PONDERCAST EPISODE 181 : WORD PLAY

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Season 5 of Laurie Brown’s Pondercast is well underway, and today’s episode is inspired by a fox, a La-Z-Boy, and an old journal..oh...and words. Put them all together and you have Word Play.

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For Season 5, a few new things are happening while some others are getting their own spotlight. First, the Pondercast team is bringing you something entirely new yet a little reminiscent of times past. Pondercast Radio uses an innovative hack of streaming technology to bring you a once a month ‘radio show’ which you can stream at any time. The show will include a new playlist of music and Laurie’s introductions for your dining and dancing pleasure.  The episodes play out exactly like radio, feel like Laurie’s old show The Signal - and you will get a 2 hour show of new music for you to fall in love with every month.

Pondercast Radio is available only to those who support Pondercast via Patreon at any level. Supporters must also have a paid Spotify or Apple Music account to access Pondercast Radio. If you have a paid account on Apple Music or on Spotify, then you can get our monthly ‘radio’ shows delivered to your inbox.

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The other big news is the new podcast Ground Level which is out now. Pondercast is moving all of their weekly guided meditations to a brand new podcast. So if you have been meditating with Laurie, subscribe to Ground Level wherever you get your podcasts to be sure you don’t miss an episode. Look for interviews and other content to help navigate these strange days. 

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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 ninth episode of Ponderbeat is live now, featuring music from Charlotte Cornfield, Ouri, Andy Shauf, Cots, Absolutely Free, Homeshake, and more.

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LOUIE SHORT SHARES “OMW 4EV” VIDEO, NEW LP OUT TODAY

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Today, Toronto/LA-based artist Louie Short is sharing his new video for "Omw 4ev" which arrives just ahead of his new album, also titled Omw 4ev, available everywhere today. Louie has always maintained the quote "the genre is songs" as a mantra for his music and this forthcoming album follows this sentiment, arriving as the second installment of Short's sound trailing his 2019 debut, Cherry, Cherry.
 

Each track on the new album comes with its own personality and identity. "Omw 4ev" brings with it more of that slacker-rock sound that has become synonymous with Short's work, welding glistening piano lines with fuzzy electronics, beautiful chorus melodies, and Louie's fascinating vocal style that ebbs and flows throughout the track, fading back in via a woozy loop towards the end.



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Speaking briefly about the new single, Louie says: "This song basically repeats itself over and over and yet never feels the same. This is how I feel about love."



Commenting on the accompanying video, Short continues: "This is a video about a man in metamorphosis. Please note that the caterpillar -> chrysalis footage was filmed by ME! It is not stock footage, it is very rare and special."



When discussing the album, Short explains: "People are drawn to beginnings and endings, whether it be falling in love and breaking up - emerging artists and artists passing away. Things in the middle of life tend to be neglected. I think that this forgotten middle space is exciting and uncharted. It holds a certain poignancy because it doesn’t have the manipulative magnetism of creation and destruction, birth and death, to grab your attention. It just has itself existing."



Short's music arrives as a display of someone obsessed with the craft of songwriting. With a bio that previously stated, "he's not not trying to be Carole King", Louie is someone entirely focused on piecing together the best songs that he's capable of doing. Louie serves as the sole architect of the project, polishing his DIY instincts from songwriting through to mixing.

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Omw 4ev TRACKLIST
1. What Can I Do
2. Sweeter Than Clover
3. Jit
4. Stop Tripping Out
5. Snail
6. Old Dead Bill's Song
7. If I Wanted To
8. Omw 4ev

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INTRODUCING OMBIIGIZI - A COLLABORATION BY ZOON & STATUS/NON-STATUS

DEBUT ALBUM SEWN BACK TOGETHER TO BE RELEASED FEB 10 ON ARTS & CRAFTS

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OMBIIGIZI – pronounced om-BEE-ga-ZAY, meaning s/he is noisy – is a collaboration between Zoon (Daniel Monkman) and Status/Non-Status (Adam Sturgeon), Anishnaabe artists who explore their cultural histories through sound. An amalgam of their unique Indigenous heritages and personal musical architectures, Daniel and Adam imbue their lyrics with their families' storytelling, revealing truths and finding common ground amidst their differences. Introduced today with the first single “Residential Military,” the debut album Sewn Back Together is a fusion of individuality – a reflection on Adam and Daniel's commitment to each other as collaborators and distinct members of community. 

"Residential Military" is guttural and unadorned, swirling art rock a la Murray Street era Sonic Youth that ambles from brash, kinetic verses, to bursts of radiant liquid melody in the choruses. “Birch bark canoe paddles onto the freeway / No turn signal, how to switch lanes?” A story of Adam's desire to connect traditions in a modern world, the song responds to Canada's current reckoning with its history of military industrial and residential school systems by introducing a concept that Adam describes as Indigenous Futurisms – "finding the past to picture a future which is not always so easy here and now." Summoning life and creation in place of anguish, "Residential Military" is a clash of catharsis, and a resonant image of personal reconciliation, interpreted live and in the moment.

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Putting aside the tonal nuances of their previous work as Zoon and Status/Non-Status (formerly known as WHOOP-Szo), OMBIIGIZI strips back the waves of distortion to reveal themselves, their voices, writing and improvising for the sake of the song. The family on Sewn Back Together includes the production duo of Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene and Nyles Spencer of The Bathouse Studio. Recorded there in fast and intentional sessions during the summer of 2021, Drew and Spencer – along with musicians Eric Lourenço and Drew McLeod from Status/Non-Status and Zoon, respectively – helped steer this collision of divergent artists into some glorious sonic territory steeped in shoegaze, dream pop, anthemic rock, Chicago post-rock, and 2nd wave emo. While not always getting to play and perform alongside other members of their community, OMBIIGIZI is a coming together – with Sewn Back Together, a resounding statement shaped by healing and the guidance of culture.

Liner Notes by Waubgeshig Rice

The Anishinaabe revival is accelerating. Our artists are becoming more resurgent in all realms: telling the stories, singing the songs, and creating the imagery to further solidify our everlasting presence on this land. The soundtrack to this movement is diverse profound, and beautiful. The Anishinaabe sonic revolution is richly layered and wide-reaching, inspiring and influencing all generations to gather, sing, and speak, as we’ve always done. And at the core of this renewal are artists like OMBIIGIZI.

Adam Sturgeon and Daniel Monkman have come together in the spirit of making noise in a good way for our people. They have documented this moment in time while paying homage to the ancestors who kept our language and stories alive. There is a deep respect and love embedded in these songs for Anishinaabe sounds and voices. These songs proudly tell family and community stories, and they exquisitely conjure a hopeful future that will result from our current collective efforts to share our realities with each other and the world.

Sewn Back Together is a passionate journey. It meanders like a nurturing stream, weaving in and out of the tangible and spiritual worlds, as all time-honoured Anishinaabe stories and songs have done. It harkens back to ancient melodies and rhythms while using modern tools and instruments to centre us in our identities as the original storytellers of this land. It is essential listening as we forge our future and reclaim and revive who we are.

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OMBIIGIZI - SEWN BACK TOGETHER - TRACKLISTING
1. Cherry Coke
2. Residential Military
3. The Once Child
4. Niiyo Biboonagizi 
5. Ogiin
6. Spirit In Me
7. Yaweh
8. Birch Bark Paper Trails 
9. Zaagitoon 

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