Barnyard Drama, Idiolalla, Blah Blah 666, Lori Freedman and Scott Thomson, Colin Fisher, Evan Shaw, Jean Martin, Kevin Turcotte, Christine Duncan, Laconnor, Justin Haynes, Bernard Falaise, DB Boyko, Not The Wind Not The Flag, Saint Dirt Elementary School, Myk Freedman, Jesse Zubot, Jim Lewis, Andrew Downing, The Element Choir, William Parker.
Barnyard Records is an independent Canadian Label, promoting new creative music...
SAINT DIRT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL - ICE CREAM MAN DREAMS (BR 0309) St. Dirt Elementary School is a little big band; it's a salon orchestra; it's a cabaret pitband; it's a New School concert band half-remembering old school psychedelics in a district West of Weimar and North of San Antonio. It is both public and private. It can swing like a Kollektief or shamble like a seaside sinfonia. St. Dirt Elementary School plays compositions: rubberband exotica, bouncing like bamboo windchimes dangling from the hood of a springloaded pram.NOT THE WIND NOT THE FLAG - TINTINABULUM (BR0310) A beautifully building release of guitar and percussion, one long track that adds intensity through minimal chords, ringing cymbal tones and shaken percussion, over time breaking through to Fripp-ian chords and driving drums. It's quite a journey, music that quietly sneaks up on the listener to slowly enveloping them in a hailstorm of ferocious sound. BLAH BLAH 666 - IT'S ONLY LIFE This is Blah's long-awaited debut release. An eclectic assortment of unfortunate accidents that stumbles
and falls somewhere in that exquisite grey area between pure old-fashioned entertainment, pre-harmonic
bop, and Canada's new wave of avant garde mariachi.Blah blah blah blah blah blah...ANTHONY BRAXTON & KYLE BRENDERS - Toronto (duets) 2007 Legendary saxophonist and composer Anthony Braxton releases the first saxophone duet recording of
two ghost trance compositions. Braxton is joined by Toronto saxophonist Kyle Brenders in this double cd
studio recording.
JUSTIN HAYNES AND JEAN MARTIN / FREEDMAN (BR0306)Martin and Haynes make a jazz record?! The music of Myk Freedman played on suitcase and ukuleleOther new releasesCOLIN FISHER AND JEAN MARTIN / LITTLE MAN ON THE BOAT(BR0303)This studio recording deftly interlaces and frames the spontaneous improvisations of Toronto reeds/guitar multi-instrumentalist Colin Fisher and drummer/producer Jean Martin into extended and dynamic song forms with results that range from delicate to euphoric
EVAN SHAW AND JEAN MARTIN / PIANO MUSIC (BR0304)Daring jazz-based improvisations by alto saxophone Evan Shaw and drummer Jean Martin. Each player's hugely individual, energetic soloing and the uncanny interplay between them are underpinned by saxophone-section-like overdubs that demonstrate the orchestral conception in which this inimitable duo works
LORI FREEDMAN AND SCOTT THOMSON /PLUMB(BR0305
A recording of wide-ranging, freely improvised solos and duets by Montréal clarinetist and bass clarinetist Lori Freedman and Toronto trombonist Scott Thomson played, as Mark Miller says in his liner notes, "with a folksy sort of virtuosity - amiable, agreeably unpretentious and without the patented sheen of the conservatory."
BARNYARD DRAMA / I'M A NAVVY (BR0302)
"The music of Barnyard Drama is spawned from the same gene pool as
Sophia Loren meets Leadbelly in the dark, covered with Corn Husker’s
hand lotion’." Ron Gaskin. “it's cannily over-the-top in a nicely understated
way” M. Miller. “...archetypal carneys living in the modern world” J. Southworth. Barnyard is JEAN MARTIN drums loops turntables, CHRISTINE DUNCAN voice, w/JUSTIN HAYNES and BERNARD FALAISE on guitars
1) Audiomachie (6:21) 2) Une ombre vacille en serpentin virevoltant (6:58) 3) Bruissement de griserie (9:55) 4) Propensity to go forward (7:36) 5) Drawing of a Back with a Mouth (4:24) 6) Second Life (3:50)
(39:12)
- The project was about trying to explore different poetry styles, always with different instrumentations and musical structures because I don't want to repeat a single one - An album not directly linked to the four previous ones, but with the impossible to avoid come back to fetish themes - Second Life is about the technological phenomena, but I got better things to do with my life than spending it on the clone of a capitalist society - We might as well hope for a real bankrupcy for all of us, it would be worth it to kill capitalism
Most of you will just want to listen to the music made available. Well, here it is with great streaming (right after MA VIE est ICI which is a reminder of my previous album conclusion) http://www.freakywaves.com
Audiomachie is up on myspace. It is now on my page. It features Frédéric Szymañski on all instruments (12 chords steel guitars, nylon guitar, upright bass, other bass instruments) except pianos and percussion timbres and vocals. Drum tones (sounding like alien voices ; there is my album Philosophie Fantasmagorique playing the wrong way at some point, like insect voices) are recorded by Jörg Fischer. Bob Marsh provided some playful acoustic tones as well. The beautiful voices are handled by Viveka Eriksson and Amy Kohn, but I add some annoying ones to ruin everything.
