chasing the sun: PONTEIX


First impressions can never be undone. It is a unique moment in time forced into a flashed existence only to dissipate as quickly as it appeared, the creation of a new, personal universe conceived and conquered in a boom- ing twinkling.


The Hollows in Saskatoon, on the corner of 19th street and avenue C, at one time the historic Chinese restaurant the Golden Dragon, is now a down-to-earth, refined, locally sourced restaurant with local brews on tap and vegetarian poutine, where many personal universes will be conceived and conquered this evening.


The restaurant itself retained the original furniture and aesthetic, not changing anything physical, infusing the original design with a new menu and updated outlook. The large, impressively designed, neon lit Golden Dragon sign still protrudes over the front entrance, gaping jaws


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at the ready, listening to voices echoing from the past. The new Hollows sign sits demurely in the window, pleas- antly humming to itself, to greet people.


After listening to Mario LePage’s new project Ponteix, it is a fitting setting - and artist’s choice, I may add - for our first meeting, a band whose sound is one part familiar and one part original, a sound recognized on classic progressive and alternative rock records with a modern interpretation, creating an entirely fresh greeting - while keeping the large neon dragon.


The Saskatoon-based Fransaskois band, consisting of LePage (vocals, guitars, and synth), Adam Logan (synth and guitar) and Kyle Grimsrud-Manz (drums and samples), forge a solid, infectious sound of modern progressive rock inspiration with dancehall sensibilities. Their sound is a combination of mind and motion, intel-


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Striving for more,


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