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When you're this, this in love ---

out May 12/2023 on Tin Angel 

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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

Contact

suddevaleur@gmail.com

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