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

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 f...

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...

As outlined in Friday's Fang / Goldstein / Wiens review, there are improvisations that are highly cooperative. Then there are those, like to...

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

Confronted with the prospect of listening to an hour-long concert of solo bagpipes, a certain look of apprehension might creep across your f...

Julia Ulehla and Aram Bajakian, the husband and wife centre of Dálava, sing and play their way through the cabaret seated crowd on their way...

Fitness rock. Technirock. Steroid minimalism. I'm hoping to coin a new genre name that best describes the type of music a certain segment of...

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 a...

Closing out the festival's evening of Japanese music, and capably saving it from slight disappointment, were Oni and Pika, collectively know...

NYC jazz icon / bass player William Parker returns to FIMAV with his long-running project, "In Order to Survive," now in its 25th year of ex...

"Who gave this possessed woman a viola and set her loose in this 150-year-old church?" Not a question I literally heard, but surely one on t...

This trio of veterans demonstrated how well-developed improv can function, as three travelers with different native tongues arrived at commu...

Hard to say but excessively fun to watch, Schnellertollermeier are a Swiss trio that bring the high technical proficiency of jazz play into...

Vancouver-based artist Lan Tung is the lynchpin between the two groups that make up "The Giant Project." Proliferasian are a seven-piece ava...

What could be more fitting to kick off FIMAV's 34th edition than celebrating a composer/conductor with a performance of two of his pieces th...

Montreal's David Dugas Dion started his climb to the Mountain back in the early '00s, with his noisy indie-psych project David and the Woods...

The right show at the right time in the right place can work quiet wonders. In this case, it was Montreal's Kara-Lis Coverdale performing a...

A hip-hop artist hailing from the burg of East Preston on the outskirts of Halifax, MAJE does not lack in affability and easy charm. His obv...

Where to start? Well you have a band that slap-chops together a musical slaw that is equal parts funk rhythm and vintage Skin Graft/Amphetam...