Magic Tuber String Band and Soledad Coyoli

Heavy Trip is very excited to be welcoming Magic Tuber Stringband to Montreal in Dec for two special shows, an evening and a matinee. Both are co-presented and curated by Negative Capabilities. Both are limited capacity and expected to sell out.

Hailing from North Carolina, Magic Tuber Stringband are a trio at the forefront of artists inhabiting the living musical traditions of the Appalachian region. Not as preservationists, but as fluent speakers shaping the forms with their inventive new ideas. Arching melodies combine with mystical drones, balancing the group between folk and deep listening traditions.

https://magictuberstringband.bandcamp.com/album/heavy-water

Soledad Coyoli grew up surrounded by the surrealist paintings of Leonora Carrington and Remedios Varo, her grandmother’s sculptures, La Malinche, La Llorona, the robot parts their uncle used to build, and the sacred music her father listened to. Their sound work draws inspiration from the tradition of Mexican - latin american song and explores the intersection of different languages, cultures, and technologies, as well as their Nahuatl roots (their name means “bell” in Nahuatl). Their music, recipient of the Unesco-Aschberg bursary in 2014, has been presented at some of Mexico’s most important cultural centers, such as the MUAC (University Museum of Contemporary Art), the Franz Mayer Museum, and the Center for Digital Culture in Mexico City.

Since arriving in Tiohtiá:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal, their work has taken a new direction: the voice and the body as fluid, mysterious, mutable and collaborative materials. Soledad explores hybrid musical and bodily territories, in search of a root—an identity—a nepantla, a Nahuatl word often translated as “the land in the middle” that they might call “home.”

https://soledadcoyoli.bandcamp.com/album/una-ola-de-fuerza

Doors 2PM, Show at 3PM; ALL AGES; 20$
DM for address, or available upon purchase of ticket.