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SUMMARY:Khôra & Mas Aya - Primordial Mind [Marionette29]
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate the release of the latest project from Khôra & Mas Aya \n\n\n\n\nDoors: 7:30 PM\nShow: 8:00 PM \nPrimordial Mind forms the mysteries and intensity of inner life into eight mandalic instrumentals where Mas Aya and Khôra\, artists who share 15 years of music making\, orchestrate an inspired\, prismatic palette of percussive and melodic sources. Each composition presented stages a vigorous meshwork of colours and textures\, contrasting riveting polyrhythms with towering arrangements for flutes\, synths\, and processed acoustic instruments.Tendencies which the artists trace in their solo practices are amplified\, blended\, and refracted sublimely in unison\, serving as energetic portals to the collective awareness. \nCombining trans-ethnic scaling alongside a heady brew of rhythmic influences and advanced electronic processing\, the recordings on this album operate with a tactility that vaults between free jazz\, dub\, raga\, ambient\, and ritual music. Assimilated powers of primal drum patterning and psychoactive\, ceremonial melodies\, invoke fourth world adjacencies with the work of Don Cherry\, Jon Hassell\, Popol Vuh et al. There is an alchemical\, Buddhist/Taoist/Hindu inflection that guides the record’s narrative\, formed through dialogue between the artists over lifelong shared interest in spiritual modalities generally and the tantric approaches of the global east in particular. The album title is derived from an unexcelled esoteric work known as the Kalachakra (Wheel of Time)Tantra and its associated commentary the Ornament of Stainless Light which detail forms of inner and outer transubstantiation within its complex cosmology and metaphysiology. \nMas Aya is the moniker of Brandon Miguel Valdivia\, acclaimed Nicaraguan-Canadian composer\, producer\, and musician whose electronic and jazz inspired works creatively interlace Colombian\, Cuban\, and a wide array of traditional music. Khôra is the name of the occult entity that uses multi-instrumentalist\, producer\, and writer Matthew Ramolo to pronounce itself. \nReturning to Marionette following 2024’s monumental Gestures of Perception\, Primordial Mind reinforces the rigorous and magical approach to creation which defines Khôra’s two decades of sonic output. Brandon and Matthew met back in 2011 and the pair toured around eastern \nEurope with Toronto band Picastro in 2013\, also performing as a duo with Brandon contributing drums to Khôra’s opening sets. After a short spate composing and playing in the ensemble Bespoken together\, they continued to discover shared inspiration in psych/art rock\, jazz\, experimental and electronic music\, providing a fertile soil for friendship and collaboration resulting in their collaged\, lo-fi album Tangled Roots in 2017. \nMythic and talismanic\, the duo’s Marionette debut weaves a luminous tapestry of organic pulses\, offering itself as a support for resonant meditation and a motor for lucid action and intuition.
URL:https://silencesounds.ca/event/khora-mas-aya-primordial-mind-marionette29/
LOCATION:Silence\, 46 Essex Street\, Guelph\, ON\, N1H 3K8\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Live Music,Silence Event
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