VIM Online!
VIM Online! presented performances and interviews by five local music talents: Kimmortal, Marina Hasselberg, Tariq, Tzo’kam and Venetta.
Please find below the videos of the full show and of each individual performance.
Premiered on December 3rd at 7pm
Hosts: Jo Hirabayashi and John Korsrud.
Poster design: Big Wave Design / John Endo Greenaway
Videos: shot at and produced by KW Studios
Full show:
Kimmortal is a queer non-binary filipinx musician (poet, rapper, singer), visual artist and creative facilitator who is passionate about making and using art and music to empower, educate, and activate community engagement and healing.
They are a talented artist who combines hip hop, indie, electronic, and experimental into a powerful mix of raw vocals, imaginative instrumentation, and powerful storytelling.
They released their most recent album “X marks the Swirl” in 2019 which was longlisted for a Polaris and recognized as top 19 albums of 2019 via CBC. In 2020 Kimmortal was nominated in the Hip Hop and Rap category of Breakout West Music Awards.
https://kimmortalportal.com/
Award-winning cellist Marina Hasselberg’s musical career led her from her birth country of Portugal across the world to Vancouver’s eclectic music scene.
Starting as a chamber musician with a strong background in classical music, her passion quickly expanded into baroque music, experimental music, improvisation, and interdisciplinary works that cross all genre boundaries, taking her on a path to perform with various orchestras, ensembles, theatre, dance and film productions, mimes and calligraphers, noise bands, and improvised music groups.
In early 2021, Marina will be releasing her debut album featuring written and improvised music for solo cello and electronics, and small ensembles featuring guest improvisers Jesse Zubot, Aram Bajakian, Kenton Loewen and Giorgio Magnanensi.
https://marinahasselberg.com/
Tariq is a Juno nominated singer/songwriter and recording artist, also a member of the critically acclaimed Vancouver band, Brasstronaut.
His latest, “Telegrams,” is his sixth full-length solo release.
Tariq is also a nonfiction writer whose essays on song craft have appeared in Walrus Magazine. He is currently working on a memoir about growing up as a first-generation Canadian kid who dreams of playing in a rock n’ roll band.
https://www.tariqmusiq.com/
Tzo’kam, under the direction of Russell Wallace since the death of the founder, lead singer and family matriarch Flora Wallace, continues to work within their communities to teach, share and maintain a tradition that has been kept alive by dedicated elders.
Venetta is the co-founder of NuZi Collective, an events, and music collective focused on uplifting black & brown women, trans women & gender non-conforming individuals within the Vancouver electronic music scene through music initiatives & community engagement and empowerment. She is committed to reclaiming the black & brown roots of electronic dance music and creating black political spaces as a source of empowerment.
Venetta has quickly become an important DJ and voice in Vancouver’s thriving underground dance music scene, and her blend of techno, electro, acid (and beyond) is starting to make waves outside of Vancouver.
She is also the founder and executive director of the Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Fund, a non-profit foundation aiming to connect Black Vancouver residents with mental health resources such as free therapy.
https://soundcloud.com/djvenetta
We gratefully acknowledge the support of the Government of Canada, FACTOR and Canada’s private radio broadcasters, and the city of Vancouver.
