Zoe Guigueno brings the full band & her excellent songs over to Mateada on Friday, October 14th! With support from Maine’s Meg Iredale, playing solo. <3

Here’s a bit more about what to expect:

“You gotta thing you gotta tell / You gotta time you gotta tell by”. The opening lines of Zoe Guigueno’s forthcoming album, We Were Radar Stations, establish the atmosphere of these 33 minutes: here, in this room, we can tell our stories, in detail, and be listened to, without judgement. We have in attendance a first-responder suffering from complex PTSD. An orphaned farmgirl trapped in an abusive relationship. A woman who grieves a missing family member. A truck driver who finds independence and confidence through her work. And a couple of new lovers hiding in the mountains as a plague spreads across the land, reckoning with a new reality that is at once more contained and more expansive than ever before.

Recorded on the traditional territory of the W̱SÁNEĆ (Mayne Island), British Columbia, over two summers and two winters, this music springs from the hands and minds of two long-time collaborators and childhood friends, who used to trade halloween candy in the same basement where now sits a Hammond D100 organ, an upright bass leaning in the corner and windows looking out over the one-time sheep farm sloping down to the ocean. Zoe and JUNO-nominated producer Adam Iredale-Gray are responsible for the majority of sounds on this album - various guitars, piano and keyboards, basses, programmed beats, strings, even recorder and waterphone - while drummers Kelby MacNayr & Jason Burger play on about half the songs. What ‘kind’ of music is it? It’s songs with words, with traces of jazz school, folk-rock, open-mic night, the use of backbeats, breathy piano, blatant midi patches and melodyne ghost harmonies, detuned guitars repeating nightmare riffs, a double-drum kit solo. You can dance to it if you like, you can sit and close your eyes, you can walk through the woods to it.

Tickets $20 Adv + $25 Door.