Two weeks ago, Chris Corsano and John Brennan packed The Hargrove with attentive and engaged audiences for the release of their album Buzzing With Rumours on @mintrecords . 🥁 Kim Alpert delivered incredible live visuals, transforming the entire event into a true spectacle to behold. ✨ We officially sold out all five shows in our inaugural series at The Hargrove, showing us that our community is hungry for more! New show announcements for The Hargrove coming soon… 👀@chriscorsano@johnmoeb@kimmerson
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John Brennan and Chris Corsano's album Buzzing With Rumors is out today!
Buzzing With Rumors is the result of a six-year span of collaboration between Chris Corsano and John Brennan. The two first recorded together in 2018, during Corsano’s trip to Vancouver for Brennan’s installation The Temporal Drum Set, which was presented at The Western Front, and also featured drummers Greg Saunier and Mili Hong.
During that visit, the duo recorded in various outdoor and indoor spaces around Vancouver. Six years later, they reunited to perform at Fake Jazz in January 2024 and spent another week recording in Brennan’s East Vancouver studio.
Side A collects improvisations from those sessions: Corsano on modified percussion and drum kit, Brennan on drum kit, guitar feedback, electronics, and synthesizers. Brennan later edited and assembled these sessions into the tracks on the record. The opening of “Dim” was recorded at Pacific Spirit United Church (2024), while “Science World” includes material from 2018. Both pieces feature cameos by sound artist Elisa Ferrari, a longtime collaborator.
Side B captures their live performance at Fake Jazz at The Toast Collective, which used to be a loft in Chinatown in Vancouver. The room was full, and they shared the bill with their friends Shearing Pinx. The energy of the whole evening felt right to include as part of this record.
Credits
Chris Corsano : Cover Art / Drums / Modified Percussion / Clarinet
John Brennan : Recording / Mixing / Drums / Percussion / Electronics
Elisa Ferrari : Organ (Dim) / Binaural recording (Science Worlds)
John Dieterich : Mastering
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Buzzing With Rumors is available on a very limited run of white vinyl. Link in bio to order your copy 🎧
Announcing the release of 'Buzzing With Rumors' a collaboration between Chris Corsano and me, recorded mostly in January 2024 with contributions by Elisa Ferrari. Out on Mint Records February 20th 2026. Mastered by John Dieterich and mixed and edited by me. Album Art by Chris Corsano. Thanks to Chris for this collaboration and sharing space and music with me, to Elysse Cloma, Randy Iwata and Mint Records for their support in releasing this record, to John Dieterich for mastering it and to Kim Alpert for making the video for 'Dim'. Upcoming shows with collaborator Kim Alpert on visual projections on February 18th at Open Space ,Victoria - The Vault, Nanaimo - Hargrove/Coastal Jazz, Vancouver BC. Record available for purchase at our Bandcamp. link in bio.
🎟️ LATE SHOW ADDED 🎟️
With the early show of Chris Corsano & John Brennan nearly sold out, we’ve opened an additional opportunity for audiences to experience the percussion duo’s album release show for “Buzzing With Rumours”. 🥁 Set to release on @mintrecords on the same day (02/20), these shows will also feature special guest Kim Alpert on visuals for a truly special night that you won’t want to miss!
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📍 The Hargrove @thehargrovestudio
📅 Friday, February 20
⏰ 8:00pm + 9:45pm
Hit the 🔗 in bio to get tickets before they’re all gone!
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