Kontraband Kollektifs year 2021's slightly-fucked-up-christmas-song is an arrangement of the song Toyland written by Victor Herbert.

Only for your slightly-fucked-up-christmas-playlist!

Toyland

Systems
David Angelo / Andrew Borkowski / Gavin Goodwin /
An-Laurence Higgins / Kristian Podlacha / Madeline Speller /
Lieke van der Voort
Recorded by Paul Talbott and Emilie LeBel at ArraySpace Toronto
Mixed By Paul Talbott
Recording courtesy of the Toronto Creative Music Lab (www.tcml.ca)

This piece is base on a/the nervous system. Not just our bodily system, but also systems inside and outside of ourselves that are in place that can make you nervous: educational environments, landlord-tenant relationships, social expectations, stress in general, circular thinking when you cannot fall asleep. The issues build and eventually resolve, but unfortunately; there will always be another system we can't circumvent.

Systems

Lieke van der Voort - voice, lyrics, composition
Emily Steinwall - tenor sax
Hayden Ferrar - bass
Alfie Vienneau - drums

Oizys

Lieke van der Voort - voice, lyrics, composition
Hayden Ferrar - bass
Jillana Nickel - marimba

Lieke van der Voort
Maria-Carmela Raso
Laura Swankey
Mingjia Chen

Atropos

Lieke van der Voort - voice, lyrics, composition
Justin Orok - guitar
Hayden Ferrar - bass
Jillana Nickel - checkers

Athena

Lieke van der Voort - voice, lyrics, composition
Naomi McCarroll-Butler - bass clarinet
Justin Orok - guitar
Hayden Ferrar - bass
Alfie Vienneau - drums

Aether

Based on the appearance of multiple "ghost ships", stranded on the Japanese coast in 2016.

Belinda Corpuz
Laura Swankey
Lieke van der Voort

Recorded at Walter Hall, Toronto, 22/03/2018

Water on the Bottom of the Ocean (live at Walter Hall)

Live recorded at Walter Hall, Toronto on March 22nd, 2018.

Kontraband Kollektif vs. University of Toronto Vocal Jazz Ensemble

Catenate, Closed.

Arrangement of the classic Christmas song Oh Denneboom by Melchior Franck. 

What we admire, we cannot leave be. 
What we love, we want to own.

Oh Denneboom

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Profile image by Mingjia Chen

Kontraband Kollektif / Lieke van der Voort

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