DAVID VERTESI TO RELEASE 15TH ANNIVERSARY ACOUSTIC EDITION OF CARDIOGRAPHY

DAVID VERTESI CELEBRATES CARDIOGRAPHY’S 15th ANNIVERSARY WITH ACOUSTIC VERSION OF THE ACCLAIMED DEBUT ALBUM - OUT NOVEMBER 27, 2025 VIA TINY KINGDOM MUSIC 

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PRE-SAVE CARDIOGRAPHY (ACOUSTIC) 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION HERE

PERFORMING ANNIVERSARY SHOWS IN VANCOUVER & TORONTO
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For fifteen years, David Vertesi has appeared as an integral part of some of Canada’s most exciting indie-rock projects. Whether he’s playing in Hey Ocean!, Shad, Dear Rouge, Hannah Georgas, or Said the Whale, producing Haley Blais, Jordan Klassen, Noble Son, Ashleigh Ball, or Riun Garner, Vertesi brings a uniquely sensuous and brooding sensibility, an intricate sonic depth that multiplies the layers of a song. 

In fact, fifteen years ago, Vertesi released his acclaimed debut album, Cardiography. At the time, Line Of Best Fit called the LP “an accomplished debut and a further testament to the ever evolving Canadian music scene,” while Exclaim! noted that "Vertesi's played his cards right" throughout the record.

To celebrate the occasion Vertesi is releasing a 15th Anniversary edition of the album with a new acoustic reimagining of the record that launched his solo career. Originally released in 2010, Cardiography introduced Vertesi’s distinct voice as a storyteller — intimate, vulnerable, and unflinchingly sincere. The album blended lush instrumentation with emotional clarity, earning praise for its melodic craftsmanship and evocative lyricism.

Vertesi returns to these songs with a renewed perspective. Cardiography (Acoustic) strips the material back to its emotional core, highlighting the raw honesty and timeless songwriting that have defined his work ever since. Recorded in a live, minimalist setting, and production by longtime collaborator Daniel Klenner (Peach Pit, Dear Rouge, Hey Ocean!), the new release captures the quiet intensity of Vertesi’s performances and invites listeners to hear the songs as they were first written — simple, direct, and deeply human.

Cardiography (Acoustic) is both a tribute to his beginnings and a testament to the staying power of songs that still feel alive fifteen years later. 

LISTEN / SHARE “MOUNTAINSIDE (ACOUSTIC)” HERE
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PRE-SAVE CARDIOGRAPHY (ACOUSTIC) 15TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION HERE

CARDIOGRAPHY 15TH ANNIVERSARY PERFORMANCE DATES

Nov 22 - Toronto, ON - Burdock Music Hall | TICKETS
Dec 7 - Vancouver, BC - The Gallery @ Artech | TICKETS

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In his solo work, these dramatic flairs ignite on full display. Across a spectrum of rough-and-tumble and tightly polished sounds, Vertesi emerges as a centre-stage, dusty spotlight balladeer, a close-to-the-chest storyteller as the narrative core of his songwriting revolves in stories of confusion, loneliness, instability, death, and existential ennui. Across 2010’s Cardiography, 2016’s Sad Dad Cruise Ship, and 2020’s Life Ghouls, Vertesi interrogates these somber questions with tender poetry and a sense of humour. 

His latest LP Fictionalized, is the clearest synthesis of his wide-ranging pop philosophy yet. Effectively a concept album on the collective spiraling of the pandemic years through an intensely personal lens, Vertesi crafts the most potent and memorable melodies of his career. With featured performances from a lineup of some of Vancouver’s brightest talents: Jordan Klassen, Haley Blais, Jill Barber, and Sam Lynch, plus co-production from the likes of Jonathan Anderson (Andy Shauf, Aidan Knight), Klassen (Dear Rouge, Jillian Lake) and Daniel Klenner (Peach Pit, Babe Corner), Fictionalized marks a new and defined landscape for Vertesi. As powerful and personal as he’s ever been, as cathartic and kind as he’s ever appeared. 

Throughout his work, Vertesi has made clear that he brings an equal command to choreographing lush and buzzing technologic atmospheres of instrumentation or squeezing the naked emotional heart out of a piano, a steady bass drum, the soft rhythm of a guitar, a choir of harmonies. But it’s his own voice that distinguishes his music, a growling inimitable baritone that deepens his playful work and further darkens his more haunted questions. It’s easy to hear why he draws comparisons to names like Leonard Cohen, Nick Cave, and Lou Reed and easy to see why Vertesi has emerged from his collaborative role into a fully formed front-man of his own musical expression.

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CARDIOGRAPHY ACOUSTIC (15th ANNIVERSARY DELUXE) TRACKLIST

01 Mountainside (Acoustic)
02 Gentlemen Say (Acoustic)
03 All Night, All Night, All Night ft. Hannah Georgas (Acoustic)
04 Learn To Run (Acoustic)
05 Cardiography (Acoustic)
06 Broadcasting (Acoustic)
07 Caroline! A Ghost! (Acoustic)
08 Rossland (Acoustic)
09 Soft Skin (Acoustic)
10 Hearts Don’t Break, People Do (Acoustic)
11 Epilogue (Acoustic)
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THE WEATHER STATION RELEASES TWO NEW SINGLES, “AIRPORT” & “ONLY THE TRUTH”

THE WEATHER STATION RETURNS WITH TWO NEW SINGLES, OUT TODAY VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

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LISTEN / SHARE “ONLY THE TRUTH” HERE
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HUMANHOOD TOUR CONTINUES IN UK & EUROPE NEXT MONTH

“Lindeman shows influences from Joni Mitchell, Fiona Apple, Beth Orton and Van Morrison, among many others. But the perspective in the songs is entirely her own, full of the 21st-century experience in all its disorientation and fleeting epiphanies.” — The New York Times

“On Humanhood, Lindeman brings the earth-swallowing scope of climate change and social collapse to human size — this is a record as much about heartbreak and community and the body as it is about our slump toward catastrophe. The record's power is in the way Lindeman tempers that pain with an abundance of light — Humanhood is a document of fear and loss, but never of defeat.” - Exclaim!, Cover Story 

“Ms. Lindeman has an uncanny ability to frame a particular feeling in terms simultaneously personal and universal.” — The Wall Street Journal

“[Humanhood] beautifully mixes pop, folk, rock, jazz, and ambient music, taking on moments of personal crisis, transition, and catharsis with engrossing poetic resolve.” — Rolling Stone

“Tamara Lindeman explores the complex interplay of personal trust, climate activism, and finding connection in a world rife with misinformation.” RANGE 

“Few artists have put out as much good music this decade as Tamara Lindeman.” — Paste

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The Weather Station, the project of Tamara Lindeman, is known for “releasing emotionally attuned, patiently beautiful music for over a decade” (Pitchfork). Leading into a UK and European headline tour, The Weather Station now returns with two new singles recorded during the Humanhood sessions: the uptempo "Airport" and the lush and evocative, "Only The Truth”. Humanhood was released earlier this year and has been hailed by The Wall Street Journal as “a beautifully orchestrated album that deftly moves between personal observations and cosmic questions” and “the best thing that she’s done to date” by NPR Music. 

“There were so many strong songs I left off Humanhood because the album had such a narrative arc to adhere to, “Lindeman says. “‘Airport’ was one of them that I’m glad to release now. I’ve always hated airports; I find them so dehumanizing. This song tells a story of a person trying to mirror what is around them; that sort of shutting down, not caring, acting like you don’t care even when you really do. At the heart of it though is, of course, an intense longing, and a hope for something alive that feels like it can't be.” 

Lindeman describes “Only The Truth” as “one of my favourite songs from Humanhood and just didn’t make the tracklist at the very last moment, but it feels so relevant and connected with the record. It intersects with ‘Neon Signs,’ it expands on the same idea; that the truth is this sort of lumpen, complicated, organic thing. Falsehoods and lies glimmer, reach towards you, need you; but the truth ‘doesn’t care if you care / all it ever is is there.’” 

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The Weather Station’s European and UK tour kicks off November 1st. It includes multiple festival appearances, a co-headline date with Destroyer, and a London Jazz Festival performance in which the band will be accompanied by a string quartet. A full list of dates can be found below, and tickets can be purchased here. 

THE WEATHER STATION TOUR DATES
Sat. Nov. 1 - Groningen, NL @ Take Root
Mon. Nov. 3 - Oslo, NO @ Parkteatret
Tue. Nov. 4 - Stockholm, SE @ Slaktkyrkan
Wed. Nov. 5 - Lund, SE @ Mejeriet
Fri. Nov. 7 - Den Haag, NL @ Crossing Border Festival
Sat. Nov. 8 - Cologne, DE @ Luxor (w/ Destroyer)
Sun. Nov. 9 - Antwerpen, BE @ Crossing Border Festival
Tue. Nov. 11 - Munich, DE @ Strom
Wed. Nov. 12 - Zürich, CH @ Bogen F
Fri. Nov 14 - Barcelona, ES @ Feroe Festival
Sun. Nov. 16 - Clermont-Ferrand, FR @ La Cooperative de Mai
Tue. Nov. 18 - Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix
Fri. Nov. 21 - London, UK - EFG London Jazz Festival @ EartH Theatre
Sun. Nov. 23 - Katowice, PL @ Ars Cameralis Festival

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RUBY SINGH & THE FUTURE ANCESTORS SHARES NEW SINGLE FROM UPCOMING LP FEAT. ARTHUR FLOWERS & ANNOUNCES POETRY COLLECTION

RUBY SINGH & THE FUTURE ANCESTORS TO RELEASE CELESTIAL LIBATIONS, A GRIOTIC ODYSSEY INTO DIVINITY, DIASPORA AND THE BLUES FEATURING ARTHUR FLOWERS - OUT NOVEMBER 21, 2025

RUBY SINGH TO ALSO RELEASE BLADED EDGE BETWEEN, A COLLECTION OF POEMS  AVAILABLE NOV 4, 2025 - MORE INFO BELOW

WATCH / SHARE “WHEN THE HAMMER FALLS” HERE
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Last month, multi-award-winning and JUNO Award-nominated ‘polymath’ Ruby Singh and the Future Ancestors announced a powerful new offering: Celestial Libations, a genre-bending blues / gospel / hip-hop / griotic album that summons myth, spirit and a future-facing reverence for the past. In this “ineffable” collaboration, Singh is joined by Arthur Flowers— 73 year old renowned Memphis-born griot, novelist, and Hoodoo practitioner.

Today, they’re sharing another new track from the album, “When The Hammer Falls”, a thunderous meditation on faith, collapse, and resilience. With Ruby Singh, Arthur Flowers, and Khari Wendell McClelland at the helm, the track fuses hard-hitting hip hop, and blues prophecy into a spell for the times we’re living in.

Part myth, part mirror, “When The Hammer Falls” asks what happens when the gods we once believed in, political, spiritual, or personal, fail us. Flowers’ Hoodoo storytelling and McClelland’s fierce flows with Singh’s razor-sharp verses, conjure a sound that sits somewhere between sermon and street anthem. It’s a song for the reckoning and for the strength it takes to keep believing when the world itself feels like it’s breaking apart.

“This song came out of watching the world unravel; climate chaos, greed, oligarchies, genocide and realizing that the hammer’s already falling,” says Singh. “We wanted to hold that truth without flinching, but also to find rhythm and spirit inside it. ‘When The Hammer Falls’ is both a warning and a prayer, a call to rise even as the sky comes down.”

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MORE ABOUT BLADED EDGE BETWEEN
On November 4, Ruby Singh will also release Bladed Edge Between, his new collection of poetry available via Next Page Press. Bladed Edge Between navigates intersections of memory, sound, and survival. This collection unfolds as a sonic archive of longing, belonging, and becoming. Anchored in the sacredness of place, diasporic grief, and mystical remembrance, the poems move through ecological resonance, spiritual inheritance, and intergenerational healing.

“Marked by a yearning for one’s ancestral roots in the Punjab, as well as a deep reverence for the foremothers whose protective prayers sing through time, these poems guide us, no matter what our respective origin story is, closer to the healing power of remembering, of music, of language,” writes Faisal Mohyuddin (author of Elsewhere: An Elegy and The Displaced Children of Displaced Children).

Governor General’s Literary Award for Poetry Cecily Nicholson adds that, “Ruby Singh’s poems navigate the loss and thrash of mortality, where winged forms lift, and the mother tongue finds a vessel. Attuned to cellular vibration, the rhythm of snowflakes, and the sonics of constellations, Bladed Edge Between is illuminated by lamplight and dances in the celestial glow. Beautiful.”

For more information about Bladed Edge Between visit Next Page Press. Book Launch and Album Launch events will be taking place around Vancouver this November.

BLADED EDGE BETWEEN LAUNCH EVENTS (VANCOUVER)
Nov 05 - Virtual Book Release Party hosted by Next Page Press  - REGISTER
Nov 07 - Enabling Arts - In Person Reading Launch (with Phanuel Antwi, Preeti Kaur Dhaliwall and Hari Alluri) TICKETS
Nov 08 - LOBE Studio - Immersive Multimedia Launch (with Hari Alluri and PIU) TICKETS

CELESTIAL LIBATIONS LAUNCH EVENT (VANCOUVER)
Nov 22 - LOBE Studio - TICKETS

PRE-ORDER BLADED EDGE BETWEEN HERE

MORE ABOUT CELESTIAL LIBATIONS 
Their creative kinship began in a moment of instant recognition of each other's work in the world: two artists from distant lineages, linked by a deep respect for ancestral craft, future seeding and storytelling as ritual. What followed was an unfolding of trust, laughter, improvisation and kinship with story, poetry, rhythm, and prayer woven into a living tapestry.

“I’d been wanting to work with Arthur for years, since we first met at the Indian Summer Festival in Vancouver and thankfully the stars aligned! I can’t believe this incredible man's work has never been recorded and released, so we wanted to make all the room on this album to celebrate this story slingin’ hoodoo man! His love and dedication to the craft in service to the greater world is deeply inspiring” says Singh. “Then I knew my brother, Khari Wendell McClelland, had to be a part of dreaming this album into existence; his voice, his spirit, his friendship and his songwriting have always enriched my life. The project had an undeniable pulse, we just kept following the signals, and through a lot of joy and kinship, this album was born”

Celestial Libations is a mythic journey, a sonic offering, and a conjuring of what feeds the spirit. An album made in reverence and resistance—born of collaboration, rooted in tradition, and reaching toward what’s possible. It doesn't look away from grief or injustice, but leans into them with rhythm, rhyme, and spirit. The album brings together the rawness of blues, the urgency of hip hop, the griotic traditions of myth and the uplift of gospel. Blending hip hop, blues, gospel, and griotic traditions, Ruby Singh & The Future Ancestors ft. Arthur Flowers pour songs and stories like libations—rituals to remember, rhythms for resistance, and spells to seed the world to come.

“I’ve been psychically wrestling with the state of the world, a live stream genocide, climate crisis, the purposeful destruction of human life and our future on this planet, all for profits of those that already have too much… really makes me question my faith in humanity and divinity. When we first started meeting, we were in deep conversation about the state of the world and the rising powers of oligarchs and facism. We knew we wanted the music to not just be responsive but generative toward the world we wanted to see. Arthur, in his wisdom, knew that we could probe these issues through one of the oldest ways humans always have: story. His griotic gifts act as a guide through the album and waters the seeds in the dry garden of the human heart” says Singh

Each track is a call across time and lineage: a prayer, a praise-song, a blues-spun incantation. With booming beats, illuminating rhymes, and soaring harmonies, the Future Ancestors summon liberation, longing, grief, divinity, and becoming.

WATCH / SHARE “GOOD GOD” HERE
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“When I first met Ruby Singh I detected his magical nature, but little did I know just how much of a dream weaver he is until he, Khari and Holly wove dreams I didn’t even know I had into realities, so fine they glow like stars in the firmament.” says Flowers 

Ruby Singh brings his composition and lyricism —drawing on ancestral memory and future vision. His voice moves from grounded spoken word to explosive rhyme, always with heart, always in service of something greater. The legendary Arthur Flowers, the blues doctor himself, brings his Hoodoo storytelling—tales of Br’er Rabbit, Sister Beetle, and the Monkey Doctor—braiding together trickster myth and wisdom with his conjuring ways. His presence is both invocation and blessing. Khari Wendell McClelland, of the Sojourners, lights the way with his gospel-infused melodies and songwriting brilliance, delivering lines that rise like fire towards the night sky. Together, this trio holds the core of a work rooted in reverence, kinship, and sonic healing. Joining this sacred constellation are Holly Eccleston (Vocals), Gordon Grdina (oud and guitar), Kenton Loewen (percussion), Paul Finlay (DJ), and Karlis Silins (upright and electric bass).

The album lives in relationship with Singh’s forthcoming poetry collection, Bladed Edge Between (out on November 4). A parallel offering, the book moves through themes of memory, sound, and survival—intergenerational grief and becoming as a spiritual act. Like the album, it is a cartography of diasporic longing, radical joy and mystic understanding that maps personal and ancestral memory across music, ritual, and migration. The book will be accompanied by a limited spoken word release. Both projects ask: What are the stories we carry? What will we leave behind? What might we become if we truly listen?

Celestial Libations draws a ceremonial circle with stardust, incanting the names of the many, for a mythic remembering. It’s blues as ceremony, hip hop as spellwork, gospel as uprising—a testament to the sacred work of becoming. 

The album will premier at LOBE Studios in Vancouver on November 21st and 22nd by way of a launch and listening party with a tour planned for the summer of 2026. 

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CELESTIAL LIBATIONS TRACKLIST
01 In The Beginning
02 Good God
03 Down Home
04 The Monkey Doctor
05 When The Hammer Falls
06 Healing
07 Brer Rabbit and Sister Beetle
08 A New Millennium
09 Leaping At The Sun
10 Descendants
11 Blessings

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