NIALL MUTTER ANNOUNCES NEW EP, PASS ME BY, SHARES NEW VIDEO

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PASS ME BY SET FOR RELEASE MARCH 11, 2022 VIA LIGHTER THAN AIR / NICE GUYS

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Montreal-based singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Niall Mutter is today announcing his upcoming EP, Pass Me By, set for release on March 11, 2022 courtesy of Lighter Than Air / Nice Guys. Written over the course of a year, Mutter says “I had moved to Montréal on a whim, couch surfing between friends and a new lover. The album is about finding levity in a period of transition. It’s about pain and self assessment, and submitting to things being a bit wacky and out of my control.”

Today he shares another track from EP, “Maybe”, which “comes from the overwhelming feeling change can bring,” says Mutter. “I had just moved to Montréal and a lot of new things were happening in my life. I found myself having one foot caught in the past and the other in the future. I wrote this song from a place of acceptance, being ok with the duality of the two, and finding peace somewhere in between."

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Niall has spent most of his life oscillating between the seasons, tree planting in the Canadian bush in the summer and escaping to the mountains out West for the winter. When a friend invited him out to Quebec for a couple weeks, he pulled into Montreal’s tightly knit music community and never left. Couch surfing in the middle of a raging pandemic gave him the instability and disheveled edge he needed to bring his songwriting hiatus to an end, finishing and releasing his first single “You” — a disco-shimmered summer love song that was immediately well received. 

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His country roots inspire his minimalist production style and narrative lyricism, while his desire for transience adds an almost undetectable sentiment to his dreamy beached-out vocals. He brings a floaty dance trance to his states of confusion, teasing out his lover’s quarrels with a sonic harmony, sculpting the inbetween as a comfortable resting space for himself, often rocking unsureness like a trusted pair of boots.

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PASS ME BY TRACKLIST
01 Maybe
02 A Love That Fits
03 I Wonder
04 You
05 Pass Me By

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GEORGIA HARMER ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM, STAY IN TOUCH, SHARES NEW VIDEO

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DEBUT LP, STAY IN TOUCH, OUT APRIL 22, 2022 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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"one song in, it's clear that she possesses the kind of effortless musical ability that comes from a life surrounded by great art. ...a Big Thief and Phoebe Bridgers-sounding reflection on youthful abandon and the incomparable presence that accompanies it." - CBC Music on "Headrush"

“For Georgia Harmer, it’s a matter of when, not if. The Toronto songwriter’s serene debut single, ‘Headrush,’ displays a rare skill for wrestling obvious emotion — in this case, naked nostalgia — into sound.” - SPIN, 22 Artists to Watch in 2022

“[Georgia Harmer] continues to be mesmerizing as ‘Austin’ progresses; she burrows into a deeply appealing vibe that reminds me of a slightly rootsier spin on the guitar-powered indie melancholia of early Wye Oak.” - Stereogum

“[‘Austin’] recalls Feist or Land of Talk with extra rootsy guitar twang.” - Brooklyn Vegan

"Harmer gets grittier on “Austin”, and this side of her is awesome. A grizzled guitar opens the track before a steel guitar and rhythms join the fray. This is the sound of a world that is dark and full of mystery and uncertainty." - The Revue on "Austin"

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Toronto-based musician Georgia Harmer announces her debut album, Stay In Touch, out April 22 on Arts & Crafts. Recently, she released the new single “Austin” which also appears on the record and is currently making its way up the CBC Music Top 20 chart. Today, Harmer is sharing the single “All In My Mind” which arrives complete with a video she directed and edited herself. 

Harmer calls herself a sentimental person, and Stay In Touch is full of romanticism—a rare quality in an irony-soaked culture. The closest Harmer gets to irony is on “All In My Mind”, a song that looks back on a relationship where she was made to feel crazy. The song is about “being gaslighted,” says Harmer. “I wrote it during a long period of emotional manipulation that made me question my own reality. I had enough sad songs and I just wanted to rock out.” 

Of the video, Harmer says “I wanted to lean into the melodrama of the subject. Something bigger than a person needed to be the source of my paranoia. The house and the lights are what ultimately drive me to run away, but it’s the boys in the basement who were messing with my head all along. This is the first song I wrote for my album, and begins a long journey of self-growth through my deep entanglements with the feelings of others.”

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MORE ABOUT STAY IN TOUCH
Across Stay In Touch, Harmer captures ineffable moments with expressive detail: the euphoric memory of a summer’s day so perfect you want to live inside it forever, the dusty heat of a Texas afternoon, a tingle of melancholy on a solo walk home after a party. With a wisdom and poise that belies her youthful age, Harmer has penned an emotionally resonant collection of songs that articulate the ways in which even the most fleeting experiences can forge bonds between strangers, create families out of friends, and one by one form the joys and sorrows that make up a life.

Harmer has been making music since childhood, recording her own songs since age 10. She hails from an artistic family, including her aunt and labelmate Sarah Harmer (Georgia’s parents, both professional musicians, met while playing in Sarah’s band). While still a teenager, she hit the road as a backing vocalist for Alessia Cara, touring and playing late night TV for many months. But when it came time to make her own album, Harmer knew she needed to find her own people. After dropping out of university to pursue music full-time, Harmer began jamming with jazz students at Humber College in Toronto; guitarist Dylan Burchell, drummer Julian Psihogios, and bassist David Maclean, and engineer/producer Jasper Smith assembled to record at ArtHaus in Dufferin Grove. “It was nice because we could just play how we’re used to playing, crammed in a room together, and capture the natural feeling of that.” Smith didn’t tell Harmer that he had never engineered a record before until after it was complete.

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Stay In Touch spans everything from intimate folk and strummy country to sophisticated jazz and pop-kissed rock. Harmer and her band created musical landscapes that live up to the lyrical richness of the songs. The record sparkles with the lightning in a bottle feel of a band in thrall to their musical chemistry, adding more depth to the record’s themes. Stay In Touch is inspired both by the relationships of Harmer’s past and the joy of finding your people in the here and now. It’s an unforgettable statement from a new artist with a heartbreakingly simple message: when you stay in touch with the experiences that have shaped you, you stay in touch with yourself. 

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STAY IN TOUCH TRACKLIST
1. Talamanca
2. Headrush
3. Know You Forever
4. Austin
5. All In My Mind
6. Be Here
7. Homes
8. Top Down
9. Go Soft
10. Strongest Person
11. Just The Feeling

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OURI ANNOUNCES NEW PROJECT BT002: SELF HYPNOSIS TAPE DUE FEBRUARY 25

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ANNOUNCES NORTH AMERICAN + EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

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"effortless and sublime" - PAPER Magazine

"a richly rewarding left turn" -The FADER

“Frame of a Fauna presents a compelling archive of Ouri's many musical personas. It's a nuanced encapsulation of her sound from underground DJ to fully-rounded composer. “ Exclaim!

"a master at crafting synth soundscapes that flow with ease and unexpectedly morph and shapeshift over the course of the track while grounding it all with her own airy vocals." - CBC Music

"expertly guides listeners through a narrative of anticipation, climax and release" - Office Magazine

"equal parts comforting and transcendent" - V Magazine

"dials in swooping sounds, echoey vocal syllables, a glitchy beat, tentative chords; the dance beat solidifies, falls away and reappears" - The New York Times

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Montreal-based multi-instrumentalist and producer Ouri announces her first offering of 2022 with the project bt002: self hypnosis tape. The 7-track project is meditative and ambient in nature, with piano-driven instrumentals from Zach Frampton showing off a different side of Ouri's abilities for something more improvisational. Along with the project's announcement, Ouri shares the lead single "Figure Profane" which sees contributions from Frampton. The cyclical, entrancing track introduces the ethereal and cerebral sound of the self hypnosis tape to listeners. "I shaped this project after capturing several recordings I made with Zach over the course of last summer,” says Ouri. “I wanted to offer myself a moment to study the melodic and harmonic features of my music and cut the rest out, allow repetition to happen but always keep the melody as the ultimate leader."

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bt002: self hypnosis tape arrives on the heels of Ouri's debut album Frame of a Fauna released last year. Frame of a Fauna takes the Canadian artist's knowledge of big orchestral sound, and creates her own fusion. The cycle of birth, death, and constant rebirth sends Ouri transcending through the creation of this album, as she explores what lies inside the lining of the big dharma wheel: trauma, control and vulnerability. Frame of a Fauna features the stand-out songs "Ossature", "High & Choking Pt 1", "Chains", and the Antony Carle collaboration "Felicity".

Additionally, Ouri is announcing a string of North American and European tour dates. Beginning with her performance at Noise Pop Festival supporting Arooj Aftab on February 22nd, Ouri will then play two shows in Los Angeles on February 23rd and 24th before joining Smerz for a string of dates including a stop at home in Montreal on March 12. Ouri will also be performing a headline show in New York City on March 23rd before heading on her European run beginning with Brickside Festival in April.

Last year Ouri also released a joint project with Helena Deland, Hildegard, which received widespread critical acclaim with Pitchfork praising the collaboration as "pure creative symbiosis" and The FADER describing as, "a hypnotic composition that ebbs in and out of darkness, mining strength in synchronicity."

Ourielle Auvé, known professionally as Ouri, grew up in France and moved to Montreal at the age of 16 with dreams of becoming a composer. As Ouri developed her compositional ability, as well as her production and vocal chops, she integrated herself with late-night DJ sets in Montreal's underground rave scene and was eventually selected to take part in Red Bull Music Academy's Montreal Bass Camp. From there, her profile began to grow as she headlined Boiler Room's Montreal showcase, toured with the likes of Yves Tumor and Jacques Greene, released her first EPs Superficial and We Share Our Blood, and collaborated with fellow Montreal artist Helena Deland on the interdimensional Hildegard.

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BT002 : SELF HYPNOSIS TAPE
1 Ouri & Zach Frampton - figure profane
2 Ouri - boucles
3 Ouri - étude du toucher
4 Ouri & Zach Frampton - trio
5 Zach Frampton - rêverie
6 Zach Frampton - arabesque
7 Ouri - étude du marteau 

TOUR DATES
2/22 - San Francisco, CA @ Gray Area*
2/23 - Los Angeles, CA @ Zebulon
2/24 - Los Angeles, CA @ Floating
2/26 - Seattle, WA @ Fremont Abbey Arts Center^
3/3 - Atlanta, GA @ The Earl^
3/4 - New York, NY @ National Sawdust^
3/6 - Chicago, IL @ The Empty Bottle^
3/12 - Montreal, Mutek @ Winter Series, Club Soda ^
3/23 - New York, NY @ Public Records
4/9 - Durham, NC @ Brickside Festival
4/28 - Copenhagen, DK @ Rust
4/30 - Manchester, UK @ Mood Swings @ Yes
5/1 - Brussels, BE @ Les Nuits Botaniques
5/2 - London, UK @ Oslo
5/6 - Paris, FR @ La Boule Noire

* = with Arooj Aftab
^ = with Smerz

MORE ABOUT OURI
Ouri grew up in France, in a family of mixed french and afro-carribean descent. She began playing the harp and piano at 5, but at 7 she found unity in the cello. A self proclaimed introvert who’d rather dash off on her own than feel disconnected in the wrong crowd- she arrives in Montreal at the age of 16 to pursue a degree in composition.

Montreal’s rave scene is where her artistry began to take shape - establishing herself in the community as a producer, DJ, and composer. Lending her skills to various collaborations, she strengthened her sense of self, but also her affinity for transforming sonically into any genre, playing any role.

In 2018 she was invited to MISM x Boiler Room’s Montreal show, signed to Ghosty (international) & Make it Rain Records (Canada) for the release of her EP ‘We Share Our Blood’ and was asked to make official remixes for the likes of Tokimonsta. Her growing notoriety let her support Jacques Greene, Yves Tumour & Kllo live in concert.

Evolving beyond her affirmed DJ persona, she breaks out of the underground to come up for air - where she collaborates with folk artist Helena Deland. They merge in a dimension of their own, and Hildegard is born.

Now in her debut album, she shatters the oftentimes submissive and distant approach to ambient sound to finally take up space and connect to her own experience.

Ouri explores the intricate formation of shape in Frame Of A Fauna. The intangible is held and the unseen is sung as it inspects the framework of the body- how emotional hardship can imprint, and in turn deform the skeleton. If the bones are the container that stands the test of what is being contained- What is the residue of happening? And where does it go? She notices the way time can rupture a rib cage, pull out the collar bones, or make a fist out of fingers.

She takes her knowledge of big orchestral sound, and creates her own fusion, puncturing the classical with industrial abrasions and electronic nuance. Ballads and drum samples take melodies out of the middle ground. She finds home in the new hybrid- but first she must stretch the old structure to make a clearing.

The album begins in a bedroom in London, and hops to Berlin where she witnessed her sister give birth - and sees its completion a year later after a sudden trip to Brazil, where she said her last goodbye to her mother.

The cycle of birth, death, and constant rebirth sends her transcending through the creation of this album, as she explores what lies inside the lining of the big dharma wheel: trauma, control and vulnerability. She starts outside and builds as she asceneds inward, which is how she transforms the universal, into a personal space, not for the lost, but rather for those who are in suspension.

She sculpts chaos with layers of texture, only to ask you to find her voice within it, “Hold on, hear it out and chase me” she sings.

Sound fills to the brim, cello meets synth, becomes lush and ethereal, only for her feather light voice to slither in with ferocity. You weed through the sound to meet her in her sincerity. In this way we are listening twice- for what she wants to say, and what she wants to feel- which are not always the same. 

She invites you to be comfortable in the lucid, to be sensual without the sexual, in the possibility of communicating what you may not yet know.

She edits lyrics to Ossature in a final revision to include hope in her perspective, and records GRIP in record time in a sweeping fit of grief in honour of her mother.

Conscious not to define herself within any one structure, but to cascade her own spectrum of sound- in Frame Of A Fauna Ouri shows us everything she can do, while what comes next is everything she will.

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