DO EASY LP OUT NOVEMBER 18 VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC / HAND DRAWN DRACULA
WATCH "MISSOULA" HERE VIA I-D
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NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES BEGIN NOV 17
“Tasseomancy have added a bit of magic to the mundane, injecting the pop stratosphere with their own transfixing blend of influence.” –i-D
“Glowing, dreamy retro-pop song, undercut with a little bit of melancholy” –FADER
“Creatively endearing and delightfully unsettling as Kate Bush herself” –Consequence of Sound
“A really lovely record” –Brooklyn Vegan
PHOTO CREDIT : Eva Michon
Following the announcement of their new album Do Easy that will see release on November 18 through Outside Music / Hand Drawn Dracula, Toronto twin sister duo Tasseomancy (formerly of Austra) are announcing the first run of their North American tour dates beginning November 17 and have shared the alluring, self-directed video for track “Missoula” via Vice’s i-D. Showcasing the versatility and range of sisters Romy and Sari Lightman, “Missoula” proves beguiling in its simplicity, a transient’s anthem, referencing the plight of Hebraic wanderers. The band explain: "Missoula is a song for the roaming and an ode to the Unknown. There are so many transient people on the planet today, both fleeing and voluntarily in motion. I can’t speak for their experience, but as an artist, I find myself moving often. There is the desire to stay, the urge for going, and the split feelings of being a floating, uprooted bag of mostly water. Missoula has a repetitive Hebraic melody at its centre, coming from a lineage of wandering Jews. A nod to one of my favorite Pentangle recordings, Let no man steal your thyme."
The video transmits the song through the lens of a surreal weather newscast, replete with whimsical costuming, symbolic imagery and dancing.
WATCH "MISSOULA" HERE VIA I-D
Genesis P-Orridge and Kathy Acker believed William Burroughs to be a vibrant beam of clarity. P-Orridge—a disciple of Burroughs—referred to “The Discipline of D.E. as a smooth hand of magic”. Romy of Tasseomancy stumbled upon the Discipline of D.E. (Do Easy), a short story outlining a don't-bust-a-gut Buddhist philosophy and “like a gentle old cop making a soft arrest”, she was deeply touched and set out to find the easy way.
For the seasoned loners, stoners, and lackadaisically laid, Do Easy was written as a dead-beat anthem for a generation who was told that anything is possible after the possibility slows. Written in Toronto and Montreal, Do Easy was created as a lamp shade of hope and of soft survivalism. Serene, strange and magnetically sung, it honors its free thinking forbearers without being weighed down by them, creating immersive worlds of loving allusion.
Soft synths and crystalline harmonies merge hypnotically on “Dead Can Dance and Neil Young”, an invitation to “fade into folk song”. If folk song is this, it’s folk of great idiosyncrasy, where vocoded chorales provide atmospheric shading and alto-saxophones drift like cigarette smoke from a David Lynch dream-film. Between the new age synth of “Claudine & Annie”, the ambient swoon of “29 Palms”, Kate Bush-like prog-psych of “Missoula” and gently lapping title-track, Do Easy plays like pop from a parallel world.
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Sisters Sari and Romy Lightman are former members of queer cold-wave band, Austra. Channelling their former forays in psychedelic folk into a kind of lushly accessible, warmly experimental dream-pop along with bandmates Johnny Spence and Evan Cartwright, they explore manipulated sounds, all with mood in mind. Assisted by friends Brodie West (alto-sax), Ryan Driver (flute), Simone Schmidt (voice of a young Neil Young) and Alex Cowan (Blue Hawaii), that exploration reaches full bloom on Do Easy, the sound of a band hitting their richly imagined, luxuriously executed stride. And, wealth of evocative references included, making it all sound easy.
TOUR DATES
Nov 17 – M for Montreal, Montreal
Nov 23 – Baby Gs, Toronto
Nov 24 - Le Temporaire, Ottawa
Nov 25 – Vitrola, Montreal
Nov 30 – Sunnyvale, Brooklyn
