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Title:	SLIFT
Date:	10/9/2026 (Friday)
Address:	15711 Waterloo Rd., Cleveland, OH, United States, Ohio 44110
Location:	Cleveland, OH
Hours:	Friday, October 9, 2026 at 8:00PM EDT
Cost/Cover:	See Details
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SLIFT

Friday, October 9, 2026
Beachland Ballroom
Doors: 7:00 pm \/ Show: 8:00 pm

Every previous album by the radiant and heavy French trio SLIFTbrothers Jean and Rmi Fossat and drummer Canek Flores, a friend since high school - has been a fantasiaa composite of genres and forms that allowed the band to improvise, to jam on themes until they seemed to spiral together into space. But, in a bit of intentional irony, SLIFTs fourth album is called Fantasia without actually being one. It is, instead, their leanest and most direct record, a pointed saga about overcoming international upheaval delivered by a band bearing down without wasting a second. SLIFT didnt want to lose the message by playing too much. Theyre preparing for a battle they think we can still win.

As Jean Fossat wrote the core of Fantasia, he thought a lot about Jorge Luis Borges, the Argentinian author whose fiction deftly wove elements of magic and surreality into places and plots that almost felt real. (SLIFT even borrowed the song title Orbis Tertius from Borges.) Fantasia, then, is an imagined town plagued by a sense of unknowing and xenophobia, of trying to eliminate anything that disrupts the accepted order. The town comes into focus on Corrupted Sky, where Fossats narrator tries to dodge doom upon arriving there. Hope starts to emerge during the records back half, as people start to remember that they are more than their societys oppressive uniformity. These eight songs, then, are about trusting in the power to fight back, however hidden it may seem.