anything with chutzpahhh, amigos. anything with chutzpah.
Sounds Like
ships in the shipyard at nighttime on the lonely sea, direction unknown. or...
wind in fields and fields of flowering canola. or...
tim horton's at 3am. or...
the sound in your ears when the covers are pulled over your head, and it's winter outside. or...
eggs being pickled. or...
how you feel when you first realize you're in love. or...
porcupine quills on a forest path. or...
seventeen broomsticks up, up, uppppppp.
HOW TO GET THE STUFF
Purchase how we think about light online
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You can also purchase Feudal Ladies Club online
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Both records are also available at iTunes, and if you live in the US, you can get Feudal Ladies Club through DARLA RECORDS.
It all started in the bathroom of an apartment that had once housed the early players in the Toronto Punk Rock scene. Megan Hamilton and award-winning sound designer Mark Vogelsang decided to lay down some songs, and spent a frosty January day recording music and telling jokes. The results would become Megan's first demo and the experience fostered a working relationship that continues to flourish.
Megan and Mark next set up in the old Feudal Hall in Saskatchwan. Amongst the prairie grass, the smell of sage, full moons and coyotes howling in the fields, they were fuelled by coffee, bourbon and granola bars. Crickets, trucks, dog-panting, feet slapping on the floor – all of the noises one would expect to hear in an old hall in the middle of the prairie can be found layered in the songs, if you listen closely, on Feudal Ladies Club, Megan’s first album.
Solo or with the band, Megan has played all over Ontario, Quebec and all of the Eastern provinces, as well as Kentucky, Alabama and Texas, sharing the stage with many amazing bands. The Volunteer Canola are recently returned from dates with Deromantic on the STEEL LION BURNING TRAIN tour.
Exclaim!, Amanda Ash
"Hamilton has a natural knack for tying in the airy, experimental side of folk music with a touch of psychedelic rock, a mix that wrangles in any listener that crosses the Toronto-based artist’s path."
i (heart) music
"...it's definitely something you need to hear if you haven't already."
Metro (Toronto)
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"Echoing vocals and splashes of electric guitar create a tripy ’60s pop sound that is both captivating and narcotic."
Chromewaves, Frank Yang
" It picks up where the full-length left off, with its woozily playful countryisms and heads off to a more high, lonesome and autumnal place with some new production tricks (My Morning Jacket called - they want their reverb back) and even some rock attitude in tow."
Indie Folk Forever
"I've been playing it on repeat for a few days running."
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"As I make it to the top of the staircase I stand tall, shoulders slouched, a torn iniquitous mirage, shadow remnant of the god king himself that only hours ago – before the sun rose to shed light on our wicked union – called for the grail… “More wine for my people! Sing in praises, rejoice, oh savage children...” I undressed you for all to see, my sweet Maenad. By morning I would feel my remorse, by night however, I fed your sincere lunacy. I am torn and I am proud, and a reigning kiss was all it took.
My guitar lays inanimate, I kneel down and stroke its strings, a shy rustling reminiscent of a Kumeyaay Gourd Rattle cuts through the droning hum left in wake of the night. And as a dying desert shaman to his fallen tribe, the amplifier was left buzzing in our wake and absence..."
the timpani are sort of ehhhhhh. i think they are good in roy orbison songs, but in folk songs they can kind of be pretentious and weak. but there are always exceptions to these things.
i could probably get access to a timpani in boston, but not so much here. i bet you can rent one for fairly cheap.
not so sure about math philosophers, but many exist e.g. bertrand russell, edmund husserl, david hilbert, l.e.j. brouwer (who didn't believe in his famous fixed point theorem). russell is kind of an asshole i guess, the other dudes seem kind of fucked. plato is great in my book.
hey megan, thanks for adding. really enjoying listening to your songs... meant to come and listen at lab cab this weekend but it just didnt work out, hope it went well, rain and all... :) heat
That was a great set at the Supermarket. This music is about celebrating life, luminous rays of light, dreamy folk-like mythos led by a waiflike diva. The music is both hypnotic and jubilant, a potent collective of performers that meander into soulful musical expression. Mother Nature be damned. This is the soundtrack to a perfect sunny day.
HI thnx for the friendship and it’s nice to know you! Think it’s nice to be connected with musicians all over the world. In music we are all alike and speak the same language!!! I think you have very nice music, I enjoyed listening to it…… really sounds GREAT ….love it !! Greets from “D E E Z E L” (Belgium) and lots of luck in every thing you do!! If you can find the time check out my music too (thnx)
take a good look at me now, cos i'll still be standing here and you coming back to me is against all odds
remember this? well, AGAINST ALL ODDS is back, only thing time i'm using it to make a return to my babycakes megan hamilton. this comment is pointless but i loves you.
