Cynicism in the Art Gallery

We get all up in the art on this episode. Matt visited the National Art Gallery in beautiful Ottawa, ON. We get a walkthrough, you get one of our most cynical takes yet. From First Nations, Métis & Cree artwork, to the paintings of the iconic group of seven, we just can’t wrap our heads around the colonial couplings found in the gallery. Luckily, Emily Carr saved us from total despair. That is, until we try to make sense of postmodern art. It’s like finding lost money in your jacket pocket: confusing. Really confusing. To follow along as we dissect some art, check-out the pics Matt took while on his tour: We thank Evil Can Evil for kindly allowing us to play their songs: Winter Rider, Power, Love & Hate, and I’m Alive. Blues filtered through a 1970s' distortion, with a hint of 1960s' rock. A voice full of blues and smoke. Drums that smash the permafrost. A bass that moves snowdrifts. Guitars that lash stronger than a boreal wind. The strength of the North, with the soul of blues and the energy of rock. Evil Can Evil, the nordic rock's ambassadors. Evil Can Evil is a Quebec City quartet founded in 2007. The band is made up of: JF, vocalist and guitarist, Math, drummer, Manuel, bassist and Seb, rhythm guitar. Through stories of dangerous women, broken hearts, identity crises, territorial dispossession and courageous snow plows, Evil Can Evil builds a universe breathing a new life into the tired stoner rock genre. Stoner rock is dead, hail nordic rock. If Evil Can Evil doesn't make you want to dance, then you're more frozen than a mammoth prisoner of the Siberian soil. Evil Can Evil can be found on: Facebook | Website | Bandcamp | iTunes If you enjoy podcasts and need a better way to find, review and share shows you love check-out Podknife at . For updates on the new shows added to the Podknife database and for a featured podcast of the day, follow . Podknife: Podcast reviews for everyone. Concluding thought: Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out. - Robert Hewison -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Follow and on Twitter and Facebook for the best in indie podcasts. Listen More. Listen Indie. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you enjoyed this episode, we strongly urge you to make a donation to the Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund and/or the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation. Please help continue Gord's charitable & activist work. He left us with memories and a lifetime of music to enjoy. Helping the causes he cared about is the best way we can thank him now.

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Cynicism in the Art Gallery is an episode from Semi-Intellectual Musings by Diskurs Productions.

This episode is 74:29 long.

This episode was published on Jan 30, 2018.

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