kc Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 (edited) Join us for two nights of ELLIOTT BROOD in Hamilton this weekend.. http://www.elliottbrood.ca/ Friday, March, 15th ELLIOTT BROOD with guests: THE HIGHEST ORDER(Feat. mmbrs of One Hundred Dollars) http://www.highest-order.com/ and Saturday, March 16th ELLIOTT BROOD with guests: THE DINNER BELLES http://dinnerbelles.bandcamp.com/ At This Ain't Hollywood, 345 James St. North Advance tickets $15 per night. $18 at the door. Available at This Ain't Hollywood, The Brain, Dr Disc or online at www.thisainthollywood.ca http://www.elliottbrood.ca/ https://www.facebook.com/ElliottBROOD BIO: Elliott BROOD have always been time travellers. The Toronto trio writes songs steeped in history that feel very present. They've done their share of actual travelling, too, these musical troubadours, acoustic guitars and banjos slung over their sharp suits as they barnstormed across Canada and beyond. For the new album Days Into Years it was century-old stories encountered an ocean away that brought them closest to home. On the band's first European tour back in 2007 they found themselves driving through the backroads of France. Vocalist Mark Sasso, guitarist Casey Laforet and drummer Stephen Pitkin, all enthusiasts of military history, raised on the harrowing stories of Canadians in World War 1, were simply looking to avoid the toll highways. Then they came upon a sign for a WW1 military cemetery. "We'd been driving through Belgium and France, always passing by these historical war places and we decided to pull over and take this one in," recalls Mark. "We saw all these Canadian names, and it really resonated with us, these young guys that had gone off to war. I knew all about it from reading books, but when you actually visit a place where the battles were, it hits you a lot harder. We said, 'We need to write a record about it.'" Days Into Years is Elliott BROOD's third full-length recording, the follow-up to 2008's Polaris Prize short-listed Mountain Meadows. Like its predecessors, including the 2004 debut EP Tin Type and 2006's Juno-nominated Ambassador, it mines real history to connect songs that are deeply personal in a cinematic, narrative way. Unfolding like a series of movie scenes, it looks to the future by starting with the past. Opening track "Lindsay" invites you into process of revisiting one's life while cleaning out an old family home. "If I Get Old" daydreams of making it through difficult times, be they in the trenches or a sickbed, and finding a nice place in the country to live out one's final moments. Days Into Years presents these reflections as a celebration of life, particularly on the perfect summer single "Northern Air", a love letter both to the rural Ontario landscape and the memory of a departed friend whose spirit now resides there. Recorded with co-producer John Critchley at Green Door Studios in Toronto and Avening Town Hall (a former army barracks) in rural Ontario, the album showcases a more amped up Elliott BROOD that will put the knell to the "death country" tag that described their early work. Now, the roof-raising rhythm stomp and mandolin collides with luscious harmonies, piano and, for the first time, electric guitar in a mix Casey admits is "loud, heavy and rock 'n' roll." Since forming in 2002, Elliot BROOD has become a Canadian music institution. (The 2004 campus radio hit "Oh, Alberta!" remains a national treasure.) But after touring with acts like Wilco, Blue Rodeo, Corb Lund and the Sadies, playing festivals across North America, Europe and Australia and scoring the 2010 film Grown-Up Movie Star (for which they earned a Gemini nomination for Best Original Song), the band now also has a global presence. With Days Into Years they will bring their music, and of one of the greatest Canadian stories, to the world. Elliott BROOD are Casey Laforet (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, bass pedals, bass guitar, mandolin, banjo, lap steel,vocals) Mark Sasso (banjo, guitar, harmonica, vocals) and Stephen Pitkin (percussion, drums, piano, vocals). THE HIGHEST ORDER: "Kyle Porter, Paul Mortimer and I were playing together in a band called One Hundred Dollars, touring the west coast, and our drummer had to sit out a leg. We took Simone TB on the road with us, and when we got back we decided we had a good thing going, and wanted to keep playing with her. We started playing country covers in the basement of Paul's Boutique, just throwing out jams at each other - some Waylon, some International Submarine Band, New Riders of the Purple Sage and Gene Clark. Porter's always had a keen ear for covers, and preferred that style of country music to anything else we ever played, so he was throwing out songs with a vision. Since both Mortimer and myself had written together in One Hundred Dollars, we had some country rock jams that we wanted to hear played in the style of The Highest Order - some more classic sounding songs that were best served by the heaviness that TB can lend on drums. She's been playing since she was six, in punk bands and art bands, and she just pounds out fills like life's an empty cavern. Of course, paired with the Porter's reliable bass playing, she gains the restraint she needs for the songs in 3, and the shuffles. As a guitar player, Morty'd been developing this style of playing over the last few years with One Hundred Dollars where he was both playing his lead lines, chicken picking, busting out harmonics and bends, and covering steel parts that were on the record, so his versatility as a player had increased ten fold and I just wanted to hear him let loose all over these new songs. Morty got his tax return and we had some time, so we thought we'd bang out a live covers record with Jeff McMurrich who made a lot of great records with the Cons- Morty'd worked with him on the Deloro record and he gets good psych sounds. Real great, deep rhythm section sounds. We got in and recorded a bunch of covers and the odd original, and McMurrich said he wanted to put out the record on Idee Fixe, his label, but we should write a few more originals. So we did, and that'll be out in February 2013. Our introduction to the world of the record is Rainbow of Blues, a 7 inch record. That'll be out in November 2012. " -Simone Schmidt THE DINNER BELLES: What began as a barroom brawl, blossomed into a family of fast friends forged over a mutual love of folk, country and roots music. The Dinner Belles call Southern Ontario home, and are all about good vibes and good times. Composed of singers and songwriters, the band mainly plays their own songs, but also has a large repertoire of country classics. Edited March 11, 2013 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewRider Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 Saw Brood at Hillside Inside a few weeks ago and they were incredible. Love the new album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phishtaper Posted March 11, 2013 Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 Saw Brood at Hillside Inside a few weeks ago and they were incredible. Love the new album. ditto. really impressive set that night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc Posted March 11, 2013 Author Report Share Posted March 11, 2013 They are pretty dope live indeed. Also check out The Highest Order, which has members of One Hundred Dollars in the line-up. You can stream their upcoming album here at Exclaim! http://exclaim.ca/MusicVideo/ClickHear/highest_order-if_its_real_album_stream Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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