ABIGAIL LAPELL SHARES “DEVIL IN THE DEEP” FROM UPCOMING LP

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

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Today, Abigail Lapell is sharing another new track from her upcoming third LP Getaway, due out February 1 via Coax Records / Outside,. “Devil In The Deep” is “kind of a rock anthem that's equal parts religious symbolism and nursery rhyme,” says Lapell. “I'm fascinated by these very stylized, mythical kinds of language – the devil in music is such a timeless cliche, and water slash redemption imagery crops up a lot in my songs on this album. To me the devil figure in this song is something dark and enthralling but also a bit playful, like a trickster – maybe a good metaphor for the process of creating art.”

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New album Getaway out February 1, 2019 via Coax Records Pre-order here: http://www.smarturl.it/getaway-LP https://www.abigaillapell.com https://www.coaxrecords.com Music and lyrics by Abigail Lapell Lisa Bozikovic (vocals), Dan Fortin (bass), Jake Oelrichs (drums), Rachael Cardiello (viola) and Dana Sipos (vocals) Produced and recorded by Chris Stringer Mastered by Fedge Devil in the deep

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.

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”.

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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
Jan 24- Halifax NS - The Carleton | 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 25 - 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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TOM WILSON’S LEE HARVEY OSMOND SHARES NEW TRACK FROM UPCOMING LP

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

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TOUR DATES BEGIN JANUARY 25

“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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“Forty Light Years” is a “cannonball prayer straight to my mother’s longing heart,” says Tom Wilson. The new single from his upcoming Lee Harvey Osmond LP, Mohawk, is “a timeless quest for bonding and the nagging desire for freedom all disguised in a groovy 3:24 burning saunter,” he says. “I write these songs because I have to. I’ve finally earned that right. They often get dismissed as an offering from some ‘veteran rocker’. Allow me to fuck that shit for you right now…”

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"Forty Light Years" is from Lee Harvey Osmond's new album Mohawk being released on Latent Recordings on January 25, 2019. Pre-Order - https://lnk.to/LHOMowawkPreOrder Produced, Recorded and Mixed By Michael Timmins at The Hangar, Toronto.

Due out January 25 via Latent Recordings, Mowhawk, the fourth Lee Harvey Osmond album, centres around the discovery of Wilson’s true heritage and the culture that it carries which now informs all of his art.

When 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.”

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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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LEE HARVEY OSMOND TOUR DATES

Jan 25 – Toronto, ON – The Horseshoe | Tickets
Feb 8 – Peterborough, ON – Market Hall | Tickets
Feb 9 – Hamilton, ON – Mule Spinner | Tickets
Feb 13/14 – Montreal, QC – Folk Alliance
Feb 15 – Wakefield, QC – The Black Sheep Inn | Tickets
Feb 16 – Wakefield, QC – The Black Sheep Inn | Tickets

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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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ARIEL POSEN (BROS. LANDRETH) SHARES DEBUT LP - OUT THIS FRIDAY

THE DEBUT SOLO LP FROM ARIEL POSEN, HOW LONG, OUT THIS FRIDAY JANUARY 11

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TOUR DATES THROUGHOUT CANADA, THE US, AND THE UK BEGIN JANUARY 26

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“Ariel has wowed audiences all over the world with his masterful slide guitar work. Now, he’s stepped up to the mic and added his smoky vocals to that powerfully smooth and emotional slide, on his first solo album How Long. It does not disappoint!” — Bruce Ladan (CBC)

“...like a laidback Springsteen, building an anthemic groove during the verse before singing the slacker blues during every chorus.” — Andrew Leahey (Rolling Stone)

“Ariel Posen is the complete package: a great singer and songwriter, as well as a virtuoso guitarist. He is representative of a new generation of players who are fully schooled, either academically or self-taught, who don’t let the schooling get in the way of their soul.” — Michael Ross (Guitar Player, Premier Guitar, Guitar Moderne)

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This Friday, singer / songwriter and internationally-renowned guitarist Ariel Posen is sharing his debut LP, How Long, with the world. Known for his work with the JUNO Award winning roots-rock band The Bros. Landreth, How Long marks Posen's long-awaited solo album, showcasing not only his chops as an instrumentalist, but his talents as a diverse songwriter.

How Long casts a wide net, moving from rootsy-blues to R&B to melodic Rock & Roll. "This album is 30 years in the making,” says Posen. “An amalgam of my influences, my upbringing and my life. This album focuses on reflection and looking back, but always moving forward."

A co-writer and producer for artists of all genres, Posen shows the full range of his talents on these 10 tracks, nodding to his influences — including The Beatles, Stevie Ray Vaughan, John Mayer, and more — along the way.

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"How Long" from Ariel Posen's 2019 solo record "How Long". http://smarturl.it/arielposenhowlong Recorded Live off the floor at 68 1/2 Higgins, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

How Long is not a guitar record, although there's certainly plenty of guitar to be heard here. Instead, it's a song record, filled with hooks, autobiographical lyrics, and Posen's compelling voice. "The guitar is the tool to get the music out," he says. "Always serve the song first. Otherwise, you're just playing an instrument.”

A lifelong musician, there are few roles Ariel Posen hasn't played. Although born in Winnipeg, Posen spent much of his childhood on the road, traveling from show to show with his musician parents. He began playing guitar at 9 years old, kicking off a career that eventually found him traveling the globe for his own gigs and as a member of the The Bros. Landreth. Several years later, Posen began working on an album of his own, tracking his new songs in the same studio in which his parents once recorded their albums.

Posen will take How Long on the road later this month with stops throughout Canada, the US, and the UK. Full tour dates can be found below.

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MORE PRAISE FOR ARIEL POSEN

“I couldn’t believe it when I heard Ariel’s record. I knew he was a great guitar player, but DANG IT....he’s really really good....I also didn’t know how well he could sing or write songs. There’s so many bangers on this record, but “Fade” is for sure my favourite!” — Cory Wong (Vulfpeck)

“Ariel Posen is guitar’s man for all seasons - he’s got the songs and the voice but he’s also a stellar slide guitarist with a gutsy, expressively melodic style” — Jamie Dickson (Guitarist Magazine UK)

“Posen is a rare breed of guitar player. He has managed to meld a keen sense of theory and half a centuries worth of influences into a unique style that is all his own.” — Michael Lux (Reverb.com)

“Individuality is the centerpiece of Ariel’s sound. His wizard-like slide chops and razor-sharp songwriting skills have helped him find a singular voice that continues to combine innovation and inspiration.” — Jason Shadrick (Premier Guitar)

“Ariel Posen is one of the most toneful and tasteful players to emerge in recent years – miss out on his new album at your peril!” — Chris Vinnicombe (The Guitar Magazine UK)

2019 TOUR DATES
Jan 26 - Fullerton, CA - Slidebar Rock n’ Roll Kitchen
Jan 30 - Saskatoon, SK - Village Guitar & Amp Co.
Feb 1 - Winnipeg, MB - The West End Cultural Centre
Feb 7 - Toronto, ON - The Dakota Tavern
Feb 13 - Guildford, UK - The Boileroom
Feb 15 - Broadstairs, UK - Wrotham Arms
Feb 16 - Stoke-on-trent, UK - Bulls Head
Feb 17 - Edinburgh, UK - The Voodoo Rooms
Feb 18 - Ashington, UK - The Whitehouse Unique Social Club
Feb 19 - Birmingham, UK - The Jam House
Feb 20 - Southampton, UK - The Brook
Feb 21 - Swindon, UK - The Vic
Feb 22 - Tonbridge, UK - The Causeway Hall
Feb 24 - London, UK - The Borderline
Feb 25 - Brighton, UK - Komedia Brighton
Feb 26 - Coulsdon, UK - The Comrades Club
Feb 28 - Derby, UK - The Flowerpot
Mar 7 - Cork, IR - Coughlan’s Bar
Mar 10 - Dublin, IR - The Sugar Club
Apr 6 - Belfast, UK - Ards Guitar Festival
Apr 27 - Los Angeles, CA - The Hotel Cafe
Apr 29 - Portland, OR - Strum Guitars
May 1 - Nashville, TN - Layman Drug Company
May 2 - Charlotte, NC - Midwood Guitar Studio
May 4 - Thomson, GA - Blind Willie McTell Festival
May 6 - New York, NY - Rockwood Music Hall
May 9 - Austin, TX - Saxon Pub
May 10 - McKinney, TX - The Guitar Sanctuary

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HOW LONG TRACKLIST

01 Try
02 Things That I’ve Said
03 Daybreak
04 How Long
05 Fade
06 She Knows
07 Get You Back
08 Can’t Stop Thinking About You
09 Hollow Hour
10 Better Late Than Never

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