JACOB BRODOVSKY LAUNCHES FUNDRAISER, NEW LP OUT FRIDAY

JACOB BRODOVSKY SHARES NEW BANDCAMP EXCLUSIVE VERSION OF “BENEATH IT ALL” FEATURING LEITH ROSS & DOMINIQUE ADAMS. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THE SINGLE TO BENEFIT PALESTINIAN CHILDREN’S RELIEF FUND - FULL DETAILS BELOW

JACOB BRODOVSKY’S NEW ALBUM, TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED,
DUE OUT JULY 10, 2026

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PERFORMING AT WINNIPEG FOLK FESTIVAL

“Grab a kitchen scale and you’ll quickly see that Jacob Brodovsky’s newest LP is exactly the same weight as his last one, but Tell the Kids We Tried is still the heaviest music released by the singer-songwriter…the Winnipeg-raised artist tackles concurrent global fiascos such as climate catastrophe, political apathy, genocide and an abdication of human rights.” - The Winnipeg Free Press

“Brodovsky makes music that feels conversational without ever losing its charge: Thoughtful, wry, big-hearted, and grounded in the kind of observations that linger long after the hook.” - Atwood Magazine

“Jacob Brodovsky spins mundane observations with imaginative insights, using lyrical richness and splashes of humour to paint in pensive musings and quirky, comforting colour” — Exclaim!

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Ahead of this Friday’s release of his new record, Tell The Kids We Tried, award-winning indie-folk songwriter, based in Treaty 1 Territory, Jacob Brodovsky is sharing an alternate version of the album track “Beneath It All” to benefit the Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund. The recording features guests Leith Ross, Dominique Adams, and Kieran Placatka and arrives with a video of the performance.

“I wrote ‘Beneath it All’ about trying to hold onto the community that raised me while it shrinks into itself,” explains Brodovsky in a statement about the controversy that led to his departure from a Jewish summer camp. “A community of good people blinded by trauma, grief, and a refusal to acknowledge harm.” 

Recently, Brodovsky talked for the first time about his experience with the Winnipeg Free Press and the initiative behind the fundraiser. For the full story, read the article here. To read Jacob’s statement statement visit his Instagram here.

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MORE ABOUT JACOB BRODOVSKY & TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED
In some cases, songwriters discover their writing is premonition only after living through the experiences their past-self penned. In 2025, Jacob Brodovsky lived through a loss of community that, at the time, he didn’t realize he’d foretold while writing his upcoming sophomore LP, Tell The Kids We Tried.

He began recording with a group of trusted friends and heroes. He brought a batch of songs to producers Gavin Gardiner and Champagne James Robinson, only to quickly discard many of them in favour of brand new songs stemming from a ‘Song Every Week’ songwriting challenge that the Winnipeg music community takes part in every Winter.

Without time to edit or really even think about them, these eleven songs revealed themselves to be more vulnerable and personal than previous work. With the help of John Mark Baron (Begonia, William Prince), Jason Tait (The Weakerthans, Bahamas), Keiran Placetka (Leith Ross, William Prince, Bros. Landreth), Charlotte Cornfield, Dominique Adams (Leith Ross, Madeleine Roger), and Taylor Jackson, they recorded live to an 8-track tape machine, quickly capturing the true expression of each song and being forced to commit to creative decisions in the moment. 

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After spending the vast majority of his life in the Jewish Summer Camp world, including becoming Co-Executive Director with his wife of the popular local community camp they met at over 25 years ago, political tensions forced him to walk away from both what he thought was his life’s work, and the community he grew up in just days after the birth of their second son. Many tracks like “Kids”, “Beneath It All”, “It’s Alright”, “Lack Thereof”, and “Older, Too” foreshadowed the upcoming loss of community that Jacob would experience while his child was being born. 

The political and personal impacts live in each song, sharing the sense of loss and confusion Brodovsky felt through the process. At the same time, the collection of songs shares more hope than disappointment. With a close listen, many songs show the importance of finding true community, seeing good in tough situations, and learning to feel less allergic to growing up and getting older. 

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On one level, the album is a clear message to Jacob’s former campers and staff. On another level, telling the kids we tried is directed at his own two children, hoping for understanding as to why he’s raising them in a world that’s getting harder and harder to believe in.

Finally, it’s a reminder for all of us as we try to carve space for kindness and community in an increasingly bleak time. Please, tell them we tried.

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TOUR DATES
Jul 09-12 - Winnipeg, MB - Winnipeg Folk Festival
Jul 25–27 - Lac du Bonnet, MB - Fire And Water Festival
Aug 14-17 - Ear Falls, ON - Trout Forest Music Festival #
Oct 22 - Toronto, ON - The Burdock

# Performing as Dom + Jacob (with Dominique Adams)

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TELL THE KIDS WE TRIED TRACKLIST
01 Past Mistakes 
02 Colorado Low
03 Kids
04 Restaurant
05 Older Too
06 Intermission
07 Lack Thereof (with Dominique Adams)
08 Downer
09 Beneath It All (with Charlotte Cornfield)
10 Winters (with MOONRIIVR)
11 It's Alright (with Dominique Adams and Taylor Jackson)

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ECHOES OF… SHARES NEW TRACK FROM UPCOMING LP

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Today, Nunavut musician and Aakuluk Music label owner Andrew Morrison, the one-time leader of JUNO Award-nominated Arctic folk-rock group the Jerry Cans, is sharing another song from his beautiful and often mournful piano record, Last Days. The record is comprised of six instrumentals with each of the same works also recorded with Inuktitut-language poetry by rock legend James Ungalaq (Northern Haze) and JUNO Award-nominated singer-songwriter Terry Uyarak.

“The News Vol. I” ft. Sara Page and Kristina Koropecki, and “The News Vol. II” ft. qiyuapik are “another shade of the process of grief and loss,” explains Andrew. “This song came from a voice note right after my mother decided to pursue MAID (Medical Assistance in Dying). A decision for which nothing can prepare any family. Those were the notes and melody that came to me right when I came home and sat at the piano. When I listened to how the track came together, I felt strongly that my dear friend James Ungalaq could help find words to deepen the track while also being an amazing support for our family. I will forever be grateful to him.... and after this I will go back to writing happy music, haha!”

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MORE ABOUT LAST DAYS
“It is a grief album, but a life album,” says Andrew. “There's lots about home. I think that's something that we struggle with, in this era of our lives, when we lose people, parents, but also lose people that we look up to artistically.

Last Days was largely inspired by Andrew’s late mother, who was comforted by her son’s piano instrumentals in her final months, but also his need to break out of his comfort zone and create a piece of art that can be taken to the great classical concert halls of the world. 

“I wanted to do something that ignores the rest of the commercialized appetites in the music industry and honour non-lyrical music. It’s a world I don’t know too much about, but I think that we’re told too quickly what songs are about, but with the Inuktitut poetry — because most people won’t understand it — the tone of the voice, I hope, conveys that. This is getting back to something that I feel is missing in art, which is our connection to what we’re feeling and expressing.”

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During the pandemic, when Andrew’s mother was in care, every morning he played her snippets of the piano songs because he knew she enjoyed them. “I recorded them on my phone just as voice notes,” he says. 

Some of those intros are on the final recording, and some he rerecorded after she passed away.  “It was just time to diarize and remember the last moments of my mother passing away,” Andrew says. 

Self-produced in Inuktitut and Montreal, the instrumentals “House Is Home Vol. I”, “79th Ave Vol. I”, “The News Vol. I, The News 2 Vol. I”, “Colours I”, and “Sooth Your Soul Vol. I”, also feature Sara Page (Barr Brothers) on harp and Kristina Koropecki on cello. 

“The News” poems were written and recited by James Ungalaq. “Two of his band members had passed away this year so he was also in a devastated space,” says Andrew. “He had a bunch of poems that he had written. It’s him finding his place again, similar to me, being from a band that had a certain identity to something very different. I feel like for both of us, it's been mining our souls a little bit.”

“It is a great honour to have both James and Terry contribute poetry to my album; they write absolutely beautiful words,” says Andrew. “We wanted to provide both Inuktitut and English guides to their poems with the hope that more people can understand life in Nunavut.”

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LAST DAYS TRACKLIST
01 Sooth Your Soul Vol. I feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
02 Sooth Your Soul Vol. II feat. qiyuapik
03 The News, Vol. I feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
04 The News, Vol. II feat. qiyuapik
05 The News 2 Vol. I feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
06 The News 2 Vol. II feat. qiyuapik
07 79th Ave Vol. I feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
08 79th Ave Vol. II feat. qiyuapik
09 Colours I (Instrumental) feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
10 Colours II feat. Terry Uyarak
11 House Is Home Vol. I feat. Sara Page, Kristina Koropecki
12 House Is Home Vol. II feat. Terry Uyarak

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ADA LEA ANNOUNCES NEW EP, SHARES NEW SINGLE, “COPYCAT”

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NEW EP, the end is a wave, OUT AUGUST 12 VIA NEXT DOOR RECORDS

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Ada Lea, the moniker of Montreal-based musician Alexandra Levy, releases “copycat” the first single from her new EP, the end is a wave, out August 12 via Next Door Records. Following last year’s epic, 16-track opus, when i paint my masterpiece, “copycat” is a reflection on friendship, comparison, and proximity set to a dance beat. 

On Friendship: “In 2020, I’d just finished reading The Neapolitan Quartet,” explains Levy. “Lila and Lenu’s relationship felt like some of the close and maybe slightly unhealthy friendships in my life at the time. In the case of the quartet, Lenu is defined by Lila, her Brilliant Friend. Lenu is preoccupied by what Lila is doing, thinking… whom she’s loving. Lenu mythologises her, and in so doing diminishes herself and her work. Through the four books we come to feel that Lila is truly special and Lenu is just orbiting her. Everything seems a result of some proximity to Lila. Lila was always the source, never Lenu alone. But toward the end of the quartet, there’s a shift in Lenu as she reflects back on her life with Lila. So I wrote ‘copycat’ about that moment.”

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MORE ABOUT the end is a wave
the end is a wave is an experimentation of sorts. “For this EP, I wanted to combine songs that were cut from when i paint my masterpiece, as well as the ones I’d recorded a million years ago when I was just a child,” says Levy. “It was to test their fragility. How would they behave next to the other? The old and the new? The brave and the haunted? The impression and the finely sculpted. I also decided to mix three of the songs myself (was it a mistake? you tell me…I says). I’ve been thinking of the kind of artist I’d like to be, and how I’d like to see all artists treated. I am most at home when I am creating and performing, it is what I was born to do. These worlds are opposites. 12th house and 6th, 4th & 10th, the story goes on. I can imagine a future where artists are supported by UBI and they do what they want. A kind of welfare for the serious artists that are not afraid to play. It serves the betterment of society to support artists this way. I know there are others out there, like me, that feel little purpose in their life when they’re not working toward making things. But it’s also near to impossible to make things when you are fighting to protect your energy at every turn, feeling burnt out.” 

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Levy is a Renaissance woman, and Ada Lea’s albums have been swelling in scope alongside the evolution of her artistic life. Her recent turn toward pedagogy, teaching a songwriting course at Concordia University and co-facilitating a community-based group called The Songwriting Method, weaves another vivid thread into her multifaceted practice. Her debut LP, what we say in private, blurred the lines between interior and performative worlds. Her sophomore record, the Polaris Music Prize nominated one hand on the steering wheel the other sewing a garden, featured vignettes centered on Montreal. On this sprawling and ambitious album, written over three years and whittled down from over 200 songs, she asks: what happens when you... pause? How can a life be held suspended in song? The album is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the transformations art can bring: the vision of an uncompromising artist dancing bravely and freely between registers and across mediums.


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TRACKLIST
01 copycat
02 I’ve never been in love
03 the evergreen, the birch
04 okay, ok, o.k!
05 phases
06 chelsea hotel #2
07 i miss the heavy shoulders of the trees

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