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March 31st, 2011

New Canadiana :: Ayal Senior – Hebrew Lips

From the perturbed sinusoids of Aaron Levin:
With a Perhacsian flare for vocal layery, Ayal Senior burns through sixteen candles of lysergic phantasia on this album of “SONGS.” Hebrew Lips is a manic rally between meditative passages within the folk cosmos and a perturbed flexing of the pop continuum, most of this accomplished via wavering and unsettling synth drones amongst a clamor of guitar strokes and choral phasing. Heavy basement vibes permeate every surface in ways not heard since the moon reached its Stone Harbour. Beautiful die-cut packaging care-of the illustrious Beniffer Editions.

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Ayal Senior – Falling Backwards in a Dream

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Ayal Senior – Religious Dogs

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Ayal Senior – Warp Speed 9

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January 27th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Jom Comyn – Comynge Tegythere

  • Jom Comyn
  • Comynge Tegythere
  • (Self Released)
  • Edmonton, AB
  • ::web/sounds::
From the hangdog lament of Jessica Faulds:
Jom Comyn takes another giant leap forward in the development of his own micro-genre: snowglobe-folk. Guitar lines still sometimes eddy like slow-floating sediment, settling gently along a song’s backbone, but Comynge Tegythere‘s meteorological sphere harbors more devastating weather as well, sometimes verging on sheer white-out. Layers of noise stratify and coalesce, parting curtain-like to reveal full-bodied songs, scuzz-jazz meanderings, and hangdog laments in Jim Cumming’s signature baritone — a voice which has never held more weight than it does in the ghostly haunting number, “Been Down Blues.” Jim buffs winter sadness to a dull glow of acceptance in a city where the snow never leaves. Shake hard. [Packaged with an elaborate zine for those who attended the tape release.]

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Jom Comyn – Been Down Blues

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Jom Comyn – Brooklyn Girls

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January 19th, 2011

New Canadiana :: WHOOP-Szo – What I Dream is Where I Live

From the feedback hand gestures of James Goddard:
What I Dream is Where I Live will toss you into accidental chatter. It’s warm, hazy strumming inviting conversation. Yet, this is no shrinking violet. It makes radical declarations with pummeling rock; the feedback hand gestures and swirling synth washes robbing your attention. Look away and it’ll smite you with strange pop projectiles, swaying you back into its bewildering dialogue. This royal city wonder features members from ESBC.

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WHOOP-Szo – Where I Live is What I Dream

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WHOOP-Szo – Snowfall

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January 17th, 2011

New Canadiana :: Wyrd Visions // Castlemusic – My Boat b/w Voice of God

Wyrd Visions // Castlemusic
My Boat b/w Voice of God
(Blue Fog)
Toronto, ON
::web/sounds:: // ::web/sounds::


From the (blue) fog bath of Michael Deane:
The Bog Lord and Haunting Pixie return to add to each other’s tales, but gently, with contemplative, (blue) fog-bathed, repetitively folk-essed meditations. Side Wyrd finds Colin Bergh reveling in single guitar riffs that cascade from their centre into softly sung Nordic tales. Finger-plucked medieval guitar patterns sit in the back while a four-note bass line twists and repeats. Bergh’s voice brings you further into a trance, struggling to find the beginning and end. When Jennifer Castle joins him, the waves combine and the tide swells, prepping you for Queen-like vocal stabs that bring this to new levels of acoustic-black-metal-folk-prog. Side Castle flips the script with a delicately plucked minor guitar pattern and soulfully smooth, airy vocals examining the powers above. Sporadic toms fill in the emptiness to give a surprisingly lush start to this solo-turned-strange-duet. Bergh re-enters the fold, echoing CM’s questioning of the voice of God. Together, they create an epically surreal musical landscape. Grip Hurr.

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Wyrd Visions – My Boat

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Castlemusic – Voice of God

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January 3rd, 2011

New Canadiana :: Kris Ellestad – No Man Is Land

Kris Ellestad
No Man Is Land
(Self Released)
Calgary, AB
::web/sounds::


From the wymynly lands of Aaron Levin:
Strange, unknown fibres lace Ellestad’s debut, gifting No Man Is Land with that wonderful Hardinian nether-genre heard in all great singer-songwriter analects. Pass through the wild, hair-raising cacophony and blissful finger-picking that ensconce the album and watch as Kris’ marvelous sinusoids dampen your worldly decoys. A brilliantly creative consolidation of Calgary’s secret not-so-secret art underground.

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Kris Ellestad – Hour of the Rat

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Kris Ellestad – The Secret

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Kris Ellestad – Shame

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December 30th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Construction & Destruction – Mutatis Mutandis

Construction & Destruction
Mutatis Mutandis
(The Quarantine)
Port Greville, NS
::web/sounds::


From the mutant mutandis of James Goddard:
Rural art-rockers radiating traces from a secluded homestead hanging over the Atlantic Ocean. Fresh like the crunch of first steps in burnt snow. Mutatis Mutandis is Construction & Destruction’s fourth bass-led caravan of hyper-text lyrics, dense guitar riffs, detached drumming and Kohakian meditations. It takes a moment to reach the place they’re coming from. Venture forth and see for yourself.

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Construction & Destruction – The Oracle

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Construction & Destruction – Bear

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November 11th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Seth Smith – New Problems

Seth Smith
New Problems
(Yo Rodeo)
Halifax, NS
::web/sounds::


From the reducible logic of James Goddard:
Gottlob Frege committed his life to one problem: demonstrating that mathematics is reducible to logic. With New Problems Seth Smith, takes a break from dealing with his regular problem to tackle some amazing new ones. The album creates its own geometric space, a slowly unfolding shape built of tape-hiss, song fragments, actual songs and found sound. The warm strum of the guitar, the unfaithful percussive notes, and the other near constant noises consume the listener like Notes From The Underground or Dreamies. In one particularly evocative moment Smith presents us with a crescendoing series of voice-mail messages. Ultimately, Frege died without finding the solution to his problem. Smith, on the other hand, appears to have discovered a fruitful new direction for exploration.

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Seth Smith – Answers

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Seth Smith – Make the Right Decision

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November 8th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Ruddy Guy – Best of Microcassette Archives

Ruddy Guy
Best of Microcassette Archives
(Self Released)
Vancouver, BC
::web/sounds::


From teenage surgery of Aaron Levin:
Blown-, hallowed-, adjective’d-out basement moves from this Vancouver-via-Calgary mystery. Immediately addictive juvenile pop frequencies with an imagination rarely seen in the genre emanate from the compilation of 4-track demos recorded between 2008-2009. The dreamy, fragile soundescapes will drift through your mind, leaving traces of Ruddy Guy’s pop agility in every neural transmitters. I’m not really sure how you can grip this, but you should try.

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Ruddy Guy – it feels good

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Ruddy Guy – cheerup

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Ruddy Guy – bluenote

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September 28th, 2010

Departures :: Fraser & Debolt – Fraser & Debolt with Ian Guenther

Fraser & Debolt
Fraser & Debolt with Ian Guenther
(Columbia)
??, ON
Originally Released: 1972


From the tennis player waltz of Aaron Levin:
For an unassuming pair of country-folk dreamers, Allan Fraser and Daisy Debolt’s debut resonates with a wyld collection of weirdos: hard-core “psych-folk” collectros, county-fair folk-fest burn-outs, cowboy junkers, and record store braggarts alike. For years I’ve marveled over the LP and its audience without resolution. It could be the innocently tuneless harmonies, the dissonant acoustic jangle, or their harrowing explorations into freak-folk. But it’s the songwriting that gets me every time; dualic weaves of fringe rurality; a surrealist vision of Canada rooted in the warm waters of Ontario; a haunting, minor-key acoustic delirium irrigated with country ballads and freak-folk shreddery. You’ll never understand it. But eventually it’ll happen. I’ve never been wrong with this one. Top 10 dead or alive LP. They do a devastating cover of “Don’t Let Me Down” with an alternate take on the American promo 45. Surprisingly not-very-rare in Western Canada.

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Fraser & Debolt – Waltz of the Tennis Players

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Fraser & Debolt – Dancehall Girls

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Fraser & Debolt – Gypsy Solitaire

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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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