PHI Centre presents

Habitat Sonore: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds

The listening experience program will begin with a series of carefully curated audio pieces featuring Nick Cave, drawn from his thoughtful Q&A exchanges and behind-the-scenes moments with the Bad Seeds. Presented in English, with French transcriptions available on-site, each piece invites listeners to a contemplative and immersive experience.

Habitat Sonore is an intimate listening space designed to accommodate up to 10 people. This small capacity enhances total immersion into the sound world of artists from here and elsewhere. The experience unfolds in near darkness, which helps to emphasize the sound. We invite you to settle in comfortably, let your mind wander, close your eyes if you wish, and be carried away by a unique and captivating auditory journey.

The short documentary revealing the behind-the-scenes of Wild God will be screened in the lobby, accessible to all visitors.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds are one of the world’s most exciting, influential, innovative and compelling bands. Driven by a continuous creative evolution, their music displays a diverse, often contradictory range of styles with Cave considering it their “solemn duty to turn against what has gone before”. Across 18 studio albums they have consistently reinvented their sound, and their latest, Wild God (2024), is no exception.

Moving away from the more interior quality of their recent output, Wild God bursts with life as it embraces the warmth of the full Bad Seeds reconnected. Across ten tracks, the band dance between convention and experimentation, taking left-turns and detours that heighten the rich imagery and emotion in Cave’s soul-stirring narratives.

“Wild God…there’s no fu**ing around with this record. When it hits, it hits. It lifts you. It moves you. I love that about it.” – Nick Cave

Produced by Cave and Warren Ellis, and mixed by David Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT), the album boasts additional performances from Colin Greenwood (bass) and Luis Almau (nylon string guitar) that add colour to an already abundant palette.

For more information, including opening hours and ticket prices, visit: www.phi.ca