Jazzlab Orchestra – Quintessence
The Jazzlab Orchestra is a Montreal-based ensemble of 8 musicians that presents creative music since 2003 – the Orchestra celebrates this year its fifteenth anniversary. This collective of artistic collaboration has produced many projects over the years, but always working with top players of the Montreal jazz scene. After 6 albums and more than 250 concerts around the world, the Jazzlab now presents Quintessence, the music of composer and pianist Félix Stüssi. On the menu: a refined musical experience exploring the essence of jazz itself. Be it on a bicycle or behind the keys, Felix Stussi loves adventure and fresh wind. Since his move from Switzerland to Canada, Stussi has turned his back on journalism, and jazz piano and composition are now his main focus. He returns regularly to Europe to play with well-known ensembles. Recently, the region Glarus Nord (Switzerland) honored Stussi with their culture prize.(Naxos)
Shanika Maria – Subtle Uncertainties
Stacey Kaniuk – Heartbeat
Kaniuk’s new EP, Heartbeat, which is set for an early 2019 release is big, bright and boisterous pop, sometimes punctuated by horns, and in one instance disco. Yes disco, likely the only genre of music that has not had a comeback — yet. The throwback music video for the single “Baby Wants To Dance” features all the classic visuals of a 1970s rollerskating dance party. Perhaps the retro sound of the song was subliminally influenced by the giant disco ball spinning in Joydrop bassist and producer Thom McKay’s recording studio. Proof enough. It’s ba-ack!(Aesthetic Magazine)
Tallies – Tallies
Listening to Tallies’ self-titled debut was like listening to The Smiths do a shoegaze pop-rock record. Citing them, Aztec Camera, and The Sundays as influences, their guitar melodies feel twinkled with a hazed nostalgia that makes you feel like you could look back on the most wonderful days of your life through a kaleidoscope. If youthfulness truly is an energy based in wonder then Tallies are serving it. (Diandra Reviews It All)
hello
Good morning 🙂
zzzzzzzzzzzzz 5 more minutes mom
Mom wants the whole day. *yawn*
I just bought my ticket to see Dan Mangan perform in Leeds on April 4th
yay!
more ouch at $32 with charges
I hear ya but it will be worth it.
I know, and I can’t keep asking CMac to get me on the list
She does that? Yeah probably not a good idea to keep asking.
It is a trick I have only used once (that I remember) and it was for the last time I saw him in Newcastle in 2012
If Barb notices that Elliott Brood are playing near me she has been known to ask if I want to be added to the guest list.
side note, am I alone in being surprised when an artist knows who I am, years after I last met them?
It always surprises me when it happens.
I think it’s just the 2 of us today
the third wheel is finally up
I wonder if an Our Basement listening party would be ok with STW
from my email;
Hello!
Tyler here from Said The Whale. If you are receiving this email it’s because you joined our email list and expressed interest in our new album ‘CASCADIA’.
As you may know, the record comes out February 8th. But we’d like to share it with you early. The catch is this: you need to gather at least 5 people, and you need to sit down together and listen to the record in a controlled environment (your apartment, your dorm, your car, wherever makes you comfortable!). And then you need to send us the email addresses of those 5 people. Pretty simple!
Make sense?
What you gain: privileged access to our new record before the general public does.
What we gain: your personal endorsement of our music. There is no marketing tool more powerful than word-of-mouth. WE WANT YOUR MOUTH.
If you are interested in hearing Cascadia before it comes out and would like to host a listening party sometime between now and Feb 8, please respond to this email (or email listentocascadia@gmail.com) and we will send you the details directly!
Love Always,
STW
Hi Morgana, you should ask them, the worst they can do is say no
I had replied to that email last night. I hadn’t thought of an OurBasement listening party, just a local in person one.
I just sent them off an email … hoping for a yes!
When it comes to the technological part of us all listening together here I may well need to pass that to you @GarfiledUK …. hope that is OK.
@darbar I had started to think about getting friends together locally but then decided our group here would be more likely to really be interested.
that’s fine with me, we can always use facetime or some other group meeting app
Good thinking!
Listening to the new releases; the first two don’t make me want to hear more while Tallies musicality pleases me more … not sure about the vocals but will listen more.
Did anyone else listen to the second half last Sunday?
https://strombo.com/radio/
I am saving the Hundos for my trip to Leeds in April
I listened to the fist half a number of times; life interruptions as well as wanting to go back and get the names of artists so I could add them to my Spotify. (Sam Weber was one addition I have been enjoying) I am only a little ways into the second half. Pretty sure I will listen several times as well.
I am in the process of transferring them to my phone
I received an email inviting me to a Single Release Party on January 19th, but I had to decline because I’m on the wrong continent
I just finished listening to the second half morgana. It helped me discover some new stuff and validated some of my choices as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZnBNuqqz5g
@garfielduk is it the STW single release? I am driving to Vancouver on the 19th …
it was from The Free Label
https://www.facebook.com/freelabellove/
out to walk in the snow and visit a friend.
until tomorrow …
ttfn Morgana
later gator!
I just flinched a little when a BBC News presenter mispronounced Newfoundland (I may spend too much time talking to Canadians)
I hear it said differently among Canadians as well though.
I couldn’t help myself, I tweeted a correction (I should have mentioned Tom Power for backup)
I know, but surely the people that live there should be the ones that decide how it is pronounced
well I’m going to try and get some sleep
I look forward to hearing tomorrows playlist
g’night
this should make it easier to like tracks from the 2018 hundo
thanks for the hundo playlist. There will be a 2015 playlist tomorrow. Release Radar next week and I am looking for ideas for the week after that.
Night!
This should be an interesting album just released: Friendly Rich – Friendly Rich Sings The Catholic Book of Worship II
Ha!
https://open.spotify.com/album/3EMVeF08pokwCgAB5Y5GLD?si=os1zBB-QROWrRWbrZRyPAg