PONDERCAST EPISODE 28 : MOTHERS & DAUGHTERS

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Today’s episode, Mothers & Daughters, comes from a live performance of Laurie Brown’s Pondercast at The Music Gallery in Toronto, and “from the bottom of my heart,” says Brown. “Writing about my complicated relationship with my mother was hard - and if you struggle with your mother - you understand why.”

While we all come out of wombs, our experience of ‘mothering’ has changed a lot. Brown says, “I don’t think the experience of the mother daughter is entirely unique, I know that fathers feel a similar push-pull in relationships with their daughters. You will see yourself in here I hope.”

Told from both the point of view of the mother and the daughter - it’s a familiar story. This was episode written as a companion piece for a performance called Speculation with Leslie Ting. Speculation is about Leslie’s re-examination of her experience with her mother. Leslie created the music for this Pondercast with Joshua Van Tassel creating the sonic accompaniment.

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Recently, Killbeat Music partnered with the team at Pondercast to bring you Ponderbeat, a series of special episodes featuring selections curated by Brown from some of Killbeat’s latest releases. The second episode of Ponderbeat is live now, featuring music from Dan Mangan, Great Lake Swimmers, Begonia, Kaia Kater, and more.

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CHARLOTTE DAY WILSON CAPS BIG 2018 WITH RELEASE OF SPOTIFY SINGLES

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"Charlotte Day Wilson is a one-person powerhouse. The Toronto soul musician creates emotionally captivating songs by letting life simmer." - THE FADER

“...a lush collection of jazz-infused ballads that chug through your veins at the pace of her downtempo beats.” - CBC MUSIC  

"Charlotte Day Wilson has a voice that can hold a room." - PITCHFORK

“...satin vocals and a smouldering approach to R&B...” - EXCLAIM!

“With meticulously crafted lyrics, lurid crooning and sighing, Stone Woman gives us a scope of how much Wilson will be able to excel on a full-length...Six songs is not enough to satiate us.” - NOW MAGAZINE

"An artist in complete control who doesn't shy away from displaying her vulnerability." - KCRW

"Stone Woman is an exercise in toiling in hurt and trying to express it thoughtfully." - NOISEY

"[A] rising multi-faceted powerhouse who is bridging the worlds of soul and R&B with her infectious music and production." - V MAGAZINE

"She can shush viewers to silence with heart-wrenching lyrics and rile them up with a surprise saxophone solo-all in the same song." - HARPER'S BAZAAR

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PHOTO CREDIT : Bryan Huynh for V Magazine

Charlotte Day Wilson had an incredible 2018, a year that saw the release of her acclaimed second EP, Stone Woman, followed by sold-out tours across North America and Europe. She caps off the year with the release of her Spotify Singles, featuring live versions of her single "Doubt" and a cover of Dolly Parton's 1977 hit "Here You Come Again".

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Since its release in February, Stone Woman has been streamed over 30 million times across all platforms. For the second time, Wilson was nominated for a Polaris Music Prize (her first EP CDW was nominated in 2017), and her video for "Work" (off CDW) was awarded the 2018 Prism Prize for best Canadian music video. Wilson and the video's director Fantavious Fritz used the prize money to create the Work Film Grant, a fund that awarded $10,000 to emerging female and non-binary directors.

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Buy/Stream: 'CDW' : http://charlottedaywilson.com "Work re-imagines the familiar image of people commuting to work as a moving portrait. This video is the result of the hard work and collaboration of many intelligent, strong and compassionate women, genderqueer and trans folks close to Charlotte, myself and our crew, who invited their friends, family and complete strangers to come together in support of one another with love, warmth and hope."

Charlotte Day Wilson performed on KCRW's Morning Becomes Eclectic in the spring, a session that the station called "stunning." April also saw the release of "No Pain" the DJDS single featuring Wilson on vocals alongside Khalid and Charlie Wilson. In July, she performed at the after party for the Louis Vuitton men's fashion show in Paris at the personal invitation of designer Virgil Abloh.

Charlotte Day Wilson will return in 2019 with more new music. Watch for more updates.

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Charlotte Day Wilson is a 26-year-old vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist from Toronto.

With roots ranging from R&B to folk, her soulful, singular voice and timeless sound garnered global attention with the 2016 release of her debut EP CDW, and through her work with friends and collaborators BADBADNOTGOOD, Daniel Caesar, and River Tiber.

The November 2017 release of single "Doubt" marked her first new music in more than a year, an intimate yet accessible anthem for the unsure, driven by the strength and honesty of her voice. As with all her previous works, Charlotte served as performer, multi-instrumentalist and producer, an artist in full control of her unique creative vision.

"Doubt" also represented the opening salvo of Charlotte's second release, Stone Woman, a six-track project self-released February 23. Stone Woman is Charlotte's first project in the 18 months since CDW, and it chronicles the growth and uncertainty of that period, and a search for a sense of truth and identity.

"It's about recurring themes and issues repeating themselves in relationships," Charlotte told Pigeons & Planes in a January 2018 interview around the announcement of the EP.

"Stone Woman was a lyric I came up with for a song. As soon as the words came out of my mouth I knew there was a story I wanted to tell about this image of cold strength and beauty I was conjuring in my mind. When I was writing I kept coming back to those two words and I found an identity in them. It helped me understand how my stoic tendencies affect my relationships. It fit perfectly as the title."

The project represented a return as poignant as it was anticipated. The introductory CDW has been collectively streamed more than 25 million times and in June of 2017 it was named to the long list for the Polaris Music Prize.

"In Your Eyes", Charlotte's stirring vocal feature on BBNG's 2016 release IV, landed on the Polaris short list, while also earning BBC6 Music's Album Of The Year honour. Charlotte toured extensively in 2016 and 2017, selling out headline shows and sharing stages with Local Natives, Angel Olsen, BADBADNOTGOOD, Daniel Caesar, Thundercat, Syd, and many more.

But the release of Stone Woman marked a new chapter for Charlotte, one defined by clarity, vulnerability and strength. It was a clear statement of intent, a stirring demonstration of Charlotte's power and poise and her emergence as an essential voice in 2019 and beyond.

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RIVER TIBER SHARES NEW SINGLE, "DEEP END"

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PRAISE FOR RIVER TIBER

"Narrowing the gap in the soul spectrum between Jodeci and Flying Lotus." – RBMA

“Sultry alt-R&B that falls somewhere between Jeff Buckley and Justin Timberlake.” - COMPLEX

“Toronto’s most valuable collaborator.” - FADER

“One of the best representations of a regional vernacular that keeps getting more and more interesting.” - PITCHFORK

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Photo Credit : Devon Little // DOWNLOAD HIGH-RES

Toronto vocalist, producer and multi-instrumentalist Tommy Paxton-Beesley AKA River Tiber shares new track “Deep End”, a subdued but tension-laden record that continues Paxton-Beesley's tradition of crafting every element of the music himself - writing, recording, producing, as well as performing vocals, synths, keys, bass, violin, drums, vibraphone and producing his own samples. The FADER calls “Deep End” “a love song, both to a person and to isolation from a gross world, and a testament to the creative depths both can bring.”

Of “Deep End” Paxton-Beesly says:

“When I was recording the vocals for this song there were these fighter jets from the CNE airshow flying overhead that were so loud. So I hit record and got an hour or so of these incredible sounds and used them as transitions - the sound of burning oil.

Devo (Devon Little) took the cover photo when we were on tour living in a suspended reality for a few days. I never even knew he took it, I was in a dream. I was listening to the song and looking through old photos and it stood out. It was a moment in time, the beginning and the end. I had started writing the song that same month.”

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Written, Recorded, Produced by Tommy Paxton-Beesley Vocals, Synth, Rhodes, Bass, Violin, Drums, Vibraphone, Samples by Tommy Paxton-Beesley Mixed by Tommy Paxton-Beesley & Philippe Rochefort Mastered by Marc Thériault Photo by Devon Little
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River Tiber’s growing catalogue is anchored by 2016 full length Indigo, and 2017 single “Patience” which Pitchfork called “as intense as R&B gets.”

Since his earliest releases, River Tiber’s incredible range of talent has kept him at the core of a celebrated group of Toronto collaborators that includes Daniel Caesar, BADBADNOTGOOD, Charlotte Day Wilson, and producer Frank Dukes.

Through extensive work with Dukes and others, River Tiber has appeared via feature or sample on records like Travis Scott Astrothunder, PARTYNEXTDOOR Things & Such, Post Malone’s Cold and on songs by Usher, Jhene Aiko, Ty Dolla $ign, Kaytranada, BadBadNotGood, Mac Miller, Kodak Black and many more.

Notably, River Tiber’s 2016 collaboration with Daniel Caesar “West” was prominently sampled on “Broken Clocks” from SZA’s multi-Grammy Award nominated record CTRL.


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