JACQUES GREENE SHARES NEW SINGLE

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DEBUT ALBUM, FEEL INFINITE, FROM JUNO NOMINATED MONTREAL ARTIST JACQUES GREENE DUE OUT MARCH 10 (DIGITAL) / MARCH 24 (VINYL)
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NORTH AMERICAN DATES WITH SUICIDEYEAR BEGIN APRIL 4

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Recently nominated for a JUNO Award for Dance Recording of the Year, Jacques Greene is sharing his latest single “To Say” in advance of his anticipated debut album Feel Infinite, due March 10 via Arts & Crafts.

Simply put, “To Say” is the true embodiment of Jacques Greene’s signature sound. With emphatic vocals masterly cut up over a surreally beautiful club anthem, if you wanted a follow up to “Another Girl” rebooted and refreshed for 2017, this is Jacques Greene’s contemporary dreamscape in all its utopian glory.

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Jacques Greene is the enigmatic, young artist who broke out of a generation of independent electronic labels Uno, 3024, Night Slugs, and LuckyMe as a genre-defining producer and DJ via 2011’s “Another Girl” – one of Pitchfork’s Songs of the Decade, 2013 favourite “On Your Side” ft. How To Dress Well as well as 2016’s club anthem and recent JUNO Award nominated track “You Can’t Deny”. Jacques Greene crafted a musical blueprint that inspired a generation who were raised at the intersection of contemporary music in the 90s: hip hop, RnB, house and techno.

At its heart, Feel Infinite is a record about the utopian idea of club culture - music about the club, as well as for the club in and of itself. Written over the course of two years, this debut album is the purest, most personal expression of the Jacques Greene sound created by the born and raised Montrealer, renowned for collaborating and remixing Tinashe, Radiohead, Sampha, and Shlohmo. Present on the record are Jacques Greene RnB vocal chops that he popularised in new club music - but here he returns to their original purpose: his own reference to Masters Of Work. Where they drew from their primary influence in disco, JG draws upon his own formative chart music.

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EUROPEAN TOUR DATES
3/17/17 - Rome - Goa Club
3/18/17 - Rotterdam - Bar
3/21/17 - Copenhagen - Vega
3/23/17 - Glasgow - Center for Contemporary Arts
3/24/17 - Manchester - Soup Kitchen
3/25/17 - London - Brixton Electric
3/27/17 - Brighton, UK - Patterns
3/21/17 - Copenhagen, DK - Vega
3/31/17 - Berlin - Gretchen

NORTH AMERICAN DATES WITH SUICIDEYEAR
4/4/17 - Los Angeles, CA - Resident
4/5/17 - San Francisco, CA - Swedish American Hall
4/7/17 - Seattle, WA - Barboza
4/8/17 - Portland, US - Liquor Store
4/9/17 - Vancouver, CA - Fortune Sound Club
4/12/17 - Washington, DC - Flash
4/13/17 - Brooklyn, NY - Good Room
4/14/17 - Montreal, CA - Newspeak
4/15/17 - Toronto, CA - The Velvet

Tickets : http://jacquesgreene.com/live

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FEEL INFINITE TRACKLIST
01 Fall
02 Feel Infinite
03 To Say
04 True (feat. How To Dress Well)
05 I Won’t Judge
06 Dundas Collapse
07 Real Time
08 Cycles
09 You Can’t Deny
10 Afterglow
11 You See All My Light

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BEN ROGERS SHARES VALENTINE’S SINGLE TO AID BATTERED WOMEN’S SUPPORT SERVICES

ACCLAIMED SONGWRITER BEN ROGERS SHARES NEW SINGLE “THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS” IN SUPPORT OF BATTERED WOMEN THIS VALENTINE’S DAY

ALL PROCEEDS FROM “THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS” WILL AID BATTERED WOMEN’S SUPPORT SERVICES' INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S PROGRAM.

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As a valentine to those who often need love the most, Ben Rogers is releasing “The Highway Of Tears” in hopes of raising awareness about the ongoing issue of missing and murdered Indigenous women throughout Turtle Island. “My hope is that the song will inspire listeners and fans to take action,” say Rogers. Through sales of the song Rogers’ will be providing financial support to Battered Women's Support Services in Vancouver and specifically to Indigenous Women's Programs.

“I have been fortunate enough to witness the beauty and strength of native culture through my wife's Swampy Cree family. They are survivors, all of them. They are the bravest people I know and I admire their courage greatly. The time for autonomy, sovereignty, acknowledgement of ancestral land claims, treaty rights, human rights, and equality for Indigenous people must be attained. The lives of the women affected by these acts of violence must not be forgotten. Their families and friends must have answers. We must stand with them. I plan to do just that with my life and my music so long as I have breath in me and a song to sing. Or as some have said, ‘As long as the sun shines, the river flows and the grass grows’.”

A longer statement from Ben Rogers on the initiative can be found here.

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The single, “The Highway Of Tears”, is a sample of things to come from the Vancouver songwriter. In the near future Rogers will follow up his latest album, The Bloodred Yonder, with a new LP. This summer Rogers will also be performing a tour of house concerts along The Highway Of Tears in British Columbia. More details to come shortly.

The Bloodred Yonder was produced by JUNO Award nominated big brother Matt Rogers (The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer), and features some of western Canada's finest musicians with Matt Kelly (City and Color) on pedal steel and keys, Erik Nielsen (Rich Hope) on bass, John Sponarski (Portage and Main) on lead guitar, and Leon Power (Frazey Ford) on drums.

Based in Vancouver, Rogers is also an accomplished actor whose recent credits include Motive, CBC's Strange Empire, and a supporting role in dark comedy The Driftless Area starring Zooey Deschanel, Anton Yelchin, and John Hawkes that premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York. He has also penned songs with other artists including "Rise Up" for No Sinner, "Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To" and "Cry A Little" with The Harpoonist & The Axe Murderer, as well as their latest single “Get Ready”.

PRAISE FOR THE BLOODRED YONDER

“a kind of independent roots-rock mini-masterpiece … sets the bar for future artists to
strive to attain” The Winnipeg Free Press

“plenty of shiver-inducing moments thanks to an album that taps into a timeless essence usually found in the voices of more seasoned veterans.” Vancouver Sun

“gorgeous and tragic … Rogers's strong songwriting should not be ignored” Now Magazine

“a loving tribute to the golden age of country while bringing something new to the table. …swinging easily from bourbon-hazed ballads to gun-smoke folk to
paisley-dipped Americana” The Georgia Straight

“a real talent … twangy, rockabilly-tinged numbers and brooding country ballads” Exclaim!

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CFCF & PIANIST JEAN-MICHEL BLAIS ANNOUNCE COLLABORATIVE EP

CASCADES OUT MARCH 15 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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CFCF & JEAN-MICHEL BLAIS TO PERFORM AT SXSW MARCH 15

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“[CFCF’s] own records are stunningly variegated…His influences are both esoteric and familiar. [His arrangements are] not designed to add danceability and bombast, but arranged to coax out emotional qualities... [His] songs are both breezy and cinematic.” - The New York Times

“Jean-Michel Blais strings together stunning improvisations and composed pieces that harken back to Chopin, Satie, and modern minimalists like Harold Budd... The music breathes, and it invites you to take a moment and recognize there’s still plenty of beauty left in the world’
- TIME Magazine, #10 Album Of 2016

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Neo-classical pianist Jean-Michel Blais and Grammy Award-nominated electronic producer CFCF have announced Cascades, a collaborative EP due out March 15 digitally on Arts & Crafts. The album will be released on LP on April 14.

Building off their sold out performance during the globally-celebrated 2016 Red Bull Music Academy, Cascades is a stunning 5-song, 30-minute meeting-of-minds that navigates the spaces between the artists’ respective crafts and tendencies toward playful minimalism. Featuring reworkings from the duo’s catalogues, a reworking of John Cage’s “In A Landscape”, Cascades is a celebration of the traditional and experimental, dissolving the old into the new.

“Hypocrite”, a collaborative composition by both musicians, is out today. On the track’s genesis, Blais says, “Sitting in my studio / room, I modestly played the four cheesy chords that open “Hypocrite”. Mike’s genius idea was to take it as far as possible from its classical / pop roots, we ended up blending it with the 90s trance-era sound. At first we thought “we can’t do that, it’s way too weird,” then we started loving it, probably surprising the listener as much as ourselves.”

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Mike Silver (aka CFCF) also reflected on the desire to challenge conventions: “Jean-Michel sent me a zip of some of his unreleased compositions, and this one stood out to me because it had a kind of baroque, sad, romantic quality to it, but it was slightly poppy despite its unusual chord structure. At first I suggested making it a trance song almost as a joke, but the concept took hold and it just made sense. I think the intensity of the super-saw synths shocked us, and hopefully the listener, out of a certain complacency about what constitutes an ‘appropriate’ approach to classical music.”

CFCF and Jean-Michel Blais will perform at SXSW, on the day of Cascades’ release, March 15. This will be their first collaborative performance outside of Montreal.

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CASCADES TRACKLIST
1. Hasselblad 1
2. Two Mirrors
3. Spirit
4. Hypocrite
5. In A Landscape (Rework)

MORE ON JEAN-MICHEL BLAIS
Jean-Michel Blais is a 31 year-old pianist from Montreal, Canada. His enchanting instrumental compositions pair the melodic pop sensibilities of Amélie-era Yann Tiersen and Arts & Crafts alumni Chilly Gonzales with the breathtaking technical skill of classical minimalists like Philip Glass and Erik Satie. Il, his debut album of original compositions was released on October 7, 2016 by Arts & Crafts.

Blais grew up in a rural French Catholic town in Quebec absent of Culture save for a giant Encyclopedia he’d read feverishly as a child. At age 9, Blais began tinkering on his family’s organ, improvising, and at age 11 started to write original compositions and taking piano lessons. A natural talent, by 17 he was invited to the Trois-Rivieres Music Conservatory and began training as a classical pianist. However, Blais was entering the throes of teenage rebellion and found the constraints of formal training cumbersome rigid structure. Gravitating towards experimentation, Blais wasn’t content to be told how to play, and not to improvise or compose. Read Jean-Michel Blais’ extended bio here.

MORE ON CFCF
Michael Silver (aka CFCF) is one of those rare talents to whom pop sensibility seems to be second nature. The Montreal native has been making music in his bedroom since he was 12 years old, and over the past 6 years or so that the rest of the world has been able to share in his pop experiments. This wide scope of interest in genre and pop structure and mature melodic instinct allow him to shift gears effortlessly from Techno and House to Ambient and New Age; from Kate Bush- tinged pop to the melancholy micro-genre known as ‘Night Bus’ (of which Silver has been a pioneer), and everything in between. His pop music can be sweetly sad or creepily disturbing, but it is always fundamentally Pop. Read CFCF’s extended bio here.

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