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Monday January 24th 2011, "With Gay Abandon" will be featuring a session with Montréal-based solo drone artist Les Beyond. Listen in from 2-4 right here on CJLO 1690 AM www.cjlo.com
While Les Beyond initially began in late 2007 as a solo outlet for her softer-side, the then-guitarist of Shearing Pinx, Erin Ward, soon found that what began as just bedroom antics over time has solidified into a hypnotic and transfixing soulscape. Using seemingly simple tools, she subtly and deftly takes the audiences to private places with her trance-inducing guitar drones, covering full spectrums and invoking dark paradises.
For more information about Les Beyond check her out here
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I recently got a sneak preview on a new short being featured in Montreal's “Image + Nation” film festival. It was entitled “Fourplay:San Francisco,” and was the first of four shorts based on true experiences of sexual intimacy. Fourplay:San Francisco is the first release of this series, making its way through the LGBTQ film festivals. This cute short will leave you wanting more, and I look forward to the day when all four are screened in one viewing.
The story is about a trans sex worker hired for a challenging job, and how she makes her way through the awkwardness of her mission to discover...
Robin from The Onomatopoeia Show stops by to chat about comics with us. Check out the
Podcast here
The following is a run down of what was mentioned:
A Mini History.
"Terry & The Pirates" had one of the first trans-gendered characters in the 40's in the character Capt. Sanjack.
(http://www.ireference.ca/search/Terry and the Pirates (comicstrip)/)
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Montreal's Les Beyond has been described by audiences as the “musical equivalent of a food coma.” That description might throw you off and make you think “is that a good thing?” And the answer is “YES!”
Using an array of pedals and a guitar, Les Beyond adds layers of soft guitar murmurs, creating a drone soundscape so captivating that it transfixes you, and before you know it, her set is over, people around you begin to stir, and then you realize – the musical equivalent of a food coma has just enveloped you like a tryptophan-laced aural wave of hypnosis.
After relocating from Vancouver, and leaving her main band of the last six years, Shearing...
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With Gay Abandon: Here we are on CJLO 1690 AM, CJLO.com. And we are with two, maybe they could be teen detectives, we will find out. I am going to ask you to introduce yourselves...
Teen Sleuth Ellen: Hi I'm Ellen, I'm the singer and one of the songwriters of Teen Sleuth and the Freed Cyborg Choir.
Teen Sleuth Aleks: Hi, I'm Aleks and I do the arrangements for said show, and I play keyboards, and also sing sometimes
TSE: slash all the time.. (laughs)
TSA: (laughs)
WGA: Amazing... Okay, you have a pretty...
Julie: Okay, here we are at Club Lambi, in this gorgeous green room with Leslie from Leslie & the Lys. And we are going to talk to you about...
Leslie: Thank you for having me on your radio show! I really hope that this is hilarious.
Julie: [laughing] I'm sure it will be.
L: Yes!
J: Okay first! What about your name, Leslie & The Lys. Is there a special meaning behind that?
L: Um, there is a meaning that, “I'm going to give a band a name and then the band is not going to go anywhere so I'll change it later”, well that didn't turn out to be the case. Clearly I gave it a name. It...
CHAR2D2 Interview by Julie Matson, for "With Gay Abandon" on CJLO, January 11 2009
J: 'kay we are here with the lovely Char2D2 who just has a new EP release out, and uh so Char2D2, are you going to tell us about that?
C: yes Julie, i'd love to tell you about that.
J: It was a self-release, can we say that?
C: yes it was. It was, um, I released it myself. Um. Just it was something I worked on in late spring/early summer, and got things together and it was out in the summer. It's fairly new, I just sent it out to your wonderful radio station this fall. Um. I'm quite excited about it. Um, yeah.
J: So you previously were with Bella, and how was the uh the process of recording on your own to recording with a band?
C: Um... it was good. It's, it's... uh.....
The December 28th show where we counted down our top 5 albums of 2009 is now up for you to listen to online.
Go check it out!
