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Great Balancing Act

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General Info

  • Genre: Indie / New Wave / Pop

    Location Moncton, New Brunswick, Ca

    Profile Views: 19421

    Last Login: 6/24/2012

    Member Since 4/19/2006

    Website greatbalancingact.ca

    Record Label 3-Speed Music

    Type of Label Indie

  • Bio

    Moncton Indie-pop darlings The Great Balancing Act launched what the Times & Transcript called their "pop masterpiece" this year: Cherry Bomb, as their 8th album is called, is available on CDBaby and iTunes. With its sunny harmonies and danceable beats, this record remains true to the band's aesthetic of simplicity and groove. The power-pop trio is currently made up of Jeep (lead vocals, guitar), Nina (harmonies, bass), and Sara (harmonies, drums), sometimes backed by the "cherry-on-top" guitar of Alex Madsen (Divorcees). The band has lived many incarnations, sometimes touring with as many as 7 members, playing across Canada in venues like the Ottawa Folk Festival, Evolve, and Black Sheep Inn. However, Jeep and Nina have remained the core of the group since its 1994 inception as a guitar and udu-drum duo. There is always an element of surprise in GBA performances. Costumes, puppets, humourous tales, and even original cartoons are all in a day's work for these modern-day troubadours. "The band we're most like is (New-Wave group) DEVO, not only in terms of our simplicity and spectacle, but also because we both embody a philosophy that drives our music, our visual art, and our lives." The Great Balancing Act's philosophy is about the power of an individual or group to change their reality from the inside out, using positive thinking, and it is woven throughout the imaginary universe in the albums. The characters and symbols in Jeep's cartoons interact with those in the lyrics and music videos to poke loving fun at us "poor little monkeys" on planet earth and encourage us to "look for the planet of love."

  • Members

    JP "Jeep" Morin (vocals, guitar), Nina Khosla (vocals, bass), Sara Parks (drums, vocals), Alex Madsen (cherry-on-top guitar).

  • Influences

    Dr. Seuss, Motown, Carlos Castaneda, Bendy Wendy, Funkadelic, leprechauns, Al Green, Devo, the ocean, red wine, Daniel Johnson, the forest, ragas, reggae, disco, The Monochrome Set, XTC, clouds, Jane Siberry, Louise Hays, Roosevelt Franklin.

  • Sounds Like

    Simon and Garfunkel, Belle and Sebastian, B-52s, Wailin' Jennies, Talking Heads, Devo, Beatles

Stream

  1. Great Balancing Act

    The "Kill the Gays" bill is BACK, this time as a "Christmas gift" to #Uganda. We can stop it if we act now: http://t.co/IJFjDGf8

  2. Great Balancing Act

    CAPTAIN'S BLOG vid was added to Great Balancing Act's REverbNation account today. Stardate 24/06/2012. http://t.co/uHTTZ6Pq

  3. Great Balancing Act

    Added a new video: "Great Balancing Act - Captain's Blog 06 2012" http://t.co/wYKMF5SJ #video

  4. Great Balancing Act

    there is a humongous "twitterstorm" today to #EndFossilFuelSubsidies

  5. Great Balancing Act

    Hmmm. We have exactly #555 facebook fans. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN? We think it means everybody gets to make a #wish.

Comments

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  • East Coast Kitchen Party

    Congratulations on your Music New Brunswick Award nomination from your fans at East Coast Kitchen Party!!!

    2 years ago
  • Shirley Cruz

    2 years ago
  • gamine

    Hello!

    We hope you're just fine and dandy!

    You've probably heard us mention our new album of lovely Gamine lullabies? Well, we've just started our promotional efforts, with new songs and films on our page and so forth, and we hope you don't mind terribly if we leave a little publicity for you and your friends to look at...

    lots of 

    gamine
    xx

    PS we're also on Facebook now, why not come and join us... http://www.facebook.com/pages/Gamine/5998983703

    .




    3 years ago
  • Joseph Bridge

    Hey there Jeep, Nina, et Sarah!  Thought I'd send ye some positive vibes. Peace.

    3 years ago
  • Centascope

    Hi Great Balancing Act

    Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website.
    You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.

    3 years ago
  • Memo Scarletto

    Hello from the amazing windy plains just outside Calgary , Alberta
    (weather subject to change on the 1/2 hour with out notification) Wonderful sites and sounds in your space.Many discoveries made at your space, very nice indeed to be m8s.Cheers ! (mO:) moreno

    In a act of Kindness endorphin levels are elevated in the Giver, the Receiver and the Observer, how nice is that.

    "do not seek happiness .. but .. do rid your self of unhappiness = Zero Negative thoughts"


    "Share knowledge ,it is a way to achieve immortality"



    InNeR PeAcE ,LoVe and JoY ..mO

    Please vist our good friend at
    www.seasidepeddler.ca
    Bathhurst NB

    Electronica side of things at
    www.myspace.com/shaubyaella

    3 years ago
  • Centascope

    The new album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is now available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website.
    You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon and many more.

    4 years ago
  • pAn

    http://vids.mspace.com/indexcfm?fuseaction=6kWcUrhltXy.indiv....idual&VideoID=IVAXwdF4a

    5 years ago
  • Carey Beck

    5 years ago
  • Frigger

    Thanks guys, love the new sound...really fun...OK maybe not so new...i been away awhile..

    5 years ago
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Bio:

Moncton Indie-pop darlings The Great Balancing Act are launching their eighth album, Cherry Bomb. With its sunny harmonies and danceable beats, this record remains true to the band's aesthetic of simplicity and groove. The power-pop trio consists of Jeep (lead vocals, guitar), Nina (harmonies, bass), and Sara (harmonies, drums), sometimes backed by the "cherry-on-top" guitar of Alex Madsen (Divorcees). The band has lived many incarnations, sometimes touring with as many as 7 members, playing across Canada in venues like the Ottawa Folk Festival, Evolve, and Black Sheep Inn. However, Jeep Morin and Nina Khosla have formed the core of the group since its 1994 inception as a guitar and udu-drum duo. There is always an element of surprise in GBA performances. Costumes, puppets, humourous tales, and even original cartoons are all in a day's work for these modern-day troubadours. "The band we're most like is (New-Wave group) DEVO, not only in terms of our simplicity and spectacle, but also because we both embody a philosophy that drives our music, our visual art, and our lives." The Great Balancing Act's philosophy is about the power of an individual or group to change their reality from the inside out, using positive thinking, and it is woven throughout the imaginary universe in the albums. The characters and symbols in Jeep's cartoons interact with those in the lyrics and music videos to poke loving fun at us "poor little monkeys" on planet earth and encourage us to "look for the planet of love." .. credit: Layout made by alvin_ward155 ..

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