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Beatings Are In The Body is a powerful and enigmatic project from three of Canada’s leading figures in experimental music — Vancouver-based pianist/composer/improviser Róisin Adams (of Hildegard’s Ghost), Montréal-based experimental vocalist/composer Erika Angell (of Thus Owls), and fellow Vancouverite Peggy Lee — renowned cellist/composer/improviser. As their name indicates there’s a raw, volatile dimension to the music they create, “it’s an investigation of how memories, pain, and a spectrum of emotions are stored in and continue to be carried by our physical bodies.” Their unflinching, self-titled debut full-length album resides in the dark fissures between adventurous acoustic songcraft, poetry, and the outright abstraction of free improv.

Presented in collaboration with Heart of the City Festival.