Project Nowhere w/ Teke::Teke, Orbital Ensemble, Miserable Weekend @ St. Anne's Hall, Friday

Montreal's fab Teke::Teke is joined by Orbital Ensemble at St. Anne's Parish Hall as part of Project Nowhere – get tickets here.

Desire & Johnny Jewel light up Project Nowhere @ St. Anne's Parish, Oct 2

The dynamic IDIB duo of Desire & Johnny Jewel join the expansive Project Nowhere event at six west end T.O. venues Oct 2 to 4.   

Here's the scoop...

Project Nowhere returns for a third year to Toronto's west end on OCT 2-4, 2025. The full lineup of artists has arrived, promising the best of underground heavy hitters and up-and-coming talent from Toronto and beyond!

 

The festival's multi-venue format will span six spaces along Dundas West - Nineteen Seventy Eight (Expo Vintage Outlet), St. Anne's Parish, The Garrison, The Baby G, BSMT254, and Hank's Liquor. Show-hopping with a 3-day pass (for $119.60) is highly encouraged - the only way to experience all the shows one's heart desires, all weekend long. 

Tickets for the Desire's highly-anticipated show with Johnny Jewel and Kat Duma at St. Anne's Parish Hall on Thursday, October 2 at 7:30 pm are $32.31 advance and available right here. Tickets for Friday night's boffo blast featuring Teke::Teke with Orbital Ensemble and Miserable Weekend also at St. Anne's Parish Hall at 7:30 pm are $32.31 and available here. Saturday's main event will be The Mystery Lights sharing a bill with Detroit's Shadow Show and The Mersey Sound at The Garrison at 8:30 pm. Tickets are again $32.31 and available here. Check out Project Nowhere's full-lineup, schedule and info at the event site right here: https://www.projectnowhere.org/. 

PROJECT NOWHERE VENUES

St. Anne's Parish Hall - 651 Dufferin St.

Nineteen Seventy Eight - 1978 Dundas St. W.

The Garrison - 1197 Dundas St. W.

The Baby G - 1608 Dundas St. W.

BSMT254 - 254 Lansdowne Ave

Hank's Liquor - 1415 B Dundas St. W.

Here are a couple of clips of Desire accompanied by Johnny Jewel along with some performance footage of Teke::Teke, a stylish Shadow Show video and a KEXP performance by The Mystery Lights followed by a listing of Project Nowhere's scheduled shows for October 2nd and 3rd. 

Toronto's Orbital Ensemble launch "Orbital" debut @ 915 Dupont, Thursday

Check out the video and a performance of "Daydreams" off Orbital Ensemble's impressive "Orbital" debut out now.

Here's the scoop...

"Orbital" is the debut full-length album by multi-instrumentalist Felipe Sena, the composer behind Toronto's Orbital Ensemble (released June 30 via We Are Busy Bodies). 

Written and produced by Sena, the album features Lazar Miric on flute and saxophones, and renowned Brazilian percussionist M. Takara on two tracks. 

These early collaborators were the first extensions of the ensemble, as the album is prologue to the live experience, setting the stage for the larger Toronto-based live Orbital Ensemble — an eight-piece Toronto-based live band, which brings the album’s neotropical psychedelic sound to life with drums, Brazilian percussion, bass, guitar, sax/flute, acoustic guitar, keys, and vibraphone.

Released under We Are Busy Bodies worldwide and Balaclava Records in South America, "Orbital" blends vintage Brazilian influences with modern psychedelic and jazz elements, drawing inspiration from artists such as Clube da Esquina, Azymuth, Meta Metá, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Khruangbin, and Badbadnotgood. Watch the video for "Daydreams" followed by a live-in-the-studio performance below.  

Get a copy of the Orbital Ensemble's "Orbital" debut from Bandcamp right here. There's a listening party for  "Orbital" at 915 Dupont on Thursday (July 3) with a DJ set from We Are Busy Bodies main man Eric Warner at 7:30 pm, album playback at 8:15 pm, Cajú label DJ set at 9:15 pm, Local Dish label DJ set 10:15 pm.   

“There’s just something about psychedelic jazz from Canada. From Badge Époque Ensemble to Cosmic Range, and the majority of the Idée Fixe catalog, the country’s got a lock on the lysergic end of the jazz spectrum. Add a new name to the register with Orbital Ensemble.” – Raven Sings The Blues

“Sena knows how to smoothly mix Latin, African, the closely related Caribbean rhythms and spacy jazz rock into a sound that we will hopefully hear from many more times in the future. More than promising, this relaxed listening trip full of pleasant surprises” – Jazzism (NL)

“Toronto’s latest jazz masters…soaked in the sweet sounds of Brazilian jazz and soul, with occasional hints of psychedelia, too.” Far Out Magazine

Credits

Composed and Engineered by Felipe Sena

Drums, bass, guitars, keys, percussion by Felipe Sena

Flutes and saxophones by Lazar Miric

Additional Rhodes on Daydreams by Lazar Miric

Percussion and bells on Maré and Portal by M. Takara

Recorded at The Root Down, Toronto

Mixed by Roberto Kramer and Felipe Sena

Mastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel

Cover artwork by George Gilles

Design by Felipe Sena