Articles by Eric Hill

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  Peggy Lee

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 16

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2019

  FIMAV's 35th edition kicked off with a veteran of the festival. Vancouver's Peggy Lee first performed here in 1997, with her eight-month-ol...

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  Political Ritual

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 16

  PUBLISHED May 17, 2019

  Midnight shows at FIMAV are generally given over to the more fringe elements and emerging artists in the "musique actuelle" realm. Montreal...

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  Simon Scott

  Soundings

  PUBLISHED Feb 20, 2019

  Described by the artist as a kind of travelogue, gathered, edited, composed and considered over a four-year period that included the reunio...

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  Hauschka

  A Different Forest

  PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2019

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

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  Phurpa

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 20

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2018

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

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  Mette Rasmussen / Toshimaru Nakamura / Martin Taxt

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 20

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2018

  As outlined in Friday's Fang / Goldstein / Wiens review, there are improvisations that are highly cooperative. Then there are those, like t...

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  Anna Homler

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 20

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2018

  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...

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  Merzbow / Mats Gustafsson / Balás Pandi

  FIMAV, Victoriaville QC, May 20

  PUBLISHED May 21, 2018

  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...