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Congress was in disarray over the fiscal cliff crisis on Tuesday after House Republicans, hostile to a bill passed overwhelmingly by the Senate only hours earlier, delayed a vote on the deal late into the night.
President Barack Obama had hailed the Senate vote and called on the House of Representatives to act "without delay".
House Republicans spent the day expressing opposition to the bill, which would raise taxes on the wealthiest but fails to include cuts in federal spending.
But by Tuesday night, it was clear they did not have the will to prolong the crisis any further and the House was preparing for a straight vote on the Senate bill. If the bill passes, legislation would be place before the markets open on Wednesday.
An attempt by some Republicans to move an amendment to the bill, which would add $300bn of spending cuts, appeared to have failed. If the bill was amended, it would almost certainly have fallen, as the Democrat-led Senate made it clear it would not accept any amendments.
A Democratic Congressman, Steve Cohen, in a speech from the floor of the House, expressed the risk if there is no agreement before the markets open. "My district cannot afford to wait a few days and have the stock market go down 300 points tomorrow if we don't get together and do something," Cohen said.
Hopes that the crisis had been averted rose when the Senate voted 88-9 in favour of the bill in the early hours of New Year's Day.
The Senate bill was intended to bring an end to the fiscal cliff crisis that confronts all American taxpayers with tax rises from 1 January. As well as the tax rises, deep cuts kick in to federal programmes from defence to welfare.
Without legislation, the tax rises and spending cuts stand. The White House has warned this could send the country's fragile recovery into reverse.
House Republicans, in particular hardline conservatives backed by the Tea Party movement, were taking a gamble in opposing the Senate: if the bill failed, they were in danger of being blamed by voters for the resulting tax rises.
Even senior Republicans in the House, in particular the Houe majority leader Eric Cantor, expressed dissatisfaction with the Senate bill, though he stopped short of pledging to vote against it.
The bill passed by the Senate, with 89 senators in favour and eight against, is a messy, short-term deal that raises taxes on the wealthiest but postpones for two months any consideration of spending cuts. The vote came at 2am on Tuesday, too late to prevent the country breaching the midnight fiscal cliff deadline.
The bill confines tax rises to individuals earning $400,000 or more a year and households earning $450,000 or more. It postpones spending cuts for two months, to allow further negotiations. Estate tax also rises, to 40% from 35%, but inheritances below $5m are exempted from the increase. Benefits for the unemployed are extended for another year.
The House presents a much bigger hurdle than the Senate, not only because the Republicans have a majority but because of the presence of a bloc of Tea Party-backed Republicans. The Republicans have 241 members to the Democrats' 191.
Boehner's instinct is towards compromise but he has had trouble keeping the Tea Party bloc under control. Theoretically, he has enough votes to push a bill through, but he is coming up for re-election as speaker and will not want to alienate conservative Republicans. Complicating the situation further, his main rival is Cantor.
The Senate deal was thrashed out in the past few days between vice-president Joe Biden and the Republican leader in the Senate, Mitch McConnell. It partly fulfils one of Obama's election campaign promises: to raise taxes on the wealthiest. But Obama was forced to compromise: he wanted higher taxes to kick in at $250,000 a year.
Democrats too are unhappy with the bill, regarding Obama as having given too much ground and seeing the $400,000 threshold as too high.
The White House dispatched Biden to Congress to persuade liberal Democrats in the House to back the bill. Democrats in the House emerged from the briefing with Biden pledging support, and urging Republican colleagues to accept the bill unamended.
Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic minority House leader, said the legislation sent from the Senate represented a "historic" bipartisan compromise. She also put added pressure on Boehner to allow the measures to go to a vote in the House, noting that he had previously suggested any bill from the Senate would be put in front of Representatives.
"That is what he said, that is what we expect. That is what the American people deserve," Pelosi said.
Hardening the resolve of House Democrats, the congressional budget office on Tuesday said the tax cuts and other measures in the Senate-passed bill would add nearly $4tn to federal deficits over a decade.


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Liverpool winger Maxi Rodriguez could be on his way back to Argentina after admitting he has always wanted to return to his boyhood club, Newell's Old Boys.
The 30-year-old came up through the youth set-up to play three first-team seasons for the Rosario-based side before moving to Espanyol in Spain in 2002.
"When I left here, I knew I was coming back," Rodriguez told the Argentine newspaper La Capital. "The president [William Lorenzo] called me and I said 'yes'. Now it depends on the contract I have in Liverpool, maybe that can be loosened a little."
Despite a successful end to the campaign with Liverpool, scoring two hat-tricks as he hit seven goals in three matches, Rodriguez is likely to be only a fringe player next season.
With manager Kenny Dalglish looking to freshen up his squad and bring in younger players, Rodriguez's age is likely to count against him – and, as he is one of the higher earners, the club's owners Fenway Sports Group would prefer to get better value for money from new signings. However, the player would have to take a significant drop in salary in order to return to his homeland.
Meanwhile, the Sunderland chairman, Niall Quinn, yesterday moved to dismiss speculation that striker Asamoah Gyan has been offered for sale. Reacted swiftly to claims that the 25-year-old Ghana international's name has been circulated to prospective purchasers, Quinn said: "The suggestion that we have spoken to an agent to sell this player on our behalf is embarrassing to all concerned.
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Birmingham's Craig Gardner says he is unsure where his future lies after the departure of manager Alex McLeish. The midfielder, a lifelong City fan and their top scorer with 10 goals in his first full season at St Andrew's after a £3m move from Aston Villa, is now being linked with a £5m move to Sunderland.
When asked if he was leaving or staying at City, Gardner said: "I don't know. It's a difficult one. I'm unsure exactly what is happening behind the scenes and what the board are thinking. At the end of the day, like every player, you have to think of your career. Everything is up in the air at the moment."
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The Underwater Tunnel is a tunnel found on Harmony Island under the Saradomin statue, accessed during the quest Great Brain Robbery. It's connected to the church on the island, which is barricaded by Mi-Gor's zombie crew during the quest. A fishbowl helmet and diving apparatus are required to enter. Ten level 49 zombie pirates can be found within. This is one of the few areas where the brine sabre's special attack, Liquefy, can be used, as it only works underwater.


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"Very lovely" I try to do what I can to indicate somebody should come in and rescue me.
One person looks like he is about to--but is immediately harassed by another of this persons friends. Who then ends up running off. Mouthing what looks like "oh heavens please, leave me alone"
"What is more time is actual something that runs in five dimensions. Making navigating time in atypical manners a construct similar to optical illusions. This would be so much easier if you understood the Time Cube and the 96 Hour Day."
I just think about how racist that bullshit really stands. I want away from this stupid asshole. I mean, maybe he is a time traveller or maybe he is merely a crazy person. There does not exist any possible test to easily tell the two apart. Sure you could measure various particles coming of them to indicate any weird aging evident here--the issue is that occasionally crazy people have similar particles and produce false positives. One does have to wonder if increased exposure to said particles does make one less able to be comprehended. I mean... the time travellers seem to honestly believe their outfits are not anachronistic in nature. They will act indignant if you tell it to them, and will go on for far too long about how much research they've put into knowing these are how people of the current time and era dress.
"You see, from somebody only able to operate on a 24 Hour day, the writings about the 96 Hour Day are incomprehensible. As once you've gained comprehension of a 96 Hour Day, you are now working within the frame of a 96 Hour Day... and it creates all kinds of barriers to those operating on only a 24 Hour Day."
I sip my drink in a very irritated manner and method. Why... why couldn't I just come to a party and have fun? Why did I have to deal with somebody I cannot tell if they are a time travellor or a crazy person trying to help me understand information nobody in this time period should know about anyways. I mean, this would only be a temporal paradox from a rather selfish loop. In the case of understanding two seperate events happening one after each other with no clear starting event, as the clearing of each event allows for a start of the next without any major issues or hassles. It just seems confusing if you try to be rather arrogant about such matters. Still--what point could these assholes have to go back in time, and prove they can explain this stuff to us.
It would be like a teacher of electronics going back to the stone age and proving they know their material by having the people that lived back then constructing HAM radios from materials they can find and have access to. As much as Flint and Twine based HAM radios would prove you know the material being taught... there has got to be a less ridiculous method to prove you know electronics. I mean... maybe if I knew electronics I could brain storm a couple possible methods to prove knowledge that are a little bit less ridiculous.
"Some early discovers of the 96 Hour Day confused awareness of this concept with a form of spiritual enlightenment. As somebody who knows of that time frame, I could certainly understand that feeling. So naturally there is some writings that might have them thinking they can speak of other political and religious matters that they have not gained the qaulifications to speak regarding. However--just the sheer joy of successfully working in the 96 Hour Day and the powerful feeling it causes would easily have one make such mistakes as to not realising other areas of knowledge still need to be increased."
He was still talking. Can I go back to the old days where the fun of parties was interrupted by people trying to get into my pants? You know prior to all the mythological beasties, demons, devils, goblins, spirits, fairies and what not were confirmed to have been real and known about for some time. With the government doing a really terrible job at covering it up--but nobody finding out because nobody really gave a shit to look for proof. Like with them looking for all kinds of ridiculous things, like proof Steel was incapable of melting, the mythology behind the lost city of Benghazi, the ancient mixed race all gender orgies that the sunken city of New Orleans participated in, and what not.
Maybe I'll just think about the myths and legends of New Orleans while he talks. Distract myself with a weird mixture of Troy, Soddom, Ghammora and Atlanta. Though we have proof Atlanta, Georgia exists, it is also fairly understood that Plato was writing his works about Atlanta (and its infamous Boardwalk) as a metaphor for a society as a whole worshiping the Nintendo Game "Kid Icarus".
Wait... none of that seemed correct at all. What is going on here? That is a VERY garbled version of events of reality. Oh god... what if this person was very very sick and contagious. I might be catching brain fever from this asshole.
"You guys currently have invented basic Mathematic correct? Sometimes I forget whether the Principia Mathmatica exists at this point in time. I mean... if it hasn't been invented yet--this next metaphor might not work. You know how high level of math makes sense to people well trained in it--but to a person not learned in it, it just seems like nonsense. Even while metitating upon suck matters, it is nigh incomprehensible until you've gained a level of understanding for it."
Oh wait no... maybe my brain cells and intelligent thought are just shutting down so as to allow me safety from considering what I am being told. I think I am failing several save throws for sanity regarding this situation.
"Many people from my time don't understand the true origins of math and how it was helpful for people to gain enlightenment. With many thinking 'Charles Cantor' is akin to the Beatles for how people handled their messianic abilities. However it turns out Charles Cantor is just a person who gained a decent ability--and that anybody can be Charles Cantor. This is harder to know with the more Math flavoured versions of Buddism with the Twelve Veda getting names of different mathematicians. It being more Buddism teachings--but given a math style and flavour. As we all know the Twelve Veda are not native concepts to math."
This is why people do drugs. I completely understand why people do drugs now. Because they have to deal with assholes like this person. Annoying assholes like this yahoo. Well, I've already spent this much time without being able to run from him. The crowd is still fairly thick. Any exit would require me looking like a crazed lunatic as I fled from him. I should have stayed home and watched reruns of "Everybody Loves Lizard Person Raymond". It isn't much--but you have to be honest when it was tagged, "because we don't think it is possible for a show to be less funny, and anything at worst is a lateral move"
Most of the humour derived from being socially awkward and not understanding basic human interaction... which "Everybody Loves Lizard Person Raymond" was generally unable to have the same amounts of socially awkward misunderstandings... even with Lizard Person Raymond having no clue as to the basic interactions with other people... and often confused basic human biology. Occasionally without fatal side effects. It was canceled after the fifth incident where somebody got injured in performing stunts on the show.
"Either way--going with the version of math prior to it having various major figures reworked into Buddhist Vedas it had these things called equations. I must apologise--it is so much easier to explain if you could share 96 Hour Day space with me. Now just imagine the coordinates of the Five Kardashian Planes for Time, BTW I do love the local show featuring the Kardashian in his shower stall teaching Science and History. The television special by CBC of The Five Kardashians is still popular and well run. While cancelled for a bit during its historically long run, it came back darker and edgier... and still works quite well. After it calmed down with the eleventh Kardashian."
I have to wonder if perhaps the many different sets of events that lead to the future are the only places in the past these assholes can go to. That would generally explain their high amounts of ineptitute to a much better amount. Explaining it as being much harder to comprehend what actually happened in the past to levels archeologists only have fevered night terrors about today.
"Right... so each point on the Five Kardashian Plans of Time expand out to stuff on three spacial planes. Creating information for fifteen spacial plans. As a form of gainy decompression. We all know gainy decompression is the counterpart to lossy compression. With stuff just being guessed to fill in the blank spots when decompressing some data or information. This does allow multiple things to be in various places at various points in time upon a time shift. Though--that is typically understood as a set of precision errors. Which are hard to truly completely take account for handling."
Is... is this what being an artist feels like? Am... am I an artist. I feel like nothing is worth anything anymore. Nothing is of any value. All my efforts are worthless. That I am gaining praise for only the most stupid bullshit... and shit, my Muse spent tonight home watching reruns of Everybody Loves Lizard Person Raymond. Hate it when that happens. If only I had the money to keep my Muse drunk and with tickets to bands and going to night clubs. With various meaningless hook ups so as to hide herself from her inspirations with just cheap tripe that feels good but is generally meaningless.
"I am certain you are aware of optical illusions. Things that look like one thing, but from other angles their true nature shows."
Well... from one angle you look like a buffoon. But from other angles you true nature of a stupid asshole jerk are much more obvious.
"Moving in atypical paths through time is kind of like that."
Wait... is he done. Holy crap, I think he might be moving to a conclusion.
"So... much like computers are hard to explain or talk about without language evolving to hold dialogue. So is moving atypically through time. However it is still possible and you can show higher skill by explaining things without extensive amounts of Jargon."
Is that a conclusion. Can I leave now? My head hurts--brain cells are begging for alcohol to have them relieved of this misery.
"Any questions--or do you think you got it?"
"Wow, that is just so deep and meaningful. I love how good you explained it. I feel like I truly understand it."
"I am fairly awesome."
He goes running off to some of his other friends. They smack each others faces a couple times then hook elbows press their bellies.
Yeah... I'm just going to go home and watch reruns of Everybody Loves Lizard Person Raymond. Hell... I'd even take Everybody Loves Raymond at this point. Actually no--I am not that depressed and bad feeling. I still have some standards in my television show watching entertainment.


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Originally posted on Fox Sports Wisconsin | Last updated 12/28/12
GREEN BAY, Wis. Just as the Packers are getting one wide receiver back on the field, they might be losing another. Coach Mike McCarthy announced Friday that Jordy Nelson, who's missed the past three games with a hamstring injury, is probable for Green Bay's regular-season finale Sunday in Minnesota against the Vikings. "I feel good about Jordy Nelson," McCarthy said. "He's gone through a full week of work. He felt good this morning going through the medical evaluation. So I have no reason not to believe that he'll be ready to go Sunday." However, the Packers' No. 1 receiver this season, Randall Cobb, is questionable after suffering a right ankle and knee injury last weekend. "We had a menu set for him as far as going through a workout; He was able to accomplish that," McCarthy said of Cobb. "He did some returns. He took some practice reps. So we'll see how he is in the morning. He looked pretty good." Cobb, who broke the franchise's single-season record for all-purpose yards, leads Green Bay in receptions, targets and receiving yards. The team's 2011 second-round pick has not missed a game yet due to injury in his career. "You have a player coming off an injury, a very good player as far as returner and offensive player," McCarthy said. "So we'll let Sunday answer that question (about what Cobb's role might be.)" Defensive back Charles Woodson was ruled out of Sunday's game earlier this week, marking the ninth consecutive game that the former Defensive Player of the Year will miss due to a broken collarbone. Last week, Woodson was adamant that he'll still be ready for the playoffs. "Whenever the time comes, I know how to play football," Woodson said. "That's one thing you don't forget. Just because you have time off, doesn't mean you forget how to play the game. I know how to play the game. I know the defense, and so when that time comes, I'll be ready." Woodson has yet to be cleared by the Packers medical staff, but McCarthy seems to have little doubt about the 15th-year veteran's availability for the postseason. "Well a lot of our decisions, you have risk assessment," McCarthy said. "I think that the time I have spent around Charles Woodson, his risk assessment will go out the window when it comes time to play in a playoff game. We're trying to be smart with this. Obviously he's part of the decision, but it's the doctor's call right now." In Woodson's absence, rookie cornerback Casey Hayward has performed very well in the slot. That is where Woodson is most effective, but defensive coordinator Dom Capers is not worried about using both players. "To me, (Woodson) is a good football player," Capers said Friday. "There's always a role for good football players. Our job is to find out ways to get our best football players out on the field. That could mean changing some of the packages and that type of thing. That's what we always go through. 'Hey, how can we get our best playmakers on the field?' and try to put them in the best position to go make plays." Running back James Starks (knee) is out and cornerback Davon House (shoulderhip) is listed as doubtful, but the rest of Green Bay's injury report is in pretty good shape. Tight end Tom Crabtree (hamstring), kicker Mason Crosby (illness), starting center Evan Dietrich-Smith (knee), running back Alex Green (concussion), center Jeff Saturday (neckshoulder), right guard Josh Sitton (concussion) and defensive ends C.J. Wilson (knee) and Jerel Worthy (hamstring) are all probable. Follow Paul Imig on Twitter.
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text: Udemy - Intermediate Topics for Unity Game Developers - Part Three MP4 | Video: 1350x720 | 70 kbps | 44 KHz | Duration: 2 Hours | 308 MB Genre: eLearning | Language: English Beginner indie game developers have many tutorials, so this course takes you to being an advanced developer and designer Have you noticed almost every course on Udemy is for beginners? In this third part of a three-part course, we will discuss many topics that aren't typically covered by courses meant only for beginners. ---- SECTION ONE Learn how to implement your waves of enemies using Object Pooling in C# while maintaining a solid framerate. Harness the power of Unity 3D in order to make great games Want to know how shooter games like CoD, Halo, Gears of War make their games run smoothly even if they are always instantiating bullets at all time? Learning how to use object pooling will make your game run better, so you can implement heavier features without worrying too much if the constant instantiation of enemies or bullets will make your game slower. readmore Build your wave of enemies, or create bullets for your game using Unity 3D Instantiate your bullets/enemies/items. Reuse objects to save memory. Optimize your framerate. ---- SECTION TWO Learn how to animate and make your first enemy AI that will chase you. Harness the power of Unity 3D in order to make great games Have you ever wanted to know how does the enemies that appears in games are capable of tracking you down and attack you when as soon as they see you? With the use of the Mechanim animation system (included in Unity) and finite state machines you will be able to make an enemy that sees you, hunts you and attacks you as soon as you enter its range of attack. Make an enemy that hunts you down Animate a 2D character using sprite sheets. Make it see where you are going. Make it hunt you if you enter its line of sight. Create an animation finite state machine. ---- SECTION THREE Learn to implement Unity Ads into your mobile game. Make revenue out of your game Make the player see ads targeted specially for gamers. Choose between showing ads that will reward the player or not. Make the player to see an ad after they perform a specific action. Navigate through the ads platform to see the revenue of your game. Make money out of your game without compromising the player experience. Have you ever wondered how games such as "Crossy Roads" were able to become financially successful? Implement ads that the players would like to see using an ad network targeted specially for gamers, show only game related videos to your player and forget about the intrusive banner ads in this tutorial for intermediate users you will learn in no time how to monetize that free game you have. 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I don't own it. I also don't own Alaska
Just as the ghost was about to disappear around the tombstone, Troy saw something. On the ghost's feet, it wore sneakers.
Troy whipped out his hand and grabbed onto the ghost's white cloak. It came off in his hands, causing Troy to scream, waking Gabriella up. Because in front of him was no ghost. It was Chase, Chad's younger brother.
"Wh-What!" Troy gasped, sitting back on his heals. He couldn't believe it-he wouldn't believe it.
He felt Gabriella's hand on his shoulder, heard her calling out to someone unseen, "You can come out now."
Out from behind various other tombstones came Ryan, Sharpay, Zeke, and Taylor. Chase stepped closer to Troy.
"We are so sorry, Troy." Whispered Zeke, kneeling next to his friend and putting an arm around Troy's shoulders. Troy shrugged him off.
"You guys knew about this! You set me up!" he accused, and was surprised and hurt when they all nodded their heads.
"We've been worried about you, Troy." Sharpay said, "Ever since Chad died, you've been like an empty shell. We understand-really we do! It's just, don't you think it's time to let it go?"
Troy sat back, resigned to the fact that he was going to have to listen to their story. "Okay, so why Chase?"
Chase answered that one, "It's because everyone's always said how much I look-looked like Chad. And because, well, I miss my brother, too." The boy said the last part in barely more then a whisper.
Troy was dumbfounded. In the months since Chad's death, he hadn't once thought about Chad's own family. Chase was three years younger then Chad had been, but he was nearly as tall. He was built exactly like his brother, and from what Troy had seen, had the same knack for basketball. In the ninth grade, which still meant he was in Junior High, he was a starting forward for the school's boy's basketball team.
"I'm sorry, Chase." Troy whispered. And he felt as if something broke inside him. Like he'd gotten over some invisible barrier.
The psychiatrist that Troy went to later said that was getting over denial-the first stage of grief. After that incident in the cemetery, Troy rejoined the human race. Gradually, in baby steps.
First, he went to his father, and asked to be put back on the team. He would no longer be captain, but he was still first string.
The following fall, Troy and Gabriella tried out for the fall musical. Together, as a pair. They made the leads.
Within a year, Troy was back in his old life. He would never, ever, forget Chad. But he found that he talked to his dead friend less and less.
And in Troy Bolton's Senior year, he helped Chase Danforth become the first Freshman to play on the varsity basketball team. Call it repaying a debt.
That's it! I am done with High School Musical!


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Manor F1 team replace Haryanto with Ocon
(Reuters) - French teenager Esteban Ocon will replace Rio Haryanto at Manor Racing for the rest of the season after the Indonesian driver failed to secure the financial backing needed to retain his seat.
The British-based Formula One team said in a statement on Wednesday that Ocon, 19, will make his race debut in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps on Aug. 28 alongside Germany's Pascal Wehrlein.
Haryanto, his country's first Formula One driver, was offered the role of reserve for the remaining nine races.
"(Manor) has taken the decision to terminate Rio Haryanto's race contract after he was unable to meet his contractual obligations," the statement said.
Haryanto, who has been backed by Indonesia's state-owned oil company Pertamina, made his race debut with Mercedes-powered Manor at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix in March.
However, his contract depended on raising substantial further funding.
"Some time ago his management indicated that they were experiencing difficulties honouring the obligations of that contract beyond (last month's) Hungarian Grand Prix," said Manor's racing director Dave Ryan.
"Rio's team have worked tirelessly to try to resolve that situation with his Indonesian backers and we have supported those efforts as much as possible, including allowing Rio to race in Germany.
"Unfortunately we reached a point where, in the best interests of the team, we were forced to explore other options for the remainder of the season." Continued...


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Interview: Sean Nicholas Savage
Sean Nicholas Savage is one of a kind. In the past three years he's released nine albums that crack the essence of human strength and weakness. His confidence is manifested in his sincere vocals and sentimental, folk-infused lyrics; a perfect fit for that intimate time in the morning when you kiss your lover's chin. We're lucky to share the city he calls home, but we were even luckier to catch up with him in the greenroom of DIY performing/recording space Shea Stadium in Brooklyn, NY as he sipped Remy Martin straight from the bottle, before taking the stage in his socks.
We discussed his prolific history, what's happening in the Mile-End, and what to expect from his tenth album due out this fall on Montreal's promise, Arbutus Records.
RW: You're from Edmonton, Alberta. When and why did you move to Montreal?
When I was 20 or so, a lot of friends I was living with were moving to Vancouver and a few of my friends had moved to Montreal. I was in a few bands when I was younger, one of which was with my good, friend David Carriere (Tops), we had a band called the Silly Kissers. But I started playing solo that year that my friends were moving and I'd visited David in Montreal, and he said the rent is really really good there for Canada, some of the best rent, really affordable, that I could move there and not work too much and really focus on music. So David and I got back together and made more music. A big part of it was music.
Nine albums in the past three years! Where do you find the inspiration to write all those songs?
I listen to a lot of music. I love music. There's a lot happening in my life, there's a lot happening in everyone's lives. So it depends on the size of the thing you're writing about or how much it means to you. I feel like I haven't written about that much, but I guess I've said quite a bit in those nine albums. Little stories, ya know? A lot can happen in a weekend and you can make a song out of that.
Do you think you've developed or changed as an artist over the span of all that work?
Very much. I think my production out of three have gotten a third better, and I think my writing and story-telling have gotten a lot stronger, although maybe my vocabulary hasn't become too much more complex. You know how I said there's a lot of ideas in a weekend? The ones that I choose, and what I think about them and my ideas on life continue to grow because I'm 25 now, I'm getting older and I'm just gonna get smarter and smarter, wiser, I mean, not smarter. I think the things I'm saying, I'm getting better at having more ideas and being more entertaining with my lyrics and getting a strong, moving message across that someone can learn from, less big brother stuff.
On sounds changing throughout the albums…
Flamingo was really chill. I thought, 'nobody listens to music that's loud, everybody's making dinner or getting up in the morning and putting on music to chill out to.' So I want to make something very chill on the next one too. But now I'm finding myself sometimes putting on things like The Cure, Talk Talk, or some Puff Daddy, or ya know, something that does pump me up before I go out. I want to make some music that doesn't really pump you up before you go out, but that you can put on when you're having friends over for drinks and you actually do want to be a little bit excited.
What can we expect to hear from your tenth album? I heard you've been sampling with soundtracks from classic movies…
Well, I've been studying, I have also been sampling too. The one thing I realized the other day is I think I'm gonna sample them before I release it and try to recreate the sound that I sample so there's not any problem with legal stuff there or other people using the same sounds. But I have been studying soundtracks so I can create a greater instrumental album. I'm highly influenced by Bernard Herman (Psycho). The thing that's so amazing about Psycho is that if you listen to it walking down the street or something, it's really scary. I think its so incredible; any other type of music can make you sad or happy, sad like a ballad or happy like some reggae or something, but Bernard Herman's music, especially for the Psycho soundtrack, it really is frightening. And it's so inspiring when I find myself being frightened, I'm like "wow, he created a scary feeling in my world. He made the world scary." Soundtracks are cool like that, and I really wanna be influenced by that, it's just really difficult to do that especially in pop music…But I don't really know what you can expect from the next thing that comes out. Obviously I get all jacked up and I think these grandiose ideas, likes its gonna be this or that, but you can't really plan it. Whatever I just come out with, obviously you are what you eat, but just still eating your favorite stuff all the time even if you're sampling.
Your label, Arbutus, was born out of the art/loft space, Lab Synthèse. What were you doing at Lab before it became the Arbutus label?
I played shows there because it was a venue, much like this one (and a living space I don't know if this is a living space). I started performing there about a week after I got to Montreal and I was living in an apartment that was inconvenient and kind of expensive alone, so I moved into Lab Synthèse, started living there, and we all became good friends. I recorded a lot of albums with Sebastien, the guy who runs Arbutus Records, and I would tour around a bit in Canada until Lab Synthèse came to an end, but Sebastien already had a label with myself, Claire Boucher (Grimes), and a few other bands on it. We were slowly picking up bands, and Silly Kissers joined the label eventually, then slowly turned it into Tops with a few different members, so it's evolved a bit. I lived in my next apartment with Sebastien which was right nearby there when we had to move out of Lab Synthèse, and now I have a different apartment. A lot of valid, driven music came out of there.
Favorite memory from Lab?
It was a really calm place, lots of good sunlight in the afternoon. There was this graphic artist, or 3D artist, his name's Jason Harvey, he's a pretty well-known visual artist. He threw a party with another guy, Michael Farsky called Demon Night at Lab Synthèse and it was this heavily themed, like themed themed all night party, and I think I'll always remember that party, it's one of my most fond memories. It was so special, it took so much planning that it was basically a performing arts piece, but a real one. It had a séance, and a giant worm, and clokes, everyone wore tie-dyed clokes, hundreds of people.
What's the creative exchange like between label-mates and those outside the immediate circle?
Everyone in the Arbutus family lives relatively close on the same block in the Mile End. So, we're hanging out all the time, going to the same parties, playing music at these parties…same influences. And I think it's all relatively young people. I think there's a lot of music around North America that fits the Arbutus sound, it's a pretty broad sound. It's a strong label, I guess with Claire doing really well, which is super inspiring, and the subsidiary of Arbutus, Moviestar Records has had a few artists on it that are really really special, and have more coming too. But we can't just put anyone on the label, there's no room and we don't have any power to offer them, so the label is sort of full up. But people are gonna be sliding to different other, obviously American labels or something. Chris d'Eon is amazing and there's Mozart's Sister, just tons of great acts putting out things. And what's exciting also on Moviestar Records is people putting out albums where they don't even play live. I know people who are just making great art, and its not some hot new track that they're gonna go out and perform, tour around, and promote. But it's maybe seeing a bit of attention because of the label hopefully, if people go and look at some of the stuff on the site there's some free albums on there that are really inspired and not trying to be popular or anything like that, and that's also something to be said for pop music, because obviously Arbutus is a pop label.
Remember when you performed at Tokyo Bar for the LOOKOUT BBQ? You were the only live act to play that party on a club rooftop amongst DJ's. How did that performance go over in your mind?
I pride myself on the fact that I've played a lot of shows where I was sort of an inappropriate act and I think I have the ability to make myself as appropriate as I can, and sometimes it's a little difficult. I judge sort of what these people need to be listening to right now and I think to myself, well not quite what I should be doing, but I have a bit of pride in my work, so I'll try to focus their attention towards it or if they won't, I can back off a bit. I'm not afraid to play to the audience and do what's appropriate. So I think I've dealt with some pretty difficult situations, some of which are just plain impossible, but I do enjoy my music myself so it's not total garbage.
What exactly is going on in your video, "You Changed Me?"
Angus, the director wrote a pretty big script. It certainly has to do with the different aspects of my personality battling each other. There's the happy go lucky, the loose, go with the flow, chill guy, and then there's the business sort of fancy guy, he's pretty insane. The chill guy hears something the business guy doesn't and that really frustrates him. At the end, the free guy realizes he's in danger when the crazy/intense guy loses his shit, so the free guy throws this magic powder at him that makes the other one freeze and disappear. The image of me singing in the bedroom is just me singing, no big meaning to that.
Ready for the next Arbutus, LOOKOUT, UNO party?
Absolutely, I'll be there.
See our earlier interviews with other Arbutus Records' artists: Grimes, Braids, and Blue Hawaii.
Sean Nicholas Savage releases his 10th album on the same label, Fall 2012.
INTERVIEW: Q&A with Montreal's Blue Hawaii
Y'know, I struggled for a while trying to find the perfect way to describe Blue Hawaii. It was going to be perfect; a transcendent revelation on one of my new favorite bands, featuring one of the members of another of my favorite groups, Braids. I poked my head around curtains and through doors of obvious descriptions. There were going to be subtle tweaks of wordplay that would alter the flow and content of the piece in ways invisible to the eye yet inseparable from the comprehension. After all that, I found that I couldn't do any better than the short piece on the Arbutus Records website. Sometimes perfection is right in front of you. Enjoy that, a fully expository interview, and a new song and video below!
"Blue Hawaii tells the story of a lush paradise. The way begins ambient and uncertain, but beautiful white shell beaches and carefree sunshine parties await and nourish those travelers with love in their hearts; their peace thus raised above the arguments found along the rocky road. The duo consists of Raph and Agor; they use voice, guitars, synths, drum machines, and other electronics to create a kind of tropical-pop with love ache melodies and experimental club rhythms."
There hasn't been much press surrounding Blue Hawaii and your new album Blooming Summer. Who is Blue Hawaii?
Raph: Blue Hawaii is Alexander Cowan and myself. It's a project that we started when we first met each other. We've been dating for the last while, so it's kind of been, I don't know, I don't how I feel about saying it's like a "love project," but it kind of is, I guess.
It could be a project of love.
R: Yeah, I think so. The album that we just created is all love songs and revelations I've come to with being committed and being good to somebody and respectful of them. It's a project of love.
Speaking of the album, it was recently released on Arbutus Records, though there's been very little press behind it. Is that indicative of how quickly it came together or did you decide to embrace the anonymity of the project?
R: We just wanted to release something. Alex definitely had a real urge to finally release something because he was the type of musician who just did it in his bedroom while he was going to university. He had hundreds and hundreds of tracks on his laptop of him just strumming around and some of it was pretty good. He just really, really pushed for us to finish it. At time I didn't want to finish it, I didn't really have to do it. I was trying to balance Braids' album, but he really pushed forth and I'm happy that it happened the way it did. We weren't really expecting anything to come of it, but now that we have this piece of art in front of us we're very proud of it. Now we feel the urge to really support it and get it out there. We didn't know what Blue Hawaii was going to be it was just us jamming around, and now people like it. It's fun.
I'm not familiar with the timeline of the project's development. Did it progress fluidly?
R: From the time that we met, we met in January of 2008, we both just started jamming together. He was in the Lab Synthese art studios. He ran it with Sebastian. We started jamming out and doing a lot of improv.. We did a set together and then I left for Calgary for two and a half months. When I came back we wanted to make it more structured and it just went down the drain. We were making such shitty music for like three months or maybe four or five months. We were trying to make it structured. We were writing music on a laptop and it wasn't going anywhere.
Then we went to Guatemala and we became really close friends and got to know each other really well. When we got back we started fully recording the album. It's a work that's been in progress for quite a long time.
The sound you're producing is quite distinct from your other projects. Was it a decision to move away from that or was it just a natural influence?
R: It was just a natural influence. Every project that I do really takes on its own sound. Except for a few of the tracks my voice doesn't sound like it does for Braids. It's such a different art form in itself that I become a part of the music. This one was very romantic and wispy, whereas Braids is very urgent and angsty. It was a different part of me, just like Indiensoci is. Indiensoci is very feminine and ethereal.
From the name of the group, Blue Hawaii, to the veneer of the sound you're playing to some of the imagery you've adopted, it seems like there's a very specific aesthetic that you're going for. Do you have a description for what it could be?
R: We spent a lot of time in Belize when we were traveling. We were traveling for about 2 months and it became about seeing as many oceans as possible and going swimming in as many places as we could. I think that really influenced our music, that feeling of happiness that we got by being by water and hot, warm climates and people bustling around and everyone being excited. When we came back we wanted to have something that felt like that, because our trip was so amazing. We wanted the record to feel really tropical and really lush and watery and stringy. I think that's kind of where the sound came from.
The name Blue Hawaii came from our friend Trevor. I remember we were sitting around a table and we were playing with some band from New York. We were sitting at the kitchen table at Lab Synthese and we were like, "What should we be called?" Some one suggested the name Black Indian, which would be so bad,
That would be the trendiest name possible.
R: Yeah, exactly, We were like, no, we can't be called Black Indian. Then we thought of Black India and I was like, "No, I can't have a 'Black' name, I don't make 'Black' music." Then our friend Trevor suggested the name Blue Hawaii. The album is called Blooming Summer, but we thought maybe we could make another pop reference, like Primitive Vacation, which is an Aerosmith album, but we decided to dump it.
The sound on the album is really unique. What kind of hardware did you use to produce it?
R: We did a lot of it through Ableton. The whole thing was recorded on Ableton and then we brought it onto tape with Sebastian. Sebastian is an amazing producer. He went to school in London, the same school as Aphex Twin, which is pretty cool He graduated at the top of his class and he has a studio at La Brique now, where his studio has been moved to. He has a reel-to-reel, so we transferred everything to reel-to-reel and then we brought it back onto the mixing board. We did really drastic things with compression just to get a sound that's really unique. A lot of people don't go so overboard with compression. The sound of the songs are as though they're breathing. Some of the songs sound like they're really alive.
The live performances of Blue Hawaii feature stylistic elements that are absent from your other projects. Is that adoption part of achieving the blissful aesthetic?
R: For sure. Especially lately, coming into my twenties and performing for the last three years, I've become intrigued by the amount of control and freedom that you have as the performer. With Braids, if I were to put on face paint and stuff like that I would just stand out like a sore thumb, and that's not really what Braids is. With Braids, everybody is just wearing jeans and get out of the van and play the show. Blue Hawaii is a bit more of an outlet for the urge in me to explore what it really is to be a performer and to have face paint and to bring all the artistic elements into the performance. I'm excited about it. I want to go even crazier if possible. I want to bring projections and jellybeans.
R: Yeah! I really love jellybeans. I love when you put jellybeans in water and the really beautiful way the color diffuses. Luckily, we got Taylor and Austin [of Braids] to wear blue eyeshadow for that Blue Hawaii performance. I've never, ever seen Taylor wear blue eyeshadow in all my life, so it was a real treat to see everyone done up in blue eyeshadow for the Blue Hawaii show. It's been really fun. I want to definitely get some outfits in there at some point.
I recently saw the video some one made for you around the single "Dream Electrixra."
R: Yeah! Rosie made that and it has jellybeans in it! When it's a closeup and there are flowers. Rosie Aiello makes amazing sculptures and she takes pictures of it. What is that called?
There's claymation and stop-motion photography.
R: Yeah, stop-motion. She did a time-lapse of jelly beans melting into the water. There's an ice cube in there too and it cracks. That was for "Dream Elctrixra." I tried as hard as I could to write something that stuck in my head for a really long time. Braids is catchy but it's also difficult.
Blue Hawaii seems to me to be a fundamentally pop enterprise.
R: Yeah, we tried really hard. I really wanted to make a pop album. I really wanted to learn how to write love pop songs, and I tried.
It's unique in its construction, but the sensibilities are definitely pop-oriented.
R: The songs have all been ripped apart like three times. For "Castles of Clouds," you know, it's a really slow song. When we first did it, it was a funk song. It's the same with "Katie." "Katie," was a soul song. We just ripped everything apart three or four times. It's hilarious listening to the stuff beforehand.
Do you still have the original masters?
R: Oh yeah. I made Katie and Austin listen to it and we were all laughing so hard. Braids has gone through many different stages as well. We have to the recordings to prove it. From our early songs like "M is for Matrioshka" and the Set Pieces EP. Blue Hawaii had to do it very quickly so that we could put an album out that was up to speed.
Obviously you'll be on the road for the next few months with Braids, but what are the future plans for Blue Hawaii?
R: That's kind of hard. We're going to figure it out. I know that next year Braids is going to be touring an awful lot. Alex and I have gotten some interest from people in Europe. The Europeans love it. The equivalent of CBC in Sweden did an interview with Alex today. They're digging it over there and we've definitely had some interest. Maybe we'll tour over there, maybe go to Japan or something like that. We'll make it work. It's going to be a lot of on-the-road for me next year but I'm looking forward to it. I want to see places.
Are you an Elvis fan? Blue Hawaii was the title of one of his greatest films, and one that would suit the aesthetic you're going for.
R: You know, my mom is, and she would always sing him in the kitchen. I've seen clips from the film. I don't know how everything came together, with Blue Hawaii sounding like Blue Hawaii, but it's nice when things come together like that.
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INTERVIEW: Q&A with Montreal's Braids
Braids is a band poised. A group of four young friends from Calgary transplanted in Montreal, they make what they call "experimental indie pop." We don't know what to call it, but we know that the sound is at once boldly personal and intimately loud, strung along with unique musical construction and sly pop sensibilities. Does that make sense? Anyone who's caught one of their extraordinarily fluid and involving live sets, including their Pop Montreal show this past fall, knows what the deal is. For those uninitiated, take a look at the beautiful video constructed by the wonderful folks at Blogotheque.
Now, the band stands before both the completion and assumption of a lot of hard work and reward. Having completed their debut full length Native Speaker, out in the fall, they are about to embark on a summer-long tour, including their first-ever American dates along with hopes for a European voyage in the near future. The interview below is an extensive look at the mindset regarding their album, their history together, and their hopes for a future.
Enjoy, this is one of Montreal's finest:
On their new, debut album, Native Speaker…
Raph: It's done. Finished. Really finished. Mastered.
Austin: It sounds great. We've been holding it for quite a while. We've been holding it for the past couple months. We're just shopping it around to American labels right now, going down to New York to play some showcase shows. A good man in Brooklyn named Kip Curry from Tell All Your Friends Promotion, he's helped us get in contact with a bunch of labels. Now it's like, they've heard it, now they want to see us play live. Now it's like, we're just waiting to get down there and play live and see how people like it, how they receive it.
On learning how to record in order to self-produce the album…
Raph: For sure [it was an artistic decision]. We wanted to have as much control over it as we possibly could
Austin: We had a bunch of offers from people saying, "Hey, can we help you do all the post-production on the record, all the mixing," and we said, "No, we really want to do it all ourselves. We really want to learn how to do it, and now for next time, we're that much further ahead."
Raph: It's just good to know how do something new.
On how learning the recording process affected writing new music…
Austin: We learned a lot about the actual creating process of music, as well. You can tell because we've been writing a few new songs since we finished the record where, after having gone through the process of recording, our live writing is very different.
We were always trying to push the boundaries of what we were doing in the live environment, but now we've tapped into the recording environment, which is literally limitless. You can tell because it took us 9 months to record our record.
Raph: It took as long as a baby [laughter].
Austin: Yeah it's actually interesting because the gestation period was perfectly nine months.
Raph: There's always this problem with people doing something that they don't know much about and not doing it well. We've always heard, "Oh, you should just leave the mixing to the people who actually know how to mix," But I think, because we took so much time to learn how to do it well, we avoided that problem.
A lot of people were coming up to us and being like, "where did you get this recorded?" and we were like, "oh, in our house [laughter], in our back room that has a laundry machine." But we really pushed ourselves to make it amazing.
Austin: We didn't have to constrain ourselves by asking, "how are we going to play this live?"
Raph: We already have songs that we really enjoy playing live and that we're really proud of live, so we just took it a step further for the record.
Austin: If we head something in our head while we were recording we thought, "I'm not going to do this live, but I don't care because it's going to sound really good on the record."
On evolving musically through their years of playing together…
Austin: Yes [this record is a progression of Braids' earlier sound], very much so. Especially from our last record, which was the Set Pieces EP, and this is like a complete removal from that.
Raph: I didn't even have effects on my vocals when we did Set Pieces. I didn't even know how to go "AHHH." I didn't know how to do that. It's a total evolution, especially from older songs like 'M is for Matrioshka,' where all of us were trying learn how to play together in time and I didn't know how to play guitar yet.
Austin: That was a different time in our lives.
Katie: We were very excited. We're not jaded now, we're just very used to everything.
Raph: It was like, I'm going to play the guitar as fast as I can, but now it's different.
Austin: I guess we have a little bit more restraint and maturity in our writing now. There's been a continual progression where we realize that we write really long songs, like a 7 or 8-minute average track length. For working on things past Native Speaker, we're trying to make things even more poignant. We try to write, like, let's keep it down to a one or two-minute track and now it's like, 4, but still, that's short for us.
On their extensive tour schedule, including their first ever American dates in New York and Boston…
Austin: We're very excited. We've got basically two months on the road in Canada throughout the whole summer through August and then, after that, there's not even one show in place but we're hoping to just tour as much as we can.
All of us through our friends, like the band Women, that have toured Europe have instilled this "GO TO EUROPE" vibe in us. So we really want to go to Europe. We've been getting emails from people and little bit of interest saying, "your music would be well-received here," and all our friends that have toured Europe say that our music would suit audiences in Europe. Hopefully in the spring or something like that we can go to Europe.
Raph: Say Europe again.
Austin. Europe. Europe.
Katie: We're up in Europe!
On influences…
Raph: For sure, Animal Collective is a huge one for all of us. That one was big for us. I think Animal Collective was huge for us last year, definitely. It changed the way we think about how to make music, for sure. We started out varied in terms of musical taste, with everyone showing each other music and we came together with Animal Collective. Now we're spreading out again. Like Katie's really into New Wave, like New York No Wave, New Wave. Taylor's starting to get into a lot more electronic based stuff.
Austin: Every once in a while, Taylor and I throw out the idea of starting a micro-house band, with live drums and effects.
On life after the album:
Austin: It's kind of nice to be done with the album. We're starting to listen to so much music. I found that when I was recording the album I was forgetting to listen to music. I became so saturated with my own music.
Raph: I didn't listen to any music.
Austin: I just don't want to hear that album for a while. Now it's like I'm listening to a lot more new stuff and it's nice.
Raph: This was the first time [that we got so immersed in the recording process]. We had only done one day recording before, like live to 2-track at a radio station.
On integrating new material into the band's fluid live show…
Raph: For sure, we have a couple new songs
Austin: and a couple tweaks to our old songs
Raph: There are tweaks with the endings and I have different ways of singing the songs now. Still, the album is very fluid and the live show is very fluid. All the songs that are on the album, we've played live a million times and we're very happy with them. It's pretty similar, but you know, the album is like nine months of playing the same songs over and over again, so it's just a little different.
Katie: I know that most of us really want to kind of move past the album a bit. We want to write as much new material as possible and really try new things. We want to try new sounds and not just do new things like Native Speaker was.
Austin: For sure, to keep pushing the boundaries on what we can do physically and emotionally and as friends, in terms of how much we can beg of ourselves. We've spent some time already sitting down and thinking, "How do we want to progress?"
We found that it was best to not talk about it so much (Laughing).
Raph: Yeah, you just dig yourself a hole when you do that.
Austin: we got kind of heated a couple nights talking. Now it's kind of like, let's just see where it's going and it's going in a nice direction. I think we're going to come back to it and speak a little more about it. It's just a balance of how can we remove ourselves from what we've done before without losing our cohesive sound.
Raph: It still sounds like Braids. We just want to challenge ourselves because we're 19, 20, and 21 years old and we're full of energy.
Katie: We get bored easily.
In addition to the new album, Braids will be releasing a split cassette with Raph's other group Blue Hawaii to promote their tour. For a full list of tour dates, check Braids' myspace. They will be playing in Montreal on May 21 at the Savoy with the Holly Miranda.Read Less ↑
Q&A with The Pop Winds
Yesterday, LOOKOUT caught up with Devon of the Pop Winds, a Montreal-based band signed to Arbutus Records that have been making music together for just over a year. When I called, Devon was in the midst of putting together CDs for their Ontario tour with other Arbutus bands Sean Nicholas Savage and the Silly Kissers. The Pop Winds (Kyle Bennett, Austin Milne, and Devon Welsh) fuse vocals, guitar, sax (yes, a saxophone), with electronic instruments like synth and drum machines. The dreamy, almost despairing vocals are propped up by poppy electronic sounds and the unexpected rich wail of the saxophone. They've followed up their 2009 self-released EP, Understory, with their recently released full-length album, The Turquoise.
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LOOKOUT: How did The Pop Winds get started?
Devon: Austin and myself were roommates at school when we first came to Montreal. Kyle and I knew each other from Uxbridge, Ontario, and he moved to Montreal, liked playing music and then we all got together.
Where does the band name the Pop Winds come from?
It's the name of a song that Kyle had written the summer we started playing music together, the summer of 2008. I'm not sure the significance of it… I don't think it was meant to have any specific meaning.
You're all originally from Ontario. Do you think the Montreal vibe has influenced how you make music or how you approach making music? Would you have made the same music anywhere in the world?
We probably would've made the same music anywhere. How we approach music has more to do with interest and various technologies and what we were good at initially. And what we could contribute in terms of what instruments we played. The city affected the way we would approach how or where we would play or music, and how we would release it and stuff like that. The ability to put something out yourself, I guess, was probably an idea from people who were playing music in Montreal.
What are some of your musical influences?
I would say, I don't know… When I think about that question, it's as if it implies some conscious decision to make music in a certain way. We're not trying to do music a certain way, and we all listen to music in different ways. Maybe any kind of music that uses the same approach.
What kind of approach?
Maybe say, like using electronic equipment, writing music that doesn't necessarily always have a pop song structure. I don't know, that's really broad.
Is it important to you to give out free music? Or is it something you had to do because that's the way music is heading these days?
We sort of had to do this. After a certain point, it's going to be easier and more effective to get people to hear your music if you give it to them for free. And it's pretty easy to do that nowadays. I expect music to be out there for free sometime or another. A couple weeks after an album comes out, it's everywhere on the Internet. It seems like the natural thing to do.
How has the band grown over the last year, from the release of Understory to The Turquoise? First as bandmates, but also musically?
What you would expect, we've gotten a lot better at writing cooperatively. We make a song less and less based off of ideas that were fully developed by one of us. Now it's much more cooperative and more of a mutual writing experience. Musically, we've made more interesting songs that we're more excited about playing.
What can readers/listeners expect from a live Pop Winds show?
We will always focus on doing the best we can for a set. And have at least some new things, new ideas, and new ways of playing specific songs. We would hope to do a performance that is engaging and makes people want to pay attention and listen attentively.
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Q&A: Montreal's Grimes
Claire Boucher, who performs under Grimes, is a solo act signed to Montreal's Arbutus Records.
Geidi Primes, her latest album, is colourful with an out-of-this-world quality that incorporates space-age piano riffs, slurred lyrics and delayed melodies that have you yearning, but unable to sing along. It's an intriguing album with a fusion of medieval vibes and sleepy sounds, an intermingling that is truly beyond words. The vocals are at times embracing, enchanting and angelic, and at other times, dark, spooky and otherworldly.
I got the chance to chat with Grimes on an otherwise lazy Sunday, and ask her a few questions about her indescribable musical style, while we were both hopped up on caffeine.
Download Geidi Primes, for free, here.
Listen to a few of her tracks:
When I think of Grimes, I think of words like grimy, raw, gangster and thug. Where did that name come from? Why do you perform under that name?
Haha, I don't know really where it came from. I have this problem of deciding on project names. When I was 17 or 18, I was making really crappy music on a tape recorder, like wannabe classical music, and I would just record it and write Grimes because it seemed like a weird contrast that doesn't seem to fit. Later on, I decided I didn't want to use my own name, and I already started with Grimes and it wasn't that embarrassing so I just went with it.
You're also a visual artist and you designed the cover art for Geidi Primes. Is it watercolours that you use?
I use ink and food colouring. Food colouring is actually really great as long as you don't get water on anything.
Your artwork has very unearthly, scary, dark and uncanny elements. How does your art influence your music?
My art is a visual manifestation of my music. If my music would look like anything, it would be my art.
You've been compared to a lot of people on the blogosphere including Kate Bush, Bjork, and The Cure... Personally, I got reminded of a little Tracy Chapman while listening to Rosa. As much as bloggers can compare, I've really have never heard anything comparable to your sound. Are comparisons progressive and positive? Or is it more of a burden?
It's not really either. It's weird because I never really listened to Kate Bush. Now I've been listening to it nonstop for the past couple of days. The Dreaming is my new favourite album, but I'd never even heard it before. I feel like people compare musicians to other musicians because it's easier to say that people have a similar sound so that readers might be more inclined to listen. It's the best reference point in order to compare different artists.
A couple of the album reviews say things like, "I can't describe her music, so I won't. Just listen." When making your music, do you intentionally make it beyond words and distinct from what's currently out there? Or is that just part of your spirit of making music?
I'm pretty technically limited, so I kind of make the music that I can make, if that makes sense? It's really simple because that's the only way I can make music. Like, every song is 4/4, most are 120 bpm and most are in the key of C. I'm trying to move on from that right now. I make music that I want to hear. Or I try to.
What are you working on now? What's the future looking like?
I want to make a new album that's more epic. I also want to make a better live show because I'm very inexperienced.
Why do you think you need to improve your live performance? What is it, for you, that makes a live show?
Well, I have a debilitating stage fright. I used to vomit before a show. It's getting a lot better lately. Usually I would only play for 12 minutes because it was really hard for me to make anything longer. I get super-critical of myself when I'm trying to make something live because it's just so different from how I compose. The songs I've recorded aren't what I think would do well in a live environment. I just want it to be louder, you know?
Grimes has a show coming up on February, 25, 2010 at 8:00 PM at Casa Del Popolo with Blue Hawaii and Pop Winds. Check out her MySpace for more info.Read Less ↑


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