Friday, October 23
The Rebecca Cohn Auditorium
6101 University Ave.
$29-49
Final Fantasy with Symphony Nova Scotia
(Toronto, ON)
www.finalfantasyeternal.com
Owen Pallett’s live violin-looping project was named Final Fantasy, in tribute to the melodramatic videogame series. Final Fantasy’s debut album Has A Good Home (Blocks/Tomlab) was released in April 2005. The sophomore album He Poos Clouds (Blocks/Tomlab) was written and arranged entirely for string quartet, and is a satirical song cycle based on the eight schools of magic according to Dungeons and Dragons. The Village Voice praised it as having “the best lyrics of the year,” Pitchfork described it as “a joy to hear…this is, in a word, fierce—it can engage you on a level most albums can’t,” and many publications put it in their top-10 lists for the year. Canadian journalists voted and awarded it the inaugural Polaris Prize for best Canadian full-length album.
This show is dedicated to the memory of Alex Fountain. Alex was a wonderful young man with a ready smile and a big heart, a summer employee of the Halifax Pop Explosion and student at King’s, who loved the local music scene. He died unexpectedly in August, at the age of 20. He was loved and will be missed.
