GEOFFROY SHARES NEW VERSION OF LATEST SINGLE, FEAT. FRANKIE STEW AND HARVEY GUNN

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Geoffroy closes out another stellar year of music and shows by releasing a new version of  "No Calls Before Noon," featuring a collaboration with UK rap/producer duo Frankie Stew and Harvey Gunn. The song originally appeared as the focus track from the Deluxe version of Geoffroy's 2024 LP Good Boy, and caught the attention of the Brighton pair who appears on this collaborative version, adding a powerful new dimension.

Frankie Stew's introspective lyrics perfectly accentuate the song's emotional tone, but also highlight the underlying theme of gratitude that permeates the track. "Look at what I've achieved, nearly makes me weep," he says, as if rapping into the handset of a rain soaked telephone booth. "Makes me wanna just be less deep...be more free, I've got so much to be happy for, d'you know what I mean?"

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MORE ABOUT GEOFFROY + GOOD BOY
Geoffroy is an essential and emerging voice in Canadian music. Now three LPs into a career that has solidified him as one of Quebec’s best artists, the Montreal-born songwriter and producer takes the next step internationally with the release of fourth full-length Good Boy.

Almost 10 years removed from his first release, this project was sparked with the intention of creating Geoffroy’s most authentic work to date, blending organic instrumentation and electronic elements into a bright and rich album filled with diverse sounds, a collection of songs that moves beyond the brooding depth that has defined recent works. 

Each past album that Geoffroy has released reflected a different tone and period in the artist’s life and his evolution and experimentation with different sonic palettes. In this case, Good Boy sees Geoffroy look back and collaborate with longtime production partners Clément Leduc and Gabriel Gagnon, but also incorporate a diverse collection of new background musicians and singers that brings the album to life in vibrant colour. 

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That diversity was driven by a gradual shift in Geoffroy’s influences, having spent recent years immersing himself in the worlds of cumbiamusic and a range of other latin and african rhythmic styles, that melded with his traditional singer-songwriter form to create something that feels truly international. 

In fact the record’s narrative was inspired by a trip to Mexico where he befriended - and ultimately adopted - a shelter dog named Papi, bringing him from the streets of Mexico City to Montreal. Papi serves as the mascot for the LP, but more importantly acts as an overarching metaphor for being lost, but ultimately found. 

Asked to reflect on the change in perspective that accompanied the transition from his previous musical era into this one, Geoffroy spoke to the clarity he experienced in terms of his own agenda in the creation of music. 

“Live Slow Die Wise had a slower pace and I was eager to step away from the nostalgia and melancholy I had visited and analyzed plenty in the past,” Geoffroy reflects. “I did what felt natural, a feel-good album (I think) that shed the weight of the other ones. I feel I’m getting closer to the sound I’m looking for, though I might be chasing something that’s faster than me.” 

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TAURO, THE DUO OF CYNTHIA TAURO AND BRENDAN CANNING, SHARE VIDEO FOR LATEST SINGLE

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TAURO IS THE COLLABORATION OF PIANIST SINGER SONGWRITER CYNTHIA TAURO AND BROKEN SOCIAL SCENE’S BRENDAN CANNING

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TAURO, the collaboration between jazz pianist and singer-songwriter Cynthia Tauro and Brendan Canning (Broken Social Scene), are sharing the new video for “You Got Something” which pays serious homage to a late 90s aesthetic. Director Bea Santos had a particular vision upon hearing the song: 

“From my first listen, ‘You Got Something’ instantly evoked the gritty, iconic feel of late 90s trip hop music videos. I knew that I wanted to make something fun that matched the fresh and idiosyncratic talent of Cynthia and Brendan, and looked and felt like it could have been on the Wedge (IYKYK). Some of the sequences in the video are an ode to the work of video artist Chris Cunningham and videos from artists like Massive Attack and Portishead. Ultimately, I wanted to create a moody, DIY vibe that underscored the song's melancholy and introspective mood.”

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MORE ABOUT TAURO
Cynthia Tauro has been active in the Toronto music scene for the better part of the last decade, playing primarily in the jazz circuit. Shortly after completing her degree in jazz performance at Carleton University, she released a debut full-length titled Moments. It was met with modest acclaim but more importantly it introduced her to some heavy hitters in the scene like Guido Basso, Robi Botos and Terry Clarke.

Fast forward a couple years and a few hundred gigs later, including a stint in the stage production of Mama Mia, Cynthia was looking for some new and untapped avenues to explore. She sparked a friendship with Brendan Canning in 2022 at Field Trip Music Festival in downtown Toronto and immediately felt a spark as the music of Lucy Dacus played in the background. The conversation quickly turned to writing songs together and it was clear a path was being laid out.

Cynthia began coming over to Brendan’s home for impromptu jams while the two tried to figure each other’s musical worlds out. In Brendan’s words, “It wasn’t until Cynthia started playing what she called ‘intervals’ that I truly started to see where we could connect on a deeper level.” Those ‘intervals’ would eventually become the song “Great Minds”.

This fruitful partnership is already scheming for the future. Multiple recording sessions with Spencer Muscio (Jessie Reyez), Kintaro Akyama (Birds of Bellwoods), Juwayon Clarke (Daniel Caesar), and Little Scream mean there’s more music on the way in the very near future.

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MORE ABOUT BRENDAN CANNING
Brendan Canning is the co-founder of multi JUNO Award winning, 2x Polaris Music Prize nominated internationally acclaimed group Broken Social Scene who have just celebrated their twenty year anniversary. He has three solo albums under his belt and has been part of numerous bands over the last three decades including hHead, Len, By Divine Right and Cookie Duster. Canning's film credits span Half Nelson, It’s Kind of a Funny Story, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, the Netflix series Spinning Out and more.

Quietly, he’s known as the “Butter Tart Guy” from the 90s smash hit, “Steal My Sunshine” and also the DJ who’s played every bar, warehouse, backyard, booze can and roof top since 1998. Today he splits his time between Tauro, Broken Social Scene, composing for film, and music director at the Drake Hotel in Toronto.

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YVES JARVIS SHARES NEW SINGLE, “GOLD FILIGREE”

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NEW LP TO BE RELEASED IN 2025 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

“[‘The Knife in Me’] is a musical melange in that it switches gears halfway through. In lesser hands such a move might not land, but Jarvis is capable in many modes.” — KCRW

"Angelic folk led by an acoustic guitar strum and harmonies that would make Crosby, Stills and Nash want to join in." — Billboard Canada on “The Knife in Me”

“[Yves Jarvis] compact[s] his beautiful mess of thoughts and sounds into tidy little boxes until they’re liable to burst.” — Pitchfork

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Yves Jarvis — the moniker of Canadian musician Jean-Sébastien Yves Audet — releases the second single, “Gold Filigree”, from a forthcoming release out in early 2025 via Next Door Records. “Gold Filigree” is a warm mid-tempo track that feels like taking sips from a cup, or drags from a cigarette — vivid and self-contained in under four minutes. Yves describes the track as “romance and sensuality unmasking vulnerabilities necessary to love and be loved” and recommends it if you like “fornication, love-making, procreation, steak frites, Prince, Al Green, and Charlotte Day Wilson.” 

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“Gold Filigree” was recorded with all parts performed by Jarvis without a single additional contributor (“Not even one!”), transforming his acclaimed, three-time-Polaris Music Prize-longlisted vision into music which vibrates like a cosmic anthropology. Whereas Yves previously approached music as something sculptural—as compositions that emerge spontaneously from raw sonic material— "this time… I had actual parts. Instead of making a world, I thought: ‘I’m a band.” The goal became to articulate songs as purely and as simply as possible. "It's not about trying to tell my story, fit in, or achieve any goal”: “it’s about trying to express something I’ve learned: some information I’ve received” down the wire from the divine. The world’s full of love; it’s also full of mystery.

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