Our Canadian artists just keep pumping out the music and here are a couple tracks you should take a listen to. I have gotten quite a few emails about artists with new tracks to share with us and I am happy to oblige. Often I will put them in the post with the OurBasement Release Radar playlist but I used that space to talk about our Said The Whale listening party instead on Friday. Below is a couple of the featured tracks. There will be more to follow.
Hawksley Workman – Lazy
I’ve always had this constant hunger to innovate, reevaluate what I do, and keep remaking it to confuse myself and maybe confuse my audience. This time, I’m just committing to writing focused and honest songs, which feels like the most interesting thing I can do right now.
“Lazy” is the latest single off of Median Age Wasteland, my upcoming new record. It’s an exploration of love and memories. Childlike images of winter and school portables give way to a lover’s proclamation of staying awake and staying the course. The profound decision of love meets the feeling of love.
I have a unique perspective on the world that comes from the person I think I am and the person I actually am, and I wanted to explore the latter. There’s a lot of looking back on more innocent times.
Median Age Wasteland ⇸ out 03/01/19
Don Brownrigg – Bad Timing
I wrote my first songs without telling anyone on a little Casio keyboard that my parents gifted me as a child. I quietly tested them out on crowds of strangers at open mic nights around Halifax. Since then, I’ve performed on over 20 albums and toured with talented folks like Jenn Grant, Timber Timbre and Great Lake Swimmers.
All I really want is to make and play more music …and maybe not get into any more debt while I do it!
“Bad Timing,” my latest track, is a cheeky nope; an empathetic expression of simply not being in love with someone. I didn’t want to be too dark. It’s taken from Fireworks; my forthcoming new album about being on both the initiating and receiving sides of a breakup, that will be released on February 22, 2019.
Tour Dates
March 30 – North Saanich, BC @ North Saanich Folk Club+
April 2 – Calgary, AB @ Ironwood+
April 3 – Calgary, AB @ House Concert+
April 4 – Edmonton, AB @ The Station+
April 5 – Saskatoon, SK @ The Basement+
April 6 – Regina, SK @ The Artesian+
April 17 – Toronto, ON @ The Burdock*
April 19 – Ottawa, ON @ National Arts Centre*
+w/ Erin Costelo
*w/ Kim Harris
Good morning.
A thought about Hawksley: he’s now doing “focused and honest songs”, he says, but he’s long done realistic ones: for instance, the wonderful *3 generations* (in the kitchen)…
hello
G’day officially, i.e. outside FB exchanges!
I just listened (again) to the whole Thanks for Sticking With the Twig album by Slim Twig. All the fault of Craig N. posting a twiggy photo. Really good album if you like guitar that’s loud, to the point of (recorded) distortion.
Good morning!
Maybe Hawksley wasn’t counting that album. It was more of a holiday album. I love that song.
I also enjoy Slim Twig and the loud distorted guitar. Cannabis gets most of my listens but I should listen to that album again.
sorry, I have been playing around with our discord server
And how’s that going?
it’s ok, I have added some WR responses and new emojis
I thought it was mostly The Russians that had discord servers?…
Haha! I just peaked in. Fun!
I’m trying to think of other things to add
I am not sure what that would be. Welcome people when they log on?
he waves if you say hello or hi
I have added something that should greet new members but I will need to log in on the kindle to see if it works
Cool. 🙂
I am listening to Chopz on FB but I need to go out and shovel the walk so the plumber can get his roto-rooter thing-a-ma-jig in. Damn sewer lines!
oh you and all your technical jargon
Haha! Yup.
Damn sewer lines, but try to live with an outhouse, eh?
I spent the first 5 years or so of my life in a house with an outhouse
Outhouses are best when a) you’re a kid, and/or b) you don’t know better (see a) ).
It was the first half of the 70’s,I knew better, every other house I went into had indoor plumbing.
Yes no thanks to an outhouse! Especially in -30 weather!!
I have some trees out front and clay(or cardboard like) sewer line they thought was a good idea in the 50s. Tree roots in the line are a constant problem and there is a section that is collapsing a bit. I just hope that hangs on until I leave this house.
I remember there being a blowtorch in there
Ah, I just heard my first, “you think this is cold, be happy you don’t live in Canada” story of the year from the BBC
I remember my grandmother finally getting indoor plumbing at her farmhouse. That also would have been in the 70s. I still loved the water pump though.
This is that very house (or how it looked 10 years ago)
The outhouse has gone
https://goo.gl/maps/KTqyFRbsnin
Cool to see.
Let’s talk music before I regale you all with outhouse stories;
I am very pleased that my kid decided that going to see HW perform with the Calgary Symphony Orchestra was a good birthday gift. Not entirely sure what to expect (classical music with guitar solo’s or his music with classical arrangements) but I am confident it will be good.
Did I ever tell you that you have an awesome child morgana
seriously, she makes me ashamed of what I was like at that age
Nice looking home @GarfieldUK. When did your family move out? I am researching our houses history. I found it documented in the 1901 Canadian Census. It seems the more research I do the more places I discover to look up yet more info.
We left there around 1976 (I think)
@GarfieldUK thanks for the reminder. Some days I completely disagree but even on those days I know she is good kid.
We then lived here until 83ish https://goo.gl/maps/rjp7oUL1FMy
and then here until 98ish https://goo.gl/maps/hyYZeJMCWGM2
I should just create a web page for this
I have a guest coming over shortly with her little person. I need to baby proof. I will check back in in a few hours though.
just tie them up outside 🙂
morgana @ 11:17: a growing, growing child you never disagreed with would be… um, less interesting. (I don’t wanna say “a bore” or anything. S’okay being a bore too.)
I look forward to hearing about that Hawksley Workman show after! He is here next weekend. There is a show with Kobo Town and then the next night he is doing a drumming workshop the next night. I am interested in both but the drumming one is only 10 bucks and the other one is over 30.
Even outside the price (tho’ a consideration), I ‘hate it’ that in Ottawa, many of our faves have gotten popular enough that they’re doing shows at the National Arts Centre* (a bit early and not exactly formal, but…; also, rush for a drink at halftime. Weird); or else the show’s at the Bronson Centre (aaaack, ‘owrrible place — previous high school auditorium with poor seats and olive-painted hard walls. And maybe deaf sound techs.)
*good for them though; they’re getting PAID.
I totally agree! We will just have to find new favourites. 😉
Baby smears mostly cleaned up.
It is sunny out so I must walk in the snow and sun!
First, I am going to phone the campground in Kaslo and inquire about a site during the Jazz Etc Fest. How many sites should I book?
Oh oh oh…I am seriously thinking about it! I wish I could tell you for sure.
I wish I could make it
I have been looking at plots of land for sale around Nelson and found the one I want for $69,000 (25kms north of Nelson on Highway 3)
yeah, I can’t find return flights for under £500
I think we missed the limited number of early bird tickets … advance weekend pass comes in at $225. Not a small fee but it is always a jammed weekend of great tunes.
I sent an email inquiring about camping.
🙁
OFW
“Our For Walk” for those of you who don’t know;)
ttfn
I was just looking at that number. It is high for me but I really would like to go. My sister and I have the trailer now and I would love to make a camping/road trip out of it but I have to see what my sis thinks. She wasn’t sure when she could get holidays.
I’m going afk for some zzz
Happy zzzz!