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January 10th, 2012

New Canadiana :: The Transcendental Rodeo – The Magic Garden / Le Jardin Magique

[J-Card Scan] :: The Transcendental Rodeo - Plays and Sings The Magic Garden / Le Jardin Magique
Sounds of chimes, gongs, angelic voices male and female. An unseen hand pulls back a curtain, exposing a room filled with beaded sights and melting lights, incense stenches and the smells of foods fit for gods. The sound’s engaging the movement of all in attendance, who are involved in the humanitarian orchestra of peaceful sound happening right now, for the sacrifice of the burdens put on us. Heightened by the senses, organized folk freedom makes you feel aware of emotions you seemed to have forgotten. Someone hands you some reefer, another points out an acoustic guitar sitting alone with no one to strum it, and before you know it you’re part of a living landscape of tantric Babylonian psychedelic meditation. A warm beating heart of an ensemble led by the skilled Doc Dunn in a cold cage of a city. Feel these babies breathe, Side A from a living room, Side B including an audience. Put down that plastic fork you’re holding, its comfort food will never satisfy you again. Come heal your soul in these pure vibrations.

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The Transcendental Rodeo – Magic (excerpt 01)

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The Transcendental Rodeo – Magic (excerpt 02)

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

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

September 1st, 2010

New Canadiana :: Bronze Leaf – Bread Crumbs

Bronze Leaf
Bread Crumbs
(Champion City Records)
Edmonton, AB // Montreal, QC
::web/sounds::


From the bronzed text of Aaron Levin:
From the wispy ashes of guitar soli’s earthic remains, Bronze Leaf’s lysergic embers warm our minds to the emerging angles within acid folk. Rooms fall silent as she conjures gentle finger-picked reverberations; lofty vocals hovering like ghosts above stretched hallways and vacant beaches. Armed with guitars, delay pedals, and looping mechanicals, Bronze Leaf joins the new wave of psychedelic folk artists transcending Canada into the bewildering nether-zone of fringe success. Catch her now while she remains within our ether!

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Bronze Leaf – Mindfield

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Bronze Leaf – Anatomy

August 24th, 2010

New Canadiana :: Mark Alexander McIntyre – Situs Inversus Totalis

Mark Alexander McIntyre
Situs Inversus Totalis
(Seductive Sounds)
Ottawa, ON
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From the seductive text of Joni Sadler:
After playing in numerous Ottawa bands over the past decade, Mark Alexander McIntyre has finally gone and released a solo record. As it turns out, Situs Inversus Totalis was worth the wait: McIntyre’s slow-burn acid folk possesses a unique and eerie sense of timelessness that is rare in so much of the music being produced today. Waves of queasy feedback stand in nice contrast to simple acoustic guitar and sparse vocals, and the whole record – right down to its plain cardboard sleeve and Xeroxed liner notes – remains nicely minimal in style. Ultimately, McIntyre channels the influences of sonic bros like Greg Ashley and Sir Richard Bishop through a haze of druggy sadness so damn well that all we’re left wondering is why it took him so bloody long to make a solo album in the first place.

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Mark Alexander McIntyre – My April

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Mark Alexander McIntyre – Reflections

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