnny and his band at his FIRST SHOW in Canada at This Ain’t Hollywood in Hamilton, Ontario!!

Supporting Johnny Pandora is Mississauga’s own internationally touring rock n’ rollers, THE DREAMBOATS, fresh off of their California tour!

GET YOUR TICKETS IN ADV. HERE
https://www.bruha.com/event/4065

DOORS: 8:00 PM
19

Johnny Pandora : Daigo Yamashita
WEBSITE: www.johnny-daigo.com

The Dreamboats
WEBSITE: www.thedreamboatsband.com

St. Andrew’s United Church
Sunday December 9, 7pm
$10 at the door, under 13 free

Cheyne Presbyterian Church,
Sunday December 15, 6:30pm
Good will offering

Bethel Gospel Tabernacle,
Sunday December 23, 6:30pm
Good will offering

St. Andrew’s United Church
Sunday December 9, 7pm
$10 at the door, under 13 free

Cheyne Presbyterian Church,
Sunday December 15, 6:30pm
Good will offering

Bethel Gospel Tabernacle,
Sunday December 23, 6:30pm
Good will offering

LIVELab welcomes Eric St-Laurent!

March 1, 2019
8PM
$30 General Admission
$20 General Admission (Student)

Eric St-Laurent joins us for a special solo performance showcasing the unique surround-sound capabilities of the LIVELab auditorium.

SCIENCE SNAPSHOT
Dr. Michael Schutz, Associate Professor of Music Cognition/Percussion, McMaster University

PERFORMER BIO
Born and raised in Montreal, St-Laurent studied improvisation in New York before moving to Berlin where he toured with both the big and small names of the German and Scandinavian music scenes.
Winner of the SOCAN award for Best Original Composition at the Montreal Jazz Festival and The Best Band Award at the Vienne (France) Jazz Festival, St-Laurent has been featured on over 100 recordings, produced albums, composed scores for short films and theatre, and toured in Europe and Canada.

Since returning to Toronto, Canada, St-Laurent has recorded and toured with David Clayton Thomas, Till Bronner, Dave Liebman, Dave Douglas, Rebekka Bakken, Richard Underhill, Slide Hampton, Luc de la Rocheliere, Sylvie Paquette, David Binney, Jojo Mayer, Carlos Del Junco, Bernard Primeau and represented Canada at the International Guitar Summit in Nice (MIDEM).

LIVELab welcomes the Barry Livingston Group!

April 28, 2019
7:30PM
$30 General Admission
$20 General Admission (Student)

For our season finale, the LIVELab is pleased to welcome the Barry Livingston Group. Incorporating jazz, bossa nova, South Indian influence, and more, the season closes with this group of award-winning musicians and a guest talk by LIVELab director Dr. Laurel Trainor, “The Creative Brain.”

SCIENCE SNAPSHOT – The Creative Brain
Dr. Laurel Trainor, Professor, Director of McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind
LIVELab, McMaster University
Dr. Laurel Trainor is the founding director of the McMaster Institute for Music and the Mind. She has done groundbreaking neuroscience research on musical development in children and infants and her research spans perceptual, cognitive, and social aspects of pitch and rhythm.

PERFORMER BIO
The Barry Livingston Group features some of Canada’s best musicians from the jazz and global music scene. Livingston’s evocative compositions incorporate diverse influences from mainstream jazz, European influences (the ECM label), South Indian and Asian music, Latin jazz, and bossa nova. The group has performed at some of Toronto’s top jazz venues (Musideum, University of Toronto Jazz at Oscar’s series), and at a number of Jazz Vespers events around the city.