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Art + Design Gallery and the Parra exhibition get some lovin’ in Japan’s Warp mag.

Lost Art – HVW8 Roy Ayers' painting

People inquire a lot about one of our most infamous pieces; the Roy Ayers Wax Poetics cover piece from 2004. Here is the story –

The Roy Ayers painting by HVW8 Art Installation was created in Montreal during a live set with Afronaught and Mark Force, from the Bugz in the Attic, during the Goods. I brought back the original painting to Los Angeles from Montreal and gave it to Andre Torres at Funky Sole at Star Shoes for the Wax Poetics cover. Andre took the piece back to Brooklyn. This was the last time I saw it.

A few weeks passed and I asked when we were going to get the piece back. Andre said he had already Fed-Ex’d the painting back to Huntington Beach, where HVW8 had an office within Giant distribution, but didn’t have a tracking number. Fast foward 6 months, Andre finds the tracking number and we find out that the painting was received at Giant distribution and signed for by an employee who was fired that day. This employee then left back to Mexico. Sad thing this piece was never properly documented.

So best bet the HVW8’s Roy Ayers is currently in Tijuana area.

Please let us know if you ever see it! Also never lend out original pieces!

Mr. French – Int'l podcast Vol. 8

Hey Playboy – this one is for the ladies!

We finally got the Mr. French podcast up ….

HVW8 International Podcast Vol. 8 with Mr. French

jazzsteppa “taylor rain” 
evs “let it go” 
floating point “shangri la” 
suzi analogue “son” 
morgan zarate feat eska and ghostface killah “sticks and stone” 
zo aka la chauve souris “moon (ghetto love night)” 
hudson mohawke “polkadot blues” 
fulgeance “rusbicube” 
j todd “ghetto attachment” 
letherette “in july focus rite” 
steve spacek “this one feels allright” 
steve spacek “look” 
negghead “blast” 
aqeel “rock hard” 
the parallel dance ensemble “pizza turtle cadillac” 
detroit experiment “think twice” henrik schwarz remix

Podcast Page HERE

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FRIDAY MID TO 3 AM 
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Alex Flach

Berlin based photographer Alex Flach stopped by the gallery yesterday.

You can see Alex’s work on the Pool Gallery’s website HERE.

Montreal Soundscapes

 

Montreal being my second home, I wanted to give a nod to a cool project my old roommate Scott C has going on for the Montreal Biennale. He also sent this track from DSDQ, that accompanies the artwork. Nice work!

– Ty G

Claudio Marzano + Scott Clyke present
SOUNDSCAPES/PAYSAGE SONORES
as part of La Biennale de Montreal 2009
opening May 1st and running until May 31st

featuring paintings by Rick Leong
& original music by
David Ryshpan
Dubline
KenLo
The Blessings
Think Twice
Moonstarr
SirOJ

vernissage – FRIDAY MAY 1ST 6:30PM
Ecole Bourget, 1230 rue De La Montange
room 206
http://www.biennalemontreal.org/soundscapes

*limited edition CDs will be available

DSDQ (SirOJ remix)