In the background

In mid-December, I headed over to Black Squirrel Books to check out the music of Joseph Shabason, an ambient jazz artist who has received a fair bit of notice of late. He was joined by Nick Schofield, another ambient artist, and Gatineau audio experimentalists Instant Places, who kicked things off. Here's Ian, doing things with a guitar!



Laura loops!



Extra Ian!



The whole lot!



Manipulating action!



Modulating action!



Nick Schofield played some dreamy ambient stuff, including compositons from his latest, Water Sine.



More Nick!



Joseph Shabason has appeared before on the blog, as he's also a member of Toronto's DIANA - they played Targ back in December 2016. Here's Joseph on saxophone!



Electronic action!



More Joseph!



Triangle action!



Flute action!



A very charming evening.