GEOFFROY NEW LP OUT TODAY, SHARES PERFORMANCE OF “SWEETPIE”

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CANADIAN TOUR COMMENCES MARCH 5

ON THE NEW LP GEOFFROY BRINGS A CONTEMPLATIVE AND PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH TO SONGWRITING INSPIRED BY ARTISTS LIKE PAUL SIMON, NICK DRAKE, JEFF BUCKLEY, AND THINKERS ALAN WATTS, ECKHART TOLLE, AND MICHAEL POLLAN

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Today, Geoffroy’s (pronounced : Jeff-wah) new self-released third LP officially hits the record store shelves, air waves, and playlists. Live Slow Die Wise was marked as one of the albums to watch for 2022 by ET Canada, Le Canal Auditif, and Exclaim!. 

Recently, Geoffroy spent some time in Mexico and recorded a performance of “Sweetpie” from an Airbnb in San Cristobal de Las Casas, Chiapas. “I liked how cozy the place was and it would allow us to record in a controlled environment, or a least we hoped so,” says Geoffroy. “Yet we still had to start it over a couple times before being able to tape the whole song without dogs barking in the background. Hence the ‘dog still at it?’ I say when entering the house.

It's the second song out of 7 total we recorded. At that point we had been traveling for almost a week and had a bunch of setbacks making me reconsider the feasibility of our two man operation. But getting this song down in a controlled environment motivated us to continue and to not give up on our ambitious project. The next morning we taped ‘As My Old Man Always Said’ at a hotel across the street and ‘Cold World’ on the steps leading to la Iglesia de San Cristóbalito.”

All of the live performances will be included in a short film, ‘Live Slow Die Wise in Mexico’, releasing February 22 on Geoffroy’s YouTube channel and on IGTV.

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The journey to the LP’s 2022 release began with the unveiling of “Cold World”, an intimate and reflective song that beautifully represents the album’s tone. “Live Slow Die Wise is the timeless story of societal individualism and ego,” Geoffroy shares. “We’re driven by an endless pursuit for growth, innovation and profit. But at what cost?” Live Slow Die Wise still features the personal and reflective touch Geoffroy fans know to expect, but this time through the lens tinted by experience. Inspired by artists like Ry Cooder, Paul Simon, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley, and thinkers such as Alan Watts, Eckhart Tolle, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Geoffroy brought a more contemplative and philosophical approach to the album’s songwriting than in previous works.

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Live Slow Die Wise was penned during isolation in 2020, and brought to life in the studio with help from legendary French Canadian producer Louis-Jean Cormier. The songs mark a return to Geoffroy’s early days as an artist, travelling the world and playing solo on the streets as he went. A renewed appreciation for organic instrumentation and a recording process that favoured live takes in the studio added depth and authenticity to the songs and hopefully, forge a deep and intimate connection with the listener.

“Live Slow Die Wise represents a specific state of mind. It's about taking the time to live freely and consciously. It's about being aware and embracing the ephemerality and fragility of life.”

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Geoffroy will take Live Slow Die Wise on the road beginning March 5, 2022. All tour dates are below and tickets can be purchased HERE.

GEOFFROY 2022 CANADIAN TOUR DATES
03/05 Trois Rivières - Cabaret Cogeco
03/11 Montreal - MTELUS
03/25 Quebec - Imperial Bell
04/05 Winnipeg - Good Will Social Club
04/06 Saskatoon - Amigos Cantina 
04/09 Vancouver - Hollywood Theatre
04/10 Victoria - Capital Ballroom
04/14 Red Deer - Bo’s Bar
04/15 Calgary - Commonwealth
04/16 Edmonton - Starlite Room
04/20 London - Rum Runners
04/21 Toronto - Axis Club
04/22 Kingston - The Grad Club
04/23 Ottawa - Club Saw

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LIVE SLOW DIE WISE TRACKLIST
01 As My Old Man Always Said
02 Strangers On A Train
03 Youngblood
04 Santa Catalina
05 Sweetpie
06 Cold World
07 Life As It Comes

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ABIGAIL LAPELL ANNOUNCES UPCOMING LP, SHARES FIRST SINGLE “PINES”

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ABIGAIL LAPELL’S THIRD LP, STOLEN TIME, SET FOR RELEASE APRIL 22, 2022 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

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Just listen. Toronto songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Abigail Lapell offers this prompt at the end of synesthetic piano tune “I See Music”, but the invitation could apply to her entire third album, Stolen Time. Produced by Howard Bilerman at Hotel2Tango Studio in Montreal, Stolen Time is elemental and powerfully evocative, channeling natural imagery and the revolving seasons to take a longer look over decades and generations, ultimately delivering up the present moment the way only the best music can. 

Today, Lapell is sharing “Pines”, the evocative first single from the new album. Inspired by a songwriting residency in the Rockies, “Pines” captures the intimacy of walking alone through the woods, spellbound, surrounded by frozen mountain vistas. The track features Lapell on piano, accordion and harmonica, with a voice like autumn smoke and a contagious melody reminiscent of Neil Young crossed with early Cat Power. Building to a bluesy harp outro, Lapell serenades the currents of electricity that seem to course through the mountains, down a raging river, whispering on the breeze and out past distant stars—all driven by the same pulse of energy that guides her footsteps, carrying secret transmissions on a frequency just out of earshot.

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A theme of recovery runs through Stolen Time, with lyrics about becoming sober or coping with a partner’s sudden illness, exploring the cycle of relapse and rehabilitation. The album’s title comes from the musical term tempo rubato, which Lapell picked up while teaching herself piano. Referring to the expressive push and pull of tempo in musical phrasing, it’s also a fitting metaphor for the fragile rhythm of uncertain times, darkness hand in hand with escapism. On “Scarlet Fever”, swirling and woozy with Rachael Cardiello’s viola and Peggy Lee’s cello, Lapell recalls a relative’s tales of childhood quarantine; “Sewage” is a fever dream of a loved one recovering from surgery. “All Dressed Up”, a honeyed sweet duet with Montreal’s Chris Velan, echoes how many of us have felt these past two years while waiting to recover our lives. 

By turns poetic and painterly, Stolen Time brings a live-off-the-floor, 70s folk-rock vibe and structural experimentation to songs that feel expansive in their scope—unhurried, psychedelic and other-worldly in the vein of Gillian Welch or Karen Dalton. It also marks the meeting of two important music communities for Lapell, who spent formative years living in Montreal’s Mile End before moving back to her hometown. Toronto players include Dan Fortin (bass), Dani Nash (drums, vocals) and Christine Bougie (lap steel, guitars); and from Montreal, Katie Moore (vocals), Pietro Amato (French horn) and Ellwood Epps (trumpet).

Lapell’s band underscores and meets the power of her vocals on songs like “Ships”, a wild sax solo seemingly enticing her higher and louder to meet the crashing waves. The twangy guitar of “Stolen Time” recalls the hazy ambivalence of lazy summer days, wasting away in a state between bliss and blitz. “Old Flames”, with Lapell’s melodic fingerstyle guitar mimicking flickering embers, could be read as a bit of an answer song to Bruce Springsteen’s “I’m On Fire”. 

But many of Stolen Time’s standout tracks are solo guitar or piano ballads, backed by little more than Lapell’s harmonica, antique pump organ or accordion--including “Waterfall”, with its captivating cascade of descending notes; love song closer “I Can’t Believe”, which sounds like a 1950s standard and features Nashville legend Fats Kaplin on pedal steel; and “Land Of Plenty”, which you would be forgiven for mistaking for a lost Woody Guthrie or Pete Seeger tune.  

Over the past five years and two spellbinding albums, Lapell has garnered two Canadian Folk Music Awards (English Songwriter of the Year in 2020 and Contemporary Album of the Year in 2017), hit number one on Canadian folk radio and accrued a staggering 13 million+ Spotify streams while touring widely across Canada, the United States, and Europe. 

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STOLEN TIME TRACK LIST
01 Land Of Plenty
02 Ships
03 Pines
04 Scarlet Fever
05 All Dressed Up
06 I See Music
07 Stolen Time
08 Waterfall
09 Sewage
10 Old Flames
11 I Can’t Believe

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GEORGIA HARMER REVEALS ANOTHER NEW SINGLE, “AUSTIN”

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Toronto-based singer-songwriter Georgia Harmer, Arts & Crafts newest signee, unveils a standout new single, “Austin”. With a wisdom and poise that belies her youthful age, Harmer pens songs that articulate the ways in which even the most fleeting experiences can forge incredible bonds. This was first presented in “Headrush”, a track that encapsulated the melancholy of late summer spent with friends. Today’s dusty, grungy “Austin” recalls a day on tour with Alessia Cara in Texas, when a homesick Harmer felt particularly connected to her father and his own experiences as a touring musician. The scorching lead guitar from Harmer’s father, Gord Tough (Kathleen Edwards, Sarah Harmer), amplifies her expressive voice: ‘We were cowboys in another life / But I am you, your other life is mine / Often when I speak to you I cry / Never can explain the reason why’. 

 "Back in 2018, when I was on the road with Alessia Cara, we went to Austin, Texas, and my dad recommended we go to this barbecue spot he had been to when he was touring there,” elaborates Harmer. “We had a day or two off to explore, so we went. I thought of my dad while I was there, and often when I was on the road, because he's also a touring musician - we’re very similar and we're very close. I wrote this song to articulate the significance and importance of our relationship, how much I love and admire him, and our many parallels."

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 Harmer has been making music practically since birth. She hails from an artistic family, including her aunt and labelmate Sarah Harmer (Georgia’s parents, both professional musicians, met while playing in Sarah’s band). Harmer started recording her own songs at 10 and, while still a teenager, hit the road as a backing vocalist for Alessia Cara, touring for months on end. Her striking voice is a cross-hatching of Joni Mitchell’s birdsong, the emotional vulnerability of Adrianne Lenker and the seductive tones of Hope Sandoval.

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