November 22, 2017—Beauty in the Tension, the fifth studio album from New Brunswick songwriting quartet The Olympic Symphonium, will be released in February 2018. It is the result of rural isolation, small comforts, and inspiration in the form of two pairs of ‘Dark Side of the Moon’ pajama pants. For six days last winter, the band holed up in the legendary Old…
November 21, 2017—Artist, musician, producer, and sound explorer Jay Crocker has won an Emerging Artist Recognition Award from Arts Nova Scotia for his BIBELOT instrument/installation piece. The award was handed out this weekend as part of the Creative Nova Scotia Awards Gala in Halifax, NS. “Part instrument, part installation, BIBELOT is a self-composing set of sixteen ceiling mounted music boxes with custom-built drives, loops, lights, and amps. Creating a sanctuary…
November 21, 2017—Tim Tracey has been silently creating some of the darkest stop-motion videos from a small studio above an Army Navy surplus store in Halifax. He’s collaborated with Joshua Van Tassel on his award-winning shorts Kreb and DataMine, the latter of which premiered last year at TIFF. We’re very pleased to share with you the video for DoubleTooth‘s song When You Need A Helmet from their…