Articles by Eric Hill
Afrirampo
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19
PUBLISHED May 20, 2018
Closing out the festival's evening of Japanese music, and capably saving it from slight disappointment, were Oni and Pika, collectively kno...
Phew / Saicobab
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19
PUBLISHED May 20, 2018
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...
FIRE!
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19
PUBLISHED May 20, 2018
Fitness rock. Technirock. Steroid minimalism. I'm hoping to coin a new genre name that best describes the type of music a certain segment o...
Dálava
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19
PUBLISHED May 20, 2018
Julia Ulehla and Aram Bajakian, the husband and wife centre of Dálava, sing and play their way through the cabaret seated crowd on their wa...
Erwan Keravec
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 19
PUBLISHED May 20, 2018
Confronted with the prospect of listening to an hour-long concert of solo bagpipes, a certain look of apprehension might creep across your...
Schnellertollermeier
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18
PUBLISHED May 19, 2018
Hard to say but excessively fun to watch, Schnellertollermeier are a Swiss trio that bring the high technical proficiency of jazz play into...
Malcolm Goldstein / Liu Fang / Rainer Wiens
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18
PUBLISHED May 19, 2018
This trio of veterans demonstrated how well-developed improv can function, as three travelers with different native tongues arrived at comm...
Charlotte Hug
FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 18
PUBLISHED May 19, 2018
"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...