PONDERCAST EPISODE 55 : THE SOUND OF FEELING PT 1.

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In this episode – after some well deserved holiday rest and a very successful live performance of Pondercast at The Longest Night solstice celebration – Laurie, Joshua, and Ty start the New Year off with a bang. Episode 55 : Feeling The Sound is part 1 of a 2 part series all about intervals. The building blocks of western music. 

Every interval comes with a feeling that is bred in our bones. Prepare to feel emotionally manipulated as we wander through the octave, the minor 2nd, the major and minor 3rd...and the list goes on! Joshua Van Tassel has written some amazing music for this episode...and Laurie has written stories...dark ones and light ones.

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Recently, the Pondercast team added a new item to their online store. The Night Journal is designed to go hand-in-hand(ear?) with our audio guide – you’ll need both for the magic to work. So get your journal, favourite pen and a speaker then let Laurie Brown reintroduce you to your senses as she guides you through seven nights of drawing, writing and designed activities set to the soundscapes of Joshua Van Tassel. 

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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 fifth episode of Ponderbeat is live now, featuring music from Bombay Bicycle Club, Little Scream, Frazey Ford, Bodywash and more.

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THE FRANKLIN ELECTRIC SHARE “GHOST” FROM UPCOMING EP

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IN YOUR HEART EP OUT FEBRUARY 21, 2020 VIA NETTWERK

Montreal based Alt/Indie-Folk collective The Franklin Electric share their latest single “Ghost” from their upcoming In Your Heart EP, out February 21, 2020. “This song speaks about taking a good look at yourself inside and out,” says frontman Jon Matte. “We can easily wander off the path away from ourselves sort of like a ghost.” 

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The JUNO Award nominated group recently wrapped up a headline European tour, and have now announced their In Your Heart Canadian Tour, starting on February 19 in Toronto at Horseshoe Tavern and wrapping up on February 29 in London, Ontario at Rum Runners. A full list of dates is below

Since emerging in 2014 with their debut album This Is How I Let You Down, The Franklin Electric have logged nearly 400 shows, canvassing the world alongside everyone from Mumford & Sons and Ben Howard to Edward Sharpe and City and Colour. Along the way, 2017’s Blue Ceilings marked a major milestone. Not only did the record produce favorites such as “I Know The Feeling” and “Someone Just Like You”, but it also led to a nomination at the 2018 JUNO Awards in the category of Breakthrough Group of the Year. 

Stay tuned for more updates The Franklin Electric in the coming weeks.

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TOUR DATES
2/19 – Toronto, ON @ Horseshoe Tavern
2/20 – Trois Rivieres, QC @ Cabaret De L’Amphitheatre Cogeco
2/21 – Montreal, QC @ MTelus
2/26 – Ottawa, ON @ The 27 Club
2/27 – Kingston, ON @ Mansion
2/28 – Hamilton, ON @ Mills Hardware
2/29 – London, ON @ Rum Runners

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FRAZEY FORD ANNOUNCES NEW STUDIO ALBUM, SINGLE, NORTH AMERICAN TOUR

U kin B the Sun OUT FEBRUARY 7 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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2020 NORTH AMERICAN HEADLINE TOUR BEGINS FEBRUARY 29

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“... the instrumentation is face-meltingly amazing” - Julia Jacklin (for UNCUT)

“Don't be fooled by the glittery jumpsuit. Frazey Ford is out for blood.” - NPR

“Ford tiptoes between soft jazz, smoky soul, and austere country” - Pitchfork

“It’s hard to think of another singer who suggests Dolly Parton, Ann Peebles and Feist. She phrases intuitively, waiting on a word and then drawing it out, and turns good lyrics to oatmeal, adding strange new colors to vowels, making whole syllables vanish.” - The New York Times

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Today, Vancouver-based soul-Americana artist Frazey Ford announces her third album U kin B the Sun due out February 7, 2020 on Arts & Crafts. At turns ecstatic and heavy-hearted, gloriously shambolic and deeply purifying, the new album is the outcome of a certain personal transformation that Ford has experienced in recent years. With its graceful collision of soul and psychedelia and sometimes ’70s funk, it’s a body of work that invites both self-reflection and wildly joyful movement, and ultimately sparks a quiet transcendence.

To expand that sense of presence, Ford made a point of preserving many of the lightning-in-a-bottle moments captured during those first sessions for U kin B the Sun. As a result, the album embodies the same untamed and ineffable energy that guided its creation. “There’s certain songs that just appear and there’s no art to it,” says Ford. “To me those songs have some kind of spiritual quality—sometimes I feel like they’re these different voices that you’re able to channel. There really was something magical about the improvisational aspect and how that shaped the album, and such a joy in the experience of really reveling in what we were all creating together.”

Lead album single “Azad” reveals the rich emotional texture of U kin B the Sun, embedding Ford’s lyrical storytelling with sharply rendered memories of early childhood (a time she spent living on a commune in Canada as the daughter of American draft dodgers). With its brightly shuffling beats and soaring vocal work, “Azad” offers a poignant message of courage. “There’s something to that song that’s about survival, and about the love that my siblings and I have for each other in coming through an intense situation together,” says Ford.

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Throughout the stirring new collection, Ford seamlessly inhabits an entire world of shapeshifting rhythm, elevating every beat and groove with the subtle magnetism of her mesmerizing voice as she examines pain and loss telegraphed through a prism of unfettered joy. To that end, “U and Me” takes the unlikely form of a tenderly enchanted breakup song, while “Holdin’ It Down” brings a confident determination to its expression of weary perseverance. And on the anthemic, recently released single “The Kids Are Having None Of It”, Ford responds to the toxic political climate with irrefutably bold sense of assurance.

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Recorded at John Raham’s Afterlife Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, featuring her Vancouver musicians, Darren Parris, Leon Power, Craig McCaul and Caroline Ballhorn along with Phil Cook on keys, U kin B the Sun follows Ford’s 2014 release Indian Ocean, an album made with members of legendary Memphis soul band The Hi Rhythm Section. U kin B the Sun partly draws inspiration from several instances of serendipity that transpired during her international touring in support of Indian Ocean—including playing separate rooms in the same venue as D’Angelo one night in Holland, which eventually prompted her 2017 cover of the iconic neo-soul singer’s “When We Get By”. 

Revered for her singular voice, immersive lyrical storytelling and captivating live show, Frazey Ford will support U kin B the Sun with a North American headline tour kicking off February 29 in Montreal. 

TOUR DATES
2/29: Montreal, QC @ Petit Campus
3/2: Toronto, ON @ Mod Club Theatre
3/4: Nanaimo, BC @ The Port Theatre
3/5: Victoria, BC @ Capital Ballroom
3/18: Seattle @ The Crocodile Café
3/19: Portland, OR @ Mississippi Studios
3/21: San Francisco, CA @ Independent
3/24: Los Angeles, CA @ The Satellite
3/25: New York, NY @ Baby's All Right
3/26: Washington, DC @ Pearl Street Warehouse 
3/27: Philadelphia, PA @ World Café
7/17-7/19: Vancouver Folk Music Festival @ Jerico Beach Park

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U kin B the Sun Tracklist:
1. Azad
2. U and Me
3. Money Can't Buy
4. Let's Start Again
5. Holdin' It Down
6. Purple and Brown
7. The Kids Are Having None Of It
8. Motherfucker
9. Golden
10. Everywhere
11. U kin B the Sun

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