A taste of Vancouver, BC (Vancouver-ish, and a touch more from BC).

A selection of some favourite, Vancouver(ish) finds from the past 2 and a bit years. 

The Vancouver Connection

From the Finders Keepers website:

"Commonly, ignorantly but understandably lumped in with its wealthy not-too-distant cousin, Bollywood, Lollywood was inspired by, but often overshadowed by its posh and well-traveled relative. Following the simplistic Bombay + Hollywood = Bollywood name game (that would in later years spawn Nollywood in Nigeria), Lollywood’s Lahore based film industry was a profitable and vibrant one that found great success in the modest boundaries of its own country but was seldom savoured outside Pakistan. However, the hugely important musical business spawned a bi-product that was viewed as a potential earner for international entertainment industry, EMI, which allowed talented musicians to create ambitious music with world class mediums at there disposal, which throughout the 60s and 70s ranged from fuzz-guitars, space-echo machines and American and European synthesizers, but, due to the composers indigenous roots, rarely a drum-kit. Here you’ll find fuzzy, scuzzy, twang-happy, spaced-out and funked up urdu-grooves complete with harmonium melodies and driven by some of the most random factor, freakish, finger-numbing, percussion that the South East Asian mainstream has ever had to offer. Above all, Lollywood soundtracks sound RAW! Re-imagine some of the most action packed Bollywood productions (which Lollywooders actively did) then fire the make-up department, take away the special effects budget and then improvise. The lack of gloss on a dusty Pakistani mini-LP makes for truly experimental Eastern Pop music.

So, it’s time to meet the culprits. The names on the back of the records that’ll keep you gambling on Ghazals and taking punts on Pakistani pulp-balladry. As an introduction, in place of R.D. Burman and Asha Bhole, we have Mr. M. Ashraf and his long-term female collaborator, Nahid Akhtar. This duo would provide Pakistan with it’s Gainsbourg / Birkin or it’s Morricone / Dell’Orso for over 20 years, recording squillions of cut-and-paste sonic collages and moog-fuelled desperate love / hate / chase / chill / kill / songs mixing onomatopoeic Urdu lyrics with unexpected bursts of user friendly English language (which often elongates the running time passed the 5 minute mark) and throwing in the odd motif from a Barry White or Donna Summer hit. We also have legends like Noor Jehan, a national treasure and household name in Pakistan whose discography of film songs have deprived the vaults of EMI Pakistan of floor space for half a century."

Karye Pyar – Tafo feat Nahid Akhtar

No Constraint

Outside Problems

Tik Tok

Are you in the mood for trouble tonight? Lean into your bad side with sonic thrills and electro indie daggers of allure!!

Dark Moon

Are You Ok?

Church Garden

Sun In Eyes

Youth Lagoon plays "Highway Patrol Stun Gun" from 2015's Savage Hills Ballroom live in the studio for NPR's World Cafe.

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"Highway Patrol Stun Gun" by Youth Lagoon recorded live for World Cafe

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Cast in Gold

From the forthcoming LP "Jay II" to be released June 17, 2016 on Mint Records.

Jay Arner - Like A Dracula

Supermoon - Bottleships

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look out I feel the waves
rough nights but the calmest days
stuck here til the swell it fades
burnt out, joint burn till its cleared away 
in thought, ya Im lost again
round and round no it never ends
the hard road
is when the freeway ends 

knowing that your heart holds
strings that I can’t see
flying up so high though
I feel them guiding me
believe it cause my heart knows
when its beating up my spine
find yourself
and lose my mind

you and me we let it be
the things I want
the things you need
hard pressed left it on the outside 
now we hide and
words I know been there before
to stay or leave how is one to know love
feel it in my bones
I’m on my own

set out, left to find my way
right road, eatin forks all day 
black white all i see is grey 
white light, black road leads you to the grave hey
some things we can never know 
splitting hairs means there’s 
two ways to go babe
and The root is hard to know

how is it these things roll
round and round my mind
push it up the hill dear
rolls down the other side
feeling like I’m stuck though
get out of my head
knowing that all lights burn  
bright until their dead

you and me we let it be
the things I want
the things you need
hard pressed left it on the outside
now we hide and
words I know been there before
to stay or leave, how is one to know love
feel it in my bones
I’m on my own

you and me we let it be
the things I want the things you need
hard pressed left me it on the outside
now I hide
words I know been there before
to stay or leave, it keeps me wanting more love
how is one to know
I’m on my own


On my own

Our second number comes at you straight from his Macintosh to the dance floor. Thom Kolb's Kinship moniker will soon have many a bodies in motion, out for a jive at the Saturday jig. 

Kinship - Skinhead

Metz & Swami John Reis 7" April 16
When Metz found themselves on tour in San Diego with a couple of hours to spare, Swami John Reis immediately booked some studio time with the hopes of capturing the glorious noise of their collaboration. The four of them came up with 2 songs and now they are friends for life. The sound is reminiscent of an army of sea gulls inside a burning Benihana Of Tokyo. 

Caught Up - Metz & Swami John Reis 7"

SO LOW by Drauve

Mixed by Stephen Grzenda
Mastered by Nate Campisi

SO LOW

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