PONDERBEAT - THE PODCAST SERIES FROM LAURIE BROWN’S PONDERCAST FEATURING A CURATED SELECTION OF TRACKS FROM KILLBEAT ARTISTS
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In Episode 13 of PonderBeat, the collaboration between Killbeat Music and Laurie Brown’s Pondercast, Laurie takes us on a bit of a journey outside of our comfort zone, but not without returning here and there to the familiar. In Pierre Kwenders’ “Sahara”, the Polaris Music Prize winning artist pushes pop music closer to the edge, satisfying our curiosity for what’s ‘out there’, however still holding on to a safety rope of rhythm. Lune très belle’s “Mona” acts like a soft surprise for the listener, or as Laurie describes it, “fireworks without the work”.
Through the melodramatic melancholia of Hayden’s “East Coast”, we’re brought on a search for a feeling that we can’t quite name, but it’s growing, and it’s a bit ominous. On Gabrielle Shonk’s “How We Used To Be”, we’re pondering the past, but the question is, was it ever that good in the first place? Which leads us to ‘what if’? Well sometimes we get that answer, if you ever wondered what it would be like for two masters of their own craft to join together and push each other out of their comfort zones? That answer arrives in the form of “Is There Nowhere”, a track that sees Gord Downie and Bob Rock collaborating together in the studio over a decade ago. Now Laurie wonders, what could have been?
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Sometimes, the unusual…feels good? In Field Guide’s “Wishing Well” the speaker is shocked by an unexpected happiness, but in a whispered way. Don’t want to jinx a new found ‘happy place’. A place that Dan Mangan longs to get back to in “All My People”, a fever dream of old home movies, transporting us back to a phantom place, finding what had been forgotten.
Returning back to the familiar, Laurie has given her coveted ‘Grilled Cheese Award’ to Bodywash’s “Kind Of Light” for delivering a thick wrap of comfort and delight. We pause, midbite, to wonder if you’re wasting your time or your love in Andy Shauf’s “Wasted On You”, but decide we’re full now anyway and it’s probably better just to head to bed.
Now, Cots “Moonlit Building” pulls you into a slumber, almost using the moon’s gravity to keep you there, while we wonder if there is more out there in Jordan Klassen’s bittersweet “Milk And Honey”. Then it’s back to that big, old, heavy, duvet of reveling in the best parts of the past with Bells Larsen’s “Wasps”, followed by what Laurie calls the ‘ultimate gift’, getting colour in your own feeling to leave with in Living Hour’s “Memory Express”. Until tomorrow…
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PONDERBEAT EPISODE 13
Pierre Kwenders - Sahara
Lune très belle - Mona
Hayden - East Coast
Gabrielle Shonk - How We Used To Be
Gord Downie and Bob Rock - Is There Nowhere
Field Guide - Wishing Well
Dan Mangan - All My People
Bodywash - Kind Of Light
Andy Shauf - Wasted On You
Cots - Moonlit Building
Jordan Klassen - Milk and Honey
Bells Larsen - Wasps
Living Hour - Memory Express