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New Canadiana :: Choice Grips :: March 2015
- illustration by: Andrea Manica
From the Lizard Cove:
In our ongoing pursuit to encourage, document, and connect creative expression across Canada, we cut through waves upon waves of ethereal sounds, wyld shreddery, and brooding drones. It is magnificent. Some of the best grips escape our grasping fists. We list them here:
Corse – Cytochome (Montréal, QC)
VIDEO: Le Couleur – “Concerto Rock” (Montréal, QC)
Cobalt Baby – More (Montréal, QC)
Ian Keteku – Love & Lumumba (Toronto, ON)
VIDEO: Syngja – Surface of the Sea (Montréal, QC)
Proto-Proto – Proto-Proto (St. Catharines, ON)
Jon Voszler – Shook (Calgary, AB)
Gravity’s Rainbow – Yesterday’s Horizon (Ottawa, ON)
The Unquiet Grave – Dreams Took Me Away From You (Ottawa, ON)
Milk Toast – Home Recordings (Calgary, AB)
Kristopher Smith – Smith & Budd (Lipton, SK)
bassbirdie – L star (Toronto, ON)
VIDEO: Justin Oakey / Fog Lake – “Throater” (Ochre Pit Cove, NF)
Nicolas Bernier + Simon Trottier – O (Gatineau, QC)
Matthew Bailey – You Said I Said (Toronto, ON)
Blakkr Nið – Wrath (Ottawa, ON)
Oliver the Great – SaidtheOwl (Montréal, QC)
Portable Cosmoshrine – Portable Cosmoshrine (Montréal, QC)
VIDEO: Father Christmas – “Be My Girl” (Toronto, ON)
Burden – Burden (Winnipeg, MB)
Evan A. James x Nathan Levasseur – “Unfurl” (Edmonton, AB)
Alex Zen – Psychic Safari (Toronto, ON)
Notre quête constante visant à encourager, à mettre en contact et à décrire les pratiques d’expression créatrice au Canada nous fait traverser vague après vague de sons éthérés, de shreds déchaînés et de sinistres bourdonnements; et c’est magnifique. De véritables joyaux échappent parfois à nos mains avides. Ils sont énumérés ici:
Corse – Cytochome (Montréal, QC)
VIDEO: Le Couleur – “Concerto Rock” (Montréal, QC)
Cobalt Baby – More (Montréal, QC)
Ian Keteku – Love & Lumumba (Toronto, ON)
VIDEO: Syngja – Surface of the Sea (Montréal, QC)
Proto-Proto – Proto-Proto (St. Catharines, ON)
Jon Voszler – Shook (Calgary, AB)
Gravity’s Rainbow – Yesterday’s Horizon (Ottawa, ON)
The Unquiet Grave – Dreams Took Me Away From You (Ottawa, ON)
Milk Toast – Home Recordings (Calgary, AB)
Kristopher Smith – Smith & Budd (Lipton, SK)
bassbirdie – L star (Toronto, ON)
VIDEO: Justin Oakey / Fog Lake – “Throater” (Ochre Pit Cove, NF)
Nicolas Bernier + Simon Trottier – O (Gatineau, QC)
Matthew Bailey – You Said I Said (Toronto, ON)
Blakkr Nið – Wrath (Ottawa, ON)
Oliver the Great – SaidtheOwl (Montréal, QC)
Portable Cosmoshrine – Portable Cosmoshrine (Montréal, QC)
VIDEO: Father Christmas – “Be My Girl” (Toronto, ON)
Burden – Burden (Winnipeg, MB)
Evan A. James x Nathan Levasseur – “Unfurl” (Edmonton, AB)
Alex Zen – Psychic Safari (Toronto, ON)
New Canadiana :: Fog Lake – Virgo Indigo
- As Fog Lake, St. John’s local Adam Powell makes music that is forthrightly gentle; a lone signal transmitted from the continent’s far east, packaged with a subdued, lowercase aesthetic and song titles such as “fading away” and “dream gate”. Save for a few instrumental forays, however, Virgo Indigo resonates more folk than ambient, reaching deep within rather than outwards to achieve its transcendence. Each picked string rings clearly through damp attic air as Powell spins short, affecting stories of lost love and solitude, bedroom ballads for the lonely and the wistful. Like reading the diary you never kept by incandescent lamplight, or hearing a forgotten tale brought winsomely back to life. Keep this one close.
- Fog Lake
- Virgo Indigo
- (Orchid Tapes)
- St. John’s, NL
- ::web/sounds::
From the downtempo murmur of Brennan McCracken:
As Fog Lake, St. John’s local Adam Powell makes music that is forthrightly gentle; a lone signal transmitted from the continent’s far east, packaged with a subdued, lowercase aesthetic and song titles such as “fading away” and “dream gate”. Save for a few instrumental forays, however, Virgo Indigo resonates more folk than ambient, reaching deep within rather than outwards to achieve its transcendence. Each picked string rings clearly through damp attic air as Powell spins short, affecting stories of lost love and solitude, bedroom ballads for the lonely and the wistful. Like reading the diary you never kept by incandescent lamplight, or hearing a forgotten tale brought winsomely back to life. Keep this one close.
Du murmure downtempo de Brennan McCracken:
(Traduit par Andréanne Dion)
Sous le nom Fog Lake, Adam Powell de St-John fait de la musique franchement douce : un signal solitaire transmis de la côte Est du continent, enveloppé d’un esthétique feutré et modeste, et dont les chansons portent des titres comme « fading away » et « dream gate ». Pourtant, à part quelques incursions instrumentales, Virgo Indigo possède un son plus folk qu’ambiant, puisant au plus profond de son intérieur plutôt qu’à l’extérieur pour atteindre sa transcendance. Chacune des cordes résonne clairement à travers l’air humide du grenier, alors que Powell raconte de petites histoires émouvantes d’amours perdus et de solitude, des ballades de chambre à coucher pour ceux qui se sentent seuls et mélancoliques. C’est comme lire le journal intime que vous n’avez jamais écrit à la lumière incandescente de la lampe ou encore écouter un récit oublié ramené à la vie. Gardez celui-ci près de vous.
New Canadiana :: Fog Lake – There’s A Spirit, There’s A Soul // Stay Lost
- Fog Lake
- There’s A Spirit, There’s A Soul // Stay Lost
- (Illuminated Paths)
- St. John’s, NL
- ::web/sounds::
From the glistening rays of Javier Fuentes:
Hailing from St. John’s by way of an abandoned YouTube account, Fog Lake delivers two albums of ambient meditations and confessional pop songs. These songs offer up spiritual cleansing through synths and acoustic manipulations reminiscent of the more ambient leanings of one Connie Lungpin. Stay Lost opens up a dark sea of drones that slowly meander into glistening rays of reverbed sunlight. There’s a Spirit, There’s a Soul breaks away from the instrumental trip only to find itself back in a near comatose space of haunted melodies. Drift as far as you want with this one.
Des rayons étincelants de Javier Fuentes:
(Traduit par le rayonnement d’ Audrey Roy)
Parvenu jusqu’à nous depuis St. John’s grâce à un compte YouTube abandonné, Fog Lake nous livre deux albums de méditation ambiante et de chansons pop confessionnelles. Véritable cure spirituelle de synthés et de manipulations acoustiques, la musique rappelle les tendances plus ambiantes de Connie Lungpin. Stay Lost nous plonge au coeur d’une sombre mer de drones se métamorphosant peu à peu en d’étincelants rayons de soleil miroitant. There’s a Spirit, There’s a Soul délaisse le voyage instrumental, mais retourne aussitôt aux abords de la léthargie sous des cieux hantés de mélodies. Allez-y, dérivez aussi loin que vous voulez.
