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JAZZ CARTIER >>“Stick and Move” - MUSiC NOTES >> LiSTEN
No artist piqued my curiosity and interest during Polaris voting season the same way Jazz Cartier did. Buzz surrounding his Marauding in Paradise debut was loud, and it looks like the noise will be...
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CHASTITY >>“You’re Scary Now” - MUSiC NOTES >> LiSTEN
If Canadians have learned anything about themselves from our recent federal election, it’s that the majority of them belong to ‘the middle class’, but no one knows for sure exactly what that’s...
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SARAH NEUFELD >>“The Ridge” - MUSiC NOTES >> LiSTEN
Violinist Sarah Neufeld is renowned for her classically inspired minimalist instrumental music, as a solo artist, member of Bell Orchestre and Arcade Fire, and together with saxophonist Colin Stetson....
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BOBBY UZOMA >>“Idioglossia” - MUSiC NOTES >> LiSTEN
Milliseconds. That’s how long it took for Bobby Uzoma to grab and hold my attention with his gorgeously minimal hymn, “Idioglossia”. Our friends over at Silent Shout premiered the single earlier this...
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TANYA TAGAQ >>“Aorta” - MUSiC NOTES >> LiSTEN
Breathing, the act of exchanging elements from the air around us with those produced in our bodies, is a function that I imagine most people take for granted every day. There are those among us,...
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RIVER TIBER >>“Let You Go” - MUSiC NOTES >> LiSTEN
It’s always a good time for “Let You Go”, one of five song’s River Tiber‘s When The Time Is Right EP, release earlier this fall. Exploding with soul and tipping over with talent, River Tiber seems to...
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NAP EYES >>“Mixer” - MUSiC NOTES >> LiSTEN
Friday night, I’m standing there in the middle of the house party. You’re there, I’m there, we’re all here. Supposed to be having fun. But for some reason I can’t shake a feeling of existential doubt....
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FEDERAL LIGHTS >>“Into the Ground” - MUSiC NOTES >> LiSTEN
Love is an unfathomably risky venture. Stand back and look at it objectively: you invest all your emotional capital into someone who has the potential to disappoint and crush you on a daily basis,...
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YOU SAY PARTY >>“Ignorance” - MUSiC NOTES >> LiSTEN
The only way back from tragedy and sorrow is to keep moving forward. You’ll never return back from where you started, but each foot forward brings you closer to where you need to be. No one knows this...
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RAE SPOON >>“I Hear Them Calling” - MUSiC NOTES >> LiSTEN
Trauma is not a once-and-done experience that gets neatly filed away in your subconscious like a bee sting or stubbed toe. It lives lurking around corners, buried in plain sight like a mound of dust...
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