Hello friends,
Tomorrow is the day! Very very excited to have Michael Cloud Duguay & Co passing through Fredericton tomorrow — they’ll be performing material from MCD’s critically-acclaimed “Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go.” The evening will also feature a set by special guest, Juno-nominated artist @markus.floats ☁️
Più presents: Michael Cloud Duguay’s Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go
Date: Wednesday September 23rd
Location: Gallery 78 - 796 Queen St, Fredericton
Doors: 7:00PM | Show: 7:30PM
Tickets: $15 or PWYC
Michael Cloud Duguay’s Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go via @watchthatendsthenightrecords has received plaudits from The Guardian, The FADER, The Quietus, The Wire, Bandcamp, CRACK, Music Tech and beyond. The album chronicles seven different organs found in historic churches scattered across Newfoundland. With over a year’s worth of research and planning behind them, in July 2024, Duguay and his longtime collaborators Jake Nicoll (engineered the sessions, and also appears on flute and voice), Andrew MacKelvie (compositions, organ, saxophones, flute, piano, rocks) and Dave Grenon (field recordings, co-engineer and co-producer), set out on the journey, with photographer Noah Bender documenting the trip. The album was recorded in just nine days, travelling over 1,500 kilometres with a mobile, solar-powered recording studio.
Equal parts unconventional and alluring, Kingdom Come, Kingdom Go unfolds a quietly captivating meditation on community, memory, geography, history, and spirituality, drawing on sacred music, free improvisation, sound art, ambient music, and acousmatic technique. Not unlike the church organs at its centre, the album’s architecture uses the resonant spaces traced by its detailed sound design to reinforce the beauty of its compositions, remaining grounded throughout by the relationships it documents.
MCD x Markus Floats Mixtape
We love a mixtape over here at Più — what better way to find out about new music than through your friends? Michael and Markus shared some tracks, featuring music they’ve been enjoying lately, some influences on their work, and I snuck in a few of their own tracks for good measure.
Michael Cloud Duguay
With his immersion in improv-driven ensemble music and sprawling site-specific production projects, as well as curation and presenting, @michaelcloudduguay is situated at a focal intersection within the international experimental music landscape. His highly distinct creative process has helped give shape to a prolificacy of Canadian music projects, and his panoramic vision for album production and cultural organizing has come to encompass and encourage a vast and thriving national community of collaborators working across genre and discipline.
Duguay’s output frequently explores memory, nostalgia, and location, both literal and metaphorical. His fascination with the particular qualities of different spaces and with different collaborative dynamics has led to him to record and create music everywhere from the Yukon Territory’s northernmost fly-in community to the lantern room of mainland Canada’s easternmost lighthouse and remote historic churches all across Newfoundland, and relatedly has prompted him to explore sustainable methods of recording. To date he has crafted three albums almost entirely with solar power in collaboration with his friend and accomplice, engineer Jake Nicoll.
Markus Floats
Markus Lake is a Montréal/Tiotia’ke based musician and composer. Lake’s albums, live shows and soundtrack work explore themes of attention, escape, visibility and repetition through the use of a constantly expanding palette of digital instruments and samples.
