Imagine music as a metaphor for the landscape of Canada – rough unpredictable mountains to beautiful calm forests to reassuring prairie farmland. Now imagine your schizophrenic neighbor running across that landscape in a dress with a knife in his hand. What would that sound like?
Brooklyn / Montréal Plumes is the new vehicle for singer-songwriter Veronica Charnley, composer Geof Holbrook and harpist Eveline Grégoire-Rousseau, who for five years and two albums have performed and recorded as Flotilla. With a new self-titled album, they are breaking out the classical music chops, with arrangements for string quartets, brass quintets, clarinets and violas, and one eight-minute…
Halifax, Nova Scotia Featured on CBC Radio 1′s Atlantic Airwaves, played on public and community radio throughout the East Coast (peaking at #3 on Halifax’s CKDU) and having just completed an Eastern Canada tour to Toronto and back, Halifax’s The Light Brights have shown that their musical stylings shine as brightly as their engaging performances…
Halifax, NS Halifax-based Gypsophilia is a group of seven young performers whose music straddles the jazz and indie worlds. The band s typical lineup of three guitars, violin, double bass, trumpet and piano is bolstered on the album with synthesizer, impromptu gang vocals, and percussion. “Remarkable intuition as an ensemble, ably dialoguing as if…
Halifax, NS The four cosmic entities that comprise TWRP have inhabited the bodies of four simple humans, and have been playing danceable space-rock since crash landing on Earth three years ago. In their time on this planet TWRP (also known in longhand as Tupper Ware Remix Party) has established a name for itself as…
Halifax, NS For almost 25 years, David Anthony has been caressing danceflooors with his seamless sonic sprays of all things house! David has proved himself a top tier DJ, promoter and producer playing at thousands of events in hundreds of places! Join him for his set as he celebrates 25 years of doing what…
Lexington, KY Hailing from Lexington, Kentucky, Matt Mason and Rick Nielsen, better known as the Corduroy Mavericks, are quickly smashing the stereotype that the Bluegrass State and surrounding areas are lacking in prolific house music producers. With their quirky range of jazzy, soulful, techy, deep and funky house, New York, Chicago, the West Coast…