Rumor has it these Angelas are our two most faithful listeners.
tracklist for this week
Bob:
Oodoo – Canopee
Monowhales – RYLD
Mo Kenney – Slowdeath
Sunfields – Got Some ( But It Ain’t Enough)
Paul
Teke:Teke – Yori Ni
Boston Levi – Thief
Jaffa Road – Until When
A Place to Bury Strangers – End of the Night
Melanie Durrant – Where I’m At
Our Spotify Playlist updates to this week’s songs
Our show notes for this week!
Teke:Teke album Shirushi 2021 Yori Ni
’Yoru Ni (which translates from Japanese to ‘At night’) was literally written in the middle of the night, guitarist Nakauchi-Pelletier explains, ‘’I woke up suddenly at night and had this melody in my head, as if it had come to me from another world. After letting it simmer a little longer, I decided to actually get up and grab my guitar. It really felt like I was following some kind of spirit or ghost, it was taking my hand and wanted to take me somewhere. So it did, and it gave me the idea for the song lyrics which Maya took further and romanticized, while the music was basically ‘pushed’ into my brain by some strange unknown forces.’’
This part of my research was really interesting, but I don’t think this has anything to do with the band.
From Wikipedia
Teke Teke (テケテケ),[1] also spelled Teke-Teke,[2] Teketeke,[3] or Teke teke,[1] is a Japanese urban legend about the ghost of a schoolgirl who is said to have been tied by her bullies onto a railway line, where her body was cut in half by a train. She is an onryō, or a vengeful spirit, who lurks in urban areas and around train stations at night. Since she no longer has a lower body, she travels on either her hands or elbows, dragging her upper torso and making a scratching or “teke teke“-like sound. If she encounters an individual, she will chase them and slice them in half at the torso, killing them in such a way that mimics her own disfigurement.[4]
Oodoo – Canopee
Formed from ex Vulvets, the new group Oodooo presents a very promising first EP. The Montreal group, in which we find some warriors from the local scene, offers in five tracks (three songs in French and two that they cover in instrumental version) a small glimpse of their universe. Combo mainly focused on studio work rather than the stage, Oodooo evolves in spheres that fans of vaporous 60’s tones, psyches and fuzzies will undoubtedly recognize and appreciate. If the references of the four musicians are obvious, they are nevertheless very well assimilated and skillfully mastered. Liminanas, Juniore, Gainsbourg de Vannier or de Colombier come first as much for the French-speaking fact as for the music and the subtle arrangements,just like the Allah-Las or La Luz on the American side. This nifty little album, impeccably produced and with a very pretty cover, has only one big flaw: it is much too short! We are waiting for the rest ..
Boston Levi – Thief Album Prophecies
As I said on the show, this is one of those stories that leads to the song. Mike McNamee, former Carleton Ravens Captain is moving into music with this first release. Managed by Jay Emmons of The Glorious Sons, this is all still very new to him.
“The response has been a lot bigger than I thought it would be,” said McNamee, whose first song will officially be introduced on Apple Music and Spotify Friday at midnight. “I’m learning along the way. I’m not giving up everything. I’m a down to earth guy, but I think about it a lot. Four months ago, I didn’t know much about how to write a song or record a song. It has been wild.”
Article – Former Carleton captain Mike McNamee skates towards a music career
Ottawa Sun Jan 7 Ken Warren
He has a unique playing style that you can see on this video – not the song we played on the show.
Monowhales – RYLD
Some information on Monowhales – Canada’s most played unsigned artists on Canadian Alternative radio. From a recent article
Toronto’s Monowhales is set to roar back on March 5 with the new album, Daytona Bleach, but they’ve been building anticipation over the past year with the singles RWLYD (Really Wanna Let You Down) and All Or Nothing, which demonstrate the hard-hitting sonic diversity that marks the album as a whole.
The latest single from Daytona Bleach, Out With The Old, is the group’s most powerful statement so far, with its message of generational change delivered in a taut, modern hard rock package. Indeed, Monowhales has been leading its own indie-rock revolution, having earned the distinction of being 2020s’ most played unsigned artist on Canadian alternative radio.
Five Questions With… Monowhales’ Sally Shaar
Jaffa Road – Until When (single)
I really love this band. This is their first single in awhile and I am really looking forward to the album release later this year.
Jaffa Road is from Toronto and they mix ancient and modern Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish and English poetry into their work.
About the song we chose, Until When
This traditional melody from the Maghreb is traditionally sung in either Hebrew or Darija (Moroccan dialect of Arabic). The Hebrew version ( Eli Shema Koli אֵלִי שְמַע קוֹלִי) is a liturgical poem where the protagonist cries out to God in the hope of redemption. The Darija version (Sidi Habibi سيدي حبيبي) is a secular love song about unrequited love between the protagonist singer and the imagined lover. We call our mash up of the two versions UNTIL WHEN named after the first line of the first Hebrew stanza – עַד מַתָי אֲקַוֶה לִרְאוֹת גְאוּלָתְךָ –Until when shall I wait to see your redemption?
from Bandcamp
More about Until When
It has previously been recorded by many Jewish Algerian and Moroccan musicians in both Morocco and Israel as well as many Arab musicians from the Maghreb. As far as we know, this is the first recorded version to alternate complete verses of the Hebrew and Arabic versions of the song.
also from Bandcamp
Mo Kenney – Slowdeath
Mo Kenney is an East Coast singer songwriter. Her new lp; however, is a set of great cover versions.
Kenney has a new album coming out next year that will be all covers, performed with just the basics – her clear, rich voice and a guitar.
“I was in the studio and recorded this right before the pandemic started,” Kenney said. She was thinking about doing an acoustic record of her own songs, but ultimately decided it would be more interesting to do an album of covers. “A lot of these songs are songs that I put in my live sets.”
Kenney says she grew up listening to old country standards that played on the radio in her grandparents’ kitchen. “I don’t think I really fully appreciated it back then, but I have a real love for those old country songs now.” Her favourite Patsy Cline tune is You Belong To Me – Bill played Mo’s own cover on the show. “That song was written in the 50s and it still holds up,” she says.
From A Tale of Two Mo Kenneys – CBC
Here is her cover of fellow Nova Scotian Dog Day’s Seth Smith’s song Slow Death
End of the Night – A Place to Bury Strangers
This is a really interesting band that has been around in some form since 2002. The song is jarring and really great and I found out about it through an online music magazine out of Toronto – Spill Magazine. It was their single of the week and you need to watch the video and listen to this great track.
More from Spill Magazine
In 2003, Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers emerged on the scene out of Oliver Ackermann’s psychotropic vision. Often cited as “the loudest band in New York,” APTBS is known for their vicious live performances overloaded with all-consuming visuals, experimental sonic warfare, and treacherous stage antics.
2021 welcomes a lineup change for A Place To Bury Strangers. New members John Fedowitz (bass) and Sandra Fedowitz (drums) of Ceremony East Coast cement the most sensational version of the band to date. John and Oliver were childhood friends who had played in the legendary underground shoegaze band Skywave, crafting futuristic punk music together. This next phase is a sonic return to APTBS’s most raw and unhinged endeavors, pushed even further into a new chaotically apocalyptic incarnation.
During the ongoing global pandemic, Ackermann spent his time building this new band, raising money and awareness for those in need, establishing the record label Dedstrange, designing futuristic space synthesizers for his company Death By Audio, and producing this brand new A Place To Bury Strangers EP. The Hologram EP will be released July 16th on Dedstrange.
Spill Magazine Track of the Week
Sunfields – Got Some ( But It Ain’t Enough)
Culture Addicts offers a nice little assessment of this Montreal Band’s latest effort.
SUNFIELDS shares new track Got Some (But It Ain’t Enough), which is lifted from their upcoming album ‘Late Bloomers’. It’s all too easy to feel defeated in life. This song pokes fun at that notion. Not everything in life needs to be taken so seriously; it’s okay to laugh at yourself sometimes.
Got Some (But It Ain’t Enough) toys a lot with the notion of the bigger picture, the thing most of us fear and dread, the one thing lots of us avoid… the void. It’s got a toe-tapping, uplifting, anti-downer feel to it, with the lyrics taking a piss out of things.
Listen to Got Some (But It Ain’t Enough) via SoundCloud below.
Melanie Durrant – Where I’m At 2021
This was a great piece to finish off with from a young artist who has changed a great deal over the past few years.
Canadian legacy artist Melanie Durrant drops her third studio album, Where I’m At. This album follows the release of her latest single “Listen,” and the song’s accompanying music video.
With the release of “Listen” and the drop of her new album, Ms. Durrant is flooded with support from notable American and Canadian talent. Many notable people, including Ray Robinson, Grammy-nominated artist Glenn Lewis, Grammy-Award winning artist Jill Scott, award winner and Walk of Fame inductee Tanya Mullings, JUNO-Award winner Dru Grange, and Grammy-nominated multi-platinum music producer Allstar (produced SWV) have shown their support and champion the new album release on Durrant’s Instagram page.
Where I’m At is fused with vintage 90s R&B, boom-bap, soul and encompasses faint sounds of latin and reggae. Written by Durrant, each track encompasses raw heartfelt emotion drawing upon personal experiences of the award-winner and her closest friends. Since 2013, Durrant has received three JUNO Award nominations. In 2013, “Made For Love” was nominated for Reggae Single of the Year, in 2014 her second single, “Gone,” was nominated for R&B/Soul Recording of the Year, and in 2015 Durrant picked up another nod in the R&B/Soul category with her single “Four Seasons.” She was also nominated for Soul/R&B Artist or Group of the Year at the 2015 SiriusXM Indie Awards.
This album encompasses themes of narcissistic abuse, personality disorders and the way it affects the mind. Every track on Where I’m At has different mindsets, but keeps true to the album’s overall theme.
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