Holy Fuck, Suuns and Summering
Date/Time: Jun 17 2016, 9:00 pm to 11:59 pm
Vancouver, The Rickshaw TheatreAge: 19+
Cost: $20.00
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Austin’s LEVITATION has grown from a small word-of-mouth event to an internationally acclaimed, full weekend event that attracts attendees from all over the world. To bring the festival to Vancouver, The Reverberation Appreciation Society partnered with Timbre Concerts, founding Levitation Vancouver in 2015. Now in it’s second year, the festival returns to Malkin Bowl in Stanley Park, with night shows in select downtown venues.
Levitation Vancouver’s programming maintains the spirit of LEVITATION in Austin, TX, offering a wide range of international and local talent across the musical spectrum, with an emphasis on artists with an experimental and/or psychedelic edge.
Levitation Vancouver works closely with community partners to provide a safe, accessible and environmentally conscious experience for all festival-goers while championing local and independent Vancouver businesses and artists.
Holy Fuck: The Toronto-based electronic collective were formed in 2004 by Graham Walsh and Brian Borcherdt. Described as “blip-hoppers” and “a shabbily dressed Kraftwerk,” Holy Fuck began creating lo-fi electronic noise music with old analog musical and non-musical instruments, including a 35mm film synchronizer. Without the use of laptops or other conventional electronic instruments, they strove to re-create their chaotic, Casio-driven live presence on their albums, the first of which — a self-titled effort — appeared in 2005. Known primarily for improvising on-stage with a variety of electronic devices strewn across a table and held together with duct tape, the two toured heavily and wrote tracks for their 2007 album, LP, while on the road. Featuring collaborations from Dave Newfield (Broken Social Scene) and Owen Pallett (Final Fantasy), the album received a Juno Award nomination for Alternative Album of the Year and earned a spot on the short list for the Canadian Polaris Music Prize. Former Enon drummer Matt Schulz joined the lineup in 2008, while Holy Fuck wrapped up a well-received tour with M.I.A. The full band returned in 2010 with a third album, Latin. ~ Erik Leijon
Suuns: Blending aspects of dark electro, dissonant art rock, and plodding indie rock, Suuns, formerly named Zeroes, utilize minimalism in their wide-open (and often paranoid) sound. After their first EP, which was also titled Zeroes, they recorded a full-length with the Besnard Lakes’ Jace Lasek at Breakglass Studios in their home city of Montreal. Upon Lasek’s recommendation, the ten-song outing Zeroes QC got the attention of Secretly Canadian, and Suuns signed to the label in the autumn of 2010. That October the album was released, just as the group started touring with the Besnard Lakes and Land of Talk. Sophomore effort Images du Futur arrived three years later, further exploring the dark sounds the band began on its debut. It was 2015 when Secretly Canadian released a collaborative record on which Suuns and friend Radwan Ghazi Moumneh of Jerusalem in My Heart had begun work in 2012. The long-labored album took years to complete, and found the band’s minimal electronic approach winding around Moumneh’s Arabic influences and complementary synthesizer sensibilities. ~ Jason Lymangrover
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