Transpacific Express is a Montréal-based artist collective dedicated to the celebration of musical cross-cultural influences between Asia and the Americas, bringing the best of global Pacific hip-hop, city pop, k-pop, and R&B music to the dance floor.

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12/31/25 - Bar Wills, Montreal
12/26/25 - Kabinet, Montreal
12/13/25 - Scatterbrain x play-do, Montreal
12/04/25 - Suko Mag x Parquette, Montreal
11/30/25 - Common Process hybrid set w/ Monsieurmadam, Montreal
11/20/25 - Shift Radio, Montreal
11/14/25 - La Grande Démesure, Montreal
10/14/25 - Bside Radio, Vancouver
10/04/25 - AMBIENT/ETC, Vancouver
09/26/25 - CFUV 101.9 FM, Victoria
08/22/25 - Mutek Edition 26, Montréal
07/27/25 - 350 Radio, Montréal
07/20/25 - Roots2Routs x Allez-up, Montréal
07/13/25 - Flight Fantasy Release Party, Montréal
06/22/25 - Café Famé x DODO BAZAAR pop up, Montréal
05/31/25 - Boutique Take Three 1 year party, Montréal
05/24/25 - Bar Le Système, Montréal
04/26/25 - Kabinet, Montréal
04/13/25 - Bar Le Ber private tasting, Montréal
02/20/25 - Datcha, Montréal

was in 1996 that Jay-Jay Johanson, a young man from a cold climate, fascinated by the Bristol sound they called trip-hop and Portishead in particular, first tapped delicately on our eardrums.
The intoxicating album that definitively put this rare and elegant Swede on the map was called Whiskey. It was the beginning of an enthralling adventure. In only a few songs he revealed a family tree that spread its roots far and wide: on one branch Lee Hazlewood, or pop from Talk Talk or Nilsson, on the other John Coltrane with Johnny Hartman, and a whole army of calm jazz or symphonic
recordings sampled from everywhere imaginable.
Almost 20 years later he has returned with an
incredible new album. This new release is called Opium and it contains the very essence of Johanson’s music: an ease with inventing melodies, a voice that gently caresses, and the jacked up, heady rhythms that lift and carry the songs. From the peaceful harmonica opening of Drowsy / Too Young To Say Good Night to the smoke-wreathed love song I Don’t Know Much About Loving, via titles with a sporadic and light groove (NDE, Alone Too Long), Opium is a courageous offering. Johanson opens his heart with
fearlessness and modesty, gracefully lowering his guard and evoking the questions that torment men of his age: love, solitude, immaturity. The songwriting is unerring, the words have a suppressed poetry. This
new Johanson is the work of a guy who has survived the avalanches, who is no longer looking for answers and is content to sketch out the perspectives in as many songs. Some titles are serious (Harakiri), but others immediately take up the reins casting a more
gentle, peaceful light, like Scarecrow, a collaboration with Robin Guthrie that would not have sounded out of place on a Cocteau Twins album, or of the strange positivity of Be Yourself or I Love Him So.
The strength of Opium is that it asks questions that don’t necessarily have an answer; it offers a collection of songs freed from any certitude but which convince
through their modesty, through their precision.
In short, Jay-Jay at his best.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1vqOWg_6pY&feature=youtu.be

Valentina Magaletti is a drummer, percussionist and composer whose goal is to strategically enrich a folkloristic and eclectic palette through endless listening and experimentation with new materials and sounds. She has performed and co-written with many artists including Nicolas Jaar, Jandek, Helm, Raime,Moin, HOoy Tongue,Czn Malcom Catto, Charles Hayward, Graham Lewis (Wire, Dome), Tightpaul Sandra (Coil, Spiritualized, Julian Cope), Thurston Moore, Bat for Lashes, Gruff Rhys (Super Furry Animals), and many more. In her current project, Vanishing Twin she has a more conventional jazz approach that finds its escape in the drone/field recordings of the percussive narrative in other  experimental/avant-garde productions. Valentina was born in Bari, Italy, and lives in London.

She has performed widely with festivals including:
UnSound (Toronto,Krakow),Wysyng Art Centre(Cambridge)
Atonal(Berlin),Festival International Musiques Actuelle (Victoriaville),Festival de la Cité (Lusanne)Museum of Modern Art(Moscow),The Great Escape (BBC Stage),(Brighton),Incubate festival Tilburg),Nuits Sonores(Lion),Hyperreality(Vienna)
Tauron Nowa Muzyk Festival(Katowice) Bozar(Bruxelles),Hyperreality(Vienna)ANLG(NYC),EcoFestival(Madrid),
Loop Festival(Los Angeles),Phono Festival (Odense),Tremor(Azores),
Roskilde (Roskilde),Jazz is Dead(Turin),Le Guess who?(Utrecht),RewireTheHague),Glastonbury(Glastonbury),Supersonic(Birmingham),Sonar(Reykjavik),Time Zones(Bari),Tempo Reale(Florence).

Other performance highlights include several improvised or repertoire presentations at Cafe Oto (London),commissioned work for Zabludowicz collection(London),The Barbican(London),Southbank Center (London),National Theatre and Dance (Lisbon),Sonoscopia (Porto),VAC(Palazzo Delle Zattere, Venezia)

Valentina has performed or composed music released on labels including Editions Mego, Trilogy Tapes, Offen,Takuroku,Marionette,Hands in the Dark,Blank Editions,Confront,Latency,Horn of Plenty,Meakusma,Emotional Response,Other People,Soundway,Fire Records and mony more.

For bookings pleaase contac:
Meri Bonastre
meri@futura-artists.com

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