Music Preview: Elude the Monsters with Sandro Perri, Veda Hille & Fond of Tigers

This Saturday, October 27th when you are done battling zombies on Commercial Drive, head downtown and find a place of reprieve from all things ghastly in the night. You'll dodge a few of the 'undead' down on Granville Street (or nurses in hot pants, guys in granny dresses, etc), but by poking into the rear door at 1067 Granville you'll be treated to the sublime sounds of Sandro Perri, Fond of Tigers and Veda Hille.

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Toronto's Sandro Perri is a bit of a chameleon and musical instigator. You may know him from one of his other guises: the minimalist slide guitar and electronic ambience of Polmo Polpo or perhaps the stuttering afro-funk and rhythmic chanting of Glissandro 70. Nowadays, the Constellation recording artist plays solo - albeit multi-instrumentally - and he'll be pulling from his latest release "Tiny Mirrors" - an intoxicating mix of hushed voices, improv moments and swift, breezy bossa-styles. It's basically Perri's unique slant on the singer-songwriter role, much as his Polmo Polpo work was a new, organic take on the sometimes sterile genre of electronic music.

Veda Hille and Fond of Tigers are two Vancouver artists that should require no introduction to discerning local music fans. Hille has been performing music in this city for 15 years - releasing a dozen albums, scoring music for dance and performance art, making fun pop music with kids (Duplex!) and generally just creating something new and timeless wherever she goes. To get the gist, you can listen to a recorded concert of Veda Hille on CBC Radio Two, Saturday night @ 9pm before heading out for the real thing.

Fond of Tigers play the kind of music perfectly suited for a venue like 1067. It's like jazz, in a way, but with the volume turned way up and the oft-chided 'solo' forms taking a turn for group improvisation. Still, with some of the city's best musicians on board, you can feel the power they bring through individual parts that swell up to massive peaks and colluded bombast.

A fantastic line-up of new music in a somewhat hidden place, far from the eyes of the monsters that take over the strip on a Saturday night. Show costs $5 and gets underway around 10pm.

Photo of Sandro Perri courtesy Constellation Records.