Articles by Tom Beedham

Nils Frahm Built His Dream Studio for 'All Melody' and May Never Use It Again

PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2018

Nils Frahm has a lot of patience.   For the past two years, the Hamburg-born composer has been embedded deep in Berlin's historic Funkhaus...

Nils Frahm

All Melody

PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2018

One hand on a grand piano, another on a Juno-60, Nils Frahm consistently challenges the expectations surrounding form and content.   The co...

Cold Specks

Mod Club, Toronto ON, November 30

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2017

"I've been on the road for a long time, so it's nice to come home and see some familiar faces," Ladan Hussein greeted the Mod Club last nig...

Ceramic TL/Ipek Gorgun

Perfect Lung

PUBLISHED Nov 27, 2017

This document of glowing, clattering correspondence between Istanbul-based composer Ipek Gorgun and Toronto's David Psutka (aka Egyptrixx,...

The Weather Station

The Great Hall, Toronto ON, November 24

PUBLISHED Nov 25, 2017

"If I'm in a foreign city I tell the story of the first time I ever went there or I say something charmingly naïve about the place, but if...

A Perfect Circle

Air Canada Centre, Toronto ON, November 15

PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2017

When A Perfect Circle released their last batch of communications in November 2004, it arrived just in time for the American presidential e...

Slowdive

Massey Hall, Toronto ON, November 10

PUBLISHED Nov 11, 2017

Walking out to the celestial drift of Brian Eno's "Deep Blue Day," the moment Slowdive stepped foot onstage at Massey Hall, it felt like a...

Unsound Presents Halloween Hangover: GAS / Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein / Księżyc

Bluma Appel Theatre, Toronto ON, November 3

PUBLISHED Nov 4, 2017

One week after immersing audiences in a surreal dose of existential social commentary, "Halloween Hangover" — the second and final instalme...