East Coast Music Award-winning artist Keith Mullins has shown us a classic example of what to do when life gives you lemons; you hunker down in your backyard and construct a barn for your fledgling recording studio. Today we’re seeing the fruits of his labour, with the release of not just one, but three albums under the umbrella of Barn Bhreagh. Continue reading Barn Bhreagh – How Keith Mullins Turned from Touring Musician to Producer for Three Cape Breton Musicians
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Century Egg’s New Album ‘Little Piece of Hair’ Just Wants Us to Come Out of Our Shells
Think of an egg—an archetypal, wonderfully oval chicken egg. We see this as a singular object, but it’s composed of such vastly different and symbiotic parts. The firm yet fragile shell, holding its iconic shape or transforming into something jagged. The aether-like albumen that swirls within the space. And the core of it all, the yolk, is a glorious dot of radiance ready to emerge. It is hard not to think of this fantastically unique entity in listening to Century Egg’s vibrant new EP Little Piece of Hair, where the Halifax rockers are shining with the same juxtaposition and cohesion as their namesake. Continue reading Century Egg’s New Album ‘Little Piece of Hair’ Just Wants Us to Come Out of Our Shells
Baby God Get Lost In Their Memories on ‘Another Suffer’
Memories are fleeting. It can be hard to pin down a moment worth remembering, and it can be even harder to push sadder memories aside. Prince Edward Island folk duo Baby God spend their latest release, Another Suffer, adrift in time and sifting through some memories of their own. Continue reading Baby God Get Lost In Their Memories on ‘Another Suffer’
Maximilian Flint Returns to His Halifax Home with ‘East of the East’ but the Road Goes Ever On and On
When Maxmilian Flint moved back to Halifax after spending years in New Zealand, his return wasn’t quite the homecoming he had imagined. More than the city itself, Flint found that the years away had changed him and his perspective of “home” took on a mercurial nature; his arrival back in Halifax proved to him that life itself is a journey.
“East of the East” is Flint’s new single about that journey and where our concept of “home” fits within it. Continue reading Maximilian Flint Returns to His Halifax Home with ‘East of the East’ but the Road Goes Ever On and On
Mary Beth Carty Crafts a Modern Day Rosetta Stone with ‘Mo Mhathair’
“It’s pronounced ‘Mo Vaaaaair’,’ Mary Beth Carty emphasizes of her new Scottish Gaelic single, “Mo Mhathair,” meaning “My Mother.” No stranger to working in both French and English (not to mention a certain fluency in accordion, which seems to be a language all of its own), Carty has crafted a modern-day Rosetta Stone just in time for both Mother’s Day and Gaelic Awareness Month in Nova Scotia. Continue reading Mary Beth Carty Crafts a Modern Day Rosetta Stone with ‘Mo Mhathair’