It would be a stretch to think that most of us would remember a great weekend in the fog on the Bay of Fundy in 2011. If it weren’t for good ol’ Hurricane Bill, who set us to flight along with a few tents early Sunday morning, or it being the final Sunseekers Ball, it would most likely have been forgotten. If you were on the east coast in August of 2011, it was the best place to spend your weekend. Among the many artists to perform that weekend were a duo who called themselves Maztradamus.
Some had rumoured that these two were swept away with the winds, only to land in a place where red slippers were a prime means of transportation. Well, they have just touched down again, and with them comes the weird we remember.
With the release of Strange Birds, Clifford J Doucette, and Dave Mazerolle breathe new life into the old moniker. A project that had been left to stew over the past few years as the pair were busy with other things like Wet Grow Light, Elephant Skeletons and the development of Mazord. Their personal progression within that period has come to fruit.
Over the last 15 years of working together they’ve become inseparable. Despite the success of Doucette’s solo project Elephant Skeletons, he has always made time to work with Mazerolle due to his admiration for his talent.
“Over the winter we felt like creating new music together but with a new approach and fit, back in the Maztradamus territory of sound.” says Doucette.
Given the reception of the new track’s release, we’re excited to see what they may be bleeping and blooping with behind the screen.
“Strange Birds” feels as though you’re listening to a distant signal that has traversed space and time. It seems to come to us through a tube, buried in murky waters. It’s a weird mix of beatboxing and vocalizations that have been filtered through the thickest of synthetic muds, and a tin can.
We eagerly await their next release, bobbing our heads to what has bubbled to the surface.