Newfoundland native composer, improviser, and educator Patrick Boyle presents After Forgetting, his latest jazz recording. Boyle has an extensive career, which includes appearing on over 50 commercial releases, performing in premiere jazz stages across Canada, and scoring for stage and film. CBC radio has called him “one of Canada’s top jazz musicians.”
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Music Video: Ian Foster and Nancy Hynes find Bittersweet Holiday Moments on ‘A Week In December’
Ian Foster and Nancy Hynes have just released a video for “A Week In December,” the title track off their new Christmas album. Combining old family footage and a harsh brush with reality, the song really turns the screws on the old nostalgia gland. Continue reading Music Video: Ian Foster and Nancy Hynes find Bittersweet Holiday Moments on ‘A Week In December’
Music Video: Rozalind MacPhail Brings 1940’s North Carolina to Halifax with ‘The Gaze’
Ahead of buckling down for her upcoming album, Get Your Flute On, ECMA and MusicNL Award-winner Rozalind MacPhail, she’s been on the road and finding herself in some interesting places. While visiting what MacPhail describes as the “coolest apartment” in Halifax, Nova Scotia she took the opportunity to record this live performance of “The Gaze.” Continue reading Music Video: Rozalind MacPhail Brings 1940’s North Carolina to Halifax with ‘The Gaze’
New Music: Youngtree & the Blooms Explore Mortality with Debut Album ‘Musical Chairs’
The debut album from Youngtree & the Blooms, Musical Chairs, is a practice in subverting expectations. You might listen to the opening song, “Hilltops of Blowing Heather,” and think you know what to expect from the rest of the album. It’s a peaceful, reminiscent track that settles somewhere neatly between folk and country. It hits many of the ticks you’d expect. Continue reading New Music: Youngtree & the Blooms Explore Mortality with Debut Album ‘Musical Chairs’
New Music: Cry, Bouzouki, Dance – Jenina MacGillivray Debuts with ‘Marion’
It you were to take a look at the Top 40 these days, you might come to the conclusion that storytelling has fallen out of fashion. Songs of profound meaning have been replaced with profound hooks. It’s more efficient to bring in a dozen producers and songwriters to work out which two words to chant for a song-long chorus, than it is to burn out your soul on life. The Jens Lekmans, Joni Mitchells and Leonard Cohens of the world are few and far between. Fortunately Newfoundland has Jenina MacGillivray. Marion, MacGillivray’s debut album, mastered and arranged by Jose Contraras of By Divine Right, is storytelling at its finest, handily wrapped in melodies that were made for falling in love with.
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