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Event Description

http://music.cbc.ca/#/artists/Elfin-Saddle

Elfin Saddle is the musical project of Emi Honda and Jordan McKenzie, both of whom are also practicing visual artists working in a variety of media, with an emphasis on scavenger art installations, kinetic sculpture (often with an audio component) and video work. Their work often engages with questions of (over)consumption, waste/detritus, and the degradation of lived and natural environments. The music of Elfin Saddle similarly reflects all these techniques and concerns; the group uses a wide array of found objects, junkyard percussion and other recuperated instruments (mostly acoustic: accordion, xylophone, ukelele) to create an avant-folk global protest music that combines Japanese and Canadian folkways with postpunk, drone, noise and other 21st century influences and sensibilities. http://youtu.be/U_bD7V2bLcE http://youtu.be/KrT7tulGAps

Building on friendships spanning over 20 years, Victoria based Ruby Karinto began composing in January 2013. Two women, two men, bass, drums, blips-bleeps-oscillations, trashy, danceable, groovy, No Wave R&B, sung in Japanese and English. Look for a 3 song 7" single to be released fall 2014. http://youtu.be/FUzvTLVBDuQ