The new album I produced for my pals, "Sierra Leone's Refugee All Stars" is now out and available. Entitled, "Libations", the album is the band's fourth and finds them returning to their roots and the spirit of their debut, which I produced back in 2005 as part of the award-winning documentary film about the band called,
The Refugee All...
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Arts CD Reviews
Nicholas Friesen Managing Editor
January 22, 2014
Don’t judge an album by its cover - this collection of eight songs from Montreal singer/songwriter Chris Velan is represented by a simple screenprint of a Mexican wrestling mask, but the acoustic tunes with peppers of electronics and haunting back ups is...
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I'm chuffed that
#TheLongGoodbye has been included in
dirty impound's 25 Favorite Albums of 2013. I'm punching above my weight on this list of truly amazing releases. If you enjoy top-notch music writing and want to hear what gems you might have missed this past year (as I'm realizing, going through this list), you'll want to check...
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To everyone in 2013 who came out to see me play, bought me a drink, let me sleep on their couch, cooked me a meal before a show, recommended my music to a friend, bought an album, sent me a kind note, downloaded a song, screamed for an encore, made me cookies, requested a tune…I just wanted to say thank you for support and love. I’m...
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Hey Ontario - We're coming to you!
For full details, click
here
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If you don't live in Portand, ME (as many of you undoubtedly do not) and can't catch my show at
One Longfellow Square this Thursday, Oct 17th with
Pete Miller and
Ria Mae, you can watch a watch a live stream of the show at
Concert Window. Just click
here to buy a $5 ticket and you can watch me play from the comfort of your living room, kitchen,...
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Hey All-
Just wanted to send you a big howdy from the road. We're currently in the U.S. for our "Amurkin" shows on
The Long Goodbye Tour. We'll be heading back up into Canada on Oct 26th. You can check out our upcoming dates
here.
Hope we'll be seeing you out there soon.
chris
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