Markus Lake est un artiste multidisciplinaire, musicien et compositeur. Il produit et publie des œuvres sonores synthétiques sous le nom de Markus Floats, et joue de la basse dans divers groupes punk, post-punk, expérimental et afrofuturistes (dont Elle Barbara’s Black Space, Sheer Agony, Silver Dapple et Egyptian Cotton Arkestra). Il est cofondateur du Drones Club, un espace musical indépendant local. Diplômé en études électroacoustiques de l'Université Concordia, Lake a également une formation en interprétation jazz. Les enregistrements et les performances live de Floats explorent les thèmes de l'attention, de l'obscurité, de la visibilité et de la répétition à travers une palette d'instruments numériques en constante expansion.
𝐂𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐑𝐨𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐬
🎫 Tix sur bio
Samedi le 21 mars 2026 // Saturday the 21st of March 2026
Lancement d’album « Time & Place » // “Time & Place” album launch
Portes 21h00 // Doors 9PM
Musique 21h30 // Music 930PM
Vinyle dispo jusqu’à minuit // records available til midnight
Entrée libre avec l’achat d’un disque sinon selon vos moyens // Free entry with a record purchase otherwise PWYC
Egyptian Cotton Arkestra
Sun Ra tells us “it’s all about people doing something else other than what they have done” and each time Egyptian Cotton Arkestra plays they do something they haven’t done before. The group fits loosely under the umbrellas of free jazz, spiritual jazz, and free improvisation. But we’re defined by nothing other than our bodies and minds and instruments, our responses to each other and to the sound bouncing around the room, our musical language constructing itself in the moment at a given time and place.
https://www.eca.place/
Lump of Clay
Lump of Clay is a new offering from Naomi McCarroll-Butler, Fahmid Nibesh, and Christelle Saint-Julien. A meeting of minds, a melding of sounds, something for us to discover together.
27 FEVRIER 2026: spectacle de lancement d’album compilation
Death As It Shook You
Ky Brooks and Amy Macdonald
Eve Parker Finley
Kahero:ton
Ring Hollow Trio
Grim Beverage
Robin Wattie
Sala Rossa - 4848 boul St. Laurent
portes 19h / spectacle 19h30
15-20$ don suggéré
collecte de fonds pour le Sameer Project
billets au lien en bio
images par Nadia Moss (@mt.nadiamoss )
Egyptian Cotton Arkestra’s Time & Place vinyls have arrived and we are shipping out pre-orders. Thanks to @foxy.digitalis for this lovely review of this magnificent record. Expect a release performance sometime in 2026.
Cover art by the @markus.floats
Design by @bnelsonartdesign
Egyptian Cotton Arkestra did a sweet little interview with @anythingeverything.mtl for @newfeelingcoop and you can go to their page and find it through their links because linking to things on the main is a nightmare 😅.
We take over Friends House for a comfy-cozy night of noise—with Markus Floats and members of Montreal free-jazz ensemble Egyptian Cotton Arkestra, and a collective of Toronto improvisers playing with household instruments and implements.
Montréal/Tiotia’ke-based composer and musician Markus Floats takes over Friends House for a night of “cozy skronk”.
Playing alongside members of the free-jazz ensemble Egyptian Cotton Arkestra, Markus Floats weaves his electronic improvisations with the ambient guitar musings of Lucas Huang and the fierce yet soothing tones of saxophonist James Goddard.
Opening the evening are Toronto improvisers HOMEBODIES, an ad-hoc ensemble of local artists (Allison Cameron, Aliyah Aziz, Deniz Tafaghodi, Wesley Shen, and Lucas Dvorsky) bringing together forms of ‘at-home’ listening—including activating a collection of household electric organs—to create a collective, intuitive performance.
Curated by Sara Constant
Get your tickets at the link in bio 🤍
Markus Floats x NO MUSIC FOR GENOCIDE 💿🚫
Artists & Record Labels: geoblock your music in Israel! Go to @nomusicforgenocide to learn more and view the over 400 artists/labels who’ve already joined.
The action is simple but powerful: request geo-restriction of music in Israel across DSPs.
No Music for Genocide is a new cultural boycott initiative asking artists and rights-holders to remove their music from streaming platforms in Israel in response to its genocide in Gaza; ethnic cleansing of the Occupied West Bank; apartheid within Israel; and political repression of Pro-Palestine efforts wherever we live. This is a decentralized, global volunteer movement with no institutional backer.
This tangible act is just one step toward honoring Palestinian demands to isolate and delegitimize Israel as it kills without consequence on the world stage. The successful cultural boycotts against apartheid South Africa prove that our creative work grants us agency and power. When we wield it together, we add unified pressure to a growing, global, interdependent movement, from Hollywood to the docks of Morocco. We don’t boycott to target individuals: this is a rejection of apartheid Israel’s cultural industry, which works hand in hand with global music and media institutions to whitewash apartheid and genocide.
NO ART FOR APARTHEID, NO MUSIC FOR GENOCIDE. FREE PALESTINE.
With love & solidarity,
The NMFG team
Egyptian Cotton Arkestra are a gift and today they manifest this gift with the surprise release of their long-awaited debut album ‘Time & Place’. Get your ears on a digital copy today and pre-order vinyl coming later this fall. Tipped for lovers of Sun Ra Arkestra; Henry Grimes; Kalaparusha Maurice McIntyre; Ravel; Susan Alcorn; post-reunion Earth. Music and vibes like none other. This is the Time & Place.
Egyptian Cotton Arkestra was started in 2017 in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal by James Goddard (mbira, saxophone), who invited three mutually unfamiliar collaborators—Ari Swan (violin), Markus Lake (bass), Lucas Huang (drums)—to join him for what was supposed to be a one-off ensemble. With no plan and no rehearsal, we played a sparse, hesitant, meditative set of abstract jazz, punctuated by swelling crescendos and bursts of grindcore-style chaos. We stumbled onto our signature sound on the first swing. We have played together, occasionally and locally, ever since.
spontaneously composed & performed by Egyptian Cotton Arkestra:
Ari Swan - violin @ari_swan
James Goddard - saxophone, mbira @skin0tone
Lucas Huang - drums @h5ien
Markus Lake - bass @markus.floats
vocals on track 7 by Pan
tracks 1, 2, 3, 6, 7 recorded December 22, 2023 by Ky Brooks at Error 403
tracks 4, 5 recorded May 5, 2024 by Sébastien Fournier at Casa del Popolo
sequenced by James Goddard
produced by Ky Brooks and Egyptian Cotton Arkestra
mixed by Ky Brooks @hidden_attachment
mastered by Sandro Perri @sandro__perri
cover painting by Markus Lake
WTETN0009
@watchthatendsthenightrecords
skin tone and markus floats have collaborated across many different projects over the years weaving together free jazz, electro-acoustic sounds and writings related to their interest in the politics and practices of liberation. They are pleased to present a combined set in one of their favourite kinds of places - a library.
And we, it must be said (with gusto and passion!), are immensely pleased to be presenting this very special show at Sappyfest 20!
Sappyfest 20 August 1st-3rd, 2025 Sackville, NB
This Wednesday 21 May.
Markus Floats Ensemble @markus.floats plays Montréal at La Sala Rossa, presented by Constellation.
Markus is joined by Ari Swan @ari_swan , James Goddard @skin0tone , and Lucas Huang @h5ien .
Tickets & info via the linktree in our bio.
@lasalarossa@rarelyunable
A night of sinewy, shimmering sonic explorations, featuring Hsien, Markus Floats, & Hidden Attachment from Montreal, with Sackville's own Swamp Magic as the opening act, in their debut performance! Bring your friends, good vibes, & evil eyes.
$10 or pay what you can!
(fb event link in comments & bio)
Eric Chenaux Trio plays Montréal on May 21st at La Sala Rossa, co-presented by Constellation.
Eric is joined by Ryan Driver (Wurlitzer organ) & Philippe Melanson (electronic percussion), performing music from their latest album Delights Of My Life (Constellation, May 2024)—a suite of drifting, soulful ballads stitched together with telepathic interplay and melodic abstraction.
Also on the bill: Markus Floats Ensemble, whose layered, synth-driven compositions explore the overlap between electronic minimalism and avant-jazz improvisation.
Markus is joined by Ari Swan, James Goddard, and Lucas Huang.
Tickets & info via the linktree in our bio.
@eric_chenaux@rain_dripper@lasalarossa@markus.floats@cstohohdon@h5ien@ari_swan@skin0tone@murailles_music
