Black Bear Coffee Company is a BRAND NEW casual bar/coffee house and music venue offering a broad assortment of artists and flavors. Enjoy samples of our entertainment here on Soundcloud! Here at Black Bear we record many of our live performances and offer our customers a good listen from anywhere on earth with internet. So kick back and check out what this hot little house is roasting on the stage and check out www.blackbear.coffee to see what its brewing behind the counter! Interested in booking a performance/concert? Black Bear Coffee Company accepts performance applicants 24/7. Just call Raphael at: (828)435-0707 any time:) Enjoy the tunes and come in sometime!

	Je suis montréalais et québécois vivant à Saint-Jean de Matha. Je suis un musicien créateur oeuvrant dans la musique de film, de théâtre, d'improvisation et en électroacouatique. Ma musique, c'est assez varié: solis de guitare acoustique, classique, électrique, préparée (avec ou sans vinaigre...), du cistre, du délire d'impro free à la notation maniaque où tout est écrit...et néanmoins jamais exécuté deux fois pareil. Ya du folk, du minimalisme électronique, du blues de métèque sans métrique (ou à métrique de métèque étriqué?), du techno-arabo-bruitiste-concret quand même dansable, et dans l'sable quand ça devient saharien ou gobiesque, comme dans ma pièce le shaman techno du désert de Gobi. Ya aussi de l'électroacoutique, impur à ce que disent les zexperts en la matière, mais la pureté pour moi, ça a des arrières goûts de nazisme. Ya dans mon bagage sur CD des disques de percussion "junk" entremêlé de soudures électroniques et des cris primaux onomatopéïques en délire sur flûte à bec qualifiée de pataphysique (dixit Jean Derome…). Et bien d'autres choses aussi. Je m’amuse comme un grand fou, et amuse ceux qui ont le goût d’entrer dans ma danse ébourifée de capotage sonore. J'espère jouer au Québec l'été prochain.

Daniel Heikalo is a multi-faceted composer and instrumentalist living in Saint-Jean de Matha, Québec. Born in a french-speaking working class neighbourhood of Montreal, he grew up surrounded by fascinating architecture, colourful people, noise, pollution, poverty, and the kind of sensibility to deeply absorb the richness of his surroundings. He developed an appreciation for light and visual composition, architecture, that translated in his early involvement with drawing and photography, which he still practices professionally. He also discovered early on that his ear was musical, being able to memorize complex instrumental pieces which he would sing to himself on his way to school, or to alleviate the boredom instilled by that institution, not recommended for creative people. After realizing that he could sing in his mind complete lead guitar solos by the likes of Clapton, Zappa and Page, he thought that learning guitar might be a good thing. He was right and never looked back.

Heikalo now plays all kinds of guitars, banjo, cittern, mandolin, drums, percussion, recorders and invented instruments. He has 30 CDs available from Bandcamp.com, which range from classically-influenced folk and world music to electroacoustic sonic mayhem and free improvisation. He does all his recording, mixing and mastering in his home studio and records other musicians, theatre and video soundtracks.

Daniel Heïkalo, Août 2014

Musician based in southern Sweden. Known from the Danish trio Dreamers' Circus.

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