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Quebecois post-rockers go deep on the surveillance state on fifth album, Frontera From blues to techno via krautrock and black metal, there’s a tension in transportive music with repetitive structures as a base for lines of psychic escape. It’s a conflict that Fly Pan Am shine a magnifying glass on with Frontera as they translate borders, surveillance, and the gross asymmetries of power they represent into sound. Originally a multimedia collaboration with choreographer Dana Gingras and the Animals of Distinction Dance Company, the Canadian five-piece created music in response to the cho...

Dana Gingras, Marie Davidson and Sabrina Ratté create living sculpture in Jump Cut #2 A remote audiovisual collaboration that creates “a sense of an altered corporeal reality”. In the wake of the pandemic, choreographer Dana Gingras, founder of Montréal-based multimedia dance company Animals of Distinction, found herself unable to work on the kind of large-scale audiovisual dance works showcased at festivals such as CTM. In response, Gingras conceived Jump Cut, a six-part cable-access-style web series of remote collaborations between multidisciplinary artists from around the world. In...

Yaeji and Weirdcore dive into the world of Pac-Man for ‘PAC-TIVE’ Featuring China and Japan-based creative collective DiAN and a cameo from Yaeji’s animated canine companion, Woofa. Yaeji condenses generations of video game nostalgia into ‘PAC-TIVE’, an inspired and unexpected collaboration with audiovisual trickster Weirdcore that sees the NYC-based, Seoul-born producer and vocalist and the London-based visual artist plunging into a strange, alternate, Pac-Man-themed universe. To mark the game’s 41st anniversary Yaeji is joined by China and Japan-based creative collective DiAN, w...

Fly Pan Am Unveil New Album 'Frontera' Hear the record's first single "Scanner" Published Feb 23, 2021Fly Pan Am have announced their next full-length album. The record is called Frontera, and it's set to arrive on May 21 via Constellation Records. For now, you can hear the first single "Scanner" down below. The album marks the first from the Montreal group since 2019's C'est ça, and it promises to house "some of their most direct, visceral and immediately satisfying" material yet. Frontera was made to go alongside a contemporary dance piece of the same name, making the record a collabora...