In its review of Sister Suvi's recent album "Now I Am Champion," Pitchfork noted that the band is "a strange meeting of three very different minds." Now it appears that maybe the meeting was a little too strange as the group is now on a hiatus. It's been reported that the group's October 1st show at Pop Montreal was their last.

That doesn't mean that it will be difficult to catch up with the three uniquely talented members of the group, though. Bassist/vocalist Patrick Gregoire will likely return to his other band, Islands, and lately he's been backing Merrill Garbus's (vocalist/ukuleleist) solo project, Tune Yards. Garbus was recently signed to 4AD and The New York Times described an October Tune Yards show as "curious and ingenious and often irresistible." Drummer Nico Dann, who Pitchfork called a "fiendishly precise percussionist," has cropped up in Toronto clubs playing jazz.

Laura Kenins of The Coast recently described Sister Suvi's music as "offbeat, catchy, mystic and charming." On the evening that this video was shot, the band was all of the above and more. Performing in Cakeshop's dark basement space on the first stop of a national tour with Takka Takka, Sister Suvi showed the raw energy and constant unpredictability that can come from joining three precocious musicians with notably different sonic impulses.