FALLEN TREE Edmonton *********** CANADA www.fallentreerecords.com www.fallentreerecords.bandcamp.com Start : 2018.10 Owner : Peter Chapman Distr. : NE - Sonic Rendezvous/ Style : alternative / folk / roots / FTRC 1001 JON BROOKS OURS AND THE SHEPARDS CD 05.2019 01. JIM LONEY'S PRAYER PART I 02. MIMICO 03. TAJIK BOY 04. KIGALI 05. AUCTION DAYS 06. GROESBEEK 07. SGT. TOMMY PRINCE 08. CIGARETTES 09. THE LATEST GREAT EMBARRASSMENT 10. THE PADRE 11. HILL 677 12. JIM LONEY'S PRAYER PART II 13. IN FLANDERS FIELDS "One of the best albums I have heard ever." Penguin Eggs. On Ours and the Shepherds singer-songwriter Jon Brooks examines the cost of Canada's war experience at home. Thirteen songs inspired by Romo Dallaire, Jim Loney, Frank P. Dixon, Chaplain William Davis, Sgt. Tommy Prince and John McCrae among others. "Neither a cry of protest nor saccharine patriotic hoopla." ~ Toronto Star. http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/918upcsh.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTRC 1005 LOGAN AND NATHAN:CHASING TALES (AND A FEW OTHER THINGS) CD 07.2019 01. IDA MAE 02. LIVING OFF YOUR LOVE 03. COME FOR ME 04. OLD DOG 05. TES YEUX 06. GOOD LOVE 07. THIS LOVE 08. HELLO GORDON 09. THIS HEART 10. CARRIED HEARTS 11. MIGHT GET LONELY 12. MONARCH DRAGON 13. VOICES CALLING 14. BEAUTIFUL SIGHT 15. GET A LITTLE DARK Chasing Tales (And a Few Other Things) is a tender freak-folk dance of early love and passion from the Vancouver-based duo Logan and Nathan. The couple's music meets at the confluence of Nathan Turner's west coast salt-water swagger and Logan Thackray's wild Rocky Mountain meltwater. Guitar and banjo duel, vocals are shared and swapped and lyrics are filled with intimacy, longing and self-doubt. Logan's voice is unique. It floats airily along, pulling you up into the clouds to survey their evocative lyrical landscapes. Nathan's voice is the perfect counter. With initial strength, it trembles over the uncontrollable goosebumps erupting through the couple's energy. Accompanied at times by drums, keys, viol, violin, cello and saxophone, their sound shimmies along the border of folk with influences of jazz and soul. http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/927upcsh.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTRA 1010 100 MILE HOUSE HIRAETH LP 07.2019 FTRCD 1010 100 MILE HOUSE HIRAETH CD 07.2019 01. INTRO 02. HIRAETH 03. HIDDEN SPRINGS 04. AGAINST THE GRAIN 05. PICK UP OUR BOOTS 06. BRIGHTON BEACH 07. LAST BRANCH 08. ALL WE HAVE 09. GO TAKE ME 10. YOU FEEL LIKE HOME 11. I'M A FIGHTER 12. OLD HAUNTS 13. SEEDS Struggling to start a family, Peter Stone and Denise MacKay, the husband and wife folk duo better known as 100 mile house, share their anguish and grief on their fourth album Hiraeth. Hiraeth, a Welsh word meaning a nostalgic longing for something that may never have been, encapsulates the emotions pulled apart throughout the releases thirteen tracks. Despite the subject's pain, the couple lean on each other's love more than ever as the fragile songs shiver the spine. Stone is known for his honest, heartfelt lyrics and on this release he lets us into the deepest corners of his soul. At times the songs are like wedding vows, reiterating love, finding comfort in the companionship ("Hiraeth", "Go Take Me"). He reveals his love for his new homeland of Canada, having moved from the UK ("Pick Up Our Boots"). We share a tear, as their relationship risks crashing on the rocks off "Brighton Beach." http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/925upcsh.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTRA 1013 JESSICA HEINE GOODBYE PARTY LP 07.2019 FTRCD 1013 JESSICA HEINE GOODBYE PARTY CD 07.2019 01. CAPTAIN MY CAPTAIN 02. ASPARTAME 03. FIGURE IT OUT 04. I WASN'T HERE 05. EASY TO PLEASE 06. GOODBYE PARTY 07. BE GENTLE WITH MY HEART 08. COULD HAVE LOVED YOU BETTER 09. WHEN YOU LOVED ME 10. TO THE MOON WITH YOU ALICE Singer/songwriter Jessica Heine's dynamic voice shakes rooms. Yet on her third album, Goodbye Party, her power is tampered by loss. With new fragility, she opens up about her personal grief, threading gossamer cords between her painful divorce, the untimely death of her nephew, the loss of her grandmother and the regrowth born in the aftermath of these losses. Amongst the songs, dreams are celebrated and mourned. Dreams of the future float away and new dreams surface in their place. Her own guitar work is primarily supported by a full band consisting of piano, mandolin, bass and drums and on the title track, "Goodbye Party," textured backing vocals offer a hand to their sinking friend. Heine's voice may not quake the room in Goodbye Party, but she harnesses powers that shake the soul much deeper. You're left seeing the buds of new life poking through the ashes scattered on the ground, knowing that they, like these songs, will bloom beautifully. http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/925upcsh.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTRA 1014 JON BROOKS MOTH OR NOR RUST II LP 09.2019 FTRACD 1014 JON BROOKS MOTH OR NOR RUST II CD 09.2019 01. WHEN WE GO 02. IN THE ALLEYS 03. THE CRYING OF THE TIMES #3 04. SMALL 05. THERE IS ONLY LOVE 06. WHAT'S WITHIN US 07. WAR RESISTER 08. SAFER DAYS 09. HIGH FIVE 10. WHEN WE GO REPRISE Jon Brooks asks "What makes us human?" and discovers it's "All that neither Moth Nor Rust can touch": love, hope, trust, forgiveness, vigilance, faith, curiosity, memory, inspiration, courage, wonder and wonder's paradoxical willingness to accept and embrace the ineffable and the unknown. Moth Nor Rust II, Brooks' seventh release, revisits the themes and stories the Toronto-based singer/songwriter first examined in 2009 on his solo acoustic Moth Nor Rust release. http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/931upcsh.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTRALP 1015 100 MILE HOUSE LOVE AND LEAVE YOU LP 03.2020 FTRACD 1015 100 MILE HOUSE LOVE AND LEAVE YOU CD 03.2020 01. RIVER 02. LOVE AND LEAVE YOU 03. TEST THE TIMBER 04. GRATEFUL 05. WORTH THE WAIT 06. LIGHT GOES OUT 07. LOSING YOU 08. RUN 09. LIKE EACH DAY 10. LUCKY TO BE LOVED 11. GOOD OLD DAYS There's a poignant double meaning behind the new album Love and Leave You by the Edmonton, Canada, based folk duo 100 mile house. As on their award-winning previous work, Peter Stone and Denise MacKay seem naturally attuned to life's impermanence; the reality that we must cherish what we have, while knowing we must eventually let it go. http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/006upcsh.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTRC 1016 SILENT WINTERS CHRISTMAS MORNING CD 11.2019 01. WHITE CHRISTMAS 02. HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS 03. CHRISTMAS MORNING 04. I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS 05. JOLLY OLD ST. NICHOLAS 06. WINTER WONDERLAND 07. BABY, IT'S COLD OUTSIDE 08. I HEARD THE BELLS ON CHRISTMAS DAY 09. OH HOLY NIGHT 10. HAPPY HOLIDAY Ottawa's Silent Winters (Olenka Bastian and Jonathan Chandler), known for folk-inspired vocal harmonies, wrap-up nine sparkling holiday hits, along with the gift of a new song, to cherish this Christmas morning. http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/941upcsh.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTRC 1017 JAY AYMAR YOUR PERFECT MATADOR CD 01.2020 01. YOUR POET BLEEDING 02. WALLS ARE PAGES 03. THE GREATEST STORY NEVER TOLD 04. US WILD DOGS 05. ALIVE IN THE SHADOWS 06. ALWAYS HAD YOU 07. TWO PLANKS AND A PASSION 08. TAKE ME HOME 09. BANKSY WAS HERE Through orchestrated layers reminiscent of the plushest art galleries, Jay Aymar (pronounced Ay-Mar), consummate songwriter and poet, rises from shadowed concrete beds to bring us a cinematic view of the colossal battles between love and art, bred through the transience and demands of touring. Your Perfect Matador celebrates the juxtaposition and necessity to "do a little wrong, to make things right," illustrated by visual artists Banksy, Vincent van Gogh and Leonardo da Vinci. It's a narcotic cocktail of edgy post-Americana, swampy southern roots-rock with touches of soul and funk. Produced by Michael Phillip Wojewoda, featuring guest vocals from Shakura S'aida, Alejandra Ribera and Chloe Charles and string arrangements from Drew Jurecka. http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/950upcsh.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTRALP 1018 AYLA BROOK & TYHE SOUND MEN : DESOLATION SOUNDS LP 03.2020 FTRACD 1018 AYLA BROOK & TYHE SOUND MEN : DESOLATION SOUNDS CD 03.2020 01. LIFT YOU UP 02. ALL THAT I WANTED TO DO 03. (I THINK I) HIT MY LIMIT 04. SHE SMILES LIKE A RIVER 05. CHEAP MICROPHONE & AN OLD GUITAR 06. A LITTLE MORE LIGHT 07. FLOATED SO FAR 08. LOVE & LAUGHTER 09. LITTLE BIRDIE 10. REFUGE COVE 11. WHO ARE YOU Ayla Brook (pronounced Ey-Lah) makes music as raw and vast as the Canadian prairies and as broad and deep as the Pacific Ocean. From his remote conception in BC's Refuge Cove, to his upbringing in Lily Plain, Saskatchewan, to forming The Sound Men in the prairie capital city of Edmonton, Ayla has never wavered from his original vision of honest roots rock. That vision is brilliantly captured on Desolation Sounds, the new album by Ayla Brook & The Sound Men, produced by Terra Lightfoot and mixed by Jon Auer of The Posies and Big Star fame. It's a collection of songs and stories about friends and family. With levity, grit and grief we're pulled into human connections stronger than the ding of a phone notification. They burst with rock and soul and the western charm that has become the band's trademark sound. That was proven when they were named Roots Artist of the Year at the 2018 Edmonton Music Awards, the capper to a full summer of folk and indie music festivals. Whether they're packing dance floors in honky tonks or in rock clubs soaked in wine and whiskey, Ayla Brook & The Sound Men deliver a tapestry of hurtin' and feelin' tunes about life on and off Canada's barstools. http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/006upcsh.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTRA 1019 LOGAN AND NATHAN THE HAPPENING LP 03.2020 FTRCD 1019 LOGAN AND NATHAN THE HAPPENING CD 03.2020 01. STUMBLE 02. HOW DOES IT FEEL 03. LONELY 04. THE HAPPENING 05. WHERE DO WE GO 06. FORGET MYSELF 07. NOSTALGIA 08. HIGH ON YOU 09. ONE LOVE, BIG HEART 10. COME ON UNDER Underneath Vancouver-based freak-folk duo Logan and Nathan's laid back vibe is an urgent call to action. With beguiling soul-infused grooves, they tackle relationships, consumerism, political apathy, the climate emergency, colonialism and indigenous rights on their breakthrough second album, The Happening. http://www.sonic.nl/sonic_nl/mailing/011upcsh.htm --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FTRC 1026 VIVIENNE WILDER I DON'T BELIEVE CD 05.2022 01. JAILBIRD 02. LOW 03. JORDAN 04. SPARROW BONES 05. I DON'T BELIEVE 06. TRASH 07. MATCHES 08. 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