James Goddard/Jahsun/Markus Floats/Cabral Jacobs/Engone Endong
Presenting a mega-watt collab from local luminaries James Goddard (sax + more), Jahsun (percussion) Markus Lake (bass), Cabral Jacobs (saxophone) & Engone Endong (electronics). Hot!
James Nicholas Dumile Goddard is a Ndebele-Canadian sound artist, curator, arts administrator and experimental saxophonist. He currently lives and works in Montréal, QC. His work explores themes related to race, the speculative and power dynamics. He performs solo as skin tone, in the duos NYON & Platitudes and as part of KY band, the Egyptian Cotton Arkestra, and Quinton Barnes Black Noise Ensemble. He's worked in community radio, concert promotion and non-profit administration – all these experiences inform an interest in non-hierarchy within his creative and administrative practices. skin tone was/is always a reactive project – relying heavily as it does on improvisation skin tone is always changing; unable to remain inert in the face of a changed situation. For a long time, it was an outlet to reflect on anti-black police violence – to respond to anti-black police violence. As time went on skin tone became an outlet to explore a wide-range of themes.
Jahsun Promesse is a Montreal, Canadian/Caribbean based drummer, futurist & arts event curator. His music brings voice to ancestral memories manifested in imagined futures. Exploring free black expression, the abandon of traditional ‘drummer’ timekeeping roles, continuously seeking new sounds, contrasts, harmony, dissonance, storytelling, deep grooves, free time & authentic cultural exchanges.
Montréal-based avant-garde electronic composer/producer Markus Floats follows up his acclaimed Third Album (2020), rallying players from local improv group Egyptian Cotton Arkestra to add new electroacoustic materiality to his abstract soul.
Cabral Jacobs is a multi instrumentalist whose works range from Dead Bush to Manners and as a solo artist.
Based in Montreal, Engone Endong is a visionary producer and composer blending rich Gabonese tradition with cutting-edge electronic sound design.
Recently performed with Orchestre Métropolitain (Montreal), National Arts Center Orchestra (Ottawa) and Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland), Engone Endong co-composed for Symphonie de Coeurs (Rhodnie Desir), captivating the audience with his immersive soundscapes and unique textures; pushing creative boundaries.
Presenting a mega-watt collab from local luminaries James Goddard (sax + more), Jahsun (percussion) Markus Lake (bass), Cabral Jacobs (saxophone) & Engone Endong (electronics). Hot!
James Nicholas Dumile Goddard is a Ndebele-Canadian sound artist, curator, arts administrator and experimental saxophonist. He currently lives and works in Montréal, QC. His work explores themes related to race, the speculative and power dynamics. He performs solo as skin tone, in the duos NYON & Platitudes and as part of KY band, the Egyptian Cotton Arkestra, and Quinton Barnes Black Noise Ensemble. He's worked in community radio, concert promotion and non-profit administration – all these experiences inform an interest in non-hierarchy within his creative and administrative practices. skin tone was/is always a reactive project – relying heavily as it does on improvisation skin tone is always changing; unable to remain inert in the face of a changed situation. For a long time, it was an outlet to reflect on anti-black police violence – to respond to anti-black police violence. As time went on skin tone became an outlet to explore a wide-range of themes.
Jahsun Promesse is a Montreal, Canadian/Caribbean based drummer, futurist & arts event curator. His music brings voice to ancestral memories manifested in imagined futures. Exploring free black expression, the abandon of traditional ‘drummer’ timekeeping roles, continuously seeking new sounds, contrasts, harmony, dissonance, storytelling, deep grooves, free time & authentic cultural exchanges.
Montréal-based avant-garde electronic composer/producer Markus Floats follows up his acclaimed Third Album (2020), rallying players from local improv group Egyptian Cotton Arkestra to add new electroacoustic materiality to his abstract soul.
Cabral Jacobs is a multi instrumentalist whose works range from Dead Bush to Manners and as a solo artist.
Based in Montreal, Engone Endong is a visionary producer and composer blending rich Gabonese tradition with cutting-edge electronic sound design.
Recently performed with Orchestre Métropolitain (Montreal), National Arts Center Orchestra (Ottawa) and Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland), Engone Endong co-composed for Symphonie de Coeurs (Rhodnie Desir), captivating the audience with his immersive soundscapes and unique textures; pushing creative boundaries.
