Hello Our Basement,
I’m really looking forward to sharing Crawl, my newest album (eighth overall!), with the world on September 6th c/o the fine folks at Double Lunch Records. Crafted over the course of 12 months and several Edmonton → Calgary bus trips, these 12 tracks truly mean a lot to me.
While we’re still a few weeks out from record release day, you can watch the beauty visuals for my brand new single, “Chapel of Chimes”.
Don Zimmermon, “Chapel of Chimes” video director:
Jom and his band learned and played every take backwards. When I reversed the backwards footage, it created this disjointed, slightly off-tempo rendition of the song – a quality that reminds me of the fractured recalling of old, distorted memories. The blurriness of a lot of the images and the intentionally out-of-focus foregrounds are nods to the insignificant yet poignant moments you hold onto. A lot of details are fuzzy, others are sharp. Sometimes the things you remember clearest seem to serve no purpose at all. Why can’t I remember that person’s face? I can remember those power lines so well.
I was a fan of Chris Dadge for many years, especially his main project Lab Coast, as well as many others he’s involved in like Samantha Savage Smith, Chad Van Gaalen, Sunglaciers, Crystal Eyes, and more. Dadge’s production approach of combining analog + digital to harness the best of both really appealed to me. Dodge’s talent as a multi-instrumentalist allowed us to collaborate together, throwing in as many spontaneous parts as we could.
With Dadge living in Calgary and myself in Edmonton, we fit the creation of Crawl into as many long weekends as possible, which is why it took a year to fully record.
Thank you for taking the time to listen + watch! I’ll be plotting shows across Canada and dropping another single before Crawl’s official release this fall, so make sure you stick around.
‘Morning! We’re finally getting an overcast few days; got a nice rain yesterday, and showers perhaps in the coming few days. Even though the ‘feels-like’ is still high, it’s nice to be out of sunny and 32. Crucifyingly hot, that.
No overcast skies here! I can use sprinklers once a week and today is my day. The timers on the soaker hoses finish at 8am then I sprinkled for two hours while cutting back spent flowers, then hand watered for an hour and now I am having some food. It is getting really hot out there so I have retreated to the inside to make lists of to-do’s before we leave again. Summer is fun but I am challenged to keep up.
I hope to get the download from the Pugs and Crows album that I bought at Kaslo Jazz Etc Fest onto the computer today so I can take it with me.
Chapel of Crimes is a very pleasant listen. I hope I remember to look for the album in September …
Hello folks
I hope to remember to mention it the week it is released as well
All these little details to keep track of for us. Thanks Dad:)
I should be working on tomorrows release post but I am too busy watching the Cubbies play on TV and drinking tea
Hello! I am home again from a great time out at Kaslo!