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January 17th, 2012

New Canadiana :: Lantern // The Ether – Lantern // The Ether

Lantern and The Ether Split Cassette Cover
From the cutting-edge theoretics of Gabriel Jasmin:
Lantern’s burning proto-punk and wah-wah workouts provide a much needed headbang session to strengthen those aging neck tendons. Their cover of this trashcan anthem further proves the cutting-edge theory that silverface fuzz blows away synth-banjo, any day. Meanwhile, The Ether’s destructo-wave ripples into black holes, a dense mass constantly on the verge of implosion. Here and there, a sparse guitar lead escapes the confines, a split-second before the void pulls you back head first into its crushing fury. Must grip!

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The Ether – Permanent State of Grace

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Lantern – America is my Zoo

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January 16th, 2012

Featurette :: 2011 Wrap-Up

Since our great birthing in the spring of 2009, we have never bestowed upon the masses a curated year in review. We have our philosophical reasons (read: laziness), but 2011 was a special year and we’re hoping that 2012 will bring more change and triumph. In line with our continuous transfiguration, we would like to present a 2011 summary (of sorts). So, please, dig in. We hope you enjoy and can’t wait to share the mountains of boon scattered across our northernly paradise.

PS – Thanks to all our lovely writers for their hard work submitting all these beautiful trinkets of 2011′s glory. Additionally, my humble thanks to Jesse Locke for compiling everything and to Myke Atkinson for his layout advice.

Hearts,

Aaron Levin
Weird Canada
http://weirdcanada.com/

2011 Albums We Missed

  • Sex Church
  • Growing Over

  • This was probably my fault. I’ll review it!

  • Paul Lawton

More 2011 Albums We Missed:

Music From 2011 We Wished Was Released Physically

Other non-physical digitalia:

New Births Of 2011

  • Teledrome
  • Demos

  • Got the demos last summer and they knocked me on my ass!

  • Paul Lawton

Other newborns from the two-oh-one-one:

2011’s Most Memorable Album Cover

  • Young Guv + The Scuzz
  • Bedroom Eyes b/w Rumors

  • This thing gives me nightmares. Unanimously hideous.

  • Aaron Levin

Other (hopefully not-so-garish) album covers:

2011’s Most Elaborate Packaging

More curiously packaged goodness:

2011’s Most Surprising Releases, Events And Ephemera

  • Wyrd MTL

  • Turning Wyrd MTL from a drunken idea into a reality!

  • Gabriel Jasmin

Other great minutiae of 2011:

2011 Release From The Most Obscure Location

  • Sutton, QC: Les Nitrates de Madame Mimieux – Rien n’est moins grave (Benoit Poirier)
  • Churchill, MB: A message from Taylor Burgess: “Hey, polar bear occultists from Churchill, get in touch with me already!” (Taylor Burgess)
  • Winnipeg, MB: Microdot – Lamps Not Amps (Paul Lawton)

    It used to be that Winnipeg was THE Canadian music scene, but it’s been pretty quiet over the last decade or so, and thus fairly obscure. Thankfully, The core group of musicians making up Microdot/Atomic Don and the Black Sunrise/Angry Dragons/This Hisses etc. will change that soon if releases like Lamps Not Amps have anything to say about it.

2011’s Favourite New Genre

  • “Witchdub”
  • Fletcher Pratt – Dub Sessions Vol. 1
  • Taylor Burgess

2011’s Most Stoned Dudes

  • Krang

  • They don’t call it “Krang Baked” for nothing! (Editor’s Note: I’ve never heard anyone call anything “Krang Baked”)

  • Paul Lawton

Other stoners of note:

2011’s Geographical Hotbed

Other geographs of note:

  • Lethbridge, AB (Mike Deane)

    Still!

  • Toronto, ON (Jesse Locke)

    Ha ha ha ha, no, seriously.

  • Saskatchewan (Taylor Burgess)
  • Halifax, NS (Benoit Poirier)
  • Halifax, NS / Truro, NS (Alison Lang)
  • London, ON (Pam Haasen)
  • The Internet (Gabriel Jasmin)

2011’s Most Face-Melting Video

  • Femminielli – “Atlantida” – (Simon Frank)

    • 2011’s Softest Bands Not Related To THOMAS

    • Bruce Cockburn
    • Bruce Cockburn

    • Editor’s note: although not from 2011, Jesse Locke was gifted this album of soft-psych explorations (from me) for all his hard work as Managing Editor of 2011. For all the doubters and haters out there, this mystic-dog funkyness will be coming to a Departures near you, soon!

    • Jesse Locke & Aaron Levin

    Other softness:

    • Doc Dunn, Sundrips, and Bruce Cockburn’s first album. (Jesse Locke)
    • “The only soft I listened to is THOMAS. All others need not apply.” (Mike Deane)
    • Softcore, obvs. (Taylor Burgess)
    • Lab Coast (Jean Sebastien Audet)
    • “Gross.” (Paul Lawton)
    • Headaches (Pam Haasen)

      Well, I guess that’s arguable, but we like the softest moments of Land-o!

    • “All soft leads to THOMAS.” (Aaron Levin)
    • Jennifer Castle (Gabriel Jasmin)

    2011’s Youngest Bieber-Not-Bieber

    Other non-Biebs:

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    January 13th, 2012

    New Canadiana :: Philia – Arma Tribute 1. and 5 Pieces

    Philia - Arma Tribute 1. and 5 Pieces
    • Philia
    • Arma Tribute 1. and 5 Pieces
    • (Self Released)
    • Winnipeg, MB
    • ::web/sounds::
    From the atonal arsenal of Taylor Burgess:
    Not all of us can take the trip that is the Assiniboine Music Armada, canoeing from Brandon to Winnipeg with psych-folk band Twin to communities through wilderness, but some can certainly admire the spirit, for those of us who believe in spirits anyhow. Phantom embodied, Greg Hanec’s tribute to the tour (performed and recorded at Twin’s return show to Winnipeg) plays like an NFB nature doc — expansive, quiet stretches, sounds of water splashing, and birds chirping — accompanied by Philia’s concentrated atonal arsenal. Elsewhere, he’s making music out of whatever he can get his hands on: cello samples, the open back of a piano, and his own field recordings of a bus door opening and closing. What’s at play is what usually isn’t played, and the subdued floats on down, up, and by.

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    Philia – Arma Tribute 1

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    Philia – Cellogroove

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    January 12th, 2012

    Tournée Banale :: Tournée Banale Avant-Garde 7 & 8

    • AIDS Wolf
    • Tournée Banale Avant-Garde 7
    • [Dir. By: AIDS Wolf]
    • (European Tour 2011)
    • ::web/visuals::
    • AIDS Wolf
    • Tournée Banale Avant-Garde 8
    • [Dir. By: AIDS Wolf]
    • (European Tour 2011)
    • ::web/visuals::
    From the fluorescent palace of Aaron Levin:
    We’re blowing out the last two episodes of AIDS Wolf‘s venture in tour banality with a double-shotgun blast of inanity. Moskos explores European tour cuisine, a bouncy-castle paradise, and a new age toilet before plotting Drainolith‘s 700th tour. The inane vibes are summarized brilliantly by Episode 8′s exploration of an ant infestation within Chloe’s sugar. It’s a beautiful closure to the wolf’s Europen journey through documentary vérité. Perched high upon our digital chalice we implore those outside the 100-sided die to heed our message: bring us your banality and we shall broadcast it to the world.

    PS – This incredible feature would not have been possible without the hard work of Alex Moskos and AIDS Wolf. Thank you so much.

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    January 11th, 2012

    New Canadiana :: Tenderness – The Axe Is Ready At The Tree

    Tenderness - The Axe Is Ready At The Tree
    • Tenderness
    • The Axe Is Ready At The Tree
    • (Self Released)
    • Toronto, ON
    • ::web/sounds::
    From the grace under fire of Jesse Locke:
    Free-floating memories of Sunday morning devotionals merge with the holy ghost of Ann Peebles on this earth-rattling rave-up in the name of. Fresh to def with instantaneous heft and a front-to-back set of unshakeable tunes, Chrissy Reichert’s pitch (and paradigm) shifted bangers twist up Tranzac avant-squawk with dusted brother ‘No C’ Zukerman, including feline sound effects guaranteed to freak out your cats. Tenderness could be 2012’s sonic salvation. Get ur grip on.

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    Tenderness – We Lay Our Broken World In Sorrow At Your Feet

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    Tenderness – The Axe Is Ready At The Tree

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    January 10th, 2012

    New Canadiana :: The Transcendental Rodeo – The Magic Garden / Le Jardin Magique

    [J-Card Scan] :: The Transcendental Rodeo - Plays and Sings The Magic Garden / Le Jardin Magique
    From the heavenly gates of Kevin Hainey:
    Sounds of chimes, gongs, angelic voices male and female. An unseen hand pulls back a curtain, exposing a room filled with beaded sights and melting lights, incense stenches and the smells of foods fit for gods. The sound’s engaging the movement of all in attendance, who are involved in the humanitarian orchestra of peaceful sound happening right now, for the sacrifice of the burdens put on us. Heightened by the senses, organized folk freedom makes you feel aware of emotions you seemed to have forgotten. Someone hands you some reefer, another points out an acoustic guitar sitting alone with no one to strum it, and before you know it you’re part of a living landscape of tantric Babylonian psychedelic meditation. A warm beating heart of an ensemble led by the skilled Doc Dunn in a cold cage of a city. Feel these babies breathe, Side A from a living room, Side B including an audience. Put down that plastic fork you’re holding, its comfort food will never satisfy you again. Come heal your soul in these pure vibrations.

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    The Transcendental Rodeo – Magic (excerpt 01)

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    The Transcendental Rodeo – Magic (excerpt 02)

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    January 9th, 2012

    Premiere :: Lowlife (trailer)

    From the mud man mania of Jesse Locke:
    We’re proud to ring in 2012 with straynge tidings lurking in the Nova Scotian sticks. The warped minds behind Dog Day / YORODEO and DIVORCE / Obey Convention have been toiling in the muck for the last two years to create a full-length mudsploitation flick that will finally see the light of day in 2012. Lowlife is a shiver-inducing, psychotropic surrealist drama filmed in stark b&w, and featuring a range of heavies from the Halifax music / art subterrain. Befittingly, the soundtrack is a phantasmagoric blend of self-described “squelch and screech from a bunch of our favourite experimenters”, Seth’s improvised tuba-drone and lusty narration from his German father-in-law, Ogi. Weird Canada is honoured and overjoyed to present the trailer’s world premiere.

    For a full Q&A with Seth Smith and Darcy Spidle, please click here.

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    December 23rd, 2011

    New Canadiana :: Dan Foley – Fredonne Noël

    Des festivités de Gabriel Jasmin:
    Après trop de semaines de jingles des fêtes sans arrêt, Dan Foley perd la boule et régurgite son mal de cœur de son ton le plus morose. Un late night à fredonner tête à tête avec GarageBand, un malaise monotone qui fait frémir, tout comme les conversations ennuyantes avec grande-tante au cours des jours à venir. Joyeuses fêtes, les weirdos!

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    Dan Foley – Promenade en Traineau

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    Dan Foley – Noel Blanc

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    December 22nd, 2011

    New Canadiana :: The Brabazons – Cling On b/w Ma Babby

    From the babby talk of Jesse Locke:
    Montreal’s storied scriptures of garage rock sass find its latest disciples with this smirking fuzz-punk trio. “Cling On” lurches to a start amidst raspberry blasts of guitar, Manzarek organ and lock-step drums before settling into the brand of smashed groove you’d hear pumping from the DJ booth at L’esco. “Ma Babby” ups the hook ‘n’ tackle factor even further with a deluge of pedal effects, tempo shifts and howling monkey vox. Stuff this in your stocking and smoke it.

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    The Brabazons – Cling On

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    The Brabazons – Ma Babby

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    December 21st, 2011

    New Canadiana :: Dirty Beaches // Ela Orleans – Double Feature

    From the 18 fps of Gabriel Jasmin:
    Canada’s prime officer of cool meets England’s queen (of baroque pop), sibling solo sculptors of static foggy goodness. Dirty Beaches’ Badlands b-sides find a home here, living through Super 8 memories and dissolving time into slow swaying cigarette smoke. A strung out cinematic soundtrack for a long overnight train ride.

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    Dirty Beaches – Crosses

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    Ela Orleans – Neverend

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    Dirty Beaches – Death Valley

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