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JUNO-nominated breathers of instrumental fire, Peregrine Falls is Gordon Grdina on guitars and Kenton Loewen on drums. Sometimes their respiration is like a mother’s soft and loving coo, or a calm exhalation in a placid meadow, but it’s not long before it escalates to a pure, unbreathmintable chaos of demons screaming from the edge of an erupting volcano. This ain’t your grandma’s parlour music…unless your grandma’s a total gem who likes their parlour to shake with Ethio/Cuban/Arabic-inflected punk rock and jazz metal.

They’re joined by the incomparable multi-instrumentalist Shahzad Ismaily, who The New York Times called “one of music’s most in-demand collaborators, flitting like a mischievous butterfly through genres as diverse as honeyed folk, rambunctious free jazz and spectral meditations sung in Urdu”.

A deeply empathic player, Ismaily has worked with the likes of Laurie Anderson, Butch Morris, Bonnie “Prince” Billy, Yoko Ono, Colin Stetson, and Marc Ribot. Love in Exile, the collaborative trio he shares with Arooj Aftab and Vijay Iyer, was nominated at the 2024 GRAMMYs for Best Alternative Jazz Album, a brand-new category added to reflect the explosion of genre-blending, envelope-pushing hybrid forms of creative music.