"Box . . . three . . . spool . . . five. ( he raises his head and stares front. With relish. ) Spool! ( pause. ) Spooool! ( happy smile. Pause. He bends over table, starts peering and poking at the boxes. ) Box three, spool five. (He bends over the machine, looks up. With relish.) Spooool! (happy smile. He bends, loads spool on machine, rubs his hands.) Ah! " —Krapp's Last Tape, Samuel Beckett |
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| creative orchestra (guelph) 2007 braxton • AIMTronto |
new rules for noise grdina • houle • silins • loewen |
unlearn grdina • houle • silins • loewen |
open spaces carrier • redman • donato • séguin • lambert |
hoxha rutherford • vandermark• van der schyff • müller |
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| intersection poems horwitz • samworth • lee • clark • van der schyff |
worlds apart peggy lee band |
some ra rake-star |
gen hikage • segel |
no day rising larner • leandre • uchihashi |
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| tempted to smile frith • leandre • segel |
the flying deer delius • de joode • van der schyff |
floating 1 ...2 ...3 moore • lee • van der schyff |
sounds from the big house peggy lee band |
dearness frith • oswald • bourne |
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| yesca one baker • schoenbeck |
itadakimasu larner |
the shadowgraph series: compositions for creative orchestra lewis • now orchestra |
lowest note tony wilson sextet |
close queen mab |
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| port huron picnic gustafsson • newman • gennaro |
12 milagritos butcher • robair • sperry |
rake | wowow now orchestra |
the test tubes israelievitch • young • reitzenstein • stewart |
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| peggy lee band | pieces of time kang • van der schyff • houle |
passwords kaiser • plimley • degruttola |
these are our shoes lee • van der schyff |
sponge van der schyff • tarry |
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"Spool has released a significant portion of the best Canadian experimental music of recent years, as well as discs by foreign artists" —David Dacks, Exclaim. |
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ornaments cameron |
alogos pack |
retreat matthias von imhoff |
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| gathering smash & teeny featuring butcher |
relay hansen • krakowiak |
equation butcher • hansen • krakowiak |
au coeur du litige houle |
free improv for robots broken record chamber |
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| el skronktet west/ scott rosenberg |
triplicate shiurba |
mental scars matthias von imhoff |
standing wave | tempotempo wrist error |
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"Spool isn't for the faint-hearted. Their roster includes some of Canada's most adventurous and advanced creative musicians. From international recognized artists such as pianist Paul Plimley and violinist Jacques Israelievitch, to Vancouver's exceptional young talents — drummer Dylan van der Schyff, cellist Peggy Lee, and clarinetist Francois Houle, to name three — Spool has begun documenting an important moment in the history of Canadian improvised music." —Greg Buium, Coda. | ||
Music IS Rapid Transportation ...from the Beatles to Xenakis Editor: Daniel Kernohan by Lawrence Joseph, Dan Lander, Donal McGraith, Bill Smith, Alan Stanbridge, Scott Thomson & Vern Weber photos by Gordon Bowbrick, Herb Greenslade & Bill Smith |
Rant & Dawdle: The Fictional Memoir of Colston Wilmott As Imagined by William E. Smith |
"The emergence of Spool Records is an important event, to say the least, in the history of contemporary Canadian music." —Marc Chenard |