Milano’s interest in recording and production piqued when they acquired Ableton production and performance software, recording the album’s lead track “No Shade,” a danceable self-declaration of confidence and intent - “Baby/ It’s no shade/But when you’re top grade/Sometimes you can’t stay for dessert” - that seems to be a direct contrast to the topics of “dissatisfaction, disillusionment, discomfort, feeling disconnected, feeling uncomfortable, feeling like you’re looking through things and things are fake” that dominate the remainder of the 11-song album.īut as Milano says, that’s “shapeshyfting.” I have a really eclectic taste in music, so I like to to play really high energy sets that get people moving, but that draw from pretty diverse background interests.” “I love genre bending and pulling from all my different influences. I just enjoy playing music for people, whether it’s my own or other people’s. Two years after that, I started DJing, so the transition has been pretty natural.
“People here have known me as a DJ for longer, just ’cause it’s easier to get DJ gigs, but I started playing the drums for about five years and then I started rapping when I was 16.
“I actually started as a musician before I became a DJ,” said Milano. Milano’s “Shapeshyfter” is the first fully realized vision of their work since they took up the drums at the age of 11 and later switched to DJing, although Milano says training as a musician is what fuelled the album. “We’ve just been working on a more cohesive live show, so there’s gonna be a lot of high energy dance and a lot of fun.”įor those unfamiliar with Toronto’s Kiki Ballroom scene, it’s a safe space and competitive pageantry community for LGBTQ individuals that gathers them into assembled families, and provides them with the love and support they might not receive from their original kin, usually due to their orientation. Mother Maldita Siriano, of my Kiki House in the ballroom scene, for the last month or so,” Milano, who is queer and non-binary, revealed over the phone recently. “As far as the show goes, I’ve been working on choreography with Danah Rosales, a.k.a. Rounding out the lineup is a hip-hop visionary and DJ who has been rattling cages and making noise with their debut album “Shapeshyfter”: Myst Milano, originally from Edmonton and a resident of Toronto for the past six years, says they have something special up their sleeve for their time allotment at the Lavender Creek Story Cabaret.
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Part of Luminato’s year-round Creative Current series, the event will feature an intriguing setup: four artists who will perform 30-minute sets, followed by in-depth interviews accompanied by visuals and an ASL interpreter.Īnd those featured artists represent cutting edge work: there are the electropop synth tapestries of Ojibwe native Johnny “Wolf” Saga Halluci Nation’s Bear Witness, whose video artistry will be on full display for his evening segment, and first generation Egyptian-Canadian comedian Salma Hindy, a graduate of Second City’s standup comedy program. The Lavender Creek Story Cabaret is landing at the Baby G Thursday night.
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