Music
Music
When you're this, this in love ---
out May 12/2023 on Tin Angel
order vinyl LP/CD
With When you’re this, this in love he put all his signature sounds together so if somebody was going to ask what record of his they should listen to then this would be a good start because it has all his styles of song done pretty good on it he mostly sings folk songs sometimes dressed up as lounge-ballads, rock nocturnes, classical-chansons, time-traveling, lucid, jazzy feeling pop songs too it might irk the base of your taste or the taste of your base but it’s not so contrarian as that his songs are pleas laments there’s an olive branch behind his back one of the songs is called Tiny Tim not just about the 60’s Tiny Tim or the Christmas Carol Tiny Tim but the Tiny Tim on every street corner right now that no one is seeing when Janine heard the song Oona she saw the Great Mother feminine Eye in her mind on Heroes of Eros he tried to maintain compassion and be pro-love across the centuries in Always On The River he followed her whispering Metamorphic love songs is what he wrote when we reach a dead end in life we wait, then maybe the lamp light turns on just behind the abandoned loft and you can see the fire-escape stairs and find a way back in that’s the important part – wading into the real intimate, deep feeling, the long haul journey of love, the anguish, the lifting the tanker over the mountain, where it takes you, how it breaks, remakes you, the end of the earth of it, the lost and found of it except for Felicity who sings on Angel Landing a song about having to take out the trash and dance at the same time all the voices are his baritone tenor falsetto and Gunther his AI voice who pops up now and then Gunther is subversive land spirit He went into the recording with a weird feeling, as if on a precipice he was sliding down and sliding up he still needs to hear songs that make him feel in new life ways like those old dead songs that now sell for mega millions used to maybe he was mourning that now he’s weirdly smiling about it, doesn’t feel like a big thing we’re in a way different place this time has its own particulars that can suck you in, vampiric fears all around inside and out he sings to the dead and to the living that he never sees for crumbs, bricks, toothbrushes, in shadows, mist, alone, discarded, like a real outcast, like a real Tiny Tim you don’t have to accept the fact that he’s a scarecrow under the city, but it’s his gut’s 12 song reply in the face of what’s to come
Shows
October 2023 - dates tba
May 25, 2023 - Tranzac Main Hall, Toronto, CANADA tickets
May 21, 2023 - Hotel Wolfe Island, Wolfe Island, CANADA tickets
May 20, 2023 - URSA, Montreal, CANADA tickets
May 13, 2023 - Golden Bus, Guelph, CANADA tickets
December 16, 2022 - Barnyard Christmas Singalong, Tranzac, Toronto, CANADA
August 13, 2022 - Ryan Driver Backyard Event, Toronto, CANADA
July 15, 2022 - with Alex Lukashevsky, Bampot Bohemian House, Toronto, CANADA
March 11, 2022 - premiere of Rialto, Paradise Theater, Toronto, CANADA
April 2-4, 2020 - cancelled
with Art of Time Ensemble, Enwave Theater, Toronto, CANADA
December 8, 2019 - The Tin, Coventry, UK
December 6, 2019 - The Waiting Room, London, UK
December 4, 2019 - Nachtasyl, Hamburg, GERMANY
December 3, 2019 - Monarch, Berlin, GERMANY
December 1, 2019 - Trafo, Jena, GERMANY
November 29, 2019 - Blue Bird Festival, Vienna, AUSTRIA
November 2, 2019, Hamilton Public Library, Hamilton, CANADA
August 4, 2019 - Festival of the Sound, Parry Sound, CANADA
July 25, 2019 - Toronto Summer Music Festival with Art of Time Ensemble, Koerner Hall, Toronto, CANADA
July 19, 2019 - private concert, Ottawa, CANADA
July 14, 2019 - Hillside Festival, CANADA
July 6, 2019 - Stratford Festival with Art of Time Ensemble, Stratford, CANADA
May 4, 2019 - Imperial Pub Backroom, Toronto, CANADA
April 12, 2019 - KAZOO Fest, Guelph, CANADA
February 21-23 2019 - performing at Art of Time Ensemble 20th Anniversary Concert, Enwave Theater, Toronto, CANADA
December 22, 2018 - performing with Fucked Up at Toronto Overdose Prevention Society Benefit, Opera House, Toronto, CANADA
October 19, 2018 - performing with Fucked Up, Horseshoe Tavern, Toronto, CANADA
September 22, 2018 - performing with Hayden & others at Dave Bidini book release, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, CANADA
March 13, 2018 - Easterween at MA Scene Nationale, Montbeliard, FRANCE
February 21, 2018 - Creative Vision/Accessing & Heightening; Ignite Workshop/ARTSCAPE (lecture talk) Toronto, CANADA
November 9, 2017 - reading original prose-poem selections for Andrew Downing's Otterville, Canadian Music Center, Toronto, CANADA
August 18-19, 2017 - Summer's End Folk Festival, Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, CANADA
April 29, 2017 - The Bicycle Cafe, Flesherton, Ontario, CANADA
April 7, 2017 - Kazoo Fest, Guelph, Ontario, CANADA
November 24, 2016 - Cafe OTO, London, UK
November 19, 2016 - Stadtkonzerte, Luzurne, SWITZERLAND
November 18, 2016 - Karlstorbanof, Heidelberg, GERMANY
November 17, 2016 - Cafe Hochberg, Hamburg, GERMANY
November 16, 2016 - Die Wohngemelnschaft, Cologne, GERMANY
November 15, 2016 - Privatclub, Berlin, GERMANY
October 28, 2016 - Burdock Music Hall, Toronto, CANADA
November 12, 2015 - BAM, Paris, FRANCE
November 10, 2015 - MA Scene Nationale, Montbeliard, FRANCE
November 9, 2015 - Brotfabrik, Frankfurt, GERMANY
November 8, 2015 - Private concert, Munich, GERMANY
November 7, 2015 - Beatpol, Dresden, GERMANY
November 6, 2015 - Rolling Stone Weekender, Weissenhauser Strand, GERMANY
November 5, 2015 - NaTo, Leipzig, GERMANY
October 14, 2015 - Burdock Music Hall, Toronto, CANADA
Apil 2, 2015 - Moment's Club live on Radio Bremen, Bremen, GERMANY
March 30, 2015 - Gruner Salon, Berlin, GERMANY
March 25, 2015 - The Servant's Quarters, London, UK
March 23, 2015 - The Tin, Coventry, UK
February 27-28, 2015 - Lou Reed Tribute/Art of Time Ensemble, Enwave Theatre, Toronto, CANADA
February 14, 2015 - Easterween, Western Front, Vancouver, CANADA
February 13, 2015 - Yukon Film Festival, Whitehorse, CANADA
Discography
When you're this, this in love 2023
Rialto 2021
Miracle In The Night 2019
Small Town Water Tower 2016
Niagara 2014
Easterween 2012
SPIRITUAL WAR Cassette Tape 2011
Human Cry 2010; reissue 2018
Mama Tevatron 2009
The Pillowmaker 2007
Yosemite 2005
Banff Springs Transylvania 2000
Sedona Arizona 1999
Mars Pennsylvania 1997
Writing
Rialto - novella; Sud de Valeur Press 2021
Daydreams For Night - alternative children's book; Asuka/Japan 2016
Otterville - prose poems commissioned for Andrew Downing LP 2016
Florida & Faun - self-published poems 2006
Videography (self-made)
Down in the under 2023
Pure song of the children 2019
No inner mission 2019
Champion of love 2016
Second childhood 2016
Weird woman 2015
Loving you 2015
Ode to the morning sky 2014
Hey I got news for you 2014
Nip it in the bud 2012
First of May 2009
Pineapple shoes 2007
Life is unbelievable 2007
Simple simple boy 2005
Sunday brunch buffet 2002
Now that I'm a railroad boy 1997
Entertaining the troops 1995
Filmography
Rialto 2022