Monday July 21
MATMOS
The “Supreme Balloon” Tour, with guests Leprechaun Catering
Co-presented with RMS Concerts + the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art

8pm • $20 advance • Tickets available at Ticketmaster, Rotate This & Soundscapes
$25 at the door (sorry, but we are unable to offer a member discount at this concert)

U.S. experimental electronic duo Matmos — renowned for their work with everyone from Björk to the Kronos Quartet, as well as their own slew of fantastic releases for Matador Records — make a triumphant return to the Music Gallery for this special off-season concert. This time they’ve left the percussion quartet at home, and will be performing entirely on antique electronic music devices. The duo of M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel will also have a piece included in the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art's summer sound art exhibition, "Damn Your Eyes: the infinite dimension of sound," opening July 3rd at the MOCCA, 952 Queen West in Toronto.

Supreme Balloon is the new album from Matmos, which finds the dynamic duo taking a holiday from conceptual responsibility, skipping the outré sampling antics in favor of a lighthearted "cosmic pop" record made entirely out of synthesizers. Leave it to Matmos to invent a hard and fast rule that they have to follow even when they're just having fun: the creative restriction this time around is that Supreme Balloon is an ALL synthesizer album and no microphones were used at any point.

http://www.brainwashed.com/matmos
http://www.myspace.com/matmos1
http://www.mocca.toronto.on.ca/