Off FLUX Festival: Tatsuya Nakatani + Cosmic Diver + IARA108 (Shota Nakamura, Markus Floats, Kyle Hutchins)

toscadura, Thursday, April 16 at 07:30 PM EDT

English version follows.

Salle: Toscadura (4833 St Laurent Blvd, Montréal, Québec, H2W 1Z5 ) Date: 16 avril 2026 Portes: 19h30 Musique: 20h00

Billets: $15 plus taxes et frais en avance / $20 à l’entrée

Co-diffusé avec Mardi Spaghetti

Tatsuya Nakatani est un percussionniste d’avant-garde, un compositeur et un artiste sonore. Actif sur la scène internationale depuis les années 1990, Nakatani a publié plus de 80 enregistrements et effectué de nombreuses tournées, donnant plus de 150 concerts par an. Il donne des classes de maîtres et des conférences dans les universités et les conservatoires de musique du monde entier. Originaire du Japon, il vit dans la ville désertique de Truth or Consequences, au Nouveau-Mexique. Grâce à ses activités dans les domaines de la musique nouvelle, de l’improvisation et de la musique expérimentale, Nakatani multiplie les collaborations.

La musique de Nakatani est centrée sur un gong adapté pour être joué à l’archet, soutenu par un ensemble de tambours, de cymbales et de bols chantants. Avec ses archets Kobo qu’il sculpte à la main, il a consacré des décennies à affiner et développer son univers sonore : un agencement de vibrations qui s’enlisent dans des strates scintillantes de silence et de texture. Au cœur de cette œuvre contemporaine, on perçoit encore le rythme dramatique, l’élégance formelle et l’espace (ma) caractéristiques de la musique traditionnelle japonaise.

Cosmic Diver est un duo de performance sonore et vidéo composé de Lina Choi et Robin-Dimitrije Gosselin-Monasevic qui explore un monde sous-marin imaginaire où les frontières entre les profondeurs de la mer et l'espace s'estompent. À travers des paysages sonores immersifs, le duo invite le public à dériver entre les dimensions dans un état onirique.

IARA108 présente son tout premier concert avec Shota Nakamura à la guitare et au chant, Markus Floats à la basse et Kyle Hutchins à la batterie.

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Venue: Toscadura (4388 St Laurent Blvd, Montreal, Quebec H2W 1Z5) Date: April 16, 2026 Doors: 7:30 PM Music: 8:00 PM

Tickets: $15.00 plus taxes and fees in advance / $20.00 at the door

Co-presented with Mardi Spaghetti

Tatsuya Nakatani is an avant-garde percussionist, composer, and artist of sound. Active internationally since the 1990s, Nakatani has released over 80 recordings and tours extensively, performing over 150 concerts a year. Originally from Japan, he makes his home in the desert town of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. With his activity in new music, improvisation, and experimental music, Nakatani has a long history of collaboration.

Nakatani’s distinctive music centered around his adapted bowed gong, supported by an array of drums, cymbals, and singing bowls. In consort with his personally hand-carved Kobo Bows, he has spent decades refining and developing his sound as an arrangement of formations of vibrations, incorporated in shimmering layers of silence and texture. Within this contemporary work, one can still recognize the dramatic pacing, formal elegance and space (ma) felt in traditional Japanese music.

Cosmic Diver is a duo sound-video performance comprised of Lina Choi and Robin-Dimitrije Gosselin-Monasevic fthat explores an imaginary underwater world blurring the lines between the deep sea and outer space. Through immersive soundscapes, they invite the audience to drift between these realms in a dreamlike state.

IARA108 presents their first live set ever with Shota Nakamura on guitar and vocals, Markus Floats on bass and Kyle Hutchins on drums.

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/off-flux-festival-tatsuya-nakatani-cosmic-diver-iara108-shota-nakamura-markus-floats-kyle-hutchins

Música Para Quinteto (Live at Jazz Cava), by Juanma Trujillo

4 track album

UnderPool
[2026-03-21] EnrEdoPotEnza @ Laboratorio Giù dall'Arca https://balotta.org/event/enredopotenza #musicasperimentale #improvvisazione #freejazz
EnrEdoPotEnza

ENREDOPOTENZA SABATO 21 MARZO ENZA ALESSANDRA PRESTIA VOVE PERCUSSIONI E CORDE EDOARDO MARRAFFA SASSOFONO Più di trent'anni di carriera ciascuno non sono ancora riusciti a calmarli. EnrEdoPotEnza è il risultato di una prolungata esposizione alle frequenze moleste e alle armonie irregolari. Un dialogo serrato tra un sassofonista che non smette di CIRCOLARE e una polistrumentista che non smette di TENDERE corde e pelli. Le voci del canto, del sassofono, dei tamburi e delle corde si fondono in una armonia viscerale che non ha genere. L'unico motore è l'abolizione dei confini che EnrEdo intreccia e PotEnza smatassa. ingresso con tessera ARCI - ARCIGAY E UISP Apertura tesseramento e convivialità ore 19,30 Inizio live 20,30 Contributo artistico libero

Balotta

Here’s a new Bandcamp-exclusive mini-album of ZAAAR that’s particularly close to our hearts. It was created in collaboration with Olexiy Mikryukov aka King Imagine, a Ukrainian improvisation artist (from Kyiv). He added his own tracks and mixed them under bombings.

https://zaaar.bandcamp.com/album/absurd-animal

#improv #freejazz #experimental #Ukraine #tribal #voodoo #psychedelic #improvisation

Absurd Animal, by Olexiy Mikryukov & ZAÄAR

3 track album

ZAÄAR

This week's Electric Sandwich phi slamma jammass into yr earz with the force of a thousand Darvin Ham dunks. Birthday shout-outs to Lee "Scratch" Perry, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Paul Kantner, Charles Lloyd, Grant Hart and loads of other ballers. https://bit.ly/ES031926

#FreeMaine #NoWar #NoKings
#jazz #funk #indierock #psychedelicfunk #avantgarde #freejazz #DMV #WashingtonDC #undergroundradio #communityradio #WOWD #ArlingtonVA #psychedelic #FreakRadio #FreeForm #TakomaPark #ElectricSandwich

Frank Wright Trio is the debut album by saxophonist Frank Wright. It was recorded in November 1965 in New York City, released by ESP-Disk in 1966.. On the album, Wright is joined by bassist Henry Grimes and drummer Tom Price

In an article for All About Jazz, Clifford Allen commented:

The opening 'The Earth' starts with a brief vibrato-heavy and bluesy slow theme on unaccompanied tenor that quickly erupts into a frantic screamer of a solo, a mix of buzzing upper-register cries and low bleating honks, occasional recognizable stock R&B phrases making their way into the melange... Unlike Ayler, there is not a significant amount of solo construction, for it appears Wright was throwing together ideas in a spirit of jubilation. The rhythm section is certainly strong and experienced, and are given ample duet room after Wright's solo ends."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfB5JApHKDg&list=RDyfB5JApHKDg&start_radio=1

#FrankWright #HenryGrimes #FreeJazz #Jazz #ESPDisk #Music #TenorSax

College Tour by Patty Waters, released on ESP-Disk in 1966.

"In the Spring of 1966, ESP was given a grant by the New York State Council on the Arts, to tour the five colleges in the state with music departments. Artists for this tour included the Sun Ra Arkestra, Burton Greene, Patty Waters, Giuseppi Logan and Ran Blake. Accompanied by an all star backup group from among the participants, Patty's performances resulted in the album, "College Tour", her second recording for ESP-Disk'. The album expands upon the vocal acrobatics that were heard on her first recording, "Sings". "College Tour" won second place for Vocal Recording in Jazz and Pop Magazine in 1970."

https://pattywaters.bandcamp.com/album/college-tour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdKdFaMXES8

#PattyWaters #ESPDisk #VocalJazz #FreeJazz #Music

Explosions is the second album by the Bob James Trio. It was recorded at Bell Sound Studios in New York City during May 1965, and was released later that year by ESP-Disk. On the album, James is featured on piano, and is joined by bassist Barre Phillips and drummer Robert Pozar. The album also features tape collages by composers Gordon Mumma and Robert Ashley. It is an early example of electro-acoustic jazz.

In a review for AllMusic, "Blue" Gene Tyranny called the album "probably the first recording of improvised jazz combined with electronic music, as well as playing inside the piano and other new music techniques," and noted that it "contains lively and often humorous compositions." - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0bwZ5qoiA&list=RDFG0bwZ5qoiA&start_radio=1

#BobJames #ESPDisk #Jazz #FreeJazz #JazzPianoTrio #BarrePhillips #GordonMumma #RobertAshley #MUsic #ElectroAcousticJazz

Not Two Records vor dem Ende des Labelbetriebs

https://jazzpages.de/not-two-records-vor-dem-ende-des-labelbetriebs/