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Recent Reviews
The Wesleys
The Wesleys
The Wesleys half-flippantly dub their music "a li'l bit of this, a li'l bit of that". Which is revealing if you assume that 'this' refers to the manic drum-heavy indie singles of that C-86 eighties scene and 'that' checks off the rough-hewn pop of New Zealand's Flying Nun label. Add a bit of millennial NYC punk a la the Strokes and you've got a pretty good handle on the Wesleys' take on garage pop.
The group - guitarists William D'Amours and Henry Girard, bassist Quentin Chisolm...more
Rob McConnell and the Boss Brass
Atras da Porta
Atras da Porta was the sixteenth release by the Boss Brass. It was issued on the Canadian Innovation label in 1985 and contained eight tracks in total. In addition to the high level of musicianship displayed here by the 22-piece orchestra, Atras da Porta is a bit unique in that five of the songs are from Latin American composers. The Argentinian composer Fernando Gelbard produced the album and contributed three of his own compositions ('Flowers', 'Jo Jo's Dance' and 'Didi'). Rob...more
Susan Taylor
Don't Make Promises / Twelfth of Never - 7"
'Don't Make Promises' was the first song on side one of Tim Hardin 1. And while it is now overshadowed by the heart-rending 'Reason to Believe' (which kicked off the other side of that LP), it was not for lack of effort. Since its release in June of 1966, 'Don't Make Promises' has been covered at least forty times, including nearly a dozen in 1967 alone.
Susan Taylor's upbeat version came out in February and was the first one that year. Taylor at the time was singing a...more
Camera
Dimanche (download track)
Camera is yet another example of Montreal's amazingly fertile - and seemingly endless - experimental music scene. The relatively newish trio of Little Misty co-founder Francois Jalbert (guitars, percussion), Melanie Belair (vocals) and Aurelien Tomasi (flute, clarinet) have been together for a couple of years, and 'Dimanche' is their third recently released track.
As its name would suggest, 'Dimanche' is constructed around a lazy-Sunday walk-in-the-woods sort o...more
P Allen
Fisherman / Fisherman (version) - 7"
Peter Allen's 'Fisherman' may not be the best reggae record to come out of this country. But its dirge-like synthesizer intro - not the first use of the instrument in the genre but still quite novel - and the fact that only a handful of copies seem to have survived make it certainly one of the more interesting. Add to that the fact that the Jamaican ex-pat recorded the song at Herman Chin-Loy's Aquarius Recording Studio and its holy grail status becomes a little easier to fathom.
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