Slaves of Time, recorded in collaboration with soprano Rebecca Nelsen and rapper Olly Hodding, reflects on the fleeting nature of life, about the idea of having limited time on earth to achieve our dreams. It's about living life as if it every day was our last.

Wednesday 6 July, 7:30 pm
2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal? at St James's Piccadilly, London UK

"2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal" was an article published in Time Magazine in 2011 by Lev Grossman. The article features Ray Kurzweil, Director of Engineering at Google Inc., who describes how we are approaching a moment when computers will become intelligent, and not just intelligent but more intelligent than humans. When that happens, humanity - our bodies, our minds, our civilization - will be completely and irreversibly transformed.

Kurzweil believes that this moment is not only inevitable but imminent. According to his calculations, the end of human civilization as we know it is about 30 years away. This article and a deeper exploration on Kurzweil's work became the foundation for this eponymous musical work where the composer explores his own reflections on life, death and afterlife and on whether technology is really going to save humanity.

Featuring the composer's trademark blend of operatic and classical traditions with downtempo electronica and sound art, "2045: The Year Man Becomes Immortal?" is 55min. long and is structured in 5 sections mirroring the five stages of a fruit tree, a classic metaphor for the cyclic nature of life.

The first three sections explore the process from life to death, the last two open to door to immortality. These two blocks are exactly separated at the Golden Ratio at 34min. All the timings of the individual segments and subsegments of the piece follow nature's omnipresent Fibonacci Sequence.

www.stmartin-in-the-fields.org/2045

This is a very experimental album. There are a large number of field recordings which were subsequently layered on each other almost without processing. Almost all of these recordings were made by setting of a stereo-microphone in the open window, to get noises from the street. This is evidenced by the album title itself. Stylistically, the album is a mix of post-rock, ambient and lo-fi drone.

This is the first EP from Snowsleep, which symbolizes the experimental nature of the project. This is the first attempt to combine progressive rock, ambient and post-rock. Each of the tracks is a world in itself, with its own style and sound. I hope you enjoy it!

Whether it's a Sinatra-style crooner, groovy instrumental, dreamy bossa-nova, romantic ballad, New Orleans-style Dixieland or a finger snappin' blues, everyone from the most particular connaisseur to the jazz newbie will be enchanted with this eclectic mix of jazz. Mike Goudreau presents his album 'Look For The Sunshine, co-written with Michel Aubin.

As with all of Mike's albums, he has surrounded himself with some of Québec's most talented musicians and arrangers: Trumpet player Maxime St-Pierre who has arranged for Céline Dion, Jean-Pierre Ferland, Claude Dubois, Michel Pagliaro, among others, also co-wrote the big band swing song "Happy Go Lucky Blues". The brilliant Dany Roy (musical director for Garou) plays some amazing sax solos on 6 tracks. Trumpet ace Roger "Rocket" Walls is back for solos on 2 songs. Silky-smooth pianist Sylvain Daigneault plays some great piano throughout. Long-time collaborator and saxophonist-arranger David Élias arranged 2 songs and plays some great sax. Other wonderful players include Jonathan Boudreau on upright bass, Patrick Morin on drums, Jean-François Bégin on percussions and drums, Serge Arsenault on trombone, Maurice "Mo" St-Pierre on clarinet, and Nino Fabi plays some groovy B3 organ.

The album was recorded by long time collaborator Jean Custeau at Studio Bleuciel in Stanstead, Québec. Mastering was done at VAD studios in Sherbrooke by David Élias, and Heather Sampson did the graphic artwork and pictures for the album.

The music of Jaxbros is a roots based, melodic, mix of singer songwriter goodness. Reminiscent of Dave Mathews, Counting crows, and The Smiths, the Jaxbros rely heavily on solid songwriting and melody to win over their audience. The Jaxbros are an acoustic act out of the Dallas Fort Worth area.