Eric Chenaux + Rafael Toral + Masahiro Takahashi & Brodie West
Schedule
Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 08:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Standard Time (165 Geary Ave. 2nd Floor, Unit A) | Toronto, ON
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ERIC CHENAUX & RYAN DRIVERRAFAEL TORAL
MASAHIRO TAKAHASHI & BRODIE WEST
@ Standard Time (165 Geary Ave. 2nd Floor, Unit A)
8pm, $30 Adv / $35 Door, All Ages
ERIC CHENAUX & RYAN DRIVER (https://ericchenaux.bandcamp.com)
Constellation Records' guitarist & singer Eric Chenaux returns home to Toronto for a foray with long-time collaborator Ryan Driver. Gentle acoustic guitar notes stretch out & ripple underneath electric psych inspired meanderings. Eric's voice weaves seamlessly among this textural landscape, like a silk sheet in the wind. Every movement is subtle, yet beautiful. A storyteller from a slower time, a player from the jazz tradition borrowing gracefully from the folk form. Two sonic ramblers existing out of time, but in step with their own hearts.
RAFAEL TORAL (https://rafaeltoral.bandcamp.com/album/traveling-light)
Portuguese experimental guitarist & synthesist Rafael Toral comes to town in support of his newest record on Drag City, “Traveling Light”. A collection of jazz standards put through Toral’s elongated ambient treatments. Notes stretch and crackle as they become humming landscapes. Ethereal drones emerge out of woozy jazz phrases. Throughout his close to 40 year career he’s built a plethora of home brew electronic instruments that now work in conversation with his guitar work. Together this intricate textural & rhythmic dance moves his work into a totally other sonic universe where it feels like a rare bird sending its bent coos & tweets back to earth from a distant space station. Rafael catches these errant notes and arranges them perfectly. Don’t miss this!
MASAHIRO TAKAHASHI & BRODIE WEST (https://masahirotakahashi.bandcamp.com/album/in-another)
Toronto-based Japanese composer-musician Masahiro Takahashi has been crafting gently spellbinding pieces that simultaneously embrace electronic abstraction and a palpable, even brittle, humanity. His delicate and evocative landscapes always seem to be illuminated in vibrant magic hour tones as golden synth lines emanate from between soft flickers of acoustic instrumentation. He has released music on an array of labels, such as Not Not Fun, JJ Funhouse, Slow Editions and his 2026 record In Another on Telephone Explosion Records. He also composes for films and art installations. He will be joined by saxophonist Brodie West for this set!
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