Kee Avil

 Photo: Fatine-Violette Sabiri

 

Discography 

 

 

Spine 

 

Montréal producer Kee Avil combines guitar, voice, and electronic production to forge deconstructed songs informed by a distinctive amalgam of post-industrial, avant-pop, glitch, minimalist, and experimental folk sensibilities. 

Harnessing a background in improvised music, Kee Avil’s self-titled EP (2018, Black Bough Records) introduced the project with a triptych of layered and fragmented vocal, segmented guitar, and electronic ooze, glued together by samples of screws dropped into crystal bowls. 

Catching the ear of Montréal label Constellation, Kee Avil’s debut full-length album Crease was released on the imprint in 2022, garnering widespread critical accolades and a Juno Award nomination. The Quietus called Crease “a stunning debut, with a keen ear for experimentation, whose musical explorations are as intriguing as its emotional impact” and Mojo declared “the ferocity of her vision, coupled with unpredictable wafts of delicious melodic certainty, make Crease a compulsive journey through an aural dreamworld.” This “modern deconstructed gothic dream” (Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC6) was a Bandcamp Album Of The Day and among its Albums Of The Year: “Sounds hang together like organs in a body, tightly wound and uncomfortably amorphous, each instrument partially digested, every tension unplaceable…a debut of fiendish creativity filled with uniquely gentle terrors.” 

Full of twitchy and finely wrought avant-pop songs, meticulously assembled to resemble disassembly, Crease expanded Kee Avil’s sonic and structural palette with intensive detail, revealing a compelling new voice in experimental songcraft, where touchstones include PJ Harvey, Eartheater, Shygirl, SOPHIE and Lucretia Dalt; where Juana Molina collabs with Coil, or Grouper melds with Autechre.

 Kee Avil performed Crease extensively in solo and duo configurations, playing at Ruhrtriennale, Le Guess Who?, A L’Arme, UH Fest, Wine Nat White Heat, Guelph Jazz Festival, Vancouver Jazz Festival, Tone Festival, FME, and Pique, supporting SUUNS on a UK tour, and opening for artists such as Stephen O’Malley, Xiu Xiu, Kikagaku Moyo and Klô Pelgag. Live performances often included an accompanying visual component by video artist Myriam Bleau, whose visual album works for Crease were also featured in the film programming at Wavelength Festival and Supersonic Festival. 

The Crease Remixed EP was released in 2023 featuring reworkings by claire rousay, Ami Dang, Pelada, and Cecil Believe. Kee Avil’s follow-up full-length album Spine will be released on Constellation in May 2024.

 

Live Dates

15 Oct 2024 • Geneva, CH • Cave 12 (with Passage de Disques)

17 Oct 2024 • Faenza, IT • Clan Destino

19 Oct 2024 • Durbe, LV Zemlika Festival

03 Nov 2024 • Hamilton, ON • Bridgeworks (with Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

04 Nov 2024 • Hamilton, ON • Bridgeworks (with Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

05 Nov 2024 • Toronto, ON • The Concert Hall (with Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

06 Nov 2024 • London, ON • London Music Hall (with Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

07 Nov 2024 • Grand Rapids, MI • Elevation (with Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

08 Nov 2024 • Detroit MI • Moon Dog

09 Nov 2024 • Paw Paw MI • The Lucky Wolf

10 Nov 2024 • Chicago IL • Tritriangle

11 Nov 2024 • St Louis MO • William A Kerr Foundation

12 Nov 2024 • Indianapolis ID • State Street Pub

13 Nov 2024 • Cincinnati OH • The Comet

14 Nov 2024 • Nashville TN • Random Sample

15 Nov 2024 • Chattanooga TN • Boneyard

16 Nov 2024 • Knoxville TN • Pilot Light

17 Nov 2024 • Athens GA • Buvez

18 Nov 2024 • Asheville NC • Static Age Records

19 Nov 2024 • Roanoke VA • The Spot on Kirk

20 Nov 2024 • Brooklyn, NY • Pioneer Works (with Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

21 Nov 2024 • Brooklyn, NY • Pioneer Works (with Godspeed You! Black Emperor)

22 Nov 2024 • Phoenixville PA • The Polish Club

24 Nov 2024 • Littleton NH • The Loading Dock

 

Podcast & Interviews

Kreative Kontrol • Vish Khanna interviews Kee Avil

 

Artist Photos

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Watch

Crease visual album by audiovisual artist Myriam Bleau

 

Contacts & Links

Kee Avil website
Kee Avil Instagram
Kee Avil Twitter

Management: 
Amélie Malissard at act·art·mgt 

Press enquiries UK:
Lauren Barley at Rarely Unable

Press enquiries EU:
Ed Benndorf at Dense Promotion

Press enquiries North America:
Mark Trecka at Clandestine

Booking enquiries: 
Ricky BiondettiGiorgio Salmoiraghi at Swamp Booking