Noise Complaint

Ines (of CiTR's Gobstopper) hosts Muppet Boys live in studio at CiTR.

This week on Noise Complaint we have a performance and an interview with Iris, ALSO KNOWN AS SUBLIME !!!

AKAsublime is a Music Producer, DJ and sound composer based somewhere in so called “Vancouver/Canada” . AKAsublime is also the founder of Unity Arts Collective, A space and platform made for and by QTBIPOC / BIPOC Artists within “Canada”. AKAsublime also owns N0-Guidance - Records which is a music collective and soon to be Record Label, Floating Thoughts which is An art project consisting of Sound/Radio, Photo/Videos, Writing and other Arts.

*This initiative is made possible by the Community Radio Fund of Canada.*

Listen to their music and upcoming mixtape "debris" here: https://sublimewrld.bandcamp.com/

Local band Rosemary Ginger visits the station to perform some tunes!

Listen to their latest singles here: https://rosemaryginger.bandcamp.com/album/ocean-in-between

*This initiative is made possible by the Community Radio Fund of Canada.*

Amanda has collaborated on many interdisciplinary theatre based works, which have brought her to perform and present work at the SMUSH Gallery (Jersey City), On The Boards (Seattle), the Fury Factory Festival of Ensemble and Devised Theatre (San Francisco) and Summerworks (Toronto). Past devised works include Once She Dries (Meagan Woods/Nancy Cohen), New Societies and Champion (re:current theatre), Other Inland Empires (Swim Club), and Double Happiness: Detour This Way (NancyTam & Robyn Jacob/Music on Main/plastic orchid factory/Neworld Theatre). Amanda holds a BFA in theatre performance from Simon Fraser University.

As an actor, Amanda’s recent credits include 4 seasons of the East Van Panto (Theatre Replacement), Sense and Sensibility (Arts Club), do you want what i have got? a craigslist cantata (The Cultch), Chicken Girl (rice&beans), and The Wolves (With A Spoon/Rumble/Pacific).

As a musician, Amanda's writing floats on top of the indie-pop genre, sometimes dipping into

jazz or visiting alternative folk. Amanda's debut full-length record, New Age Attitudes, was just released. Her music video, Different Than Before (directed by Mayumi Yoshida), was JUNO Nominated for Music Video of the Year, and won the SXSW Music Video Jury Award. She aims to champion other under-represented artists in her music work. All her sound recordings were made with an all-female production and engineering team, and feature an all-Asian female band. Music recording collaborators include Emily Millard, Olivia Quan, Jamie Lee, Mary Ancheta, Cindy Kao, Shin-Jung Nam, Ginger Chen, and Elisa Pangsaeng.

As Theatre Replacement's COLLIDER Artist in Residence, Amanda created New Age Attitudes: Live in Concert, a pop-up book performance. She has presented in-development iterations of NAA: LIC at PushOFF in 2021 and 2022. Directed by Maiko Yamamoto, the premiere of the piece was presented at The Cultch as part of the Femme Festival in the spring of 2023.

Amanda dips between disciplines, and values collective opportunities, chortling laughter, matching outfits, rhythm and rigour across all mediums she works with.

Aisia and Jasper are joined by UBC Creative Writing Department's Tariq Hussain and his students for their end-of-semester songwriting showcase.

Jasper is joined by local musician, community organizer and One City city council candidate with Ian Cromwell.

Learn more about Ian:

https://vancouver.iancromwell.ca/

https://www.localslounge.ca/

https://www.onecityvancouver.ca/

CiTR is joined in-studio by student from CRWR411, Tariq Hussain's songwriting class to take over CiTR 101.9FM and share some of their songs written during the 2021 semester.

ft. performances by

1. Rayne Weinstein (she/he/they) - Warsaw

2. Lara Yildirim (she/they) - Alec

3. Gabrielle Elena (she/her) - Let Me Miss You Again

4. Kaila Johnson (she/they) - Wednesday Nights

5. MacKenzie Sewell (she/they) - Graveyard Blanket

6. Emma Doig (she/her) - Belladonna Wine

7. Sebastian Young (he/him) - Song for Future Self

8. Brit Runeckles (they/she) - Was It Just Me?

9. Jessica Kim (she/her) - Minimum Wage

10. Sinead Tebbutt (she/her) - Outside Rain (working title)

11. Jaenna Cali (she/her) - Standing By

12. Katya Kirschmann (she/her) - Catch & Release

Jasper is joined by Tariq Hussain and his songwriting class, who share some of their songs written during the 2020 semester.

Spencer Oakes--Motorcade

Tarene Thomas--Lullaby

Gabrielle Rutman--The Believing

Valie Madejska--June

Eleanor Panno--Burnt Toast

Cole Klassen--Camping Prayer

Edie Chunn--Leave It Up To You

Claudine Yip--Where Do They Go

Ethan Wescoatt--The Cloud Sea

Emma Leck--Butterflies

Vancouver artist Ruby Singh phones in to talk about his new pan-cultural Sufi Hip-Hop project Jhalaak which released its debut self-titled album in May. Spanning two continents, Jhalaak brings together the powerful sounds of Qawaali (devotional Sufi music from Pakistan and India), Hip-Hop, and EDM. Jhalaak met under the constellations of the Vancouver summer sky in 2014 when the Indian musicians found a kindred spirit in Canadian born Desi Hip-Hop artist, multi-instrumentalist, and composer Ruby Singh.

“We met 6 years ago at the Indian Summer Festival in Vancouver,” explains Singh. “The group of Indian musicians are all brothers from the same family, Salim Khan, Khete Khan, Chugge Khan, 19th generation musicians from a caste called Manganiyars. They are from the same city where my ancestors migrated from 300 years ago so there is a good chance that our ancestors were hanging out which is pretty incredible.”

Made up of an ensemble of artists who have toured the world over, Jhalaak is a potent combination of musicians sparking dance floors worldwide. Chugge Khan, with recent project Junun, toured extensively with Radiohead and was mentored as a young vocalist by the inimitable Ustaad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Ruby Singh’s spoken word, rap and beatboxing have taken him across the globe throughout North America, Europe, and the South Asian continent, which prepared him for creating rap interpretations of Qawwali songs that date back as far as 700 years.

To expand the spectrum of Jhalaak, Juno and Emmy nominated producer and DJ Adham Shaikh, contributes to their hypnotic and explosive chemistry.

Janny Banai's couchwalker grew up into an album with the all-too-eager help of heartbreak, uncertainty and questions to do with faith. Each song embodies a timeless longing of the soul for mutual understanding and deep connection. Alas, throughout Jenny flutters from one couch to the next; from one conversation to the next, feeling wholly affected by the state of the world, of her friends and of her own heart. All the while finding ground in what she believes is true.