Lobe Artist Residency Series: All The Gods I Cannot Name

Brandon Wint and Brian Raine

November 18th | Doors at 4:45pm, Show at 5pm

All The Gods I Cannot Name is a rich, ~50-minute lyrical collage by spoken word poet Brandon Wint and multi-instrumentalist producer Brian Raine. The piece features a variety of musical contributions from artists from Vancouver and Edmonton, and reflects Brandon and Brian's years of friendship and artistic practice in western Canada.

Thematically, the piece explores human desire and reverence for the natural world, alongside complex feelings of existential dread in the era of ecological crisis. All The Gods I Cannot Name implicates the sounds of jazz, metal, classical and electronic music to express vulnerabilities that, when taken all together, evoke the feeling of urgent prayer. This piece aims to be one of the most vulnerable, bold offerings of Brandon and Brian's collaborative history through its ability to link the potency of five spoken word poems with the aesthetics of collage.

The result is a collection of utterances, meanings, gestures, questions, silences and songs which make clear the many ways in which sound can become poetry, and poetry can become prayer.