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Dimanche (download track) - Camera
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



Fisherman / Fisherman (version) - 7
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. more



Goodbye / Tu n'es pas sincere - 7
Alex Fontaine
Goodbye / Tu n'es pas sincere - 7"

Alex Fontaine's garage corker 'Tu n'est pas sincere' has long been a holy grail of sorts for fans of Quebec francophone 45s, and decent copies will set you back upwards of 200 bucks these days. But for years Fontaine's identity had been a bit of a mystery.

That is until a couple of collectors up in la belle province, Sebastien Desrosiers, whose Mondo PQ blog is a fount of interesting information, and his friend, Michel Gagnon, managed to track down the elusive ...more



For What It's Worth (download single) - Martha and the Muffins
Martha and the Muffins
For What It's Worth (download single)

Stephen Stills' iconic 'For What It's Worth' was recorded on Dec. 5, 1966 in response to protests on the Sunset Strip the previous month and rush-released just five days later while the memories were still fresh. It has often been misinterpreted to have been written about the Vietnam War or even the Kent State shootings (which is really strange given that the latter didn't take place until 1970).

Perhaps that's why so many people have covered it - the SecondHandSongs site li...more



Dark and for Boating - The Dave Howard Singularity
The Dave Howard Singularity
Dark and for Boating

"I love the Ace Tone but I'm not as drawn to it anymore. I'm just seeing other sounds as well. It's an open relationship we have you see."

Dave Howard and that Ace Tone organ were the wonder couple of the Ontario indie scene back in the early to mid-eighties. On the strength of a couple of early cassette-only releases, the Dave Howard Singers, as he cheekily dubbed his solo act back then, packed the bars and clubs with a retro-futurist sound that was totally unique. In Windso...more



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