GEORGIA HARMER SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “TOP DOWN”

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DEBUT LP, STAY IN TOUCH, OUT NEXT FRIDAY VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

PERFORMS AT MASSEY HALL WITH BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE ON APRIL 21, CANADIAN TOUR DATES WITH DAN MANGAN BEGIN APRIL 26, FIELD TRIP FESTIVAL APPEARANCE ON JULY 9

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“Harmer's songwriting comes fully formed on Stay in Touch. No matter the sound, Harmer's words are front and centre, transforming life's minutiae into gorgeous, moving melodies.”
CBC Music

“For Georgia Harmer, it’s a matter of when, not if.” - SPIN

“With her recent singles ‘Headrush' and ‘Austin,' the Toronto singer-songwriter Georgia Harmer established herself as a noteworthy talent.” - Stereogum

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Twenty-two year-old Toronto-based musician Georgia Harmer will release her debut album, Stay In Touch, next Friday, April 22 on Arts & Crafts. Today, she unveils a new single “Top Down”. Following a string of resonating singles, “Top Down” is a sparkling, cathartic anthem written for the highway. Harmer’s voice is honeyed over subtly distorted guitar tones, as she sings of feeling hopeless while trying to help a friend out of a dark place. With lyrics that evoke feelings of incapability and insignificance, Harmer captures the longing for "top down" action, both personally, politically and environmentally. 

"'Top Down' is about feeling frustrated by my own powerlessness,” says Harmer. “It's about feeling very young and small, and not being able to control or change anything happening around me, in my personal life, and in the bigger picture. I was trying to help a friend out of a dark place, and struggling with my own type of dark place that goes along with coming of age and wondering - what exactly is my role in this big, sad, beautiful world?"

The accompanying self-directed video features footage of Harmer wandering around a closed down theme park on Toronto Island.

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MORE ABOUT GEORGIA HARMER
With a wisdom and poise that belies her youthful age, Harmer has penned an emotionally resonant collection of songs that articulate the ways in which even the most fleeting experiences can forge bonds between strangers, create families out of friends, and one by one form the joys and sorrows that make up a life. Sonically, Stay In Touch spans everything from intimate folk and strummy country to sophisticated jazz and pop-kissed rock. Harmer and her band created musical landscapes that live up to the lyrical richness of the songs. 

WATCH / SHARE “ALL IN MY MIND” HERE
WATCH / SHARE “HEADRUSH” HERE

Stay In Touch is an unforgettable statement from a new artist with a heartbreakingly simple message: when you stay in touch with the experiences that have shaped you, you stay in touch with yourself. The album is full of romanticism – a rare quality in an irony-soaked culture. For Harmer, this is a record about “staying in touch with the aspects of yourself, your life, the world, that keep you aware of what's most important. Whether that's people, relationships, deep feelings, the value of togetherness and support. It’s about finding the balance between holding on and letting go, between the beauty of the world and the pain in the world.” 

LISTEN / SHARE “TALAMANCA” HERE
LISTEN / SHARE “AUSTIN” HERE

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Georgia Harmer is also preparing for a performance at Massey Hall with Broken Social Scene, Canadian tour dates with Dan Mangan and an appearance at Field Trip Festival in Toronto. All tour dates are listed below and tickets can be found HERE.

GEORGIA HARMER TOUR DATES
April 21 - Toronto, ON - Massey Hall with Broken Social Scene
April 26 - Winnipeg, MB - The Park Theatre *
April 27 - Saskatoon, SK - Broadway Theatre *
April 29 - Calgary, AB - Bella Concert Hall *
April 30 - Calgary, AB - Bella Concert Hall *
May 2 - Edmonton, AB - Winspear Centre *
May 3 - Red Deer, AB - Bo’s Bar and Stage *

May 5 - Fernie, BC - The Northern *

May 7 - Nelson, BC - Hume Hotel Spirit Bar *

May 8 - Kamloops, BC - Blue Grotto
May 9 - Kelowna, BC - Community Theatre * 
May 11 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre *
May 12 - Vancouver, BC - Vogue Theatre * 
May 15 - Campbell River, BC - Tidemark Theatre *
May 16  - Victoria, BC - Royal Theatre * 
May 17 - Nanaimo, BC - Port Theatre *
June 5 - Gravenhurst, ON - Tall Pines Festival *
July 9 - Toronto, ON - Field Trip Festival 

* with Dan Mangan

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STAY IN TOUCH TRACKLIST
1. Talamanca
2. Headrush
3. Know You Forever
4. Austin
5. All in My Mind
6. Be Here
7. Homes
8. Top Down
9. Go Soft
10. Strongest Person
11. Just the Feeling

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Spring is here. Huzzah! Tax time. Whatever. “I started thinking about this episode while I was on hold with Canadian Revenue Agency,” says Laurie Brown of the new Pondercast episode, ‘Time Sensitive’. “Let’s think about time and how it comes to us in a 100 different flavours.” Warning: When you ponder time deeply – it turns into space. This will be a journey: forwards and backwards.

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For Season 5, a few new things are happening while some others are getting their own spotlight. First, the Pondercast team is bringing you something entirely new yet a little reminiscent of times past. Pondercast Radio uses an innovative hack of streaming technology to bring you a once a month ‘radio show’ which you can stream at any time. The show will include a new playlist of music and Laurie’s introductions for your dining and dancing pleasure.  The episodes play out exactly like radio, feel like Laurie’s old show The Signal - and you will get a 2 hour show of new music for you to fall in love with every month.

Pondercast Radio is available only to those who support Pondercast via Patreon at any level. Supporters must also have a paid Spotify or Apple Music account to access Pondercast Radio. If you have a paid account on Apple Music or on Spotify, then you can get our monthly ‘radio’ shows delivered to your inbox.

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The other big news is the new podcast Ground Level which is out now. Pondercast is moving all of their weekly guided meditations to a brand new podcast. So if you have been meditating with Laurie, subscribe to Ground Level wherever you get your podcasts to be sure you don’t miss an episode. Look for interviews and other content to help navigate these strange days. 

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Recently, Killbeat Music partnered with the team at Pondercast to bring you Ponderbeat, a series of special episodes featuring selections curated by Brown from some of Killbeat’s latest releases. The eleventh episode is available now featuring music from Kyla Charter, Donovan Woods, Cassidy Mann, Scott Hardware, The Weather Station, and more.

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KYLA CHARTER’S DEBUT LP, OUT TODAY, SHARES NEW VIDEO

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KYLA CHARTER’S DEBUT ALBUM, EDIBLE FLOWERS, OUT TODAY

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Today, Kyla Charter releases her debut album, Edible Flowers. Having lent her voice to the backgrounds of tracks and performances from July Talk, Alessia Cara, and Zaki Ibrahim, to Rich Aucoin and Patrick Watson, the LP marks her first official step to the forefront.

For the album, Charter teamed up production team Safe Spaceship (Chino De Villa (Jessie Reyez, Justin Nozuka, Charlotte Day Wilson), Scott McCannell (Claire Davis, Aphrose) and Ben MacDonald), to bring her unique brand of soulful vocals to her astonishing debut album.

In celebration of release day, Charter is sharing the new video for album track “Bach To The Future” from animator Alkarim Jadavji. The song was a “turning point for me and the first song I finished with my producers in Safe SpaceShip for this project,” says Charter. “We had been working on a few songs prior to this one that had more traditional song structures, but I’d brought this little guitar idea to the guys (you can hear me playing it mid-song during the breakdown) and they ran with it into the night!”

“The vocals on this song were really special for me because it wasn’t about capturing the greatest vocal performance, it was about capturing where I was in that moment, I didn’t do a second take or try and make it prettier or more consumable, and that set the president for the rest of the record. Edible Flowers became a voyeuristic look into my internal world, which honestly was a bit scary. I’ve spent a lot of my life trying to take up as little space as possible, in many ways it’s expected of me as a black woman in society; but through the pandemic I’ve had the space to get to know myself and the multitudes that I contain and I’m so grateful to have been able to capture some of that with Bach and the record as a whole. 

“Bach to the Future” is a tilt of the hat to Yohann Sebastain who's cello suites/arpeggiated lines were inspiration for the bass lines that run throughout the song (played by Scott McCannell). Chino Devilla put so much work into the aesthetics of the sound and is playing drums and percussion, and Ben MacDonald played those incredible trippy Synth lines.”

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MORE ABOUT EDIBLE FLOWERS
Following album opener “Doubts”, “Bach To The Future” is a further amalgamation of Jazz, Soul, and Hip-Hop all melting together into a truly original blend that is idiosyncratic and a direct sonic manifestation of Kyla’s creativity.

The tempo steps down and hits a mellow stride on “Hey Mama” a slow jam laced with sharp snares, crunchy drums, distant keys and an angelic falsetto. Each track on Edible Flowers is emotive and infused with individuality that gives it a life of its own. Rarely do the tracks stay still, expanding and contorting with bridges, extensions, distortions, sonic glitches and effects to further bring you into the experience. “Breaking Dishes” boasts some of the LP's most experimental choices with beautifully ominous vocals and an altered drum break that pops in and out of time. 

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Written in the heat of summer 2020, Charter along with her team of producers Safe SpaceShip sought to capture a series of vignettes that served as a way of processing the times. 

“I truly could not focus on anything” the songwriter recounts, “I couldn’t watch movies, follow storylines, listen to new music, nothing. I was so overwhelmed by the world that I could only focus on one thought at a time. My songwriting process is usually having the seed of an idea and building it outwards. For this record, and in working with Safe Spaceship, I was able to do away with traditional song structures… to get really avante with it, haha!” 

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Kyla’s talents are evident in every aspect of her album, with production exclusively handled by Safe Spaceship and Charter herself, each track displaying its own dynamic sound. “Qwyn”'s soft somber tone is juxtaposed against the more Neo-Soul influenced “The After Party” further detailing the extent of the songwriter’s musical range. The human voice is used most as an instrument on the album closer “Another Name”, with just hand claps and humming as the bed for lyrics of grief and mourning. Edible Flowers is truly a breath of fresh air, aglow with creativity, originality and vision.

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MORE ABOUT KYLA CHARTER
A graduate of Humber College Jazz and Contemporary Music Program for Vocal Performance, Kyla was invited to sing with July Talk at Field Trip Festival by her good friend James Baley. The performance was the beginning of a beautiful working relationship and the start of her professional career. Over the years Kyla has lent her vocals to artists that include Alessia Cara, Zaki Ibrahim, Rich Aucoin, and most recently Patrick Watson. After singing together for a CBC First Play Live session in the fall of 2019, Patrick invited Kyla to accompany him on a last minute trip to Paris to play France Inter, and subsequently to open for him on the European leg of his tour for 2019’s Wave. 

The tour began in February of 2020 and was cut short by COVID-19 but the singer was excited to come home and continue working on her first album. As restrictions eased in the summer of 2020 Kyla began working full force on her first body of work.

EDIBLE FLOWERS TRACKLIST
01 Doubts
02 Hey Mama
03 Bach To The Future
04 Breaking Dishes
05 Qwyn
06 After Party
07 Another Name 

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