BUSTY AND THE BASS SHARE LIVE OF THE FLOOR VERSIONS OF TRACKS FROM FOREVER NEVER CARES, FILMED AND RECORDED AT BREAKGLASS STUDIOS
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Montreal indie collective Busty and the Bass are sharing "Smoke and the Pine (The Breakglass Version)", the second piece from the collective's new live off-the-floor video series. The soulful, 70s singer-songwriter inspired track, exploring nostalgia and longing, now features lush horn arrangements and rich vocal harmonies, further enhancing the idea of moments onced cherished: ‘I come back to feel you / The lost and lonely ride through the smoke and the pine’.
Directed by Guillaume Landry, the video is live-off-the-floor and filmed in one shot. The recording, therefore, is slightly altered from the original album version and is catered to fit this live, one-shot dynamic. It features a lush horn arrangement (which includes Chris Edmondson on alto saxophone) and stacked background vocal harmonies from Jordan Brown and Mel Pacifico.
“The song is an ode to where I'm from in the Pacific Northwest,” says Alistair Blu. “It’s about all of the sensations and nostalgia I feel from my upbringing on Vancouver Island and the mixed emotions of leaving them all behind. It's about being there with someone you love in the presence of feeling at home.”
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MORE ABOUT BUSTY AND THE BASS
For the Canadian-American soul-jazz collective Busty and the Bass, collaboration has always been at the forefront of their music. Formed at McGill University in Montreal over a decade ago, the group is now scattered across four North American cities from coast to coast. Yet, with a collaborative spirit at the heart of their third studio album, Forever Never Cares, the members have never been more connected.
Over the years, the group has collaborated with legendary artists George Clinton, Macy Gray, Earth Wind & Fire, Slum Village, and exciting new voices like Polaris Music Prize winners Cadence Weapon and Pierre Kwenders. Most recently, the group dropped a mini-album with Philadelphia poet and rapper STS. Despite such a strong history of partnerships, Forever Never Cares reshaped the band’s creative formula and redefined how they worked together a decade into their career.
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After a founding member and primary songwriter left the band in 2022, the collective used the opportunity to re-approach their creative process for the first time in years. Songs would be brought to the group from individual members or smaller formations of two or three members writing together. Interestingly, more voices involved in the songwriting resulted in the group’s most refined output to date.
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Two previous studio albums, Uncommon Good (2017) and Eddie (2020), saw the band experiment with genres effortlessly changing styles song to song, from soul to funk to pop.
Forever Never Cares finds the collective both broadening and distilling their influences into a unified sound that is entirely their own. This is due in large part to founding member Christopher Vincent who engineered and mixed the album. Vincent found a sonic language that would compliment all of the disparate genres being stacked atop one another.
With soul and R&B as the album’s cornerstone, the record is sprinkled with cross-genre explorations. From the indie rock-inflected uptempo singles “All The Things I Couldn’t Say To You” and “Wandering Lies,” to slow-burn ballads like “Give Me A Smile” and “Never Get Enough,” to the celebratory pop-funk of “Starstruck” and “No Angels,” a touch of 70s singer-songwriter on “Smoke and the Pine” and “Holiday Drive,” and the psychedelic jazz explorations of “Far From Here” and “No Self Control” featuring saxophonist Terrace Martin, a frequent collaborator of Kamasi Washington and Robert Glasper.
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