I'm excited to be participating in the
2020 Banff International Songwriting Residency for the month of March, along with an impressive array of Canadian songwriters. The idea is to keep cooking up songs for a new album in 2020/2021. Stay tuned!
Read the full article →
Chris plays an unplugged version of "All Time Record" for Red's Kitchen's Tapes.
Audio capture by Jody Barratt
Video capture by Philippe-Olivier Larochelle
Read the full article →
A group of thirty schoolchildren from the Yan Hu Yan Ji School in Beijing created this stunning stop-motion video for Chris' song, "Oldest Trick", from his 2009 album, "Solidago". Check it out!:
https://youtu.be/T-pa8SFtIvQ
Students: Shuaiqi Zhang, Xihan Li, Xiyue Zhu, Xinyu Xue, Yuheng Zhu, Miaohan Xiao, Yixuan Zhang, Dongyuehe Wang, Ze...
Read the full article →
Chris Velan, “Amateur Hour”
It was only a few months ago when I revisited the enjoyable “Fables For Fighters” album from Chris Velan, and here he is once more, earning my attention with his brand new “Amateur Hour” release. Recorded in just the space of one week in his Montreal studio, Velan enlisted Rod...
Read the full article →
Une belle critique de Sylvain Ménard pour "Amateur Hour" ce matin:
"Quelle belle découverte...La science de pop, tellement exacte, tellement efficace...C'est un album que je qualiferais de délicieux. Il est parfait."
Ecoutez ici
Read the full article →
