TASSEOMANCY ANNOUNCE SPRING TOUR DATES

NORTH AMERICAN TOUR DATES WITH MEGA BOG BEGIN APRIL 29

PERFORMANCES IN TORONTO, OTTAWA, QUEBEC CITY, HALIFAX, FREDERICTON, MONTREAL & HAMILTON

DO EASY, OUT NOW VIA OUTSIDE MUSIC / HAND DRAWN DRACULA

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“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

“Otherworldly experimental pop—think Kate Bush soundtracking an interdimensional shuttle ride.” – Noisey

“Creatively endearing and delightfully unsettling” – Consequence of Sound

“A really lovely record” – Brooklyn Vegan

 

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Tasseomancy have returned from a full run of European tour dates with Andy Shauf and will set out on the road in North America this month with Mega Bog. Full tour dates can be found below.

On their latest album, Do Easy, sisters Romy and Sari Lightman explore the Discipline of D.E. (Do Easy), a William Burrough’s short story outlining a don't-bust-a-gut Buddhist philosophy. On the album, i-D claimed that “Tasseomancy have added a bit of magic to the mundane, injecting the pop stratosphere with their own transfixing blend of influence,” while the FADER described it as “Glowing, dreamy retro-pop song, undercut with a little bit of melancholy.”

Noisey called Do Easy “Otherworldly experimental pop—think Kate Bush soundtracking an interdimensional shuttle ride.”

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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.

TASSEOMANCY TOUR DATES
04/29 Toronto, ON - Live in The Stacks @ Yorkville Branch w/ Castle If
04/30 Ottawa, ON -  Pressed*
05/02 Quebec City, QC - Le Cercle (Basement)*
05/04 Halifax, NS -  Seahorse tavern*
05/05 Fredericton, NB - Reads (All Ages)*
05/06 Montreal, QC - Drones*
05/07 Brooklyn, NY - Union Pool*
05/08 Cleveland, OH - Mahalls*
05/09 Chicago, IL - Empty Bottle*
05/10 Detroit, MI - UFO Factory*
05/11 Sarnia, ON - Refined Fool Brewery*
05/12 Hamilton, ON - HAVN*
*with Mega Bog

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OH SUSANNA SHARES NEW VIDEO

WATCH AND SHARE “MY BOYFRIEND” HERE

A GIRL IN TEEN CITY, DUE OUT MAY 26 VIA STELLA RECORDS

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Two weeks ago, Oh Susanna (aka, Suzie Ungerleider) broke the news of her upcoming album, A Girl In Teen City, a record about growing up in Vancouver in the 80s, searching for identity, and conning your dad into paying for DOA concert tickets. Today, she is sharing the video for the scrappy, pop track “My Boyfriend”.

The song is “about the time in grade 10 when my gorgeous boyfriend tried out for a band but failed miserably because he was tone-deaf,” says Ungerleider. “It is seen from the eyes of a teenage girl who bemusedly watches the posturing of the young men around her. Meanwhile she secretly knows she could kick their asses if she just had the guts to sing in front of them. The song makes fun but also talks about how girls can be pushed to the side, or perhaps push themselves to the side, because of lack of confidence. Luckily, I found my courage to sing a few years later. I got my friend Paul Brennan to drum on the song because he himself is one of the characters in the story. He kept messing up the take because he kept giggling.”

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Due out May 26 via Stella Records, on A Girl In Teen City, Oh Susanna discovers what it means to be undone by love, the exuberant freedom under the cover of night, and music bursting with riotous rebellion. “Trying to find out who she is while trying to be something she isn’t,” says Ungerleider. “Falling in love, getting drunk, having her heart broken, hanging out with friends in bedrooms, basements and parking lots, sneaking into shows in burnt out warehouses, watching the waves, walking home over bridges and railroad tracks in all that endless rain.” Like a coming of age novel, A Girl In Teen City, is both piercingly specific and exhilaratingly familiar. No matter where you grew up, or where you live, the songs will bring you home.

A Girl In Teen City reunites Ungerleider with producer Jim Bryson. The pair collaborated on her previous release Namedropper, an album featuring the songs of Canada’s top songwriters written specifically for Oh Susanna to interpret. This time, with the urging by her friend and co-conspirator, Bryson, she embarked on a time machine to visit her teenage self in a sleepy port town that she thought no one had ever heard of.  

From cheeky rock pop to quietly beautiful love songs, A Girl In Teen City reflects Oh Susanna’s songwriting breadth. Her brilliant vocals float through the sensuous instrumentation to create a cinematic soundscape. The album finds Ungerleider working with longtime friends and musicians Eli Abrams on bass, Cam Giroux on drums, Gord Tough on guitar, and Jim Bryson on guitar and keyboards. Guest harmony vocalists include Holly McNarland, Gabrielle Giguere, Ungerleider’s sister Jessie and niece Sofia.

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The JUNO Award nominated and Genie Award winning Canadian songstress began performing as Oh Susanna in the mid-1990s, crafting a persona that matched the timeless qualities of her music, sounds that drew from the deep well of early 20th Century folk, country and blues, yet rooted in her finely-honed storytelling skills.

 

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A GIRL IN TEEN CITY TRACKLIST
01 Flashlights
02 Wolf Boy
03 Lucky Star
04 My Boyfriend
05 The Darkroom At The School
06 Getting Ready
07 Tickets On The Weekend
08 Walked All The Way Home
09 Waiting For The Blossoms
10 Thunderbird
11 Puget Sound
12 My Old Vancouver

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STEPH CAMERON STREAMS NEW LP AHEAD OF RELEASE DATE

STREAM DAYBREAK OVER JACKSON STREET HERE VIA EXCLAIM!

POLARIS MUSIC PRIZE LONGLISTED SONGWRITER’S NEW ALBUM, DAYBREAK OVER JACKSON STREET, OUT APRIL 14 VIA PHEROMONE RECORDINGS

LIVE PERFORMANCE DATES BEGIN APRIL 15

“a warm, intimate sonic experience” Exclaim!

“a voice that carries as much weight as the Edmund Fitzgerald. She weaves a tale within her melodies as craftily as Mariposa's favourite son.” - Slow City


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Steph Cameron arrived on the scene like a bracing gust of fresh musical air with her debut record Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady, receiving unanimously enthusiastic reviews. No Depression termed it “a stunning debut,” while Exclaim! noted that “Sad-Eyed Lonesome Lady delights from start to finish. Steph Cameron is the real deal.” The record also made the coveted longlist for the prestigious Polaris Music Prize in 2015.

Today, the Saskatoon-based songwriter is sharing her new album, Daybreak Over Jackson Street, with listeners a week ahead of its release date courtesy of Exclaim!. Recently, Slow City claimed Cameron to be “the next Gordon Lightfoot” and added that her “voice that carries as much weight as the Edmund Fitzgerald. She weaves a tale within her melodies as craftily as Mariposa's favourite son.” 

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Due out April 14 via Pheromone Recordings, Daybreak Over Jackson Street navigates subtle changes in stylistic terrain. If the debut felt as if it emerged fully-formed from the bohemian streets of Greenwich Village circa 1963, then the extra maturity of this album gives it more of an early ‘70s Laurel or Topanga Canyon atmosphere.

Like her debut, Daybreak Over Jackson Street was recorded at elite Toronto studio Revolution Recording with producer Joe Dunphy. It retains the sparse template of her first record – one voice, one guitar, both recorded in intimate fashion and to tape.

Many of these new songs feature a more mature Cameron looking back upon earlier turbulent times. “As I get a bit older I’m able to recall my youth from a different perspective. Many of these songs draw their content from the life and relationships I had in my youth; to people and places, particularly East Vancouver.” She describes “Daybreak Over Jackson Street” as a song “about living in an impoverished neighbourhood in an urban setting. That song acknowledges some of the elements of life in a slum.” A similar locale, East Vancouver, permeates “Richard,” a haunting ode to a troubled comrade left behind – ‘a hotel is a real sad place for living’.

Having spent some time living in The Kootenays, the great outdoors appears in Cameron’s “That’s What Love Is,” a lovely and gentle tune featuring a circular guitar pattern and such atmospheric imagery as ‘late at night when the coyotes call, the dogs whimper and the leaves fall’. Then there is the fast and breezy “Little Blue Bird,” one ‘sitting in the snow, staring at the stars dreaming of the railroad cars’.

LIVE DATES
Apr 15 – Saskatoon, SK – Village Amp & Guitar
Apr 22 – Toronto, ON – The Dakota Tavern (8 PM) - CMW


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DAYBREAK OVER JACKSON STREET TRACKLIST
01 Daybreak Over Jackson Street
02 Young And Living Free
03 That’s What Love Is
04 On My Mind
05 Richard
06 Winterwood
07 Little Blue Bird
08 You Oughta Know By Now
09 California
10 Sing For Me
11 Peace Is Hard To Find

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