Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby
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She has ditched her accordion for now, in exchange for slithering synthesizers and glacially downtempo beats, upgraded herself into the intensified lead singer Nastasia Y, and aligned her talents with Toronto’s deep guitarbot influencer Patrick O’Reilly and producer Mike Romaniak. Over the course of each song, Nastasia’s voice rotates from the shine of vulnerable delicacy into a convulsive dark force as each composition evolves through contrasting episodes of emotion.
Pinging off of the styles and stances of such epic heroines of song as Björk, Braids and Kate Bush, Nastasia Y and DoVira collectively produced the tunes over a five-day songwriting retreat at Mike Romaniak’s cabin near Meaford, ON a few years ago.
“More Days” originally had Nastasia singing a folk song, then reversing it and fashioning THAT into the new melody (and then making up words out of what that sounded like). By blending the insinuations of the sounds of English, Ukrainian, Russian, Polish, and even made-up languages, the resulting music renders the lyrics secondary to the emotions that they portray.
The title of the opening track, “Zhyto,” means “wheat” in Ukrainian. Within a minor key veil of controlled urgency, she imagines the harvest from the perspective of a bird flying above, while entwining personal reminiscences of home with feelings of missing one’s roots and the challenge of growing up without a father, finally facing the struggle to “take the past and leave with it.” Nastasia’s vocal tremors bounce off of a sonic edifice of choral pulsations and stark bass imperatives.
“More Days” is a contemplative chamber electronica piece composed of secretive siren cries and scorching effects, segue-ing into the quivering rivulet flow of “Back To Water,” which closes the record with a resolved quietude. In the span of less than fifteen minutes, DoVira glides over precipices, plunges into glowing lyrical lava and offers a panorama of ear tingles and full-body-check spasms that capture and refract the collective imagination of three artists within a prismic crystal of frosty feral funk.
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YouTube video – https://youtu.be/FRuSJm5Kk5A (Premiers Oct 6, 2020)
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Commissioner of Selection: Paul Corby
5:00 Hyperscale Vibronics
* Sussex ~ Don't Wanna Wait ~ The Ocean Wide
* Basement Revolver ~ What Are You Waiting For? ~ Wax & Digital
* Kensington Market ~ I Would Be The One ~ Avenue Road
* Maestro Fresh Wes ~ Let Your Backbone Slide (Club Mix)
* Riit ~ Ullaqit ~ Ataataga
Cinematic Orchestra ~ To Believe ~ Cinematic Orchestra
Illustration by Vassily Kandinsky >>>>
5:30 Calling Collective
* Bywater Call ~ Arizona / Interview / Silver Lining (live) / This One's On Me (live) ~ Bywater Call
* Marc Jordan ~ He Will Break Your Heart ~ Both Sides
6:00 Leger Lines
* Jerry Leger & The Situation ~ Read Between The Lines / Tomorrow In My Mind / Interview with Jerry Leger / Canvas Of Gold (live) / Burchell Lake (live) ~ Time Out For Tomorrow
* Fujahtive ~ Something I Said ~ In Black & White (1991)
6:25 Stokes Showcase
* Brenda Earle Stokes ~ Standing / Ladies In Mercedes / Consequences Of Falling ~ Solo Sessions vol. l
6:40 Orbitism
* D.D. Jackson ~ Carnavale ~ Anthem ~ @ 918 Bathurst Saturday for The Trane Trilogy Concerts Part l and record release
* Matt Gerber ~ You're A Lion, Ain't That Dandy ~ Lady Bugs and Dandy Lions ~ @ Relish Sunday 11 a.m.
* Ted Quinlan ~ Twilight Sky ~ Absolutely Dreaming
* David McLachlan ~ You''re The Only Star I See ~ In The Heart Of Now
* Christina Martin ~ Tonight Will Be Fine ~ Wonderful Lie
Illustration by Vassily Kandinsky
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