Saturday September 6
SLIM TWIG & THE MERCY MERCENARIES
Record release, with guests Josh Reichmann Oracle Band + Huckleberry Friends
Co-presented with Slim Twig

Doors 7pm, concert 8pm
Tickets $10 advance at Rotate This, Soundscapes & Ticketweb
At the door: $12 regular, $10 member

Guitarist and vocalist Slim Twig has pursued his singular artistic vision since 2003, inspired by pillars of the avant-garde in music and film, including Scott Walker, Brian Eno, Nick Cave, Thurston Moore, Jean-Luc Godard, and Davids Lynch and Cronenberg. Naturally, following such guideposts, his sound has morphed from his early apocalyptic folk incarnation to a fuller art-pop sound and, most recently, the self-coined genre of “concrete rockabilly,” featuring a gritty, sample-based aesthetic.

Slim's recent recording sessions will be presented on the upcoming Vernacular Violence EP, released August 5th. His first experiments with these ideas resulted in a distinctly art-pop sound that have been collected and were previously available as the Derelict Dialect EP. Together, the set offers a new perspective on his music and further clues at what we might expect to see him offer in the near future. Offstage, Slim can also be seen on screen opposite Ellen Page in Bruce McDonald's The Tracey Fragments as Billy Zero, and has composed music for the award-winning short film Letters From R.

Josh Reichmann & the Oracle Band: After the break-up of his previous group, Tangiers, Josh Reichmann went on a vision quest. With no liberating end in sight, Josh set out to record more music on his own. In 2006, Reichmann created a document called Telepathy Now!, and released that record under the name of Jewish Legend. After performing live and continuing to dig deeper into eternal mysteries (and studio time), new records emerged — to be released very soon on Paper Bag Records. Josh is now joined by a brand new line up of musicians calling themselves the Oracle Band, featuring Joseph Shabason (sax), Niko Kwiatkowski (drums), Steve Singh (keyboards), and Laura Bolton (dancer).

Huckleberry Friends have been haunting Toronto for little more than two years, but have already built up a reputation as one of the most enigmatic and original bands in Toronto's art-rock scene. Combining ominous synth lines, sparse drumming and a droning approach to pop songwriting, they have garnered accolades in the Canadian music press.

http://www.myspace.com/slimtwig
http://www.myspace.com/joshreichmann
http://www.myspace.com/huckleberryfriends