BLACK DOT ********* Distr. : NE - Shiny Beast Style : avantgarde / jazz / fusion / DOT 1 GORDON GRDINA : 'S SQUARE PEG-LIVE AT THE WHITE ROOM LP 03.2020 Gorgeous live debut LP by an extremely flexible quartet put together by Vancouver based string-monster Gordon Grdina. Grdina plays both electric guitar and oud. His fellow trvellers are violinist Mat Maneri, bassist and synth player Shahzad Ismaily and German drummer Christian Lillinger. Some parts on this album are definitely jazzoid, others are more like free-rock, still others have an almost avant-folk feel. www.shinybeast.nl --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOT 2 MATS GUSTAFSSON : IN THE BLACK DOT WORLD OF ADVENTURES LP 03.2020 Swedish saxophone madman Mats Gustafsson recorded live at the White Room performance space in Nanaimo, BC, Canada on June 23, 2019. www.shinybeast.nl --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- DOT 3 CRYS COLE & OREN AMBARCHI : GALLIVANT LP 02.2021 On Feb. 16, 2020 in Nanaimo BC, Oren and Crys sat at a pair of tables. Oren held a guitar and his table was covered with electronics. Crys held no instrument in her hands, but her table contained a mass of objects, some clearly electric in nature, others looking more like random bits found in a kitchen drawer. Working with these tools and microphones to amplify their voices and/or gestures, the pair created the two pieces here -- wonderfully flowing soundscapes from imaginary vistas of otherness. www.shinybeast.nl =======================================================================================