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0 NEWS: Doom Duo ZAUM Announce Eastern Canadian Tour “The Ritual Experience” w/ Special Live Guests
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – October 10, 2017
For fans of Om, Sleep, Lustmord, Pallbearer
Doom Duo ZAUM Announce Eastern Canadian Tour “The Ritual Experience” w/ Special Live Guests
Dec 1, 2017 – Saint John, NB @ Sanctuary Theatre **
Dec 2, 2017 – Moncton, NB @ Aberdeen Theatre **
Dec 8, 2017 – Fredericton, NB @ Maniac Mansion
Dec 9, 2017 – Halifax, NS @ The Seahorse
** denotes seated show
Performing Live on Tour w/ ZAUM
Olive Bestvater – experimental violinist of Saskatoon, SK doomgaze band BLACK TREMOR
Ricky Frenette – Classically trained woodwind artisan
Jamie McEwan – Experimental projections artist
Nawal Doucette – Award winning contemporary Middle Eastern dance artist
Photo Credit – Don Levandier
L-R – Kyle Alexander McDonald (Bass/Vocals/Synth/Textures), Christopher Lewis (Drums/Percussion)
Completing their tours in Europe and across Canada earlier this year in support of their latest release “Eidolon”, New Brunswick’s ECMA nominees and Music NB award winning mantra doom duo ZAUM announce they will be embarking a special December tour of the Canadian East coast entitled “The Ritual Experience” (dates listed below). The Maritime dates will showcase four exceptional events where the doom duo of Kyle Alexander McDonald (Bass/Vocals/Synth/Textures) plus Christopher Lewis (Drums/Percussion) will perform as one on stage with experimental violinist Olive Bestvater of Saskatoon, SK doomgaze band BLACK TREMOR and classically trained woodwind artisan Ricky Frenette (both of whom performed on ZAUM’s “Eidolon”) along with experimental projections artist Jamie McEwan and Nawal Doucette, an award winning contemporary Middle Eastern dance artist who performs finger cymbals (zils) and specializes in Salimpour belly dance.
Watch the tour promo video to see what to expect.
ZAUM – The Ritual Experience
ZAUM‘s Kyle Alexander McDonald comments:
“It will actually have actually been 1.5 years since we last played a show in the Maritimes, which is of course where we call home. Since we tour internationally as often as we do, a few years ago we made a point to not play around home as often a band typically would since we like to get in as much work and relaxation as possible while back home. People have been asking forever when we plan to play here next and jokingly criticized us for playing even regions like Eastern Europe more frequently than we do here. As such, its been a long time coming and people have been patient – so we thought it would be fitting to roll out some special shows and have a few of the guests who played additional instrumentation on our latest album Eidolon to actually perform it and some of our past material live with us.
We’re incredibly fortunate to have both violinist/vocalist Olive Bestvater of Saskatoon based doomgaze band Black Tremor and Moncton based woodwind scholar Ricky Frenette join ZAUM during this period. Additionally, a Saint John based friend of mine Nawal Doucette is a surreal award winning contemporary Middle Eastern dance artist and instructor who a couple years back had expressed a shared interest in performing with us in the future if schedules could align. She’d been a fan of the band for some time and hit me with this idea to create this ritual-esque sort of performance to accompany some Maritime shows, which beautifully fit the dream experience I had in mind. She’d worked in the past with Moncton based experimental projectionist Jamie McEwan, and introduced him as the final piece of the equation. From there we laid the foundation for “ZAUM : A Ritual Experience” to come to fruition this December for these 4 sweet 60-90 minute intimate late evening shows.”
ZAUM: A Ritual Experience
Performed as one with Nawal Doucette, Olive Bestvater, Ricky Frenette, and projections by Jamie McEwan.
Evening performance between 8pm – 11pm.
** denotes seated show
Dec 1 – Saint John, NB @ Sanctuary Theatre **
Dec 2 – Moncton, NB @ Aberdeen Theatre **
Dec 8 – Fredericton, NB @ Maniac Mansion
Dec 9 – Halifax, NS @ The Seahorse
Other Dates:
ZAUM: Enlightenment Europe Tour w/ Fire Breather
Oct 13 – Kiel, DE @ Alte Meierei
Oct 15 – Freiburg, DE @ The White Rabbit
Oct 16 – Torino, IT @ Haram’s Graveyard
Oct 18 – St. Feliu De Codines, ES @ Inciviczone
Oct 19 – Zaragoza, ES @ Arrebato
Oct 20 – Santander, ES @ Rock Beer The New
Oct 21 – Cascais, PT @ Stairway Club
Oct 22 – Carballo, ES @ Sala Dublin
Oct 23 – Laudio, ES @ Orbeko Etxea
Oct 25 – Zagreb, HR @ Vintage Industrial
Oct 26 – Brno, CZ @ Bakjazyl
Oct 27 – Szeged, HU @ Grand Cafe
Oct 28 – Carpi, IT @ EKIDNA
Oct 29 – Bistrica Ob Sotli, SI @ Klub Metulj
Oct 30 – Timisoara, RO @ Club Daos
Oct 31 – Plzen, CZ @ Andel Club
Nov 2 – Copenhagen, DK @ Lytgens Kro
Nov 3 – Gothenburg, SE @ Truckstop Alaska
About:
ZAUM’s second and latest full length musical chapter “Eidolon” was released October 24, 2016 via I HATE Records with distribution via Plastic Head/Sony Music throughout Europe and Century Media in North America to follow their 2014 debut album “Oracles”. In their three years as an active touring band ZAUM have amassed 200+ shows (mainly international) under their belts including support stints for Voivod, Pentagram, and Cauldron.
ZAUM is a passage toward the dark realizations of the old world; a monolithic doomy mantra based meditative experience forged by bass and drums interwoven with sitar, woodwind, string and synth textures. Based in New Brunswick, Canada – observers experience a tranquil resonance whereby the astral and physical planes can co-exist and be understood from a natural perspective.
ZAUM is:
Kyle Alexander McDonald (bass/vocal/synth/textures)
Christopher Lewis (drums/percussion)
Song Stream – The Enlightenment – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POe486_oUs4
Album Stream – Eidolon – https://zaum.bandcamp.com/
Track Listing:
1. Influence Of The Magi (21:00)
2. The Enlightenment (21:00)
Album Length: 42:00
For more info, please visit www.Zaum.ca.
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“ZAUM blends several moods into a really attractive, cohesive work that not only pays off, but also distances them from Om, creating for themselves a sphere of their own.” -Sputnik Music
“a new level of headphone-ready, open-consciousness expanse. Nothing matters. Give up your expectations. Quit your job and move to the forest. Build a temple by a river and spend your days naming the gods who live in the trees around you.” -The Obelisk
“Their sound encompasses the enormity of the likes of Sleep and Om, yet works in a mysticism that’s haunting and ethereal. The 40 minute span of this release is a sitar driven daydream that carries the gravitational force of tectonic plates shifting.” -Iron Fist
“Hold onto your bong, ponder those scraps of eastern philosophy you’ve picked up watching Kung Fu films from the 1970s, and prepare to escape from Samsara.” -Ave Noctum
“Consists of dread and a haunting sensation to glimmers of hope, but mostly dreadful darkness. ZAUM cast their own dark shadow, one I don’t mind being consumed by.” – Bucketlist Music Review (10/10)
“Few bands can touch the New Brunswick doom duo in terms of sheer hypnotic atmosphere. Eidolon sees them go further down their singular path into the heavy unknown. Prepare to be transported to a higher realm.” -The Sludgelord
“Simply put, ZAUM is an 11/10. To my fellow people: go home and lay down.”- Don L’Orange, -Weird Canada
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0 DAYS OF THE DEAD FEST Offer FREE Digital Sampler For 2017 Line Up “The Moshing Dead Vol.1”
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NEWS RELEASE
Montreal, QC – Oct 9, 2017
DAYS OF THE DEAD FEST Offer FREE Digital Sampler “The Moshing Dead Vol.1” For 2017 Line Up
Ninjaspy, WAKE, Dusty Tucker, Without Mercy, West of Hell and more!
(Red Deer, AB) – October 27-29
Tickets On Sale Now!
Red Deer, AB’s DAYS OF THE DEAD festival taking place from Oct 26-29 is offering headbangers everywhere a FREE digital sampler entitled “The Moshing Dead Vol.1” featuring tracks from bands on this year’s line up.
To get your FREE download, please visit the following link: https://daysofthedeadreddeer.bandcamp.com/album/the-moshing-dead-vol-1
About Days of The Dead Fest:
Halloween may be about putting on a costume and trick or treating around your city block, but in Red Deer, AB it’s about so much more. The rumours in the area describe a mass pilgrimage, a collective gathering from across Alberta and beyond, a zombie mosh pit coming alive. Are the rumours true…? Well during the Days of The Dead Fest, a Heavy Metal Music Festival Costume Party Extravaganza takes over!
Founded in 2014 by local Red Deer resident and music scene contributor Justin Shadows of Shadows Productions plus vocalist of town favourites Leave The Living, DAYS OF THE DEAD Fest celebrates the heavy sounds of metal, punk and hardcore along with the ritual of transforming yourself in to another character during the Halloween weekend in October.
Now in its 4th year, Days of The Dead has grown to a three day event hosting over 30 bands from across Canada for both all ages and 18+ shows for a reunion of friends, music fans and a Halloween aficionados.
The full line up for DOTD 2017 is now ready and fully unleashed with headliners Ninjaspy, WAKE, Dusty Tucker, Without Mercy, West of Hell and more.
Tickets on sale now via https://www.myshowpass.com/days-of-the-dead/ and will be available from local Red Deer acts performing on the festival plus at the following Red Deer locations The Vat, International Beer Haus and The Soundhouse Guitar and Record Shop.
***KICKOFF PARTY***
Thursday, October 26th at THE VAT PUB
Hunted By Ravens (Red Deer, AB)
Transitions (Red Deer, AB)
Liandra (Red Deer, AB)
Decrepitation (Edmonton, AB)
TerraGanja (Red Deer, AB)
Silverthorn (Red Deer, AB)
Friday, October 27th at The Vat Pub:
West of Hell (Vancouver, BC)
Anchoress (Vancouver, BC)
Pridelands (Red Deer, AB)
Kyoktys (Calgary, AB)
Votov (Winnipeg, MB)
Earth’s Ashes (Red Deer, AB)
Grizzly Hawk (Humboldt, SK)
Follow The Sorrow (Red Deer, AB)
Spurn (Calgary, AB)
Killed By The Nine (Red Deer, AB)
Saturday October 28th at The Vat Pub:
Ninjaspy (Vancouver, BC)
WAKE (Calgary, AB)
Without Mercy (Vancouver, BC)
Tyler Dory Trio (Edmonton, AB)
Leave The Living (Red Deer, AB)
Dead 3 Days (Oshawa, ON)
The Dead Sexy (Oshawa, ON)
The Myopia Condition (Red Deer, AB)
Juliet Ruin (Edmonton, AB)
Wives Tail (Red Deer, AB)
Sunday, October 29th at The International Beer Haus:
***ALL AGES***
Dusty Tucker (Red Deer, AB)
Ninjaspy (Vancouver, BC)
Shotgunner (Edmonton, AB)
Black Friday (Edmonton, AB)
Exit Strategy (Calgary, AB)
Hammerdrone (Calgary, AB)
DropDeadFred (Kelowna, BC)
Fück Nazi (Red Deer, AB)
In Ruin (Saskatoon, SK)
Skeptal (Red Deer, AB)
For more info, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/DaysOfTheDeadRD/
Partners:
Shadows Productions
Gigfly
The Soundhouse
Dark Day Studios Red Deer
Temple Entertainment
Western Canadian Metal Festival Alliance
Boombox Union
Asher Media Relations
Absolute Underground
Broken Neck Radio
Kats Metal Litter Box
Crown of Viserys
Canada’s Extreme Metal Radio
Metal Master Kingdom
PureGrainAudio
Pure Rock Radio
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