~~~ returning to the Tranzac for a 6 month residency
second mondays 9:30 pm from April-Sept

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Flickering Cotillion | suddenlyLISTEN Join us for Collateral’s album release show: Flickering Cotillion! This concert will introduce suddenlyLISTEN audiences to two exciting new artists, and bring back one of our favourite trios to releas...

our friends Collateral Trio are having a release show April 8th in Halifax for the 2025 album they put out

a real sleeper of a sneaky good record

www.suddenlylisten.com/event-detail...

James Annett, Josh Cole, & Marilyn Lerner @ the CMC Sept 12/2025 YouTube video by Josh Cole

some low key chamber improvisations from
Marilyn Lerner - piano, James Annett - viola, and Josh Cole - double bass

#toronto #improvisedmusic #chambermusic

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Co3...

@danielrfortin.bsky.social look familar?

Two basses? Two basses! a look at the two bass thing in preparation for Rob Clutton and I's duo debut.

~~~ new stack

two basses? Two Basses!

joshcolebass.substack.com/p/two-basses...

#toronto #livemusic #doublebass

March 25
Rob Clutton and Josh Cole
double bass solos and duos

at Sellers and Newell
Toronto
sellersandnewel.com/pages/live-m...

#Toronto #livemusic #experimentalmusic #doublebass

you got an ear?

then you got a lobe

earlobe.ca

… the Earlobe webpage is up now, a detailed listing of experimental music and sound art events happening in Toronto, Canada.

#toronto #experimentalmusic #canada #improvisedmusic #soundart #freejazz

@socanmusic.bsky.social

Petition against use of copyrighted music for AI training

nwmd.social/s/copylink/4...

Second Fridays: Josh Cole & Maxwell Stover Duo YouTube video by CanadianMusicCentre

Maxwell Stover and Josh Cole
duo at Second Fridays at the Canadian Music Center

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e3V...

#Toronto #experimentalmusic #improvisation

Cassiar Records an artist-run label focused on releasing music from the vibrant Canadian experimental and improvised music scene. Distribution: Tobira Records (JP) Soundohm (EU)

@bandcamp.com F R I D A Y
2025 releases
Collateral
Dun-dun band
quartet +strings

cassiarrecords.bandcamp.com

Memory of Light: the new documentary by Luka Kuplowsky takes a deep look into Toronto's "Cluttertones" The new film premiers January 15th at AD HOC #85 - Innis Town Hall, Toronto

~~~ january substack
open.substack.com/pub/joshcole...

#toronto #film #documentary #experimentalmusic

~~~ live show
josh cole trio +strings
Friday Jan 30th, at Sellers&Newel
#toronto
#livemusic
#improvisation
#experimentalmusic

Tim Mah's Recommended Canadian Jazz Albums of 2025 Four on the Floor jazz correspondent Tim Mah is back once again to offer his extensive annual year-end list of music released by Canadian ja...

thanks to Tim Mah @cjsw.bsky.social for the mentions of dun-dun and JC4tet+strings jonmccaslinjazzdrummer.blogspot.com/2025/12/tim-...

thanks to @thewiremagazine.bsky.social and Daniel Spicer for mentioning Dun-Dun band on the year end list!

#experimentalmusic #yearend2025 #toronto

Favourite records of 2025 with Craig Dunsmuir the Dun-Dun man returns to weigh in on his jazz/improv/experimental picks for 2025

back to the stack

year end roundup with Craig Dunsmuir

open.substack.com/pub/joshcole...

December issue of Songlines Magazine (UK)
★★★★
"It’s hypnotic, entrancing and genuinely psychedelic."

www.songlines.co.uk/review/pita-...

top 20 jazz chart : october 2025

the earshot! charts
((( Canadian college/indie radio)))

dun-dun band holding it down this fall

thanks to Canadian indie-radio for the support!!!

www.earshot-online.com/charts/2025/...

#Toronto
a special #film is debuting Jan 15th
'Memory of Light'
a deep dive into the creative process of the Cluttertones

#experimentalmusic #newmusic

Sei Miguel (1961—2025) Free Jazz Collective, reviews of avant garde and free jazz music and media

Sei Miguel

a north star, patron saint of doing your own thing

www.freejazzblog.org/2025/11/sei-...

Lust for Live, Nov-Dec Selected shows for the final weeks of 2025

Toronto friends - live music listings are a tricky dance these days - but over the last couple months I've found this substack to be the most reliable for seeing the big picture

Lust for Live, Nov-Dec
open.substack.com/pub/carlwils...

Canada’s arts and culture sector contributed $65 billion in GDP, new report finds The study from the Canadian Chamber of Commerce found the industry is growing faster than oil and gas, manufacturing and agriculture.

file under: nation building projects
@thestar.com @mfs-toronto.bsky.social

more arts, less oil. better trains to make touring less oil dependant please too while we're at it.

culture matters, beauty matters

www.thestar.com/entertainmen....

Rabble Without a Cause, October 29: Funding Drive show numero 1: local and Toronto-based groups Linsey Wellman, Matt Robert McLennan Quintet, the Dun-Dun Band, Josh Cole and Rich Brown

thanks to Ian & 'Rabble without a cause' on @ckcufm.bsky.social for hi-lighting some of whats going on here in Toronto in the experimental scene with dun-dun band and quartet +strings!

jazzontherideau.substack.com/p/rabble-wit...

"All in all, Pita Parka, Pt. II is the most musically dense and ambitious four-song record you’ll hear all year, an epic that leaves you wanting more." - Malcolm Fraser, Maisonneuve

maisonneuve.org/article/2025...

Dun-Dun Band – Pita Parka, Pt. II: Nim Egduf | The Quietus Balearic bliss and free jazz skronk collide on the second album from Craig Dunsmuir's Toronto-based big band

thanks @thequietus.com for the kind words

"Pita Parka, Pt. II: Nim Egduf is an album that enchants and transports. Each of its blissed-out segments appears like a portal to some cosy, safe place. Meanwhile, reality slips away."

thequietus.com/quietus-revi...

Josh Cole Trio + Strings Free Jazz Collective, reviews of avant garde and free jazz music and media

thanks to #freejazzblog for the mention!

www.freejazzblog.org/2025/09/josh...

an 8.9

#toronto #experimentalmusic #prog #freejazz #minimalism

Dun-Dun Band on Toronto's absolute best pizza YouTube video by Kreative Kontrol

talking pizza at cassiar HQ with the dun-dun buds
www.youtube.com/shorts/2KHlv...

1017!

Dun-Dun Band

hear Kreative Kontrol ⬇️

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💰: www.patreon.com/posts/ep-101...

☁️: overcast.fm/+AA3_nshkuJI

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@cassiarrecords.bsky.social

Dun-Dun Band: Pita Parka ptii release show at Collective Arts #livemusic #toronto #freejazz YouTube video by Cassiar Records

THIS SATURDAY
youtube.com/shorts/F_Bc3...

#toronto #livemusic #freejazz #experimentalmusic

a new Dun-Dun Band album, a new Guelph Jazz Festival, and a visit from an old friend Talking to Joe Sorbara about the new Guelph Jazz Festival, celebrating the Dun-Dun Band’s new release Pita Parka Pt. II, and welcoming viola player James Annett for a visit to Toronto.

~~𝙉𝙀𝙒 𝙎𝙐𝘽𝙎𝙏𝘼𝘾𝙆~~
talking to Joe Sorbara about the new Guelph Jazz Festival, highlighting a visit to Toronto by James Annett, and the new dun-dun band record.
open.substack.com/pub/joshcole...

#toronto #guelphjazzfestival #improvisedmusic #experimentalmusic