ambient service

Ambient Service is an ambient music series inviting quiet contemplation, deep listening, and sonic immersion as we welcome the solstice.

We’ve heard the call; you are tired, overstimulated, overwhelmed. The daily grind takes its toll, and while the dance floor offers a much needed release, there seems to be a near unanimous understanding lately that something else is needed. Something gentle and nourishing. Less demanding. A soft landing place for you to slow down, to process, to integrate. To intentionally sit with sound and community, and simply…listen.

We are happy to be of service.

We are honoured to introduce our new concert/chill out series “ambient service”, with our first event on December 20th, featuring a truly magical lineup. Thoughts On Air (Hamilton) https://thoughtsonair.bandcamp.com/ Headlining our inaugural event is a prominent figure of the 2000’s blogspot era tape ambient scene, and one of our favourite artists ever, Thoughts on Air. Releasing music for nearly two decades under a number of aliases for labels like the legendary Housecraft Recordings (and with fellow legends like Tricorn and Queue and Xiphiidae) , Hamilton based Scott Johnson’s most prominent project Thoughts on Air is known for its richly textured, drifting guitar work that radiates outward like rays of sunlight and envelopes the listener in a warm analog haze.

Prince Nifty and Colin Fisher https://colinalexanderfisher.bandcamp.com/ https://princenifty.bandcamp.com/ Colin Fisher and Prince Nifty are two artists who need little introduction. Prolific collaborators and pillars of a number of Toronto’s eclectic and interweaving music scenes, we’re not quite sure what these two will be cooking up for us for this event but there are few others in the city that have earned our full and utter trust as much as they have. Rest assured, we are in the best of hands.

ghosttropics (DJ) https://soundcloud.com/ghosttropics

Opening the night with an extended DJ set is ambient service resident/co-head ghosttropics. With their commitment to digging deep and shining a light on the obscure and experimental corners of sound, Ryan has been gaining a reputation as a well respected music journalist with their own newsletter and work with First Floor, and more recently as a DJ with mixes for series like Theory Therapy. Ryan will guide us into the night with a freeform set, encompassing anything from ambient to glitch to post rock. Expect plenty of washed out textures and sad guitars.