TASSEOMANCY STREAMS UPCOMING LP AHEAD OF RELEASE

DO EASY LP OUT NOVEMBER 18 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC / HAND DRAWN DRACULA

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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN NOVEMBER 17

“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

“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

“Creatively endearing and delightfully unsettling as Kate Bush herself” –Consequence of Sound

“A really lovely record” –Brooklyn Vegan

PHOTO CREDIT : Steven Perlin

Tasseomancy’s new album, Do Easy, is set for release next week, however listeners can get an advance stream of the entire LP today courtesy of Exclaim!. Twin sisters, Sari and Romy Lightman, aka Tasseomancy, will support the record with a string of North American tour dates beginning at M For Montreal on November 17. Do Easy hits the shelves on November 18 though Outside Music / Hand Drawn Dracula.

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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 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. 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.

WATCH AND SHARE THE VIDEO FOR “MISSOULA” HERE

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.

TOUR DATES
Nov 17 – M for Montreal, Montreal
Nov 18 - Hamilton, Strangebarn
Nov 20 - Guelph, Ebar
Nov 21 - Peterborough, The Garnet
Nov 23  – Baby Gs, Toronto
Nov 24 - Le Temporaire, Ottawa
Nov 25 – Vitrola, Montreal
Nov 30 – Sunnyvale, Brooklyn

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DO EASY TRACKLISTING

1.  Dead Can Dance & Neil Young
2. Claudine
3. Jimi Infiniti
4. Missoula
5. Wiolyn
6. 29 Palms
7. Do Easy
8. Do Easy Reprise
9. Gentle Man
10. Emergency
11. Eli

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BERNICE SIGN TO ARTS & CRAFTS, DEBUT SINGLE

BERNICE, THE PROJECT OF TORONTO-BASED VOCALIST / SONGWRITER, ROBIN DANN, SIGNS WITH ARTS & CRAFTS

LISTEN AND SHARE “ST LUCIA” HERE

NORTH AMERICAN LIVE DATES WITH DIANA AND
MARTHA WAINWRIGHT BEGIN NOV 11

PHOTO CREDIT : Claire Harvie

Today, Bernice released “St Lucia” – the band's first single for Arts & Crafts – via Zane Lowe's Beats 1 program and The Fader. The project of Toronto-based vocalist/songwriter Robin Dann, Bernice pairs the soulful vocal melodies of artists like Sade and Meshell Ndegeocello with the playful sonic explorations of Deerhoof and Dirty Projectors.

"St Lucia", the bouncy, maximalist R&B track produced by Grammy Award winner Shawn Everett, is inspired by Robin’s great Auntie Irene and is about maternal ancestry and the traits we know or don’t know we embody from those who came before us.

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Named after my great Auntie Irene (middle name Lucia), the song works as a reminder to myself of all the women in my family who’ve lived before me. "I wonder what of me is you?"

“As much as I'm me, I'm also them, and so everything I do is part them too; body language, bone structure, spacey brain... sense of self, identity. We can let ourselves off the hook a bit. Even though we can't escape our worries, we can still be good to ourselves, because we need it.”

Born to a musical family, the daughter of a symphony harpist and the former Toronto Symphony Orchestra's principal violist, and a graduate of Goldsmiths' MA in Music, Dann's background, formal training, and experimental sensibilities developed into Bernice’s sparse arrangements and pop-minded songwriting, often following curious and unexpected paths.

Bernice’s members and collaborators including longtime Owen Pallett collaborator Thom Gill (keyboard/sampler) as well as Colin Fisher (guitar), Daniel Fortin (bass), Philippe Melanson (drums), and Felicity Williams (supporting vocals). All are professional musicians from Toronto's music community and members of Owen Pallett, DIANA, John Southworth, Bahamas, Martha Wainwright, The Barr Brothers, and many others.

Bernice's upcoming album was co-produced by Shawn Everett (Alabama Shakes, Lucius) and Matt Smith (Owen Pallett) and co-mixed/mastered by experimental musician Sandro Perri (Polmo Polpo).

LIVE DATES
Nov 11 - Guelph, ON - eBar^ (Tix)
Nov 18 - NYC - Le Poisson Rouge* (Tix)
Nov 20 - NYC - Trans Pecos (annex space) (Tix)
Nov 23 - Toronto, ON - Mod Club* (Tix)
Dec 5 - Toronto, ON - Burdock

* w/ Martha Wainwright
^ w/ DIANA

Bernice
“St Lucia”
November 7, 2016

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TASSEOMANCY SHARES NEW TRACK “29 PALMS”

DO EASY LP OUT NOVEMBER 18 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC / HAND DRAWN DRACULA

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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN NOVEMBER 17

“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

“Creatively endearing and delightfully unsettling as Kate Bush herself” –Consequence of Sound

“A really lovely record” –Brooklyn Vegan

PHOTO CREDIT : Steven Perlin

With a few short weeks remaining until the release of their of the new LP twin sisters, Sari and Romy Lightman, aka Tasseomancy, are sharing another song from the upcoming Do Easy. “29 Palms” is “a track of hope and ‘soft survivalism’ for the outliers, stoners, and dead-beats navigating the strange times we live in,” claims Noisey, who premiered the track yesterday. It was written “in an American desert town wedged in between the infinite sands, the all night 7-11s, and the 24-hour razor fades,” Romy tells Noisey. “An ode to all the women in waiting for their psychic plumage to arrive."

LISTEN TO AND SHARE “29 PALMS” HERE

In time with the release of Do Easy, out November 18 through Outside Music / Hand Drawn Dracula, Tasseomancy are announcing the first run of their North American tour dates beginning November 17.  Full tour dates can be found below.

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 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. 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.

WATCH AND SHARE THE VIDEO FOR “MISSOULA” HERE
 

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.

TOUR DATES
Nov 17 – M for Montreal, Montreal
Nov 23  – Baby Gs, Toronto
Nov 24 - Le Temporaire, Ottawa
Nov 25 – Vitrola, Montreal
Nov 30 – Sunnyvale, Brooklyn

PRE-ORDER DO EASY VIA ITUNES

DO EASY TRACKLISTING
1.  Dead Can Dance & Neil Young
2. Claudine
3. Jimi Infiniti
4. Missoula
5. Wiolyn
6. 29 Palms
7. Do Easy
8. Do Easy Reprise
9. Gentle Man
10. Emergency
11. Eli

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