January 3, 2021—Nick SchofieldAgnes Obel – Myopiahonestly, album of the decade Gia Margaret – Mia Gargaretsimple and profound Cedric Noel – Patterningpatience is richly rewarded Michael Feuerstack‘s Top 11 for 2020This has been the weirdest year I can remember. I know it’s not just me. There’s no way I can remember all of the media that entered…
November 12, 2020—This Friday, for 24 hours only, the National Arts Centre will present a FREE livestream of Jennah Barry performing at the Mahone Bay Legion. – Watch at 8pm EST via our Facebook page // Info – Join Barry along with saxophonist Nicola Miller as they perform songs from Jennah’s recently-released sophomore album, Holiday. The concert…
November 2, 2020—“unstoppable” – The New York Times“headier and more purposeful” – Consequence of Sound“exceptional” – LOUD Women Closed Chapter, the latest single from Gianna Lauren, is currently featured in the New York Times as part of their Playlist series alongside Kendrick Lamar and Gillian Welch. The song is a blunt look at the vicious and endless cycle of social media on our lives. A conceptual video…
November 2, 2020—“profoundly moving” – Music Is My Sanctuary“perfectly echo the album’s unhurried approach to life.” – Live Eye TV Following the meditative beauty of previous videos, Muttering Spells and Their Love…, from his recent ambient album Dance Music vol.II: More Songs for Slow Motion, Joshua Van Tassel is sharing another visual work featuring dancer and choreographer Kate Holden exploring the intimacy and mystery of light in relation to three body parts moving very slowly. – Watch…
September 26, 2020—“a beautiful, moody atmosphere” – Culture Collide“a lush, idiosyncratic backdrop for stories of longing, heartbreak and forgiveness.” – CBC Music On her fourth release Gianna Lauren is at her art-rockiest, but that also may be in part thanks to the artists she was listening to as she weaved through the fog of Nova Scotia’s south shore to produce this EP: Some…
September 24, 2020—“as soothing as ASMR” – The Coast“undiluted gorgeousness” – PopMatters“stylistic and visionary” (8/10) – Exclaim! Dance Music vol.II: More Songs for Slow Motion, Joshua Van Tassel‘s sixth LP, is held together by a string quartet, electronics to create beautiful sounds in a time replete with ugliness, and the Ondea – a contemporary re-creation of the famed french synthesizer the Ondes Martenot. – listen // order wildflower seed print // watch videos…
August 24, 2020—As part of the online programming offered by Sappyfest, Sackville New Brunswick’s annual festival of independent music and art, Jennah Barry unveiled a new music video for the song ‘I See Morning.’ “the slow-moving dose of color, shape, nature, and small dancing that every day needs” – Swell Tone– Watch on YouTube or Vimeo – Created by the same team that produced the exquisite visuals for ‘Big Universe,’ this new…
August 5, 2020—We’re announced a pair of outdoor concerts this summer that aim to satisfy the festival experience everyone has been missing. In New Brunswick, we’ve teamed up with Pocologan Productions to host An Evening at the Drive-In – a unique, open-air live concert at the Sussex Drive-In on August 28 featuring performances by The Olympic Symphonium, Quinn Bonnell, and Jerry-Faye. Aiming to deliver a classic folk festival…
August 5, 2020—“elegant and expressive, the score to a movie inside your head” – Headphone Commute The second single from the upcoming ambient album by Joshua Van Tassel is an “ominous, yet still inviting” (Independent Clauses) proposition that meets at the intersections of “lush yet dark” and “ambient yet classical.” – Listen to ‘Eternal Turtle’ – Dance Music Volume II, Van Tassel’s sixth LP, is held together by its use of the Ondea (a…
June 19, 2020—After our participation in the music industry #TheShowMustBePaused initiative on June 2, we are committing ourselves to serious change going forward. Outside of ongoing listening, protesting, educating ourselves, and sharing resources, we will be: – Donating all $$ (both label and artist shares) from Bandcamp Days on June 5th and June 19th to various Black and anti-racist…
March 27, 2020—“sublime, dreamy and provocative” – American Songwriter“a record full of the soothing grace”– The Line Of Best Fit (8.5/10)“a superb songwriter capable of singing original beauty into timeless themes.” – SLUG Mag On the south shore of Nova Scotia, in a house she helped build, Jennah Barry wrote, arranged, and recorded the songs that comprise Holiday, her second album. With Colin Nealis, her…
March 27, 2020—It’s been a while since we’ve done a sampler but now seems as good a time as ever to share new music that might help you though these troubled times. We’ve intentionally chosen some calming, and generally chill music that you can use to ease you through the coming weeks. Hope you enjoy. – Listen and download for FREE via Bandcamp – Featuring…
March 27, 2020—Free-thinking Nova Scotia composer, musician and visual artist Jay Crocker (aka JOYFULTALK) channels Minimalism, Japanese environmental music, Maghrebian rhythmic modes and other numinous folkways to create his most focused, vibrant work to date. Listen/Order – http://cstrecords.com/products/joyfultalk-a-separation-of-being/ Based on a monumental, kaleidoscopic graphic score, A Separation Of Being is translated from two-dimensional page to trans-dimensional aural life using…
January 3, 2020—As is customary, every year we ask our artists and staff to give us a list of things that inspired them in 2019. Below is a list of their favourites, which you can listen to via this Spotify playlist. Nick SchofieldHere are three albums that offered inspiration and musically motivated me in 2019: Yves Jarvis…
December 9, 2019—BIBELOT, the award-winning sound installation by Nova Scotia artist Jay Crocker, is coming to Montreal with a new piece. Combining music, space, and technology, the sound machine will perform ‘Iterations of Love’ for the next 5 weeks. – December 7 to January 12 – Montreal, QC: Phi Centre // info // fb – BIBELOT is an audio visual kinetic installation piece created by award winning free-thinking Nova Scotia composer, musician and visual…
December 6, 2019—After an eight-year wait, Jennah Barry releases her highly anticipated sophomore LP, Holiday, next year on March 27, 2020. A new glimpse at the album arrives today via The Bluegrass Situation. “Pink Grey Blue” melds the warm hum of nylon strings with Jennah Barry’s stunning rosewater voice before sharing the precious and intimate space with gracious orchestral flourishes that feel right at home on AM radios of the past. – Listen to Pink Grey Blue – The vintage-tinged…
October 21, 2019—“truly stunning and ambitious” – Tiny Mix Tapes“spellbinding” – self-titled magazine“virtuostic” – WNYC New Sounds“brilliant” – Pop Matters The mere range of sounds Sarah Pagé is able to pull out of the harp while remaining tethered to its essence is astounding. Though what really makes the record so spellbinding is its rootedness in performativity. The entire LP consists of one unaltered performance, presenting the full range of the artist and…
September 13, 2019—Parallel Line, the third LP from Paper Beat Scissors, is out in the world today and getting a lot of praise from around the world. “Soars with warm folk-pop” – Atwood Magazine“piercing voice and haunting orchestral chamber folk” – KUTX (Austin, TX)“cheeky and buoyant” – CBC Music“deeply infused with emotion, connects with his listener on such a level that he freezes time” –Folk…
September 13, 2019—Juno-nominated musician, producer, and composer Joshua Van Tassel unveils a new work this week as part of the Museum of the Moon installation at The Bentway in Toronto at 250 Fort York Boulevard. A 30-minute custom composition, created specifically for this presentation, accompanies the seven-metre touring sculptural work by UK artist Luke Jerram, which fuses lunar imagery to bring the moon’s…
May 5, 2019—To encapsulate the career of Montreal-based harpist Sarah Pagé, one would have to draw long, constellation-like shapes across genres, borders and histories. While perhaps best known as a founding and longtime member of roots rockers The Barr Brothers, a brief consideration of her resume reveals the fact that she’s equally at home within traditions as without them. Her first solo LP, Dose…