PONDERCAST EPISODE 47 : STORY TIME WITH THE MOTH

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Episode 47 marks the start of Season 3 of Pondercast! In this episode Laurie Brown joins forces with another podcast, The Moth, to talk about storytelling. The Moth has been encouraging real people to tell their real stories in front of an audience for 22 years. If you haven’t listened you should..right after you listen to this episode.

Whether you believe it or not - you have a story that deserves to be told. What is it? How would you tell it? We hope this episode inspires you to tell yours. The world needs more stories. Thanks to The Moth for sharing a story with us, and for taking the time to sit down with Pondercast.

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On September 14, Pondercast host Laurie Brown and JUNO Award Nominated electronic composer and musician Joshua Van Tassel will explore how city-dwellers merge with their natural surroundings during a live podcast recording that takes visitors on a virtual journey to the moon and back with Moon Merge. The evening will feature performances by Choir! Choir! Choir!, Bernice and a special silent disco set by Rich Aucoin.

The Bentway is an innovative public space project underneath Toronto’s Gardiner Expressway and have now announced its Fall 2019 programming calendar under the theme Second Nature. From September to November 2019, The Bentway will bring together artists, community activists, urbanists, scientists and innovators to explore ways urban dwellers can reconnect to the natural world. Tickets can be found here.

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And if you’ve ever wondered how Laurie, Joshua, and Ty actually make a Pondercast episode, they’ve given a peak behind the curtain with a new video.

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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 fourth episode of Ponderbeat is live now, featuring music from Ada Lea, Begonia, Close Talker, FET.NAT, River Tiber, Tamino and more.

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TAMI NEILSON SHARES NEW SINGLE, NEW LP COMING SOON

CANADIAN-BORN, NEW ZEALAND-BASED DYNAMO VOCALIST TAMI NEILSON GETS BACK TO HER FAMILY ROOTS 

WATCH AND SHARE “HEY, BUS DRIVER!” HERE

CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN NOVEMBER 16

NEW ALBUM CHICKABOOM! DUE OUT FEBRUARY 14, 2020 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC

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No one forgets the first time they saw Tami Neilson. She can hush a room with an original song that channels the hurting spirit of Patsy Cline or the sensuality of Peggy Lee, or bring the audience to its feet on a rockabilly raver.

She’s an artist with real range, whose powerful voice can take on big ballads, golden-age country, heartfelt Gospel, soul-infused R&B, Western swing, even old-style rock ‘n’ roll. Tami encompasses them all and is a personality-powered cyclonic force of nature in stylishly retro attire, long lashes and a stacked-high beehive.

Previous media accolades come from both sides of the Atlantic, including Rolling Stone, which called her “a fire-breathing belter on her own terms” and the U.K.’s Guardian, which asserted that “her powerhouse voice recalls 1950s stars such as Wanda Jackson and Patsy Cline.”

Of her new album’s title, CHICKABOOM!, Tami explains, “I wanted to write an album of punchy little songs, popping firecrackers that, when stripped back to nothing but a guitar, percussion and two voices, would still go boom!” The new collection brings much personal and family history to the table. 

Of the song “Hey, Bus Driver!,” Rolling Stone notes that “instead of a somber lament, this is a lively plea to get back home as quickly as possible, with Neilson ordering the bus driver to put the pedal down as she lets loose with a powerful wail.”

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Tami grew up performing across North America with the Neilson Family Band, working alongside greats such as Johnny Cash, Tanya Tucker, and Kitty Wells. With her parents Betty and Ron (her late father a songwriter of considerable accomplishment) and two brothers Todd (drums) and Jay (bass), she spent years on the road learning her craft. This enabled Tami to explore her increasing vocal and emotional range and build a deep well of musical influences to draw upon when she started to write her own material.

Subsequently, Tami fell in love with a New Zealander, moved to the bottom of the world and began her solo career without the support of the family. Over many years she built a platform for herself through open-mic nights, playing soulless casinos and the dead-air time-slots at festivals, finding a small group of fellow travellers and supportive players, and then a series of increasingly impressive albums followed.

The early records saw her in a self-created territory between mainstream country and alternative country, a couple recorded around the kitchen table back home in Canada with brother Jay, who is now an acclaimed producer and songwriter. Then awards started coming in New Zealand for albums that added breadth to her “country singer” label: Best Female Artist, Best Country Album, Best Country Song, an APRA Silver Scroll (songwriting) award and Album of the Year nominations. Her Dynamite! album of 2014 received rave reviews in Britain’s MOJO and the Guardian named it a Top 10 Best Country Music Album. Tami’s songs appeared on the Netflix series Wanted and the terrestrial TV series Nashville.

Tami Neilson’s singing and writing is too big to contain, as HMV Canada noted: “There are singers and then there is Tami Neilson, for whom the word singer just isn’t big enough.”

The road has now led to CHICKABOOM!, which is something different again, and even more personal. “In the past year, I started to notice something,” she says. “The artists I would spend time with backstage at festivals, the ones I gravitated to the most and followed on social media – artists like the Secret Sisters, Shovels & Rope, Kasey Chambers, Brandi Carlile – they all had family performing with them. When you tour away from loved ones, it makes a world of difference to have part of your village with you on the road. Not to mention, nothing can come close to that special blend of blood harmonies and silent communication that only comes from being onstage with a person for over 30 years. Family has always been a huge part my music-writing, recording and creating with me, but I wanted family on this project and on the road with me again.” Brother Jay flew to Auckland, New Zealand from Toronto to record a selection of new songs that have unmistakable sibling magic and harmonies. “I don’t think he quite understands what he’s gotten himself into but now the album’s coming out it’s a bit too late. Sucker,” she laughs.

And if you’ve missed Tami before — on record or in concert — then you are in for a treat, and you might not quite understand what you’ve gotten yourself into either. 

TOUR DATES
Sep 10 - Nashville, TN - True Music Room at Cambria (11PM)
Sep 12 - Nashville, TN -WMOT/NPR World Cafe War Memorial Auditorium (2PM)
Nov 16 - Wakefield, QC - Blacksheep Inn
Nov 18 - Toronto, ON - Mod Club Theatre 
Nov 21 - Sorel Tracy, QC - Azimut Diffusion
Nov 22 - Quebec City, QC - Palais Montcalm
Nov 23 - Repentigny, QC - Centre D’art Diane Dufresne
Nov 28 - Knowlton, QC - Théâtre du Lac Brome
Nov 29 - Longueuil, QC - Theatre de la Ville
Nov 30 - Saint Therese, QC - Cabaret BMO

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TAMINO ANNOUNCES NEW DELUXE LP, SHARES NEW TRACK

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CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN SEPTEMBER 12

“[a voice] which soars from a throaty croon to a glass-shattering falsetto in a single breath” – BBC

“The promise was bigger than we ever imagined” – NPR

“22 year old musician Tamino-Amir Moharam Fouad’s effortless and inherent talent has gained him quick notoriety among not only his fans in Europe but leaps and bounds beyond continental borders with the release of his debut album Amir” - Northern Transmissions

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Tamino is very pleased to share details of a new deluxe version of his acclaimed debut album, Amir. It was released almost a year to the day since the record’s original release in October 2018.

The deluxe version of Amir, released October 18, 2019 through Arts & Crafts, will feature two recordings which originally missed the tracklisting for Amir. One of which, “Crocodile”, is available to stream today here. 

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The deluxe release will also feature two new live recordings, performed alongside the stunning Nagham Zikrayat Orchestra who also feature on the original album, two demo recordings of “Chambers” and “Tummy”, and two stark live recordings from a show at La Cigale in Paris from earlier in the Spring.

Amir was produced by PJ Maertens and Jo Francken, and recorded at both Maertens’ house in Belgium and at Audiworkx Studios in Holland.

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It’s been a breakthrough year for 22-year-old Tamino Moharam Fouad, the Antwerp based musician of Egyptian and Lebanese heritage, with his voice infiltrating the far corners of Europe and beyond building a fanatical fanbase around his startling, visceral, and stirring emotive sound. In November, Tamino returns to Antwerp to headline the Lotto Arena.

Amir is a record that is proving a real word-of-mouth success, ending 2018 in The Independent’s Albums of the Year and finding support on the BBC, NPR, and a variety of high-profile European television and radio stations. It’s not just the media that have been picking up on Tamino’s power, but fellow musicians too. This year Tamino has performed with Lana Del Rey at her request, and he counts Radiohead’s Colin Greenwood as a bandmate now (who also features on a selection of recordings on Amir playing bass guitar).

Although the majority of the playing heard on Amir is Tamino himself, he is joined by a collective of Arabic musicians based in Brussels called Nagham Zikrayat. The Firka (orchestra) is predominantly made up of professional musicians from the Middle East, most of which have refugee status having predominantly fled from Iraq, Morocco, Tunisia and Syria. Members of the orchestra are long-standing fans of Tamino’s late grandfather, a famous actor-musician in the golden age of Egyptian cinema. They contacted Tamino to request his performance at a concert in honour of his late grandfather. Not being a native speaker, Tamino politely declined but invited the orchestra to assist him in the making of Amir. 

Tamino embarks on his debut North American tour, beginning Sep 11 in New York City (SOLD OUT), then makes his first appearance in Toronto on Sep 17 (SOLD OUT). Following this, Tamino will make a very special, first trip out to the Middle East and North Africa in October, taking in debut shows in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia, and Turkey. The demand for his arrival out there is testament to the word of mouth momentum that Amir has already accumulated outside the typical touring countries that he’s already made his name within. He then returns to Europe in November with two new UK shows in Manchester and The Scala in London in early December, his biggest UK so far.

Over the course of Amir, Tamino captures a range of emotions from romance to desolation, and almost everything in between. It’s mood music, painted in a number of different shades. This deluxe release will act as a timely reminder of what makes Tamino such a special young artist, and shows the progression he has soon made from those initial demo recordings right through to his stunning live sound of today.

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AMIR DELUXE TRACKLISTING

Disc 1
1.  Habibi
2.  Sun May Shine
3.  Tummy
4.  Chambers
5.  So It Goes
6.  Indigo Night
7.  Cigar
8.  Each Time
9.  Verses
10. W.o.t.h
11. Intervals
12. Persephone

Disc 2 (Bonus) 
1. Crocodile
2. Every Pore
3. Chambers – Demo
4. Tummy – Demo
5. Intervals - Live at Jet Studio ft. Nagham Zikrayat Orchestra
6. Every Pore - Live at Jet Studio ft. Nagham Zikrayat Orchestra
7. w.o.t.h - Live at La Cigale
8. Intro (La Javanaise) - Live at La Cigale
9. Verses - Live at La Cigale

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TAMINO LIVE DATES

Sep 11 - Brooklyn, NY – National Sawdust
Sep 12 - Quebec City, QC - Imperial (St-Roch-XP)
Sep 13 - St. Agathe, QC - Théâtre Le Patriote
Sep 14 - Ottawa, ON - Cityfolk Music & Arts Festival
Sep 17 – Toronto, ON - The Drake Hotel
Sep 18 - Chicago, IL - Schubas Tavern
Sep 20 - Los Angeles - CA - The Moroccan Lounge
Sep 22 - San Francisco, CA - The Chapel
Oct 12 - Cairo, EG - Jazz Club 610
Oct 17 - Ankara, TR - Milyon Performance Hall
Oct 18 - Istanbul, TR - Zorlu Center for Performing Arts
Oct 19 - Izmir, TR - Soldout Performance Hall
Oct 25 - Casablanca, MA – Rialto Cinema
Nov 12 - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje
Nov 14 - Maastricht, NL - Muziekgieterij
Nov 16 - Antwerp, BE - Lotto Arena
Nov 19 - Paris, FR - Olympia
Nov 20 - Luxembourg, BE - den Atelier
Nov 21 - Nijmegen, NL - Doornroosje
Nov 23 - Den Haag, NL - Paard
Nov 29 - Berlin, DE - Silent Green
Dec 2 - Dublin, IR - Button Factory
Dec 3 - Manchester, UK - YES (Pink Room)
Dec 4 - London, UK – Scala
Dec 6 - Cologne, DE - Luxor
Dec 7 - Zurich, CH - Mascotte
Dec 8 - Lausanne, CH - Les Docks 
Dec 9 - Milan, IT - Santeria Toscana 31
Dec 10 - Rome, IT - Monk
Dec 13 - Barcelona, ES - Festival Mil.Lenni – La (2) de Apolo
Dec 14 - Madrid, ES -  Café Berlin
Dec 15 - Toulouse, FR - Metronum

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