Hello Our Basement:
Whitehorse is a very personal song about youth, change, letting go. I lived in the Yukon for twenty years. Twenty. Years. I didn’t plan to stay so long. Like most people I met there, I went on a whim one summer and got drawn in. It is an intense, wild, gorgeous, scrappy place and I made all my best friends for life there. “We grew up tough and bent together/ figured it would stay like this forever”. I moved back to Nova Scotia with husband and babies because it was time to be closer to family, and because I love it here, too. In the blur of life since we left, I haven’t had time for closure or reflection. Sometimes when I sing this song that I wrote, I cry because it all hits me. Imagine, crying at my own song, but there you have it.
Whitehorse is a love song for this massive body of land that we criss-cross for work or wanderlust. We break our hearts with the vastness of it, when we realize it’s impossible now to always be near the ones we love.
Anyways, hope all is well on your end. If interested I’ve included more details about the upcoming album called ‘How To Let Go’ – hope you like the first track!
About The Release:
Some of Eastern Canada’s best jazz, pop and folk musicians play on this record. Mark Adam on drums, keys and vocals, Nicholas D’Amato on bass, Joel Leblanc on electric guitar, Heather Kelday & Chris Luedecke on vocals, and Toronto guitarist Justin Haynes.
The distinctive and charming voice of Old Man Luedecke is featured on Daily A-Growing and he sang backups on Not My Little Baby and String Bean.
Producer & engineer Mark Adam has a new studio in the Gaspereau, NS. He has great ears and skillz, and we both like a stew of experimental, folk and pop music. We had a lot of fun building some wild sounds in the straw-bale barn studio.
Marcus Paquin in Montreal mixed the album. He has mixed The Barr Brothers, the National, Hey Rosetta!, Little Scream, Timbre Timber, Arcade Fire, etc. etc. He is very, very good at what he does. He brought great ideas and energy to the material and made bold, creative mixes.
Hello
Good morning!
Well, I took quite a spill off the bike yesterday! (I’m quite ok, hardly a little achy here and there). My derailleur failed and slapped the chain in between the large rear cog and the spokes, just as I’d started leaning heavily forward and pushing hard.
The rear wheel locked up; I went ass over teakettle about 270 degrees, mostly vertical but with a half-twist, and landed on my back, or more precisely on my knapsack and its contents. Ouch, but a mitigated shock.
Anyway, having checked out the bent derailleur and reset the chain, which had fallen off *all* the toothy wheels, I was able to ride the bike home.
Coda: As I was coasting speedily, all gung-ho again, down the incline of my rough home street (under complete reconstruction), the derailleur suddenly broke in half and lodged itself against the spokes.
I laughed. The bike tried to kill me, again. (Or was I killing the bike?)
A detail: it was my off-road bike, which is a rough piece of hardware, so it can take the hit.
as long as the bike is ok 🙂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=621wu4-SXUs
It’ll be fine. It’s convalescing right now.
“convalescence” is a weird word. Comes indirectly from the Latin ‘convalescens’, so similar.
My way of maintaining bikes is called Mike Plummer. (Good English guy, he and the family he’s from emigrated here in 1971. A complete bike engineer.)
The problem I had was basically a derailleur failure (spreading apart) — I thought it was failing, but it went catastrophic-like.
Out for a bit, ciao!
a bit of what?
of time
time…
Ouch! I hate ass over teakettle. I have done it in a number of locations and it is always painful. Take care @benoit.
I’m actually quite ok, all considered, because injuries were slight, and I’ve been assiduously working the hurt muscles since yesterday. I feel good today, and even went out cycling — on the other bike, thankfully just repaired!
Glad you are well enough to get right back out there. I miss riding terribly. As of Sept 26 it will be a year since I’ve been in the saddle. I have to go and do my physio exercise so that one day I may ride again.
Hello morgana
Hi Garfy.
I am listening to Fridays 2012 playlist and doing exercises.
I’ll be back in about an hour.
she’s late!
I think she got lost on the way back
she is. she still can’t figure out that she moves slower than slow.
there is sun out there so i am going to putter in my yard for a bit.
Hi folks! How goes the battle?
Hmm it appears Benoit is in battle with his bike. Glad you are mostly okay and back in the saddle Benoit. Ouch!
And Morgana is in battle with her brain still. Hope you get back in the saddle soon! Enjoy the sunshine. We certainly don’t have any here these days.
Keep fighting your battles too Garf. 🙂
I can just picture morgana going around her yard with a white dimpled ball and a flat-faced golf club…
Hi DBS
this is interesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FURPQI3VW58
sorry to disappoint Garf; compost, manure, a few spades, pruners, a wheel barrow and a handkerchief but no white dimpled ball and flat-faced gold club … honestly, I would not know what to do with them!
@dbs thanks for last Friday’s 2012 look back. The music was fun. The personal retrospective was good too.
@benoit ok, I do not have as good an ear as this guy for sure so I really appreciate his breakdown. I knew I hated listening to music on YouTube and this helps me understand why. In terms of technology I am a follower and am only on Spotify because of being booted out of the basement and then R3 and the live blogging. I did not even know what Title was before this video. My take away; I’m good with Spotify (yup, lazy!!) but I totally agree that it would be so great to get better audio quality across the board. why not, the technology is there!