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Dirge

Farahser

Ugly Beauties

Towns and Villages

Too Many Continents

Is Life Long?

Biography

Nick Fraser (drums) has been an active and engaging presence in the Toronto new jazz and improvised music community for over twenty-five years. He has performed with a veritable "who's who" of Canadian jazz and improvised music and with such artists as Tony Malaby, Kris Davis, William Parker, Roscoe Mitchell, Marilyn Crispell, Anthony Braxton, Donny McCaslin and David Binney. He has performed extensively in North America, Europe, Asia, and South America. Nick's recorded works as a leader include Owls in Daylight (1997), Nick Fraser and Justin Haynes are faking it (2004), Towns and Villages (2013), Too Many Continents (2015), Starer (2016), Is Life Long? (2017), and Zoning (2019). Bandcamp links (you know, if you actually like to support artists): https://nickfraserthedrummer.bandcamp.com/ https://fraserdavismalaby.bandcamp.com/album/zoning Other projects: Nick Fraser Quartet: https://open.spotify.com/artist/23t92yWbeER9gFZj9jzYIO Drumheller: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4epMBPknaiUx448Fn46JpU Lina Allemano: https://linaallemano.com/ Brodie West: https://www.brodiewest.com/ Peripheral Vision: https://open.spotify.com/artist/0RvRDxCQ3YEt2NYSpRD3ch "Fraser not so much plays the drums as hurls himself whole body and soul against skin and metal... truly talented." -CBC Radio. "Fraser is a deft and sensitive percussionist with a hint of an enigmatic streak, a feeling for economical gestures, and an innate sense of form." -Mark Miller, The Globe & Mail