Ian Doty, Avi Granite, and Paul MacDougall have 8 years of experience playing together as The Moils. Long time friends and colleagues, they began The Moils as an exercise based in their shared history and a need to experiment within the framework of the latent potentiality of one instrument, invoked by three distinct voices, coalescing into a miasma of textural qualities. Through the exploitation of the myriad and limitless textural nodal points offered by the guitar, and constantly in conversation with each other, the sonic alchemy of The Moils is the unmediated production of densely layered, thematic, instantiations of thought.

We live in a culture defined by mimesis, re-production, simulation, suffocating genre distinctions, and commodification. The “event” that is The Moils is an un/conscious movement beyond contemporary methodologies that would delimit spontaneous expression. There are no rehearsals, no “songs”, no premeditated intent to speak of - instead there is unity in fracture, an exercise in negotiating desire.

The Moils have been featured performers at the Distillery Jazz Festival in Toronto, performing in the “experimental” category in 2003. They were also invited to take part in Glen Hall’s annual “416: Toronto Improvisers Festival”, in addition to two independent self-produced events. Outside of their work in the collective, they are active participants in Toronto’s music scene. Various side-projects include: film scoring and soundtrack work, a live drum’n’bass band, DJing IDM and jungle, digital production, and promotion.

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