DANIEL ROMANO DEDICATES “THE LONG MIRROR OF TIME” VIDEO TO THE FREAKS

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FINALLY FREE OUT NOVEMBER 30 VIA YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS

TOUR DATES BEGIN NOVEMBER 30

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With the release of Finally Free just around the corner, Daniel Romano is sharing the new video for album cut “The Long Mirror Of Time” courtesy of Exclaim!. The song celebrates  “the unconformities of the natural and supernatural worlds,” says Romano. “The tangible world can often suppress our inherent instincts to shift our shape and transcend our surroundings. The long mirror of time is in-fact not a mirror but a passage of prisms. This song is for those who do not see themselves in these monotonous rays of light and instead remain unseen or further yet, push on into a realm imperceptible to those trapped in the mirror. The long mirror of time, reveals the prism faces, but not mine. Always dedicated to the freaks.”

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Out November 30 via You’ve Changed Records in Canada, Finally Free is Romano’s eighth long playing album in the last eight years. Recording, producing, designing his album art, and directing their accompanying videos, Romano has had what understatedly would be considered a prolific output of entrancing, poignant and creative work in this span of time. Finally Free follows his acclaimed 2017 album Modern Pressure, which Noisey praised, “It’s sonically spiritual to 2016’s Mosey, and shows Romano continuing to sharpen his signature sound, combining elements of retro-tinged rock ‘n’ roll, country, and psychedelia to create a vibrant tapestry of tunes that feel just as at home in 2017 as they might in 1965” while an unnamed subjugate exclaimed, “No matter what he does, everything he puts out is better than anything else being put out by anyone else.”  

Finally Free was recorded on a 4-Track Tascam cassette recorder with Romano making constant stream of consciousness commitments to everything that was recorded in order to bounce them down to stereo and free up tracks for additional elements. “On every record I make strict limitations for myself,” Romano says. “This was by far the most extreme, but I also believe it has rendered the most honest and liberating results.” Overall, Finally Free harks back to Romano’s early studies and obsessions in traditional folk music while simultaneously conveying a surprisingly modern and engaging aesthetic. Dense with wisdom and blissfully encouraging in these end times.

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Romano has also announced his initial tour dates in support of Finally Free, which begin on November 30 in Toronto, full tour dates can be found below. Romano’s Finally Free will be available on compact disc, across digital retailers, standard black vinyl, and limited edition translucent red and green split colored vinyl available at Independent Retailers. The LP is available for pre-order now via You’ve Changed Records.

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DANIEL ROMANO ON TOUR
Nov 30 - Toronto, ON Lee’s Palace #
Dec 1 - Ottawa, ON 2 Club #
Dec 2 - Quebec City, QC L’Anti #
Dec 3 - Montreal, QC Bar Le Riz #
Dec 6 - Waterloo, ON Starlight #
Dec 7 - London, ON Rum Runners #
Dec 8 - St. Catharines, ON Warehouse #
Jan 24 - Brooklyn, NY The Knitting Factory *
Jan 25 - Philadelphia, PA Boot and Saddle *
Jan 26 - Washington, DC DC9 *
Jan 27 - Richmond, VA The Camel *
Jan 29 - Asheville, NC Mothlight *
Jan 30 - Athens, GA Georgia Theatre *
Jan 31 - Atlanta, GA The Earl *
Feb 1 - Nashville, TN Mercy Lounge
Feb 25 - Vancouver, BC Biltmore Cabaret
Feb 26 - Victoria, BC Lucky Bar
Feb 28 - Calgary, AB Commonwealth
Mar 1 - Edmonton, AB Starlite Room
Mar 2 - Saskatoon, SK Capital Music Club
Mar 3 - Regina, SK The Exchange
Mar 4 - Winnipeg, MB The Good Will

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* with T. Hardy Morris

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FINALLY FREE TRACKLIST
1. Empty Husk
2. All The Reaching Trims
3. The Long Mirror Of Time
4. Celestial Manis
5. Between The Blades of Grass
6. Rhythmic Blood
7. Have You Arrival
8. Gleaming Sects of Aniram
9. There Is Beauty In The Vibrant Form

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TOM WILSON’S LEE HARVEY OSMOND ANNOUNCES NEW LP, SHARES FIRST SINGLE

TOM WILSON DISCOVERS HIS TRUE IDENTITY ON LEE HARVEY OSMOND’S MOHAWK, OUT JANUARY 25 VIA LATENT RECORDINGS

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“Over the course of discovering my true identity, the intention of my writing, my music and my art is to reduce the gap between my indigenous culture and colonialists to make a more patient, loving community.” – Tom Wilson aka LeE HARVeY OsMOND

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When Tom Wilson created the moniker Lee Harvey Osmond he wasn’t entirely certain if this was a new stage name or merely a provocative handle for the musician/artist collective assembled by producer Michael Timmins to record a collection of Tom Wilson songs that would become A Quiet Evil. This was the first of four albums bearing the featured artist Lee Harvey Osmond. The Folk Sinner was next, followed by the break through Beautiful Scars. It was during this time between releasing Beautiful Scars and recording Kings and Kings with Blackie and The Rodeo Kings that Wilson went public with his recent discovery. He was not exactly the person he thought he was.

In his 50s, Wilson learned that the parents who raised him were not his birth parents; that, in fact, he was adopted and that his biological mother and father were Mohawk from the Kahnawake reserve, just outside of Montreal. Grappling with this newfound sense of himself plunged Wilson into a quest for his heritage and his truth, and led to the writing of his bestselling autobiography, Beautiful Scars (Doubleday Canada). The book is a colourful and truthful tale of this quest, and his life’s tribulations and successes along the path.

“It is a story of finding your way home,” he says. “It’s a story of adoption, of growing up thinking you’re a big, sweaty, Irish guy, and finding out at the age of 53 that you’re a Mohawk.”

The discovery of his true heritage and the culture that it carries now informs all of his art. On this fourth Lee Harvey Osmond album, Mohawk, due out January 25 via Latent Recordings, Wilson continues down the path of his “long way home, ”Wilson says. “It is my way of showing honour and respect to a culture that I’m just shaking hands with. My truth was hidden from me - I was born a Mohawk baby, and finally I’m becoming a Mohawk man,” a line he sings on the LP’s first single, “Mohawk”, available to stream and buy today.

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Under the steady hand of producer Michael Timmins, the musician collective Lee Harvey Osmond revives the origins of ‘Acid Folk’ with appearances from old friends Ray Farrugia (percussion), Aaron Goldstein (steel guitar), Jesse O’Brien (keyboards) and introduces Anna Reddick (bass). The expanded use of Darcy Hepner’s brass and baritone sax and brilliant harmonica flashes from blues veteran Paul Reddick and Wilson’s son, Thompson Wilson, sound as guideposts behind the moody grooves of Wilson’s literary recital. Suzie Ungerleider (Oh Susanna) provides the perfect backing vocal ingredient for Wilson’s baritone.

Wilson’s life has been an ongoing quest so it is perhaps inevitable that after decades immersed in poetry, literature and music he would turn attention to visual art, a language that transcends the verbal and the written. The packaging and visual elements of Mohawk incorporate Tom Wilson creations. In particular a painting of the same name from his collection Beautiful Scars: Mohawk Warriors, Hunter and Chiefs

He is still driven to ask questions, to seek meaning from the elusive mysteries hidden beneath the surface of everyday existence, to come to terms with his history, his identity; to aspire to higher truths and to understand his place in the world. “If I have 20 more years on this planet, I hope to keep becoming a Mohawk, because I can’t become a Mohawk the way my brothers and sisters and ancestors did.”

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MOHAWK TRACKLIST
01 Colours
02 Forty Light Years
03 BAM
04 Kingdom Come
05 Whole Damn World
06 Magic
07 Mohawk
08 Burn Of Love
09 A Common Disaster
10 What I Loved About You

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ARTS & CRAFTS AND MASSEY HALL READY VOL 1 OF LIVE AT MASSEY HALL VINYL RELEASE SERIES

ALBUM FEATURES DAN MANGAN, DESTROYER, ANDY SHAUF, EMILY HAINES, JAPANDROIDS, CŒUR DE PIRATE, BAHAMAS, & MORE

WHITEHORSE LIVE AT MASSEY HALL CONCERT FILM NOW ONLINE AHEAD OF RECORD STORE DAY BLACK FRIDAY

“For Canadian performers, it’s a rite of passage. It’s not the biggest venue in the country’s largest city, by any stretch, but it’s easily the most important … ”

November 21, 2018 // Toronto, ON - With these liner notes, celebrated author Michael Barclay entrenches the storied past, present, and future musical history of Toronto’s Massey Hall. His words set the stage for a monumental new vinyl release series that captures the fascinating evolution of one of the world’s most venerated concert venues, a room that has housed timeless performances by everyone from Joni Mitchell to Glenn Gould since opening its doors in 1894.

To honour the evolution of the hallowed hall, and to distill its more recent magical nights, Arts & Crafts, in collaboration with Massey Hall, will release a series of special live albums from the Live at Massey Hall concert films, a new platform designed to spotlight Canada’s modern frontier of music legends. Arriving for the first time on November 23 in a beautiful vinyl package exclusively for Record Store Day Black Friday, Volume One of Live at Massey Hall compiles transcendent performances from ten indelible Canadian artists captured between July 10, 2014, and December 8, 2017.

Today, in anticipation of the November 23 RSD Black Friday release, Whitehorse debuts the Live at Massey Hall concert film from that enchanting December 8, 2017 night. The harmonious duo of Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet has been a flagship artist of Massey Hall since their debut headlining show at the venue in 2013, an audacious booking for the then relatively new band that partially inspired this whole series. Featuring their album-stopping performance of “Die Alone,” Whitehorse embodies the high sonic and emotional ceilings of the age-old Hall with a rendition that richly unfolds in a lonesome resonance that slowly stops time.

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“Massey Hall is thrilled to participate in this Friday’s, Record Store Day with our first ever vinyl release and collaboration with our friends at Arts & Crafts,” says Deane Cameron, Massey Hall President & CEO. “It is our hope that this vinyl series will continue to showcase the immense musical talent who have performed on our stage for the Live at Massey Hall concert film series, as well as help drive music fans coast-to-coast out this Friday to support their local record shop.”

The record opens with Destroyer alone onstage with his acoustic guitar and elegant poetry, every nuance of his voice and strings filling the silence of the hall. Constantines taps into its punk rock gospel essence with spine-tingling call-and-response. Hayden channels the pulse of the city he came up in, invoking his early days as a performer and a phone call from Massey Hall hero Neil Young. Dan Mangan + Blacksmith stretches the experimental boundaries of against-the-grain folk, while Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton counters the stadium pop of her band Metric with Haines’ own deeper narratives.

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Side two opens with the masterfully crafted storytelling of Regina, Saskatchewan’s Andy Shauf, followed by francophone Québecois artist Cœur de pirate’s incredible ascension to a sold-out Massey Hall. Bahamas delivers a pin-drop performance of precise songcraft and gorgeous restraint. Japandroids literally bring the house down with the aptly titled “The House That Heaven Built,” before Whitehorse drops the curtain with the heartrending and serene “Die Alone.”

“As diehard live music fans, it is an incredible honour for Arts & Crafts to take part in bringing this project to fruition,” says Arts & Crafts President Kieran Roy. “The immaculate quality of each performance is a testament to the distinct power of Massey Hall, a feeling that is no doubt shared by the countless crowds and artists alike that have made this our indisputable favourite place to witness live music.”

Arts & Crafts announces that $1 from every sale of this series will be donated to Massey Hall to support the Massey Hall Revitalization. An historic, refurbishment, restoration, and addition set to enhance Massey Hall by 2020, supporting patron and artist accessibility, restoration of key structures in the National Historic Site, and significant investment in artist development and community outreach. For more information about the Massey Hall Revitalization, go here.

Support your independent record stores and beloved artists this Record Store Day Black Friday. Go here for a list of participating stores in your area.

LIVE AT MASSEY HALL VOL 1 TRACKLIST:
Destroyer “Foam Hands”
Constantines “Nighttime/Anytime (It’s Alright)”
Hayden “Almost Everything”
Dan Mangan + Blacksmith “Vessel”
Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton “Fatal Gift”
Andy Shauf “The Magician”
Cœur de pirate “Place de la République”
Bahamas “Like A Wind”
Japandroids “The House That Heaven Built”
Whitehorse “Die Alone”

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