JASON COLLETT UNVEILS “RIGHT ON WOMAN”, NEW LP OUT NOV 4

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NEW ALBUM, HEAD FULL OF WONDER, OUT NOVEMBER 4, 2022 VIA ARTS & CRAFTS

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Jason Collett is today sharing "Right On Woman", the final advance single from his forthcoming album, Head Full Of Wonder which has found support so far from FLOOD, Exclaim, and CBC. The new album is out via Arts & Crafts on November 4.

On the track Collet says, “It was fun to have an injection of Montreal energy via the players on the record – Marcus Paquin’s production and playing, the expansive color palette of Joe Grass’s guitar and pedal steel and (to my ears) distinctly Montreal-sounding drumming of Liam O'Neil (SUUNS). One of the sweetest moments in the sessions though was doing backup vocals with Neil Quin, Carleigh Aikins and Meg Contini. Meg had recently given birth and had asked if it was ok if her partner bring the baby by occasionally so she could breastfeed at points in the session. Having four children and a grandchild myself, I just laughed and insisted that both baby and dad were welcome throughout the session. What was particularly apropos about the backups on ‘Right On Woman’ was watching Meg scoop up a fussy baby from the control room and waltz back into the recording room to join the other singers and record while breastfeeding – total pro!"

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Head Full Of Wonder finds the Toronto troubadour and scribe stepping out of his usual creative orbit, recording in Montreal with producer Marcus Paquin, joined by drummer Liam O'Neill, guitarist Joe Grass, and bassist Mike O'Brien (Zeus). A distillation of the five years since his Song And Dance Man, these eleven new songs hone in on the fine craft of songwriting, offering a direct and simple collection of elegant indie folk, some of the finest creations and poignant of Collett's storied career. "In absorbing the tumult of the times, there's a lot of shit to write through, (that Bruce Cockburn line comes to mind, "you've got to kick at the darkness until it bleeds daylight") and the challenge is to get to the other side with something positive to contribute," he says. "I let go of some swagger and embraced intimacy and joy and wonder. I hear this in the record and it makes me very happy to have made it.

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HEAD FULL OF WONDER TRACKLIST
1. Dark Times
2. Everyday Summer
3. Milk and Honey
4. Just Before the Rain
5. Hot Mess
6. Have Some Fun
7. Silver Dollar Moon
8. Right On Woman
9. Closer to the Truth
10. Come on Sun
11. Up the River
12. Sweet Water Sea

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BIGMCENROE + ALVARO ROJAS NEW LP, NOODLES, OUT TODAY

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NEW COLLABORATION ALBUM FROM BIGMCENROE AND ALVARO ROJAS, NOODLES, OUT OCTOBER 21, 2022 VIA PEANUTS & CORN

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Today, bigmcenroe (Rod Bailey) and Alvaro Rojas are releasing their collaborative LP, Noodles, via Peanuts & Corn. Bailey and Rojas met when their kids went to the same school and their wives forced them to hang out together. It didn’t take long to establish their mutual love of music and next thing you know they were in the bigmcenroe’s home studio, trying a few riffs and having some fun. 

Alvaro is a classically trained musician specializing in jazz and avant garde, while bigmcenroe has been writing and producing hip hop for his entire adult life. Over the pandemic, the pair collaborated remotely on Noodles, the new LP. Today, they are also sharing another track from the album, “Serious Business, This”.

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MORE ABOUT ALVARO ROJAS
Alvaro Rojas is an award winning guitarist and composer based in Vancouver B.C. As a guitarist he performs regularly with his trio, as well with other local artists in the pop, rock, jazz and improvised music communities. As a composer, Alvaro has had works performed by many of Canada’s finest new music groups, including the Turning Point Ensemble, Aventa Ensemble and the Microcosmos String Quartet. He has written music for choir, big band, orchestra, various chamber groups and small ensembles, and has scored numerous short films. 

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MORE ABOUT BIGMCENROE
bigmcenroe (Rod Bailey, formerly known as mcenroe) has been a mainstay of the Canadian underground hip-hop scene since the early nineties. Since forming Peanuts & Corn Records and releasing cassettes starting in 1994, he has been writing and producing quality hip-hop for nearly 30 years. He has produced highly acclaimed acts such as farm fresh, mood ruff, different shades of black, fermented reptile, Park-Like Setting (of which mcenroe is a member), Hip-Hop Wieners, Gruf, John Smith aka Bazooka Joe 204, Yy, Birdapres, Nestor Wynrush, and Pip Skid. As a writer he has released critically acclaimed rap albums and EPs such as the ethics EP, the convenience EP, disenfranchised, the Paper Champion, burnt orange, and 2021’s Brandon. 

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NOODLES TRACKLIST
01 - Unsubscribe
02 - Supermedium
03 - Spare Keys
04 - Unadventure
05 - Writer's Block
06 - Apercu mono
07 - Someone Else’s Money
08 - Fanboy Panic
09 - Serious Business, This
10 - Yesterday’s Fresh
11 - Loss Leaders

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EVAN REDSKY RELEASES NEW LP TODAY, SHARES NEW SINGLE

EVAN REDSKY’S NEW LP, OBLIVION, OUT TODAY VIA VICTORY POOL RECORDS

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Evan Redsky’s music seamlessly weaves traditional storytelling, delicate nuance, and poignant commentary on the human condition into cathartic highway-song vignettes. Today, the songwriter hailing from the First Nations Reserve of Mississaugi First Nation is sharing another new track from his upcoming LP, Oblivion, out this Friday via Victory Pool Records.

"Waiting In The Echo” is “about the relationships that fell apart while on the road,” says Redsky. “Trying everything and nothing to make things work. Being caught up in the nightlife from a distance is hard on any relationship, especially so to loved ones. It's a song about two people who grew apart and how it was ultimately healthier to simply walk away." 

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Raised in Blind River and now residing in Toronto, ON, Redsky draws from early childhood memories of hearing classic Canadian roots music on one of his reserve’s few available radio stations. He felt compelled to reclaim that form as a vehicle for recounting his own experience as a “Canadian”. Surviving a lineage plagued by the fall out of colonialism, his perspective on the plight of the Indigenous peoples of Canada is one that is deeply important in understanding the urgency of truth and reconciliation. 

Of the record, Redsky says, “About four years ago, I didn’t think there was much reason to pursue music anymore. I was in the middle of a personal reckoning and struggling to make sense of the life I had lived up until that point. Having spent several years on the road with a rock band had been my only endeavor. Right up until it self-imploded. I was between leaving something important behind and figuring out what the next step was.

“That next step slowly revealed itself as I began writing about my own history. Started weaving my lived experiences into the music I grew up listening to. The highway songs and FM radio that covered northern Ontario and the small reserve where I was raised.

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“It was a refuge for me to return to my own stories. A spiritual break from the weight of living in the city. But even those moments were still so few and far between because I was battling addiction in the process. Back and forth between pushing myself forward and falling back into a darker pattern. I still struggle with it no doubt, but it's been through this process of getting these stories out, that I have been able to finally find some balance. 

“In a genre that is woefully white and largely underrepresented, this is a record by me, for my people. It’s an artifact and extension of our oral histories for the next seven generations to pick up. But it's also a record for those who may want to understand us better. Who may not know why some of us struggle to survive in a country that fights to see our own oblivion. 

“I'm super proud of this collection of songs. And am humbled by the distance that has gotten me here. It took a reckoning to push me down to the bottom, but it’ll be the art that will push me forward. So here’s to those who could not tell their stories. Who could not live to fight their way back out from Oblivion.”

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MORE ABOUT EVAN REDSKY
Growing up, Redsky was often compelled to hitchhike from Blind River to Toronto to immerse himself in the city’s burgeoning punk and hardcore music scene. Redsky recounts sleeping under bridges and on construction sites in order to stay as close as possible to the exciting culture. This commitment led to him joining up and coming punk band Single Mothers, with whom Redsky would remain a dedicated member for half a decade. Touring around the world and performing at high profile festivals such as Pitchfork Festival and Primavera Sound, provided Redsky with more context and perspective on his humble beginnings. He soon turned his focus towards advocacy for the injustices he and his family had faced their entire lives.

Redsky began hosting fundraising events for and bringing awareness to the clean water crisis which deeply affected his family still residing on the Shoal Lake #40 Reservation in Northern Ontario. Redsky’s desire to share the stories of his experiences can be traced to his prominent lineage of storytellers within his community. Notably, his great grandfather, whose work translating pictographs and novel, “The Great Leader of The Ojibway”, was published by the University of Toronto in the early 1970’s. His great grandfather was a prominent member of the  spiritual group known as the Mediwiwin, and was one of the last people to possess ancient birch bark scrolls which contained etchings that date back hundreds of years. These scrolls informed the community of much of their history before being disenfranchised by the Glenbow Museum. He was also involved in building the Cecilia Jeffrey Residential School in Kenora, ON as a child. Infamously known as the school where Chanie Wenjack attended in Gord Downie’s Secret Path saga. The same residential school which Redsky’s father and grandfather attended.

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OBLIVION TRACKLIST
01 You Were Born
02 Taking Shape
03 Renata
04 Blood Runs Like A River (For Colten Boushie)
05 Oblivion
06 Waiting In The Echo
07 Now & Then
08 Florabelle
09 Reason To Celebrate
10 Endless Feeling

TOUR DATES
Nov 04 - Guelph, ON - Silence Sounds
Nov 11 - Toronto, ON - Cameron House
Nov 12 - St. Catherines, ON - Mahtay Cafe
Nov 25 - London, ON - Rec Room
Nov 26 - Prince Edward County, ON - Mount Tabor Theatre

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