PONDERCAST EPISODE 48: MOON MERGE

September 20, 2019

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Episode 48 of Laurie Brown’s Pondercast is a live recording of the episode from Moon Merge at The Bentway in Toronto on September 14th - the night of the full Harvest Moon. Moon Merge was created by Laurie and The Bentway so that Toronto could experience Luke Jerram’s Museum of the Moon - an exact replica of the moon, 7 metres in diameter, lit from within.

It was hung underneath the Gardiner Expressway in Toronto. “The idea of presenting Pondercast with this moon as the backdrop, sent ME to the moon,” says Laurie.

“So it was a perfect night to wax on about the moon. Which we did for about 8,000 people. Joining Joshua Van Tassel and myself on stage was Michael Eckert on pedal steel guitar. They stirred up a mesmerizing musical atmosphere for us all. Moon Merge will take you to the moon and back - as we contemplate how we experience nature living in a big city -and up on our planetary satellite.”

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Moon Merge also featured performance 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 has 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.

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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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DONOVAN WOODS GOES “WAY WAY BACK” ON NEW SINGLE

September 20, 2019

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**NEW ALBUM, THE OTHER WAY, OUT NOW VIA MEANT WELL**

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Armed with “a knack for slice-of-life storytelling” (Rolling Stone), Donovan Woods shares the new song titled “Way Way Back", available everywhere today. Woods’ songs have been praised by NPR, FADER, Rolling Stone, Billboard, American Songwriter, and now, he teams up with producer Todd Clark (Phillip Phillips, Noah Kahan, Dua Lipa) on the new track.

Written entirely by Woods, “Way Way Back” juxtaposes love — both new and familiar — and the peculiar space it occupies in one’s mind. Woods dives into the internal, emotional conflict individuals face when rekindling an old flame. Recorded in Nashville’s Mt. Eden Studios and produced by Clark, who also lends his musicianship on the keyboard, guitar, and vocals. The ambient track also features Woods’ guitar-picking, accompanied by the mellow percussion of Jerry Roe (Rodney Crowell, EmmyLou Harris, Luke Combs) on drums.

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“My partner said something once about the idea when people get back together with past romantic partners," says Woods. “You always go as far as you’ve gone. If you slept together back then, you’d sleep together again. I thought it was a funny thought, and definitely true. But, it's not something I’d ever heard anyone say out loud. So, I took that idea and explored the peculiar space that old sexual partners seem to occupy in everyone’s mind. It can be hard to escape the comfort and nostalgia that memory lane offers, and that’s what Way Way Back is about. The whole song — production and arrangement — is indicative of this push and pull between the risky excitement of something new and the ease of something familiar.”

This marks the first release following Woods’ win for 2019 Roots Album of the Year at the Canadian Country Music Awards (CCMA) and 2019 JUNO Award for Contemporary Roots Album of the Year.

Woods is currently on the road will with Ruston Kelly throughout the US and will return to Canada for a string of shows at the end of the year. Full dates can be found below. For tickets and more information, visit donovanwoods.net.

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PRAISE FOR DONOVAN WOODS

“...a heartfelt hug” - NOW Toronto (On Both Ways)

“...a rugged, rocking alt-country romp, with Born in the U.S.A.-style stompers…”
- Exclaim! (On Both Ways)

“He’s got a knack for slice-of-life storytelling that blends heartache and hooks.” – Rolling Stone

“…soulful passion, studied craftsmanship.” - American Songwriter

“His songs are worth a million bucks.” – WXPN/NPR

* Supporting Ruston Kelly

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JACQUES GREENE SHARES VIDEO FOR “DO IT WITHOUT YOU” FROM UPCOMING LP

September 19, 2019

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Today, Jacques Greene is sharing the new Mathieu Fortin video for “Do It Without You”, the first single from his upcoming LP, Dawn Chorus, out October 18 via Arts & Crafts.

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A bold step forward, Dawn Chorus is also Greene’s most collaborative project to date, featuring additional production and instrumentation from film composer Brian Reitzell (Lost In Translation), cello by London’s Oliver Coates, additional production from Clams Casino and original vocal contributions from ambient artist Julianna Barwick, rapper Cadence Weapon and singers Ebhoni and Rochelle Jordan, all sampled, processed and stitched back into the album.

If Greene’s 2017 debut album, Feel Infinite, was the soundtrack to a dream pregame – amping you up to lose yourself in the club – then Dawn Chorus resides in the post-rave reflective moment. A time of heightened sensuality and latent possibility.

Greene approached the making of Dawn Chorus as if he were a band. He lived in the studio for five months this past winter – half the time at home in Toronto, the other half in Hudson Mohawke’s studio in L.A. – and wrote these songs in a sprint to capture this chapter in his life. Ten years into the game and not yet in his thirties, his perspective on the value of dance music and where it rests with his daily life and inspiration bare out on this album. While samples played a big part in his early output, his creative process for Dawn Chorus revolved around recording a stellar cast of musicians, arranging new parts.

To craft the sound of the record, he thought about the artists he held dear and researched the gear they used as a means of being in dialogue with their emotional tenor. Some of the gear he sourced included the delay that My Bloody Valentine was renowned for, as well as a compressor used by French Touch producers Alan Braxe and Fred Falke. Working with mix engineer Joel Ford (of Ford & Lopatin), he created a rule book for the album’s sonics that saw each part, from the drums to the pads, be processed in a specific way, through guitar pedals and outboard equipment.

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Dawn Chorus opens with “Serenity”, an all-back-to-mine breaks tune that Greene describes as “a weird, euphoric take on Chemical Brothers.” “Night Service” is a neon-lit hip house anthem helmed by Canadian rapper Cadence Weapon, who drapes a love letter to the club around Greene’s acid-dipped synths. Elsewhere, “Distance” blends ambient textures with sampled birdsong and the snaking lines of Oliver Coates’s cello.

Now 29, Greene has been making music “about the club” for over a decade. His sound could be described as an emotional haze, in that its balance of sonic elements work to illuminate the overlapping feelings that lie between the familiar binaries. Outside of his own releases, Greene has explored his relationship with the club in a variety of contexts, from remixing Radiohead to producing for Katy B and Tinashe and touring with The xx.

He will tour Dawn Chorus in Europe and North America this fall with a stop in Montreal on October 26. Full dates can be found below.

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DAWN CHORUS TRACKLIST
1. Serenity
2. Drop Location
3. Do It Without You
4. Night Service
5. Sel
6. Let Go
7. For Love
8. Sibling
9. Whenever
10. Understand
11. Distance
12. Stars

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TOUR DATES
Oct 17 - Berlin, DE @ Burg Schnabel
Oct 18 - London, UK @ St. Pancras Old Church (Sold Out)
Oct 18 - Manchester, UK @ Warehouse Project (DJ set) (late show)
Oct 19 - London, UK @ Five Miles (DJ Set)
Oct 23 - Brooklyn, NY @ National Sawdust
Oct 25 - Los Angeles, CA @ The Echo
Oct 26 - Montreal, QC @ Ausgang

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