Music, musings and miscellanea

I’ve previously written about  CFCF and his EP Parisian Nights which is available for digital download from Paperbag Records. But Acephale Records just released the fantastic new 7 inch “You Hear Colours” from Montreal DJ. The mysterious knob tweaker also has a nifty new video for the track. The clip, which was directed by Dallas filmmaker/blogger/VJ Tommyboy, teams CFCFs instrumental track with footage from the National Geographic and NASA video “Loneliness of The Long Distance Runner,” which I must say, work quite well together.

You can order your limited edition (of 500) copy of “You Hear Colours” backed by the as-excellent-as-the-a-side track “Invitation to Love” on white vinyl via Acephale’s website. An mp3 of “You Hear Colours” is below.

CFCF – “You Hear Colours” mp3

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Montreal’s remix wizard CFCF has his debut EP Parisian Nights out now on Paper Bag Records digital, but you can also buy his new seven inch “You Hear Colours/Invitation To Love” from my friend Patrick’s Acephale Records. This shit sounds like the alternate soundtrack to Beverly Hills Cop. While I don’t want to take away from the artistic achievement that is Parisian Nights, if you can only afford to get one, get the seven inch – vinyl’s way cooler than mp3s and Patrick will appreciate your business.

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I’d like to wholeheartedly encourage everyone to check out my friend Erik’s band the Darling DeMaes. They’re a stupid-catchy little pop combo out of Montreal who were just checked by the Montreal Mirror as a band to watch in ’09. Along with tracks on their myspace, you can become a fan of the DeMaes on Facebook, where they’ve got four of the songs from their debut LP A User’s Guide to Raising the Dead (Songs of Spring) up for our listening pleasure. Now if we can just convince them to play some shows here in Toronto…

Couple of Schizos (from the Winter Keep Us Warm acoustic EP)

I was born in Vancouver and lived there until I was 25. After a two-year stint in Halifax, I moved to Toronto from where I’m currently writing this post. Why do I tell you this? To explain why it wasn’t until this Christmas that I was able to get my hands on some of the great, limited edition records currently being released by a handful of Vancouver bands. This whole “weird punk” or “art punk” scene got national exposure when Exclaim! magazine did a story on it a couple of months back. The grand daddy of them all is the Emergency Room Vol 1 compilation, since it’s the best single summation of what’s going on. But if you can I highly recomend getting your hands on records by White Lung, Nu Sensae and Shearing Pinx. I dig the no bullshit vibe to their music – it’s too cacophonous to break into that sort of Crystal Castles type of hipster douchebaggery. I still haven’t seen any of these guys live, but everything I’ve heard and read leads me to believe they’re all fantastic.