PROJECT NOWHERE 2024: BAMBARA • LA SÉCURITÉ • LAVORO

Name: PROJECT NOWHERE 2024: BAMBARA • LA SÉCURITÉ • LAVORO
Start: 2024-10-05T20:30:00-04:00
Location: The Garrison

Schedule

Sat Oct 05 2024 at 08:30 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

The Garrison | Toronto, ON

Project Nowhere x Mothland present ꩜
BAMBARA
LA SÉCURITÉ
LAVORO
Sat Oct 5 @ The Garrison
Tickets: https://link.dice.fm/Y8838483bde6
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Bambara
https://www.bambaranyc.com
Bambara formed in Athens, GA with twin brothers Reid and Blaze Bateh and their childhood friend William Brookshire, honing what was originally a sinister, unforgiving brand of noise punk.
In 2011, the band stepped out of the shadows of Georgia's Southern Gothic landscape and wandered into the littered streets of New York City. There, in Brooklyn's DIY scene, Bambara quickly made a name for themselves with their visceral live shows. After releasing their debut LP Dreamviolence (2013) and sophomore LP Swarm (2016), Bambara toured relentlessly in America and Europe.
If the start of the breakthrough for Bambara was the radically reimagined sound of 2018’s Shadow On Everything (dubbed by NPR a “western gothic opus”), then the moment it truly arrived was on the cinematically riotous noir-punk of 2020’s Stray. In the UK, buoyed by the enthusiasm of 6Music DJ Steve Lamacq (who called the band, “one of his favourite discoveries of the year”), the band rose sharply, immediately selling out shows across Europe and North America. They even had a song hand-selected by the BBC show "Peaky Blinders" for use in the final season.
Then, in 2020, following the cancellation of their Stray world tour due to the COVID lockdown, the band began working on new music. The result, Love on My Mind (2022), condenses all the energy and darkness that has made Bambara so compelling but rearranges them into something defiantly new and more personal. With the band’s members scattered across the US, they remotely pieced together an EP, but as soon as it was finished, they scrapped it. In their words, it felt “dishonest”. They realized they needed to change their approach and decided to reconvene in New York. They recorded again, sampling their recordings as they went along and in the process manipulating the sounds across the release.
Now in 2024, after recording their forthcoming full-length, Bambara will be playing some new material from the record for the first time ever at Project Nowhere.
La Sécurité
https://lasecurite.bandcamp.com/
La Sécurité (Montréal/Tiohtià:ke) is a collective whose art punk is equal parts: jumpy beats, off-kilter arrangements, and minimalistic melodic hooks; run through an insomniac filter, the result of excessive exposure to the city’s neon lights. The music is all about living dangerously, perfectly agreeable to being blasted onto dancefloors; while the lyrics share the ethos of the Riot Grrrl movement, and celebrate the autonomization of women, friends (mean and nice) as well as benevolence.
After years of writing earworms for the pleasure of beautiful weirdos, all the while strutting their style on tour with their many different projects (Choses Sauvages, Laurence-Anne, Silver Dapple, DATES, Pressure Pin, etc.), the motley bunch now meanders the fringes of punk, new wave and krautrock, mischievously flouting stylistic form every chance they get. These five scattered, yet creatively concerted entities also propose a wide arsenal of D.I.Y. music videos, visuals, screenprints, patented dance moves, etcetera!
You can find La Sécurité sporting thrift-shopped goodies in dark underground venues, on the rooftop of a tanning salon or on VHS tape, indulging in a symbiotic hurrah of disheveled music, cloaked poetry and improv dancing, with movement as a main creative fuel. Since coming together in the Spring of 2022, the five-piece has been invited to perform at SXSW, FME, Phoque OFF, Taverne Tour and DISTORSION Psych Fest, also sharing the stage with the likes of Automatic, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp and Annie-Claude Deschênes (Duchess Says).
With debut singles “Suspens” and “Try Again”, La Sécurité painted sonic graffitis evoking a polymorphic reality through themes such as restlessness or video games. For their first full-length album, the collective again turned to producer Samuel Gemme at Gamma Recording Studio(Corridor, Population II), printing songs that are empowering, flush with urgency, but also denote a dash of melancholia. In turn, Stay Safe! (June 16th, 2023 via Mothland) is manic, yet surprisingly laid-back, and should no doubt strike a chord with fans of Le Tigre, Automatic, Wet Leg, Devo, E.S.G. or The B-52’s.
Lavoro
https://lavoro.bandcamp.com/
After the demise of his former bands Burning Love and Fake Palms, Patrick Marshall formed Lavoro with members of Animal Faces, Sauna and Breeze. The result is a menacing take on post-punk, blended with krautrock rhythms, industrial motifs, and post-hardcore sensibilities. Across six songs, their 2023 self-titled EP grapples equally with aging, grief, and alienation under conditions of capitalist misery and the hope and utopian dreams that arise in turn.
They have since shared the stage with bands like Stuck, John (UK), Fake Names, Wombo and are currently in the process of writing their second record.
This event is 19+
About Project Nowhere:
Project Nowhere returns for a second year to Toronto’s west end on OCT 3-5, 2024. The lineup features a cosmic array of underground legends, modern vanguards, and exciting up-and-coming talent from Toronto and beyond.
3-Day passes are available now: https://link.dice.fm/q838f4d357bb
IG: @projectnowherefest
https://www.projectnowhere.org/