

Date
Thursday, June 6, 2024
Time
Doors: 7:00 PM - Show: 8:00 PM
Age Restriction
19+
Venue
Longboat Hall
Address
103 Dovercourt Rd, Toronto, ON
Saya Gray
Doors: 7:00pm Show: 8:00pm
In 2022 Saya Gray released a collection of songs that introduced the world to her music - entitled ‘19 MASTERS’, it demonstrated her unique ability to create collages that felt both comforting and disorienting, vast yet intimate. Last year, she returned with new music, a body of work that signified an exciting new chapter, the tightly packed and exhilarating EP: QWERTY - a multi-faceted project that so far contains two instalments of recorded music, live shows and visuals. The first part was released in May 2023, the second in March 2024 - both on Dirty Hit.
Sensing the ever encroaching threat the modern digital world places on her mental health, and following a period of loss and grief, Saya isolated herself to set about sampling and compiling existing snippets she compulsively records with an almost always-on tape machine. Whether it’s voice notes from three years ago, a sample of her drummer playing Jungle rhythms, or a guitar part her brother interrupted sessions to play her - it was all fed through an MPC to create a body of work far greater than the sum of its parts - as Saya herself describes it, she puts ‘1000 personalities in one song’. It’s an unfiltered, frenzied approach to her art that she felt necessary to reclaim her sense of self in an ever changing world.
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Japanese-Canadian artist Saya Gray has a unique ability to create a collage of sounds that feel both comforting and disorienting, vast yet intimate. Her releases so far, 2022’s ‘19MASTERS’ , 2023’s ‘QWERTY I’ and 2024’s 'QWERTY II' were made in periods of intense isolation, and as Saya herself describes it, she puts ‘1000 personalities in one song’. It’s this unfiltered, frenzied approach to her art that she feels is necessary to reclaim her sense of self in an ever changing world - and in the process marking her as one of the most exciting, up and coming musicians operating today. 2025 is set to be a landmark year for Saya as she readies the release of her debut album ’SAYA” - but far her most personal and intimate project to date.
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