Thrilled to announce the second single from L CON's upcoming album The Isolator. A spectacular offering that once again highlights Lisa Conway's extraordinary talents as a producer, engineer, arranger, not to mention writer and vocalist. A true force of nature.
Available now as a pre-order on vinyl you can visit link to listen/purchase. https://ideefixe.ffm.to/the-isolator
written, produced + arranged by L CON
piano performed by andrew collins, recorded at the house of miracles with andy magoffin
violins, viola + cello performed + recorded by drew jurecka + blair lofgren
vocals performed + recorded by cedric noel
bass performed by andrew collins + recorded at home
drum kit performed + recorded by morgan doctor
other stuff - MG1, vocals, gran convolver performed + recorded by Lisa Conway in the apartment
mixed with scott merritt at the cottaGe in guelph
mastered by harris newman
photo by the amazing raisa durandi up a mountain
makeup by najat zinbi
photo assistant - julia kopp
clothes - rose waterfalls vintage
Today we present the second single from Bart’s new album Some Kind Of Way. We previously described the album as wide ranging and Song Of Spring indeed takes a 180 away from lead single Turncoat as it showcases the band’s take on blue eyed soul.
As if the talent within the group were not enough already Bart decided to invite legendary Toronto tunesmith Drew Smith of Bicycles and Bunny fame to co-write and provide a star turn on lead vocals. Never far from the proceedings Joseph Shabason (collab-bot veteran) joins in to take his sax for a walk on the wild side on the tune's chilled outro. An embarrassment of riches in song and sonics.
Listen and then pre-order lp.
https://ideefixe.ffm.to/songofspring
I’m Dancing, the 3rd single from At Scaramouche is perhaps the clearest evidence available that Shabason & Krgovich have become the foremost progenitors of sophist-pop working today.
If earlier singles drew comparisons to The Blue Nile and Talk Talk, I’m Dancing tips a hat to Sade while remaining definitively S&K. Their masterful use of field recordings of children playing imbues the tune’s instrumental break with a profound sense of understated melancholy before opening up to a celebratory chorus vamp featuring the unmistakable Chris A. Cummings.
At Scaramouche releases on Oct. 7th
Visit link to buy/listen. https://ideefixe.ffm.to/skdancing
We here at Idée Fixe are delighted to announce we are releasing the self-titled debut album of the incredibly enlightened Joyful Joyful on April 29th and today we are offering up the duo’s first single Marrow. Please follow the link to listen/read and pre-order on lp. https://ideefixe.ffm.to/marrow
Having initially met more than a decade ago at a local community radio station, sometimes doing guest slots on each other’s live, improvised noise shows, Cormac Culkeen and Dave Grenon knew they had a mutual interest in working with sonic textures. They listened to each other’s bands for a handful of years, and in 2017, “made good on a threat” that they’d been making for quite a long time: to start a band. At Cormac’s gentle but clear urging—declaring that they’d gone ahead and booked a space in which to record a video—the two wrote their first song, “Sebaldus,” an ambitious 12-minute trip, which also serves as the fireworks finale to their self-titled debut album. With surges of pathos that smooth out into something more soothing in turn, Cormac goes: “The hunter, you’ve seen him / The archer, his arrows are strong / And hunger, you’ve known her / I know the winter is long.” The track is as much about enduring a Canadian winter as it is about the eponymous 8th century hermit, shot through with sublimated desire. As Cormac put it, Joyful Joyful’s songs are “a little bit outside of time.” IF 033
Narrative excerpt Jac Renée Bruneau
Album produced with Sandro Perri
Album cover design Benjamin Nelson
