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Out Now: Allison Russell’s In the Hour of Chaos
MUSIC — On In the Hour of Chaos, Russell answers the current moment not with retreat but with radical community, radical joy, and a middle school choir
Latest Single: “Reignite” by Elysia Biro
MUSIC — The rising jazz pop artist reflects on the inspiration behind the title of her debut EP
SIRÂT: Weltschmerz under a Scorching Sun
CINEMA — In a world where collective traumas arrive without interval, what tools are we given to mourn together — and who bears the cost when none exist?
Submerged in warm light, carefully stacked speakers are installed like a mountain range mirroring the rocky desert landscape. These speakers are the medium conducting the deep bass, which in turn crafts the dense atmosphere that will unfold throughout the film, a rough-edged techno sound of visceral intensity, provided by composer Kangding Ray. SIRÂT begins with the collective euphoria of a continuous party from night into day, in a remote location of a Moroccan desert. And with this, we immediately dive into the plot where father Luis and son Esteban distribute flyers concerning their missing daughter and sister to the revelers, accompanied by the pulsating score, as it carries us into collective exhaustion.
Missy Mazzoli: Are You In Love?
MUSIC — The Brooklyn-based composer reflects on love, death, and a history-making season at the Metropolitan Opera
ARCHIVE: The Vernon Spring
MUSIC — Sam Beste’s expanded rework album, “Unfamiliar Sun”, is a portrait of what happens when music travels between people who trust each other with it
Finding himself at a professional crossroads brought on by the financial instability that the COVID-19 pandemic wrought in 2020, Ryan Moran took a leap. Inspired by the roll-up-your-sleeves ethos of his hometown of Hamilton, Moran founded Locke & King.
Notes from the Recording No. 2: Pastoral
In the second instalment of Notes From the Recording, we turn towards Beethoven’s Pastoral Symphony through the lens of vinyl culture featuring a recording by the Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Moving between personal listening reflections and broader musical history, this instalment considers how recordings of the Sixth Symphony have long wrestled with Beethoven’s own resistance to overt programmatic storytelling, while also reflecting on the nostalgia and visual language that surround classical records themselves. As with the series’ first entry, this entry treats the act of listening not simply as consumption, but as a lived ritual shaped by memory, collecting, and the physicality of recorded sound.
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