Artist Works
Featured performances, collaborations, releases and residencies
The ESsentials
April 16 - 18, 2021
Khari Wendell McClelland returns to The Cultch stage, joined virtually by local and international musicians, scholars, and poets in a multidisciplinary performance exploring the question: What is essential and needed in these times?
April 16 featuring The Sojourners, St James Music Academy, Twin Bandit, Faye Mallett, Kwakiutl Hereditary Chief Henry Seaweed, Cecily Nicholson, Hari Alluri, Mia Birdsong, Jarrett Martineau, Ashon Crawley, Kathleen Gallagher, Andrew Kushnir, Harsha Walia, Seth Klein, and Toshi Reagon
April 17 featuring Gordon Grdina, Tanika Charles, Faye Mallett, Cecily Nicholson, Hari Alluri, Mia Birdsong, Jarrett Martineau, Ashon Crawley, Kathleen Gallagher, Andrew Kushnir, Harsha Walia, Seth Klein, and Toshi Reagon
April 18 featuring PIQSIQ, Queer As Funk, Faye Mallett, Cecily Nicholson, Hari Alluri, Mia Birdsong, Jarrett Martineau, Ashon Crawley, Kathleen Gallagher, Andrew Kushnir, Harsha Walia, Seth Klein, and Toshi Reagon
“Tend & See have an original sensibility that can’t be tied down to any influences or contemporaries.
Migrations is a stunningly accomplished debut EP. With no filler whatsoever in its five tracks, and covering a wide breadth of moods and motifs, it’s soft electronic pop at its finest.”
Tend & See
A soundscape-crafting duo (Melissa Banduras & Faye Mallett) from Montreal and Vancouver who push themselves to break their personal, musical tendencies by mixing their acoustic instruments into electronic sounds, beats and loops. What results is a seamless mix of shoe gaze vocals, musique concrete samples, and ambient, cinematic soundscapes. The duo continue to create music collaboratively, across distance, going by the name Tendency, with a new release Bloom, in 2020.
Banff Centre for the Arts
Music Residency
Winter/2013
House of Rain ~
Out of the Many
Faye Mallett’s (House of Rain) debut album is comprised of songs written over a 3-year period and performed with members of Groundtruthing, a group she co-founded in 2009. All the songs have been slowly built from the ground up, their final form representing a gradual accretion of improvised vibraphone, drumset, keyboard, vocal melodies, piano, trumpet, steel pedal and electronic guitar.
These are songs that have been lived with, each one charting changes in time and different paths taken to create an overall impression that is intensely present.
Vision Impure with Groundtruthing
Paint the Land Performances
Vancouver Art Gallery, FUSE, 2012
The Cultch, 2013