I am AD Springer (AKA Corbinion), your musical tour guide to the music of a future we were promised but never got; music of a city dreamt by artists for years and a year and never formed; music that you cannot, will not, and should not miss out on! That city? The Electric Metropolis! On the music tour we have some new albums, some artists from near and far, and -overall- a nice night to take a tour of this great city of sound. As always, listen up, listen close, and enjoy the tour while you can!
Tour Itinerary:
First Stop:
“Phasing Inferno” by Themnotyou off the album Tropical Rainforests [DOSWORKS/1995-2000]
“Cold Droplets of Water” by Ryan Fogleman off the album Ceress and Orea (Original Game Soundtrack)
“Lifebeat of Lilim” by Garoad off the album VA-11 HALL-A EX – Bonus Tracks Collection
“Tangledeep ‘Dreams of the Deep’ OC ReMix” by DrumUltimA, PRYZM off the website ocremix.org
Synth District:
“Baby Sounds” by Vandal Moon off the album Wild Insane
“High Score High” by Mirrorvoid off the album Neon Tattoo
“Protovertigo” by Venator off the album Victor’s Descent
Chiptune District:
“Leaves” by Bubblegum Octopus off the album Goodbye, 2013
“Toadstool Pipeline” by Lazy Nerd 204 off the album Soul Searching
“The St. Helens Lobotomy Incident” by chibi-tech off the album Psycho Somatic Generation
“Aozora No Rhapsody” by Kommisar (A Kobayashi san Chi no Dragon Maid OP 8-bit Cover)
Synth District:
“All I Ever Wanted” by To The Trees off the album To The Trees
“Ordinary Love” by Lilyer off the album Maybe This Is All You Can Be
“Neon Sprites” by Dana Jean Phoenix off the album Synth City
Chiptune District:
“Return To Bounds” by chibi-tech off the album Psycho Somatic Generation
“Nintenesis” by Lazy Nerd 204 off the album Soul Searching
“Spectres in the Mist” by Cody Carpenter & Mark Day off the album Shadow Spirits Vol.1
“Rolling Start! (Daytona USA) by Ben Briggs & PrototypeRaptor off the album VROOM: Sega Racing
“Moonlight feat Zefire” by Clement Bazin off the album Everything Matters
“Big Bang” by FWLR/Twistex off the album Without Borders
Final Stop:
“Mehcinut” by Jeremy Dutcher off the album Wolastoqiyik Lintuwakonawa
With plenty of word flubs and fantastic showmanship, we have yet another episode of RFYL for your listening pleasure. Slap on your earphones and sing slightly out of tune to annoy your neighbours because we’re going to launch you on a wild ride that’ll earn every speeding ticket you needed for the beginning of June!
It’s June already? Six more months and we’ve got another year down pat! Also, breaking news, I know how time works!
Back in October of 2017, I grabbed a handful of CDs to review and process before being aired here on CHSR, as is custom, and I happened upon an album entitled “West Coast Reign” from an unknown-to-me artist named Vic Horvath. I was sufficiently captivated by the songwriting and the presentation that I felt compelled to write a more detailed review for the CHSR website, which you can read here.
The cool thing is that there is a lot more to this story that transpired after I posted the review. One of my other recent pursuits involved volunteering my time to help find new talent and program the Living Roots Music Festival for 2018. I should include the caveat that Eddie Young, the founder and festival organizer, did roughly 99.26% of this work himself, but I was hoping to make a small contribution.
Upon discovering Vic’s music, I reached out to them just to show appreciation and thank them for the excellent music. I asked if there were plans to visit the east coast, gave details on the Living Roots Festival, and interest was piqued. Plans were made. Letters were written. Funding was secured, and Vic’s trip to the east was on. A small tour was booked around the Living Roots festival, and I had the pleasure of catching Vic’s set on Thursday, May 24th, at The Capital.
Photo Cred: Colin Fowlie
And it was worth the effort. The letter-writing, the planning, and everything in between. Well, at least for me, and also hopefully for Vic, who is a captivating artist with a charming, understated, but compelling stage presence. The strength of the songwriting that was immediately evident on the album is highlighted very well, even with arrangements that are stripped-down from the studio recordings. To be fair, the album production is also understated, but the occasional drum kit was replaced with a stomp pad, and the rest of the sonic space was filled with Vic’s honest vocals and guitar playing. Sneaky good guitar playing.
Moving between tunings and time signatures, Vic fit a couple of influential cover songs into a set of otherwise original material, paying tribute to Timber Timbre (Mountain Top) and the pride of Perth Andover, Matt Andersen (Tell Me). Great as those tunes were, they weren’t my favourites in the set. Those were, in some particular order: Shiny Shotguns, Hold Ground, and what indeed stood up as one of my favourite tracks of 2017 – Don’t Go Lightly.
I don’t have much more to say. It was a fantastic live show and I got to meet a great human from the other side of the country, all because of music found off the beaten path and the connections made as a result. If you see Vic Horvath in your local live music listings, just go check it out. It’s folky-bluesy-rocky (you know what I mean) with a few other sensibilities thrown in there for good measure.
In the meantime, be sure to check out Vic’s music from the comfort of wherever you like to listen to music.
This is AD Springer, your musical tour guide, reaching once more into the great expanse of the electronica sphere and beyond to bring you the sound of The Electric Metropolis. With artists close to my home and across the globe, we can keep reaching into the music that dwells all around us and pull in the dreams and fantasies of artists want to share that space with you. Districts of sound carve out our fair metropolis and bring us the shiniest and comfiest places in all the soundscape anywhere and for everyone. So, catch the tour, listen up, and have a nice drink with me.
Tour Itinerary:
Synth District:
“Made Right Here” by Black Market Hard-Tack
“The night chaser” by Salvation off the album Waves of Synth Volume 2
“Spacetime Thoughtcrime” by Mirrorvoid off the album Neon Tattoo
Chiptune District:
“Gateways and Interstates” by Lute and Key off the album Demo
“Waiting for Something New” by Lazy Nerd 204 off the album Soul Searching
“Rejection” by Norrin Radd off the album Noisechan & Nugget: Adventures in Chiptunes
Singer Square:
“Everybody Wants To Be Famous” by Superorganism off the album Superorganism
“Chantal” by Dylarama off the album Certified Cutie
“Mirror Power” by True Blue off the album Edge Of
VGM District:
“Uproar” by Jeff Ball off the Tiny Barbarian DX: Threat from Beyond Original Soundtrack
“Harmonic Mayhem” by elmobo off the Double Kick Heroes, Vol. 1 (Original Game Soundtrack)
“Dune II” by MASTER BOOT RECORD off the album WAREZ
Brookside Mall‘s Brendan MaGee stops in to CHSR to talk about The Lottery II! Picking up where Shifty Bits Cult (RIP) left off, beginning May 31st you can try your luck at The Capital and potentially perform or win a prize.
Listen in while Brendan explains The Lottery and why it’s worth your while to go. Want to register? Look here.
We return with yet another week of insanity because OF COURSE WE DO. I’ve only missed like four episodes over the past eight years, are you kidding me? ANYWAY, send me requests, or don’t because you like my music, I get it.
We have a lot of solid releases to get to and so many of my beloved bands from the show’s origins have announced new releases coming “soon” – I can’t wait. Do you have a band you love that gets little to no airplay? Tell me these things, people.
There are a lot of wonderful agencies that want to help people going through trauma associated with violence. But how well do they work together?
My guests today are Denise Billings and Pamela Young. They are working on a project at the Muriel McQueen Fergusson Foundation to help multiple service providers related to trauma specifically with people with disabilities find ways to work and talk together, and to help them be aware of each other. We talk about the need they are addressing, some of the factors which complicate matters (such as intersectionality and prejudice) and the upcoming week of presentations for Crime Week.
Sometimes the most interesting perspectives are from within the middle of a thing, rather than from the outside..
My guest today is Eddie Young, whose Living Roots festival is currently underway all over Fredericton. We check in to see how the event is going, and see how the city is responding. (Spoiler: really, really well!)
Sometimes, things have to be broken down to their essential bits in order to really understand them — even if it doesn’t reflect anything recognizable.
My guest today is abstract artist Jennifer Lee Wiebe. Her most recent exhibition, Abstracts 1-12, opens this week on Friday, May 25 at 5pm at the UNB Art Centre. She joins me to talk about her appreciation of abstract art, her hoarding of paint-by-number artwork, and how those things came together to make this exhibition.
Every fortnight, Emma Chevarie of Music Runs Through It shares her love of live music. We talk about the shows she’s caught and the ones right around the corner.
This week, Emma talks about the shows she’s managed to catch recently, as well as her upcoming show at Corked Wine Bar with Christina Martin, and her new music series Up Close & Personal kicking off next week with Meaghan Blanchard.
Each week, our very own Bondo (host of Homemade Jams, Her Turn and Anything Goes) brings her love of music and an album that she’s sure we should be listening to. She’s never wrong!
This week, Bondo wakes us up on this fake Monday with Peach Kelli Pop‘s punkish Hello Kitty Knife from their album Gentle Leader.
We spend so much of our lives getting older — shouldn’t we enjoy it when we make it there?
My guests today are Margaret (Patricia Eaton), Patricia (Winans), Jaclyn (LeBlanc) and Diane (Ryan), members of an art collective called Les B’Old Hags. They have a multi-media exhibition coming to the UNB Art Centre on May 25, and join me to talk about the motivations of age for art, their themes in the exhibition (ranging from emptiness to humour) and how we need to appreciate and enjoy life more and more as we get older.
Each week, our very own Bondo (host of Homemade Jams, Her Turn and Anything Goes) brings her love of music and an album that she’s sure we should be listening to. She’s never wrong!
This week, Bondo points us in the direction of SC Mira, who released a double-EP entitled Keep Crawling / Drug Warm Coma, and we hear the track Noose.
Back in October of 2017, I grabbed a handful of CDs to review and process before being aired here on CHSR, as is custom, and I happened upon an album entitled “
