ABIGAIL LAPELL ANNOUNCES NEW LP, SHARES FIRST SINGLE

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GETAWAY DUE OUT FEBRUARY 1, 2019 VIA COAX RECORDS / OUTSIDE

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TOUR DATES BEGIN NOVEMBER 30

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 Call it prairie noir, or Canadiana desert rock: Abigail Lapell sings haunting, gorgeous modern folk songs, mapping epic natural landscapes and deeply intimate, personal territory. The Toronto vocalist, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist has released two acclaimed solo albums. Hide Nor Hair, her Chris Stringer-produced sophomore LP, won a Canadian Folk Music Award for Contemporary Album of the Year in 2017.

Getaway, Lapell’s ambitious third release due out February 1, 2019 via Coax Records / Outside, is bookended by songs about leaving. LP opener and first single “Gonna Be Leaving” echoes with the irony of someone who threatens to leave yet never goes—and the certainty that, sooner or later, every relationship will end.

“This is one of my favourite tunes on the album, and one of the most fun to play live,” says Lapell. “The song started as a guitar part that I couldn’t get out of my head, this insistent line that keeps circling back on itself, doubled by the vocals in a sing-song rhyme all about the contradictions of couplehood: the push and pull of independence versus commitment, trying to make it work even against the odds, or trying to leave and not being able to.

At the heart of these anxieties, to me, is the idea of impermanence in any relationship (one way or another, one partner will ultimately be the first to exit). I recently got engaged, so these themes have been on my mind! I love how the band builds on that simple, recurring melodic idea with a heartbeat rhythm section, tiptoeing piano, and overlapping harmonies that rise to a halting finale, rich with ambivalence.”

New album Getaway out February 1, 2019 via Coax Records https://www.abigaillapell.com https://www.coaxrecords.com Music and lyrics by Abigail Lapell Lisa Bozikovic (piano, vocals), Dan Fortin (bass), Jake Oelrichs (drums), and Dana Sipos (vocals) Produced and recorded by Chris Stringer Mastered by Fedge LYRICS: Said it in the evening, said it in

For Getaway, Lapell spent time in the mountains, digging through her vault of unreleased material, and ended up with dozens of road songs to choose from. Working again with Stringer at Toronto’s Union Sound studio, she expanded her pool of collaborators, recruiting Christine Bougie (Bahamas) on lap steel, Dan Fortin (Bernice) on bass, and Jake Oelrichs (Run With The Kittens) on drums. Trumpeter and composer Rebecca Hennessy plays on “Sparrow for a Heart”—her trumpet swirling in a sublime duet with Lapell’s synth flute and electric guitar—and also arranged horn parts for band workout “Little Noise”, with Tom Richards on trombone. The latter, a subtle nod to the ‘Me Too’ movement, may even inspire listeners to get up and dance. The album also features longtime collaborators Lisa Bozikovic on piano and vocals, Dana Sipos on vocals, Rachael Cardiello on viola, and Joe Ernewein on pedal steel.

Getaway sounds fuller than Lapell’s previous records, her signature howl and warm, melodic guitar chops matched by a bluesy rhythm section. Building gang vocals on “Devil in the Deep” culminate in the entire band crying ‘Hallelujah, Amen’. Lapell and Stringer also incorporate otherworldly sounds, including an X-Files-like keyboard part on “UFO Song”, which tells the tale of a close encounter in rural Saskatchewan.

Yet there are also spacious piano interludes (“Leningrad”), and even an accordion tune (“Runaway”), that nod to how Lapell sounds playing solo. One of the record’s most striking moments is just acoustic guitar and two voices: Lapell and Sipos, captured live in a room together, harmonizing overtop plucked strings on the transfixing “Down by the Water”.

Closing the album, the other song about leaving, “Shape of a Mountain”, written in the Alberta Rockies during a Banff Centre artist residency, sets majestic scenes of wanderlust over cinematic strings (played by Vancouver cellist Peggy Lee, a Banff collaborator, and Toronto violinist Aline Homzy). The result is Lapell’s most eclectic and confident album to date.

Since the release of 2017’s Hide Nor Hair, Lapell has been on the road, touring across Canada, the U.S. and Europe, and playing at festivals like Pop Montreal, Mariposa, In The Dead Of Winter, Tiny Lights, and Folk On The Rocks. Watch for more tour dates from Lapell in the near future.

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GETAWAY TRACKLIST

01 Gonna Be Leaving
02 Ask Me No Questions
03 Devil In The Deep
04 Leningrad
05 Sparrow For A Hearth
06 Halfway To Mexico
07 UFO Song
08 Runaway
09 Down By The Water
10 Little Noise
11 Shape Of A Mountain

 
ABIGAIL LAPELL TOUR DATES
Nov 30 - Ottawa, ON - National Arts Centre
Dec 1 - Montreal, QC - Rocket Science Room
Jan 25-27 - Halifax NS - In the Dead Of Winter Festival
Feb 8 - Burlington, VT - Radio Bean
Feb 9 - Hanover, NH - Skinny Pancake
Feb 11 - Cambridge, MA - Club Passim
Feb 13-17 - Montreal, QC - Folk Alliance
Feb 18 - Montreal, QC - Casa del Popolo
Feb 20 - Ottawa, ON - Irene's
Feb 24 - Hamilton, ON - Casbah
Feb 27 - Toronto, ON - The Burdock
Mar 2 - Winnipeg, MB -Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 3 - St. Clements, MB - Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 5 - Winnipeg, MB - Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 6 - Niverville, MB - Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 7 - Altona, MB - Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 8 - Cartwright, MB - Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 9 - Wawanesa, MB - Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 10 - Birtle, MB - Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 12 - Kelwood, MB - Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 13 - Baldur, MB - Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 14 - Winnipeg, MB - Home Routes House Concert Tour
Mar 15 - Winnipeg, MB - Prairie Ink
Mar 17 - Regina, SK - Cloud 9
Mar 19 - Saskatoon, SK - 134 Homemade Jam
Mar 20 - Red Deer, AB - House Concert
Mar 22 - Edmonton, AB- TBA
Mar 23 - Calgary, AB - Cornerstone Music Cafe
Mar 28 - Vancouver, BC- The WISE Hall
Mar 30- Vernon, BC- TBA

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DANIEL ROMANO SHARES VIDEO FOR 'RHYTHMIC BLOOD", NEW ALBUM, 'FINALLY FREE', OUT THIS FRIDAY

DANIEL ROMANO TO RELEASE FINALLY FREE THIS FRIDAY VIA YOU’VE CHANGED RECORDS

WATCH AND SHARE THE VIDEO FOR “RHYTHMIC BLOOD” HERE

 FINALLY FREE CANADIAN TOUR BEGINS THIS FRIDAY

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Daniel Romano is set to release Finally Free this Friday via You’ve Changed Records. The 9-song set is Romano’s eighth long playing album in the last eight years.  Recording, producing, designing his album art, and directing 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.

Today, PopMatters premiered the video for the new song “Rhythmic Blood,” stating “...he illuminates the inherent dissonance associated with self-criticism while realizing the hate is simply blather and bunk.”

Last week, Exclaim! premiered the video for “The Long Mirror Of Time.” In chatting with them, Romano said that the song celebrates the unconformities of the natural and supernatural worlds. "The tangible world can often suppress our inherent instincts to shift our shape and transcend our surroundings,” he stated. “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."
 
Noisey previously shared the video for the song “All The Reaching Trims.” Of Finally Free, they state, “While it sounds like shards of every Romano incarnation that came before it, it’s also deconstructed, unshackled by any sort of stringent boundaries of form.”  Continuing, “Finally Free is consistently dreamy, shaded with vibes that touch on the mystical and evoke the glory of the natural world. But it’s also punctuated with explosive moments of joy, like the climatic blast of its lead single ‘Empty Husk,’ or the vocal bursts that emerge all throughout ‘Have You Arrival,’ as Romano delivers what sounds like a gentle cosmic sermon over fingerpicked guitar.”

Flood Magazine chatted with Romano about album’s lead off track, “Empty Husk,”  saying “‘Empty Husk’ and the entirety of Finally Free is a lucid plea. It is a final apology and an attempt at the unwarranted reconciliation between us and everything in our path (including ourselves). These are my most proud prose and this is my most accomplished and honest musical output. It is dense and challenging and sometimes very difficult. Thank you. To whatever put this all together through me. I was alongside you in a blaze of creative wonder and I will never forget it.”  

WATCH AND SHARE “THE LONG MIRROR OF TIME” HERE

WATCH AND SHARE “ALL THE REACHING TRIMS” HERE

WATCH AND SHARE “EMPTY HUSK” HERE

Daniel Romano has also announced additional tour dates in support of Finally Free, beginning this Friday in Toronto. Daniel Romano’s Finally Free will be available on compact disc, across digital retailers, standard black vinyl, as well as limited edition translucent red & green split colored vinyl available at Independent Retailers. Finally Free is available for pre-order now via You’ve Changed Records. All tour dates are listed below.

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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

 
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

 # with FRIGS

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TERRA LIGHTFOOT SHARES LIVE AT MASSEY HALL CONCERT FILM

TERRA LIGHTFOOT SHARES LIVE AT MASSEY HALL CONCERT FILM WITH FANS

DANIEL LANOIS, MELISSA McCLELLAND GUEST IN LANDMARK CONCERT

 Terra Lightfoot today announces the release of her Live at Massey Hall concert film, available now to view via Massey Hall and to stream via broadcast partner SiriusXM.

WATCH AND SHARE TERRA LIGHTFOOT LIVE AT MASSEY HALL HERE

Recorded December 8, 2017, Terra Lightfoot’s Massey Hall concert took place three months after the release of her acclaimed album New Mistakes, which would go on to be nominated for a JUNO and longlisted for the Polaris Music Prize. For this memorable performance, Lightfoot was joined onstage by Daniel Lanois (who played guitar on “You Get High”), and Melissa McClelland (harmony vocals on “Stars Over Dakota”) of Whitehorse, who Lightfoot was supporting that evening. 

‘Playing Massey Hall was one of the most memorable moments of my career,” Lightfoot beams. “Last year, it seemed like my band and I had visited every part of the globe — Japan, Australia, Europe and the UK, plus Canada and the US. Along the way, I had a lot of incredible experiences, climbed mountains real and metaphoric. And Massey Hall was one. I was honoured to play that room, thrilled that the concert was captured and excited to be able to share it with fans.”

WATCH AND SHARE TERRA LIGHTFOOT LIVE AT MASSEY HALL

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Watch more live concert films like this at www.liveatmasseyhall.com Hamilton's Terra Lightfoot makes us laugh, makes us cry, and tears the roof off Massey Hall in her debut performance at the Hall with very special guests, Whitehorse's Melissa McClelland and the legendary Daniel Lanois.

In the year since that landmark concert, Lightfoot and her band have played across North America, Europe and Australia, alongside artists such as Willie Nelson, The Posies, Toad the Wet Sprocket, The Sheepdogs, Jim Cuddy, Matt Mays and William Crighton.

Lightfoot continues to seek out new peaks, recently developing and curating The Longest Road Show, a new tour that will cross Ontario in February 2019, featuring a bill co-headlined by Lightfoot, Lindi Ortega and Begonia. Visit terralightfoot.com/tour-dates for all of Terra’s upcoming concerts and don’t miss a chance to catch this electrifying artist perform live.  

About Terra Lightfoot


Terra Lightfoot is a ferocious talent. Shot through with the guitarist-vocalist’s powerful, bluesy soul, vivid lyrics and six-string virtuosity, her latest full-length, New Mistakes, has thrilled audiences and earned critical praise from around the globe, including the likes of No Depression, Pop Matters, Guitar Player, Twangville, The Boot and CBC Music. Lightfoot released her self-titled debut album in 2011; its critically acclaimed follow-up, 2015’s Every Time My Mind Runs Wild, marked the artist’s arrival as a striking songwriter and compelling live performer. 2017 brought two new albums: the orchestral collaboration Live in Concert and her third studio album, New Mistakes – the latter nominated for Adult Alternative Album of the Year at the 2018 JUNO Awards and long-listed for the Polaris Music Prize.

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Terra Lightfoot Live at Massey Hall Photo (credit Nick Wons)

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