Tsimka & Michael Red - Album Release & Listening Event
Friday, June 6 @ Hypha Arts, 1410 Venables

7pm : doors
8pm : listening to the new album in full (45 mins)
9pm : artist talk and q&a, hosted by Leena Minifie
10pm : improvised live set from Tsimka & Michael

Tsimka & Michael Red is a collaboration of music from the land and from the heart (and knowing and listening).

Tsimka sings and speaks and sometimes plays a drum. Most lyrics are in Tsimka's heritage language Tla-o-qui-aht ƛaʔuukʷiʔatḥ. Her themes deal with love, cleansing, healing, liberation through imagining and more.

Michael creates and reveals music & atmospheres with the natural sounds recorded by Tsimka from her ƛaʔuukʷiʔatḥ home territory, and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh territory (where she lived recently for 2 years). Breaking ice as light percussive rhythm, bull kelp head explosions becoming kick drum patterns, a Squamish valley wolf, a large cat in the dark.. Cixwatsac (Frank Island frogs), Swainson's Thrush, other birds. a little creek at Hiłwinʔis, ocean, rain and mist

Tsimka's voice is also used as an instrument through fx and re-sampling, and is embedded in Michael's audio production. Words and tones and expressions are shaped and woven into all layers of the sonic fabric, from deeply embedded to very visible.

* $15 adv / $20 door / no one turned away for lack of funds
* advance-tickets sales end, on the day of, at 6pm
* couches, bean bag chairs, and other cushy & comfy seating
* optional individual wireless stereo headsets available (for an extra $5). (good quality sound system for everyone else)
** video of natural content Tsimka gathered from in her territory will be projected as a backdrop.