Tag Archives: Montreal

Art Featured Nostalgia, Allegory, Humor and the Macabre: The Art of Maskull Lasserre

by Ariel Maccarone
August 5, 2011 - 10:01 am

 

Maskull Lasserre’s installation, “Anatomische Holzschinitzereien,” confronts the origin and essence of man through its pairing objects of every day human life with various animal corpses. The pieces do so through pairings that are almost disturbing and uncomfortable to even look at. They are almost macabre. There is suggestion of our origin; our distance from a more base form of human existence.

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Featured Music Cold Beats and Warm Calls: The Handsome Furs

by Nicole Pajer
June 22, 2011 - 8:58 am

Handsome Furs 3 (2011)

The Handsome Furs is the Montreal-based indie rock project of husband and wife duo Alexei Perry and Dan Boeckner (of Wolf Parade & Atlas Strategic). The band, who describes their sound as “a juxtaposition of cold, metronomic, electronic beats” paired with “ jagged dissonant and frail, broken or breaking guitars,” are gearing up for the release of their latest album, “Sound Kapital.” The disc drops in Canada on June 27th and in the US, UK, and rest of the world on the following day.

ChinaShop sat down with Alexei Perry who discussed the concept behind the new album. Perry also talks about how music serves as her sense of euphoria and tells us how she and her husband became the unexpected stars of a CNN.com web travel series titled “Indie Asia.”

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