Moving between his saxophone, which is so prominently heard while playing with Destroyer, and a litany of keyboards and other musical gear, he worked through tracks from his various solo and collaborative projects, backed first by a drummer - who had never performed these song before - and later augmented by bass and guitar. "We're christening the Jewish Histroy Museum," quipped Shabason cheekily. Multi-instrumentalist Joseph Shabason played a Friday afternoon set of ambient jazz at the Museum of Jewish Montreal, the first event at the venue's new location. Highlights of the exhibition include Kuh Del Rosario's Stunt Double, 2022 and My Van-Dam's Untitled (Shell suspension). That feeling was mirrored in the Fest's art component, especially the show At a distance - from within at Project Casa, which explores the differences and shared experiences and traditions that exist in any diaspora. Top-notch curation and the close proximity of most of the venues go a long way to creating a sense of temporary community during Pop Montreal's five-day run. While on paper it might sound like a gimmick, in practice it's anything but, the band members' charisma and killer tunes winning everyone over. They owned their teenage awkwardness with banter about homework, the weather and guitarist Bella Salazar's cats, while ripping tracks from their 2022 album Growing Up, including highlights "Oh" and "Racist, Sexist Boy," and dropped in covers of the Go-Gos and Bikini Kill to boot. The quartet have found many supporters, including Best Coast's Bob Bruno who was essentially working as their roadie. teen pop-punks the Linda Linda's wowed a crowd of cynical adults and rapt, cosplaying adolescents with their headlining set at Théâtre Rialto. They worked through songs from her debut album Anxious Avoidant, flipping between its bouncy pop-punk numbers - tossing in a buoyant cover of Neil Young's "Harvest Moon" for good measure - and slower fair like the excellent "I Won't Bite." Bel appeared somewhat reserved in her stage movements and crowd banter, but gave the performance her all, particularly when belting out the the final chorus to set highlight "All Fucking Weekend." Sophia Bel emerged on stage at Théâtre Rialto wearing a purple dress with her bandmates, including her banjo-guitarist decked out in a matching skirt and furry top hat. It was a short set, but one that left ears ringing and bodies shaking long after. What they lacked in stage presence, the band more then made up for with the sheer force of their playing as they laid down tracks from Stimuloso, their 2022 sophomore album. Yet that didn't stop the Vancouver quartet from shredding the sweaty third-story Diving Bell Social Club. Kamikaze Nurse went on late, and suffered further delays due to a litany of drum-related technical issues, none of which were their fault. There are a thousand documentaries about bands that never got their proper due, but the film succeeds by successfully drawing a line from the group's original run through the birth of rare groove, prominent samples from the likes of Prince Paul and Cut Chemist, and their reemergence as a live force. Forged by mixing Caribbean cultures, which they reflect in their music, the Brixton group found a receptive audience in America, but were less well-received at home and packed it in after three albums. Screening as part of the fest's film component, Getting It Back tells the story of British jazz-funk group Cymande (pronounced si-man-dee), who were also one of Pop Montreal's headlining acts. Not surprisingly, getting a good night's sleep between the fest's September 28 and October 2 run was a difficult proposition, made all the more arduous by the number of art shows, film screenings and late-afternoon performances.Īmongst all the good there was, of course, some great. As always, the fest featured a host of cutting-edge Montreal and Quebec acts like MBG and Empty Nesters augmented by a healthy dose of national and international artists including Toronto's Witch Prophet and dancehall legend Sister Nancy. RADIO SILENCE SHIRT FULLAfter tentative steps back to normalcy last year, Pop Montreal was back in full force for its 2022 edition.
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