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January 9th, 2012

Premiere :: Lowlife (trailer)

From the mud man mania of Jesse Locke:
We’re proud to ring in 2012 with straynge tidings lurking in the Nova Scotian sticks. The warped minds behind Dog Day / YORODEO and DIVORCE / Obey Convention have been toiling in the muck for the last two years to create a full-length mudsploitation flick that will finally see the light of day in 2012. Lowlife is a shiver-inducing, psychotropic surrealist drama filmed in stark b&w, and featuring a range of heavies from the Halifax music / art subterrain. Befittingly, the soundtrack is a phantasmagoric blend of self-described “squelch and screech from a bunch of our favourite experimenters”, Seth’s improvised tuba-drone and lusty narration from his German father-in-law, Ogi. Weird Canada is honoured and overjoyed to present the trailer’s world premiere.

For a full Q&A with Seth Smith and Darcy Spidle, please click here.

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August 8th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Shearing Pinx – Night Danger

From the evening perils of Aaron Levin:
As a relic from the triumvirate evenings of dual guitar destruction, Night Danger contains the last recordings Shearing Pinx conjured within their triplicate state. Gripping the mic for the first time, Erin Ward obliterates all previous associations and takes “Sufferer” to a new level of avant-gothery. They further circumvent every convention with “Play Nice”, assailing a burnt blues jam into thirteen minutes of distorted twilight and chromatic space. Weaving within the trio’s high-level riffery and abject tonal assault, Night Danger uniquely steals this very special space within Canada’s creative cosmos. Posthaste grippage.

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Shearing Pinx -Sufferer

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Shearing Pinx – Play Nice

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Shearing Pinx – Trip Gamma

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November 11th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Chik White – Highest Tide

Chik White
Highest Tide
(Divorce Records)
Head of Chezzetcook, NS
::web/sounds::


From solo shreddery of Aaron Levin:
Divorce Records CEO takes off to the coast and blows out a wild set of solo Jew’s Harp shreddery, leaving us with eight-teen minutes of reverberated oralic intensity. Siamese sinusoids of deep twang and chaotic warble form a meditative sheen of mystic harmony that will entrance and enlighten. Very few copies left, so grip while the night mirror lasts!

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Chik White – Changes in the Marsh

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Chik White – Waiting for Waves

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October 1st, 2010

New Canadiana :: Jerry Granelli – 1313

Jerry Granelli
1313
(Divorce Records)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the mallets of Aaron Levin:
This pre-hippie legend left jazz’s softer pastures to join the Light Sound Dimension (LSD) ensemble. After a few marathons pairing amplified jazz with projection paintings (creating the first ever psychedelic light and sound event in 1967) Granelli made a few rounds with avant-heavyweights (read: Ornette Coleman, Anthony Braxton, et al) and suddenly sailing north to the sunny shores of Halifax for a full-time new age retreat. Having resided in Halifax since, it’s surprising he never released a solo drum record and we’re thankful the folks at Divorce Records were bold enough to capture Granelli’s percussive journey. Weaving between rhythmic corridors and metallic shimmer, 1313 is a brilliant exploration of percussion, sound, and the secret lives of glimmering minds. Cerebral expansion guaranteed.

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Jerry Granelli – Shih – A Gathering of the Energy (from Sun Tzu)

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Jerry Granelli – A Nice Bunch of Guys

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September 17th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Ryan Kirk – Microtonal Freewaves

Ryan Kirk
Microtonal Freewaves
(Divorce Records)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the mind-splintered-like-a-prism of Zachary Fairbrother:
Ryan Kirk is a graduate of the Dalhousie University Composition Program. He regularly plays with The Ether and OmmaCobba, and has collaborated with fellow 902 weird folker Gown. As part of the Divorce Records FreeWave series, Kirk sees his first release drifting from his earlier drone explorations (See Wargaz) into the further regions of modality, timbre, and tuning. Microtonal Freewaves plays with the ideas of tuning ala minimalist composers like La Monte Young and mainlines it with neo-folk stylings, producing an audible trace akin to the spots on blue cheese. The opening track “Weekends” starts with a beautiful field recording of the Nova Scotian landscape, setting the album’s tone with a lone slide guitar. Juxtaposed with these are excerpts of his saxophone quartet and piece for bowed strings, both being beautiful sheets of spectral harmonics. The album clocks in at just below 22 minutes but definitely feels like you’ve traveled a long way when it’s finished. Recommend listening straight through. In solitude. Absolutely NO computer speakers!

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Ryan Kirk – Heterodynous for Saxophone Quartet [Excerpt]

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Ryan Kirk – Weekends

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August 24th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Secret Colours – Blackest Blackest

Secret Colours
Blackest Blackest
(Brotherhood Cassettes)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the blackest black of Aaron Levin:
Totally washed-out cultic vibrations beam from every inch of Secret Colours’ magnetic debut. It’s the perfect weirdo basemental projection radiating from the brightest fields of cassette culture; blankets of ethereal synth, tape-warbled choralic vocals, and Tresvant sensitive low-end. From the brilliant mind of Evan Cardwell. Double grip!

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Secret Colours – Bad Vibrations

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Secret Colours – Worst Fear

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Secret Colours – Lightnin’

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January 26th, 2010

Review :: Grand Trine – Sunglasses EP

Grand Trine
Sunglasses
(Divorce Records)
Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


From the wish-I-had-a-tough-guy-leather-jacket stylings of Aaron Levin:
Monochromatic Youth, the vanguard of Grand Trine’s Bruised Tongue debut, captured their synthetic sans-wave pedigree at the cusp of their existence, posing the question: where now? Defying all expectations, Grand Trine returned with a barrage of brilliant psychedelic biker-punk transplanted from their phantasmagoric Montreal freak-clinic. Some wastoid time-warp seizure has them sounding like Marty McFly opening for the MC5; face-melting genre-collages, bursting celluloid solos, and decimating saxophone freak-outs; all of it wrapped in layers of frayed leather, busted zippers, and skitched sunglasses. Translation: Sunglasses is not for the faint of heart, mind, spirit, or stomach. All orifices will succumb to their unwholesome mutant hard-rock and I suggest you send all litigations directly to Divorce Records c/o Weird Canada legal services (but make sure to grip the 12″ vinyl (limited to 600 copies) as evidence of their crime). Now, if you don’t mind, I have a large mess near my stereo system to attend to.

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Grand Trine – I Am a Magnet

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December 1st, 2009

Review :: Aidan Baker / Noveller – Colorful Disturbances

Aidan Baker / Noveller - Colorful Disturbances Aidan Baker / Noveller
Colorful Disturbances
(Divorce Records)
Toronto, ON
::web/sounds::


From the portal-books of Jesse Locke:
For those keeping track at home, Aidan Baker’s discography is starting to stretch longer than both his beard and onstage guitar jams. On this split LP, the multi-instrumentalist and founding member of “Ambient Doom” duo Nadja is in full-on minimalist mode, filling the entirety of his side with the soft-focus tone workout “Disturbances pt. 1 & 2.” Movement wise, it’s as unhurried as Eno or Stars of the Lid, and equally iridescent. On the flip, Brooklyn’s Sarah Lipstate (a.k.a. Noveller) – a member of Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, Glenn Branca’s 100 Guitar Ensemble and formerly Parts and Labor – contributes two shorter songs. In comparison to Baker’s piece, her haunting “White Rabbit” and ornate “Under The Color Cave” sound positively lively. This one could be a desert island pick, if that island happened to be Myst.
[Levin's Note: Having played Myst (blind subway!), Myst II: Riven (hang-man language thingy!), and Myst III: Exile (bee-hive!), I concur with everything Mr. Locke has stated, and more!]

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Aidan Baker – Disturbances [excerpt]

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November 19th, 2009

Review :: Gown – The Old Line

Gown - The Old Line Gown
The Old Line
(Divorce Records)
??, NS
::web/sounds::


The Old Line is dense; a desolate bus-ride on the midnight express to nowhere, culminating in the heaviest, trance-inducing psychedelic yogi-chant ever documented. Gown, the solo project of Thurston Moore collaborator Andrew McGregor (now residing in Nova Scotia), is not your paltry foray into distorted minimalism. Having cut the fabric of space-time and emerged as its own cosmic entity, Gown self-assimilates the reverberations of our universe and rebroadcasts them as soundtracks to our imagination’s self-deprecated autobiography. All the reverb-soaked, red-line meanderings underneath Andrew’s atonal murmurs resonate with the basement of our psyche. It’s challenging and absolutely impressive how deep The Old Line penetrates. I’ve spent three days with this record and I’m not yet ready for the world.

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Gown – roots

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Gown – here

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October 6th, 2009

Review :: Omon Ra / Chris d’Eon

Omon Ra / Chris d'Eon Split Cassette Omon Ra / Chris d’Eon
Omon Ra / Chris d’Eon
(Divorce Records)
Halifax / Montreal, NS / QC
::web/sounds:: (Omon Ra)
::web/sounds:: (Chris d’Eon)


Divorce Records found an odd paring between Omon Ra and Chris d’Eon. In what will likely become a flag-ship release within Canada’s psychedelic tapestry, we (finally) see the benefits of our quilting of culture. Within both sides of this cassette are woven threads of proven psychedelic fybre: Chris d’Eon channeling streams from the Eastern source and Omon Ra from the western rhythmic pop-lysergia. Chris d’Eon occupies the entirety of Side A with a long, progressive track based around (what I’m assuming is) guitar, tabla, and sitar. It’s a classic trip that reaches quick perfection as it touches on John Fahey, Sandy Bull, and Shawn Philips, amongst other masters of the folk communion. Side B captures Omon Ra conjuring ethereal, western acid with layered vocals, distorted drones, and subdued-pop. It’s catchy, droney, vaguely-emotional, and a certified trip. Omon Ra will become a leading creative mind in Canada and I’m assuming there’s a lot more at the source. Grip it before it’s sold out and let it resonate with the subtleties of your subconscious, causing vibrations within your inner-mind; channel the stars, night, and that weird star-wars looking dude on the cover. Recommended for late-night listening. Alone.

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Omon Ra – It’s So Nice To See You All Again

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Chris d’Eon – Dhikr Remembrance of God (snippet)

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