For the last couple years there has been no greater joy than seeing Spoutnique take the stage and watching the slow but inevitable conversion of an audience from “what the heck is this?” to rabid fans. The disco punks of Edmundston, New Brunswick have proven themselves to be infectious and have found their critical momentum in recent years (they recently grabbed two ECMA nominations), but in 2015 Spoutnique was just being launched after nearly taking an entirely different direction. Continue reading Lost & Found: Spoutnique Have Come a Long Way From ‘Long Way Home’
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Lost & Found: Terra Spencer Unearths a Treasure Trove of Silly Songs and More
Before Terra Spencer started breaking hearts with concept albums full of failing relationships and failing mills, she was amassing a collection of songs of a far more humorous nature on her YouTube channel. The recently unearthed treasure trove includes the beginnings of Spencer’s career as a colourful songwriter, featuring songs ranging in topics from anti-vaxxers to all the foods we can’t eat anymore. Continue reading Lost & Found: Terra Spencer Unearths a Treasure Trove of Silly Songs and More
Lost & Found: Tachichi & Sixtoo Release ‘He Who Laughs Last’ 22 Years Later
Mikhail Gorbachev once said, “If you are not moving forward, you are moving backward,” and that’s probably where the similarities between the former leader of the Soviet Union and Halifax rapper Tachichi start and end, but for the purposes of this article we’ll let the comparison stand. In 1997, a young Tachichi recorded He Who Laughs Last, his would-be debut album, with producer and rapper Sixtoo.
When the album’s master copies were damaged before it could be released, Tachichi wasn’t one to dwell; he simply moved forward and didn’t look back for 22 years… Continue reading Lost & Found: Tachichi & Sixtoo Release ‘He Who Laughs Last’ 22 Years Later
Lost & Found: Kurtis Eugene Revisits ‘November’
Kurtis Eugene is a hard artist to pin down. His “debut” album Old Rooms, New Light straddles a line between traditional folk and modern esoteric waltzes. Simultaneously intimate and grand, it feels like chamber music that’s been written for your grandfather’s guitar. It hovers just this side of magic, but to get there it was seemingly necessary that Eugene explore something even more otherworldly. Before Old Rooms, New Light could be manifested there was November, Eugene’s 2013 six-song EP that, for five years, dwelt in musical purgatory. Continue reading Lost & Found: Kurtis Eugene Revisits ‘November’
Lost & Found: The Names And Faces — the Short-lived Fredericton Supergroup
New Brunswick’s music scene is like a Large Hadron Collider. There’s an ongoing process of repeatedly smashing things together to see what works until something flies off. One such experiment was The Names And Faces, which featured some of Fredericton’s more promising musicians. In 2011 they produced West Of Here, their only album, and a single video that replaced the band with stop-motion pipe-cleaner stand-ins. Continue reading Lost & Found: The Names And Faces — the Short-lived Fredericton Supergroup