INUK ARTIST AASIVA SHARES “PIQATIIKKA” FEATURING RIIT

INUK INDIE-POP ARTIST AASIVA SHARES JACE LASEK PRODUCED TRACK, “PIQATIIKKA” VIA AAKULUK MUSIC

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Recently, Inuk Indie-Pop artist originally from Panniqtuuq, Nunavut, Aasiva, shared new single, “Namu” which has been climbing the CBC Music Top 20 an is currently #7.. Today, Aasiva is sharing another new track, "Piqatiikka", produced by Jace Lasek (Wolf Parade, The Jerry Cans, Stars) and featuring JUNO Award nominated and Polaris Music Prize long-listed nominee, Riit. 

Aasiva outlines the themes used in the song, “Piqatiikki” (which in English translates to My Friends) and how they inspired the video. “We all go through difficult situations in life,” says Aasiva. “Often the ones who support me are my friends and family. They are my rock! This song helps me express my gratitude for their unconditional love and support towards myself and my career as an artist. I love my family and friends so dearly.”

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These two singles are Aasiva's first release since her self-titled debut album in 2018, which was nominated for Best New Artist and Best Folk Album at the 2019 Indigenous Music Awards, showcased at Breakout West in the Yukon, and reached over 200,000 streams on Spotify. That same year, Aasiva performed and led youth workshops across the North and toured internationally to the Migration Music Festival in Taipei, Taiwan.

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Be on the lookout for more music from Aasiva in the near future.

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DAN MANGAN SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR “LAY LOW”

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Today, Dan Mangan is sharing the new video for “Lay Low” from his 2018 album, More Or Less. Shot over the span of a year during a global pandemic by director Deryn Robson, we follow the experience of a toddler confronting emotions of frustration, sadness, fear and happiness amidst life in lockdown.

“Deryn’s beautiful capturing of his little Auggie throughout the pandemic perfectly captured the listless feeling of floating through moments,” says Mangan. “Sometimes, dealing with yourself is enough workload - such that dealing with others as well as yourself feels like an unmanageable existential obligation. Though toddlers are more demonstrative and erratic, I think that we all basically share the same emotions as Auggie. Sometimes it’s not enough, and sometimes it’s all too much.”

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“I had the pleasure of connecting with Dan almost a year ago when he reacted to a instagram story of August, my then 2 year old child singing along to ‘Lay Low’”, says Robson. “Dan’s music had become a staple within our ‘quarantimes playlist’. August particularly loved the song, and would sing along unaware of the meaning or how it related to our current context.

As was the case for many people, the slow down in work and the sudden, jarring pause to normal life provided lots of time for introspection and observation. It immediately became apparent to me that much of my own internalized feelings of uncertainty, frustration and fear were freely expressed by August on a daily, sometimes hourly basis. August, or Auggie as he would introduce himself, provided us with a perfect abstraction of our own, sometimes unspeakable frustrations with the world we suddenly find ourselves in as we grapple with an uncertain future and a past we can't return to.”

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Mangan’s latest release, Thief, is a diverse collection of covers that've been released sporadically over the last decade collected into a single compilation. Including renditions of songs from pop superstars like Robyn and Lauryn Hill as well as 90s alternative favourites like Neutral Milk Hotel's "In The Aeroplane Over The Sea" and Elliott Smith's "Waltz #2 (XO)" (performed with Blacksmith and Zeus) the interpretations have amassed over 10 million streams worldwide.

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Over the past 10 years, Dan Mangan has transitioned from a bearded 20-something troubadour playing open mics to earning top ten radio hits, scoring Hollywood films, winning multiple JUNO Awards, and selling out legendary venues like Massey Hall. In November of 2018, Dan Mangan released, More Or Less, his most personal album to date that grapples with being a new father in an increasingly tumultuous world. He followed that release with two world tours, his debut appearance on American late night television (Jimmy Kimmel Live!), and the re-release of his breakout album Nice Nice Very Nice (10th Anniversary Edition), which serendipitously was certified Gold the month it was released. 

Mangan had planned to tour the reissue in celebration of its 10th anniversary, but the Coronavirus shutdown put a stop to that. However, as the co-founder of Side Door Access, an alternative concert booking start up, he pivoted the business to host ticketed livestream concerts and has been holding regular events for thousands of fans throughout the pandemic. 

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JULIA STONE REVEALS VIDEO FOR “FIRE IN ME”

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Just over a week out from the release of her forthcoming third solo album Sixty Summers (out Friday 30 April via Arts & Crafts), Julia Stone has revealed the incredibly striking video for her most recent single “Fire In Me”. The visual for “Fire In Me” follows the award-worthy quality of the videos shot to date for singles so far released from Sixty Summers though with a lot more dirt, danger, and horror than we’ve seen in previous clips. 

Directed by Rhys Day and produced by Coralie Tapper, the “Fire In Me” visual was shot on an isolated cattle station in the remote western Queensland Channel Country. Australian actor David Wenham (The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Van Helsing, 300: Rise Of An Empire), Jarrad Seng from Survivor AU season 2 (Julia’s behind the scenes photographer, who stepped into the role of a vampire for the video) and prolific Brisbane dancer Clarence Kent star alongside Julia Stone in a creepy and dark narrative that evokes memories of Mad Max and the Walking Dead. 

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Julia Stone declares: “The song is about a fire that drives you. The video echoes different aspects of that fire. We wanted the story to show both the will for survival and the natural urge to be good and do good, against the beauty and harshness of the outback.” 

Director Rys Day speaks on the experience of filming the video: “Having a devastatingly rugged backdrop with that amount of character and colour added a lot of life to each scene. Seeing Julia Stone and David Wenham acting out this adventure on location in a place like that created a story more vivid than I ever could have anticipated. It was an incredible experience shooting in the harsh centre of QLD.”

Producer Coralie Tapper shares more on the video’s creation, “Working with Julia, the cast and crew of Fire In Me saw film in its greatest feats. Transporting 13 crew with three times the amount of luggage, and over 3kgs of coffee, a further 3 hours west of Longreach QLD was a journey of its own. The Australian landscape promotes its roughest self out there but also such rich, simple, pure beauty. Julia Stone, David Wenham battled through with grace and stamina. The whole team behind Fire In Me worked passionately through the elements to present something truly unique and creative (with a few surprises in there also).” 

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“Fire In Me” is the fifth single from Sixty Summers following “We All Have (feat. Matt Berninger)”, “Dance”, “Unreal” and “Break”. The aforementioned tracks join nine others on Sixty Summers, the scope of which is dizzyingly vast. 

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Her first solo album in eight years, Sixty Summers arrives as a powerful rebirth for one of Australia’s most prolific artists. Emerging from the wildernesses of folk and indie-rock, on Sixty Summers Stone dives headfirst into the cosmopolitan, hedonistic world of late-night, moonlit pop. The stunning album brings us the grit and glitter of the city, with all its attendant joys, dangers, romances and risks. It is Stone at her truest, brightest self, a revered icon finally sharing her long, secret love affair with this vibrant and complex genre.

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Recorded sporadically over five years from 2015 to 2019, Sixty Summers was shaped profoundly by Stone’s key collaborators on the album: Thomas Bartlett, aka Doveman, and Annie Clark, the Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and producer known as St. Vincent. Bartlett and Clark were the symbiotic pair Stone needed to realise her first pop vision. A wizard of production and songwriting, Bartlett helped coax Sixty Summers’ independent, elemental spirit from Stone, writing and recording over 30 demos with her at his studio in New York. Itself a thoroughfare for indie rock luminaries, some of whom, such as the aforementioned Matt Berninger from The National and Bryce Dessner, ended up on the album, Bartlett’s studio was perfect fertile ground for Stone’s growth. “Making this record with Thomas, I felt so free. I can hear it in the music,” says Stone.

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Clark, on the other hand, was the incisive yang to Bartlett’s yin, a sharp musical polymath who, when presented with the work Bartlett and Stone had made together, quickly helped fashion Sixty Summers into the album it was meant to be. Singing and playing guitar on the record in addition to her production work, it was Clark’s revered acidic touch that brought the sparks out of Stone. “Jules is the best,” Clark says of her experience working with Stone. “We were always fond of each other from afar, but after working on this, we became great friends. She's a brilliant girl — tenacious, perfectionistic, so smart. All fire.”

Sixty Summers is a world unto itself, a surreal and breathtaking new landscape. It is an album you can dance to and one you can lose yourself in completely. 

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SIXTY SUMMERS TRACKLIST
01 Break
02 Sixty Summers
03 We All Have
04 Substance
05 Dance
06 Free
07 Who
08 Fire In Me
09 Easy
10 Queen
11 Heron
12 Unreal
13 I Am No One

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