TASSEOMANCY ANNOUNCE SPRING TOUR DATES

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES WITH MEGA BOG BEGIN APRIL 29

PERFORMANCES IN TORONTO, OTTAWA, QUEBEC CITY, HALIFAX, FREDERICTON, MONTREAL & HAMILTON

DO EASY, OUT NOW VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC / HAND DRAWN DRACULA

WATCH AND SHARE “DO EASY” HERE

“Tasseomancy have added a bit of magic to the mundane, injecting the pop stratosphere with their own transfixing blend of influence.” – i-D

“Glowing, dreamy retro-pop song, undercut with a little bit of melancholy” – FADER

“Otherworldly experimental pop—think Kate Bush soundtracking an interdimensional shuttle ride.” – Noisey

“Creatively endearing and delightfully unsettling” – Consequence of Sound

“A really lovely record” – Brooklyn Vegan

PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Perlin // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Tasseomancy have returned from a full run of European tour dates with Andy Shauf and will set out on the road in North America this month with Mega Bog. Full tour dates can be found below.

On their latest album, Do Easy, sisters Romy and Sari Lightman explore the Discipline of D.E. (Do Easy), a William Burrough’s short story outlining a don't-bust-a-gut Buddhist philosophy. On the album, i-D claimed that “Tasseomancy have added a bit of magic to the mundane, injecting the pop stratosphere with their own transfixing blend of influence,” while the FADER described it as “Glowing, dreamy retro-pop song, undercut with a little bit of melancholy.”

Noisey called Do Easy “Otherworldly experimental pop—think Kate Bush soundtracking an interdimensional shuttle ride.”

WATCH AND SHARE “DO EASY” HERE

Sari and Romy Lightman are former members of queer cold-wave band, Austra. Channelling their former forays in psychedelic folk into a kind of lushly accessible, warmly experimental dream-pop along with bandmates Johnny Spence and Evan Cartwright, they explore manipulated sounds, all with mood in mind. Assisted by friends Brodie West (alto-sax), Ryan Driver (flute), Simone Schmidt (voice of a young Neil Young), and Alex Cowan (Blue Hawaii) that exploration reaches full bloom on Do Easy, the sound of a band hitting their richly imagined, luxuriously executed stride. And, wealth of evocative references included, making it all sound easy.

TASSEOMANCY TOUR DATES
04/29 Toronto, ON - Live in The Stacks @ Yorkville Branch w/ Castle If
04/30 Ottawa, ON -  Pressed*
05/02 Quebec City, QC - Le Cercle (Basement)*
05/04 Halifax, NS -  Seahorse tavern*
05/05 Fredericton, NB - Reads (All Ages)*
05/06 Montreal, QC - Drones*
05/07 Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool*
05/08 Cleveland, OH - Mahalls*
05/09 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle*
05/10 Detroit, MI - UFO Factory*
05/11 Sarnia, ON - Refined Fool Brewery*
05/12 Hamilton, ON - HAVN*
*with Mega Bog

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TASSEOMANCY SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR “DO EASY”

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DO EASY, OUT NOW VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC / HAND DRAWN DRACULA
 

“Tasseomancy have added a bit of magic to the mundane, injecting the pop stratosphere with their own transfixing blend of influence.” – i-D

“Glowing, dreamy retro-pop song, undercut with a little bit of melancholy” – FADER

“Otherworldly experimental pop—think Kate Bush soundtracking an
interdimensional shuttle ride.” – Noisey

“Creatively endearing and delightfully unsettling” – Consequence of Sound

“A really lovely record” – Brooklyn Vegan

PHOTO CREDIT: Steven Perlin // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Following the recent release of their striking new album Do Easy on Outside Music / Hand Drawn Dracula, Toronto twin sister duo Tasseomancy (formerly of Austra) have shared the surreal video for track “Do Easy” via The FADER. Showcasing the versatility and range of sisters Romy and Sari Lightman, “Do Easy” proves beguiling in its simplicity. Whimsical melodies and feather-light production easily charm, invoking the likes of Eleanor Friedberger / Fiery Furnaces in their endearing (and beautiful) quirkiness.

The band elaborates further about the video to The FADER: "While writing ‘Do Easy’, we were interested in manifesting the domestic flow of William Burroughs’, The Discipline of DE. In Zak Tatham’s video, this domestic order is overthrown; chaos reigns and we break on through to a more instinctual side. The Tower represented by the sterile condo is the dangling carrot of comfort and emotional disconnect.  It Ignores our bodies and gaslights the planet, quietly hisses ‘fuck off’. By smashing down the condo, we lay down the base of a cool new becoming. Go and take off your fancy shades, let the world's words penetrate. Wear the stains of old mistakes. Make a room where you can roll around in the shit of forgiveness. Slowly regenerate. This is a feminine destruction; a happy death."

WATCH AND SHARE “DO EASY” HERE

Tasseomancy are currently amidst a European tour supporting Andy Shauf.

Genesis P-Orridge and Kathy Acker believed William Burroughs to be a vibrant beam of clarity. P-Orridge—a disciple of Burroughs—referred to “The Discipline of D.E. as a smooth hand of magic”. Romy of Tasseomancy stumbled upon the Discipline of D.E. (Do Easy), a short story outlining a don't-bust-a-gut Buddhist philosophy and “like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest”, she was deeply touched and set out to find the easy way.

For the seasoned loners, stoners, and lackadaisically laid, Do Easy was written as a dead-beat anthem for a generation who was told that anything is possible after the possibility slows. Written in Toronto and Montreal, Do Easy was created as a lamp shade of hope and of soft survivalism. Serene, strange and magnetically sung, it honors its free thinking forbearers without being weighed down by them, creating immersive worlds of loving allusion.

Soft synths and crystalline harmonies merge hypnotically on “Dead Can Dance and Neil Young”, an invitation to “fade into folk song”. If folk song is this, it’s folk of great idiosyncrasy, where vocoded chorales provide atmospheric shading and alto-saxophones drift like cigarette smoke from a David Lynch dream-film. Between the new age synth of “Claudine & Annie”, the ambient swoon of “29 Palms”, Kate Bush-like prog-psych of “Missoula” and gently lapping title-track, Do Easy plays like pop from a parallel world.

Sisters Sari and Romy Lightman are former members of queer cold-wave band, Austra. Channelling their former forays in psychedelic folk into a kind of lushly accessible, warmly experimental dream-pop along with bandmates Johnny Spence and Evan Cartwright, they explore manipulated sounds, all with mood in mind. Assisted by friends Brodie West (alto-sax), Ryan Driver (flute), Simone Schmidt (voice of a young Neil Young), and Alex Cowan (Blue Hawaii) that exploration reaches full bloom on Do Easy, the sound of a band hitting their richly imagined, luxuriously executed stride. And, wealth of evocative references included, making it all sound easy.

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TASSEOMANCY SHARES SURREAL NEW VIDEO FOR “29 PALMS”

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ACCLAIMED NEW ALBUM, DO EASY, OUT NOW VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC / HAND DRAWN DRACULA

PURCHASE LIMITED CANADIAN ONLY CLEAR VINYL OF DO EASY HERE

EUROPEAN TOUR DATES WITH ANDY SHAUF BEGIN IN FEBRUARY 2017

“Do Easy, the album, makes the magical mundane, and vice-versa.” - Exclaim! 8/10

“Do Easy invites you into its own rarefied world, a world where things are exotic, tranquil and seductively unique and makes you want to stay there.” - Line Of Best Fit 8/10

“Exquisite… On their sumptuous third album they situate their voices on a pillowy bed of experimental pop, freak folk and, best of all, the sax-enhanced exotica of
the title track.” - Uncut 8/10

“Easily the finest work of art to come out of Canada all year… Do Easy is a beautiful, big-sounding lesson in how to do witty, wise, lyrical dream-pop with the sort of perfection that the genre deserves.” - Monocle

PHOTO CREDIT : STEVEN PERLIN

Following the excellent reviews for their just-released album, Do Easy, out now on Outside Music / Hand Drawn Dracula, Tasseomancy have shared a surreal video for album cut “29 Palms”. Of the video Tasseomancy say: “The video for 29 Palms was created by our friend, the very talented visual artist Jesi Jordan, on one of her many worldwide adventures. To us, this song encapsulates so much: written for women; for artists and for any human who has ever felt themselves falling into nothingness while grasping at their own poetic string. Whether it be a loss of self, loss of another or an attempt to create meaning in what has so been recently confirmed to be an unjust and crazy-cruel world. Jesi's video is like a friend who calls us up on the phone early in the morning and gently reminds us that life is not elsewhere but is happening by the touch of our own hand in this very moment and that's all we've got.”

WATCH AND SHARE “29 PALMS” HERE

Sisters Sari and Romy Lightman, aka Tasseomancy, are former members of queer cold-wave band, Austra. Channelling their former forays in psychedelic folk into a kind of lushly accessible, warmly experimental dream-pop along with bandmates Johnny Spence and Evan Cartwright, they explore manipulated sounds, all with mood in mind. Assisted by friends Ryan Driver (flute), Simone Schmidt (voice of a young Neil Young), and Alex Cowan (Blue Hawaii) that exploration reaches full bloom on Do Easy, the sound of a band hitting their richly imagined, luxuriously executed stride. And, wealth of evocative references included, making it all sound easy.

TASSEOMANCY TOUR DATES
11.30.16 Brooklyn – Sunnyvale
12.05.16 San Diego – Soda Bar
12.15.16 Los Angeles – The Echo w/ Weyes Blood
02.08.17 London – Oslo *
02.09.17 Manchester – Gullivers *
02.10.17 Leeds – Brudenell Social Club *
02.13.17 Cologne – Yuca *
02.14.17 Utrecht – Ekko *
02.15.17 Nijmegen – Merleyn *
02.16.17 Brussels – Botanique *
02.17.17 Luxembourg – Rotondes *
02.20.17 Lille – Le Grand Mix *
02.21.17 Paris – Café de La Danse *
02.22.17 Nancy – Autre Canal *
02.23.17 Lyon – Marche Gare *
02.24.17 St Gallen – Palace *
02.27.17 Munich – Mila *
03.01.17 Berlin – Gruner Salon *
03.02.17 Hamburg – Prinzenbar *
03.03.17 Copenhagen – Vega *
* w/ Andy Shauf

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