Dawn Davi – Sweet Apple

Originaire de l’Iran et ayant immigré au Canada en 2009, Dawn Davi a voulu rendre hommage à son pays adoptif et dans lequel elle s’est forgée une nouvelle identité, en utilisant la pomme comme symbole dans le titre de son album, étant donné que c’est le fruit le plus cultivé au Canada.(Info-Culture.biz)

Donna Grantis – Diamonds & Dynamite (eOne)

Like with Miles Davis or David Bowie, having played with Prince is an entry in a musician’s resume that’s worth a thousand recommendations. Canadian guitarist Donna Grantis spent four years in various capacities with the late artist who once changed his name to an unpronounceable glyph. Among other credits, Grantis wrote the title tune for “PlectrumElectrum,” Prince’s 2014 album with the group 3rdEyeGirl, which she was also part of.(Burnaby Now)

Hanorah – For the Good Guys and the Bad Guys (Dare To Care)

For the Good Guys and the Bad Guys is an EP about redemption. Within this five-song culmination, rather than using past trauma to recreate more sad and angry music, Hanorah purposefully decided on a lighter route as her musical inspiration.(The Link)

Ian Daniel Kehoe – Secret Republic (You’ve Changed)

Jen & John – Jen & John II (Independent)

Matt Andersen – Halfway Home By Morning (True North)

It’s no wonder Matt Andersen has won two European Blues Awards for Best Solo/Acoustic act and eight Maple Blues Awards for Entertainer of the Year and Vocalist of the Year, a Juno Award and more. One drop of the needle on this album and you’ll hear not only a powerhouse vocalist with tons of soul, but winning songs written by a natural storyteller—Matt Andersen. And that’s not all—the production by Juno award-winner Steve Dawson and the group of outstanding musicians on the record, create an all-stars-aligned kind of feeling as you listen to the 13 tracks.(Rock and Blues Muse)

Michael Bublé – bublé!

Michael Davidson and Dan Fortin – Clock Radio (Elastic Records)

Think of a duet featuring a vibraphone as one of the instruments in a jazz recording and the iconic ones with Gary Burton and Chick Corea jump to mind. So by association, vibraphonist Michael Davidson’s duet with bassist Dan Fortin is already in good company. However, it isn’t simply this fact that makes this a duo recording (albeit with a bassist) that merits curious, if not close listening; what matters much more is the fact that, between Davidson and Fortin, the musicians marshal their forces with superb discipline, producing a wonderfully fresh sound which also manages to possess the requisite amount of mystery – essential for a work this spare in sound.(The WholeNote)

Reid Jamieson – Me Daza (Indie)

The Northern Coast – The Great Divide

The Great Divide finds the band hitting an early peak, weaving strains of ’90’s BritPop with a more contemporary indie rock sound. If there’s a running theme through the record, vocalist Arron Crook says it focuses on the growing disconnect in interpersonal relationships brought on and complicated by the wider connections of the digital age.(BeatRoute)