WATCH GLOBAL STARS TAMINO AND ANGÉLE ENCHANT IN MYSTICAL“SUNFLOWER” VIDEO

February 23, 2023

CANADIAN TOUR DATES BEGIN IN MAY

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**HIGHLY-PRAISED SOPHOMORE LP SAHAR OUT NOW**

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“Rich and melancholy” - FADER

“Hauntingly beautiful and sharp" - Esquire

“Baroque-pop songs suggest an in-between time, full of reflection
and moments of mystery” - WNYC

“Astonishing” - NPR

“Emotionally-drenched ballads” - VMAN

“A magical elixir” - KCRW

"His new songs simmer like a tagine perfumed with exotic spice" - WFUV

“Captivating vocal range goes from dusky velvet ruminations to achingly soaring longing” - Big Takeover

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Today, Tamino releases an alluring, fantastical video for “Sunflower” off his acclaimed sophomore album Sahar. The surrealist video features Belgian superstar Angéle, and evokes imagery inspired by a love triangle depicted in short story ‘The Distance of The Moon’ by Italo Calvino.

Director Bastiaan Lochs says of the video, “Calvino writes about a love triangle between a sailor, the wife of his captain and the sailor's deaf cousin. Together they paddle out to sea at night and climb onto the moon with a ladder to harvest 'moon milk'. It ends with the lady climbing onto the moon while it is drifting away from earth and never coming back. In doing so she becomes one with the moon, the object of affection of the deaf cousin whom she's become infatuated with, and leaves behind the sailor who in his turn has fallen in love with her.”

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Tamino will bring his ethereal vocal prowess on his Spring 2023 tour, including stops in Toronto, Ottawa, and Montreal, following his SOLD-OUT North America/EU/UK fall tour and acclaimed sophomore album Sahar.

The arrival of Tamino is enough to make even an agnostic ponder predestination. The grandson of one of Egypt’s most famed singers, the great Muharram Fouad, Tamino came to the guitar as a teenager only after finding a rare resonator in his late grandfather’s attic. He plays it now alongside the oud, dual links to his cultural past that he uses to understand and articulate his emotional present. Born from Tamino’s Antwerp apartment and bolstered by collaborators including Radiohead bassist Colin Greenwood, producer/engineer PJ Maertens and drummer Ruben Vanhoutte, Sahar is a powerhouse sophomore effort that mixes Arabic folk and experimental indie rock with sweeping orchestral arrangements.

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Spring 2023 Tour Dates
4/18 Washington, DC Howard Theater
4/19 Philadelphia, PA The Foundry
4/21 New York, NY Racket SOLD OUT
4/22 New York, NY Racket
4/25 Columbus, OH A&R Music Bar
4/26 Chicago, IL Thalia Hall
4/28 Nashville, TN Basement East
4/30 Houston, TX White Oak Music Hall Downstairs
5/1 Austin, TX Antones
5/2 Fort Worth, TX Tulips
5/5 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room SOLD OUT
5/6 Los Angeles, CA Lodge Room
5/10 San Francisco, CA Bimbo’s
5/12-5/14 Salt Lake City, UT Kilby Block Party
5/17 Toronto, CA Phoenix Concert Theatre
5/18 Ottawa, ON Bronson Centre
5/19 Montreal, QC Corona Theatre

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LOGAN STAATS ANNOUNCES NEW LP, A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC, SHARES NEW VIDEO

February 22, 2023

A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC OUT MARCH 24, 2023 VIA RED MUSIC RISING

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Today, Logan Staats’ is announcing his new album, A Light In The Attic, out March 24, 2023 via Red Music Rising. "This album is the soundtrack to picking yourself up, and dusting yourself off,” says Staats. “There is sweet grass and tobacco in every chord, there is sage and cedar in every falsetto, every song is my medicine."

In addition to the album announcement, Staats is also sharing the video for album single, “Holy Man”. “I truly loved the experiences I had shooting this video,” says Staats. “I got to shoot it with my friends and close mentor Glen Marshal who did a fantastic job. Sometimes when you're singing or acting out such intense subject matter it helps to have someone you trust and admire creatively working by your side.

“I think the video is a perfect visual depiction of that chapter of my life and the feeling of being in that hotel room alone writing the song.”

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MORE ABOUT LOGAN STAATS
In 2018, veracious Mohawk singer-songwriter Logan Staats was chosen from 10,000 hopeful contestants vying for a spot on musical competition show The Launch. Before an audience of 1.4 million viewers, Staats won, officiating the breakthrough that would lead him to Nashville and Los Angeles, and to his single “The Lucky Ones” winning the Indigenous Music Award for Best Radio Single. “The Lucky Ones” also occupied #1 in Canada.

In the years between now and then, Staats has come home, making the intentional decision to re-root at Six Nations of the Grand River. “I wanted to bring my songwriting back to the medicine inside of music, to the medicine inside of reclamation,” he says following a phase of constant travel and intensity. He’s been working away on his forthcoming album, A Light in the Attic, ever since.

To Staats, music is a healing salve, contemplatively composed and offered to listeners in need of comfort. Since returning home, Staats has been able to create music authentically again, reclaiming his sound through honest storytelling and unvarnished, sometimes painful reflection.

The songs on A Light in the Attic represent the sparks of an emboldening journey. Staats sings of reconciliation, of recovery from addiction, of surviving intergenerational trauma, and of convalescence after heartbreak.

Lead single “Deadman” was written during Staats’ recovery. It’s a song of dual meanings, illuminating not only romantic love, but a salvaged love for life itself. As Staats’ ancestors were residential school survivors, the video for “Deadman” was partially filmed on the property of the Mohawk Institute, a former residential school in Brantford, Ont. (The Six Nations of the Grand River has since called for that location to be among grounds searched for remains.) The video follows Staats through his community, including Land Back Lane, where Six Nations land defenders have mobilized to protect the area from proposed subdivision development.

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On the tear-jerking “California”, Staats sings of romantic agony and failed grand gestures. “It’s so sad and so dramatic,” he says, “but it’s a true story.”

With what could be an antidote to the heartache of “California”, “Wish I Knew Your Name” tells the story of Staats getting a ride from an elder when he was a kid. After he got in the car, he realized the woman’s husband’s ashes were along for the trip. It scared him at the time, but he’s come to view that moment as formative. “Of all the songs I’ve written, this one is my favourite,” says Staats. “It’s about un-definitive, enduring love.”

Staats’ love of home is at the heart of A Light in the Attic. An evocative testament to rock’s cathartic spirit, the album was recorded with borrowed microphones at Staats’ apartment, at Six Nations recording studio Jukasa, and at downtown Brantford’s Sanderson Centre for the Performing Arts, which was entirely empty due to pandemic-related lockdown measures.

“My nation and my community are in every chord I play and every note I sing,” says Staats. “They’ve saved me.”

Counting musical icon Buffy Sainte-Marie, for whom Staats has opened, among his mentors, Staats wants to pay forward the guidance he’s received from his own community by connecting with Indigenous youth through music. He frequently leads workshops and visits local schools. “I want them to know there’s a reason to keep going,” he says.

A Light in the Attic is proof of that reason. Says Staats, “there is a way out of the dark.”

A LIGHT IN THE ATTIC TRACKLIST
1. Ohén:ton Karihwaréhkwen (Words Before All Else)
2. Running Like The River
3. Holy Man
4. California
5. Deadman
6. Codeine
7. A Light In The Attic
8. Folk Song
9. I Wish I Knew Your Name
10. New Tattoo
11. Six Miles

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COLA ANNOUNCE DEEP IN VIEW DELUXE ALBUM EDITION, OUT THIS FRIDAY, & SHARE NEW VIDEO

February 21, 2023

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"One of the year’s most thrilling rock statements." - Rolling Stone

"This pleasing mix of exploratory guitar tones and ever-shifting rhythms that switch between the kinetic and flowing makes for an arresting debut" - Uncut (8/10)

"Cola's debut album addresses modern anxieties wrought by technology in a world on the brink, bringing their imagistic worldview to the present...with sharper hooks and more succinct songwriting than the members’ past work.” - Pitchfork

“'Very few bands currently operating are able to capture the mass content era, specifically the way in which it leaves you feeling bloated but somehow empty, than they do." - FADER

“Bobbing and weaving, its wiry, intricate guitar part pushes Tim Darcy's vocal into a different plane from his previous work.” - Clash (8/10)

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Last year, Cola, the new project from former Ought members Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy and US Girls/The Weather Station drummer Evan Cartwright, released their debut LP Deep In View on Next Door Records. Earning praise from outlets like Uncut (8/10), Loud and Quiet (8/10), Clash (8/10), NME Pitchfork, NPR, FADER, Stereogum and Rolling Stone who named the band an Artist You Need To Know and called their debut "one of the year’s most thrilling rock statements," the album was one of the year's most acclaimed debuts and launched the band on a year of touring in support of the release.

Today, almost exactly a year from the announce of the band's debut, Cola are back to announce an extensive run of dates in North America and Europe, and a new Deluxe Edition of their debut LP that will be out this Friday. The Deluxe Edition features a collection of instrumentals, demos and alternate versions of songs from the record, including a new version of “Landers” that the band are sharing today.

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MORE ABOUT DEEP IN VIEW
Deep in View is titled after philosopher Alan Watts’ anthology of the same name, the record is built on a foundation of elegant guitar grooves and knotty rhythms, offering commentary on modern life and technology through curious lyrical vignettes, where quotidian objects and scenes are never just as they seem. Deep In View is equally a product of introspective songwriting as it is a consideration of the abstract landmarks of an increasingly media-mediated society. It also presents the most concise and melodic songs Darcy and Stidworthy have written to date.

“I love when I find a record that has many different angles from which it can be approached,” Darcy explains. The band’s affinity for polysemy is first-and-foremost a chord struck in the name Cola, which most obviously is the fizzy beverage that Darcy deadpans is "bound by laws older than man to poison most ordinary life on earth” in closing track “Landers”, but also can be traced back to a term in poetics as well as an acronym about social security that refers to “Cost of Living Adjustment”. Cola is also about drinking in the endless crispness of a streamlined (and streamed) world, and the often unsettling sense of satisfaction and emptiness that subsequently sets in. Fundamentally, this record is about passion and what happens to a person when they find themselves increasingly encountering a passionless landscape of consumption. This peeling back of layers is integral to both Cola’s mindset as well as their worldview, which despite a claustrophobic time in the making sees them joyfully exploring new realms as musicians.

Cola started collaborating in fall 2019 when Darcy and Stidworthy, both formerly of Ought, reached out to their friend Cartwright, who they had frequently met on the road while he was drumming with various other projects. “It wasn’t the post-Ought band right off the bat,” Darcy says, “we really just took time to enjoy the process of collaborating and writing songs together.” The band’s organic chemistry solidified quickly after a few sessions of jamming in-person. Then, as the pandemic began, they were forced to decamp and write songs separately. Working in solitude ended up becoming a “defining color as well as a barrier” to the album, says Darcy. He notes that he wrote the lyrics to “Fulton Park” as a “dream landscape”, a sort of alternative to the frustration and depression he was experiencing at the time.

The imposed isolation of writing at home led Stidworthy (who helped compose the album’s guitar parts and plays the piano on “Landers”) to “create little worlds with the songs”. The keen brushstrokes of all three members combined feels languidly tactile, replete with profound meaning that is almost archeological in its sense of economy and personal touch. This sense of relaxed exploration could only occur because of the mutual trust between the trio: Stidworthy adds, “I could go really far in cultivating a mood for a demo and send it to them and know that it could only improve.” Meanwhile, Cartwright (who also plays guitar on the project and coded Supercollider synth parts in the studio), found that he was subliminally incorporating drum ideas and patterns from when he first started playing as a teen, embedded deep in his muscle memory.

The resulting record delights in its aversion to superficiality. Although Darcy’s characteristically wry voice remains front-and-center, shifting from decisive to distressed and detached, his lyrical invocations remain only the first key to a much more intricate universe of sound and longing. Individual tracks often feel like small revelations, and each element contributes to a streamlined and yet poetically expansive set of meanings, as the rhythms of the punchy and exuberant guitar parts, urgent basslines, and unexpected drum patterns all tangle with each other in an elegant dance. Much greater than the sum of its parts, Deep in View is an album of artful and energetic post-punk that sparks novel interpretations with every listen, like an object that takes on new shape with each angle from which you hold it.

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COLA - DEEP IN VIEW DELUXE EDITION TRACKLIST
1. Blank Curtain
2. So Excited
3. At Pace
4. Met Resistance
5. Degree
6. Water Table
7. Gossamer
8. Mint
9. Fulton Park
10. Landers
11. Blank Curtain (Instrumental Demo)
12. So Excited (Instrumental Demo)
13. At Pace (Instrumental Demo)
14. Met Resistance (Instrumental Demo)
15. Degree (Instrumental Demo)
16. Gossamer (Instrumental Demo)
17. Mint (Instrumental Demo)
18. Fulton Park (Instrumental Demo)
19. Landers - Alt Version

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