So everyday I roam, but can never seem to hitch a ride

Home is the first single from my forthcoming LP "Optimist Park", which will be released later in 2023. 

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See you around, I guess? 
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Drums performed by Gudino Miranda.
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If only I had known
I'd be running through the rocks
To get a little closer
I'd be sitting on the dock
Well I want you to be home
Where we can kick it we can toss

It hits a little different now
Since you've opened up your eyes
Yeah I was slow, I should've known
That's how it goes it's dark but I
Want it to be known
I want you to be my light

Yeah I want it to be known
That I want you to be home but
Yeah I was slow, I should've known
That's how it goes
Sometimes in life you can't
Get what you like

Found the fools gold
Yeah I saw it spark
I needed light, I was in the dark
No amount of money
Would keep my eyes from it
Then I grew old
Yeah I grew apart
From my perfect sight
Saw black and white
I was a shark with no love
Or no colour in my life
No colour in my life

So every day I roam
But can never seem to hitch a ride
Guess I'm alone, all on my own
So it's whatever if I just
Want to be home
Just want you to be beside

Yeah I want it to be known
That I want you to be home but
Yeah I was slow, I should've known
That's how it goes
Sometimes in life you can't
Get what you like, no
Sometimes in life you can't
Get what you like, no

Home

"Let's hope that our dreams turn out alright"

My incredibly talented wife is releasing a mystery-horror fiction novel called “Evergreen Peaks” this year and it’s beautiful and terrifying and thought provoking and she asked me to help her produce an original soundtrack for the book. “Wine Witch” is the first single from the EP- the chapter where times are good, drinks are flowing, and the party’s on... Until Martha goes missing. We made it into a song that you can dance or surf or eat pizza to.

Learn more about the novel:
https://mailchi.mp/f568cf78f394/everg...

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Wine Witch

Sylvia Lily & Calm Canopy - Wine Witch

"Hydrangea" confronts the endeavors that we wish we could have done earlier on in life, and urges the listener to go do that very thing today anyway. We all fall into the trap of the "normal life", which we later find out is largely unfulfilling- but that's okay- here comes another day.

With my head in the sky, they said,

'Your well will run dry, at best

If you head out West

See, you're now twenty five

There's no better time to invest

In a normal life'

At twenty five, I dreamed of moving across the country to live on the West coast with my partner- but having to quit my seemingly "important" soul sucking day job as a consequence was a huge deterrent. These were hypothetical conversations that ran through my head when I thought about telling my loved ones. I spent that year in stagnation, afraid. When I was twenty six, as the year's Spring season arrived, I quit my job and moved to the West Coast with my wife and two cats. Everything I was afraid of losing and all of the related consequences were real and exist to this day (*gasp* a gap on your resume!)- and entirely worth it. I learned not to fear them because in the end, the scarcity and instability it caused forced me to grow in a direction that I actually cared to grow in (which happened to be my music career that would have otherwise never seen the light of day).

"You'll find there's a time to play it safe and there's a time to run away".

-MP

Hydrangea

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By the Lake

By the Lake (Custom Love Song)

Artwork by studioflatsb13
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The Paste

Reverie

Hydrangea (OP)

Optimist Park Interlude

Home (OP)

Growing Up

No Dice

Recollection

Flow

Calm Canopy & Sylvia Lily - Flow

Calm Canopy & Sylvia Lily - One Day

This song tells the story of [my wife] Sylvia Lily discovering her Canadian Indigenous roots and the experience that came along with simultaneously being an outsider and a part of this new family.

Yukon Lost

Won’t be long 'til that distance serves me no more

See you around, I guess?:
https://calmcanopy.fanlink.to/alwaysaround
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https://www.facebook.com/calmcanopy/
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https://open.spotify.com/artist/447h1Ae7Mshk1gSW4rcjK3

Big thanks for the help:
Bruno Werner: Drums
https://www.instagram.com/brunowernermusic/

Calm Canopy is the solo project of Mike Papaloni, a multi instrumentalist and bedroom producer from Mississauga, Canada. Influenced by a wide ranging library of acts such as Broken Social Scene, Tame Impala, Khruangbin, Mac Demarco and Takuya Kuroda, Calm Canopy's sound is often defined by the emphasis on doubling and layering many conventional and unusual instruments (from guitars to ceramic mugs to plucked violins to what-have-yous-that-you'd-find-in-a-bedroom) to create an indie-rock/pop-driven wall of sound.
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"I can’t help myself
Trace it back to a time when I was unwell
With your pretty vibe, I’m swell
When you’re always around

Lies, I’m telling lies to my friends
When I’m hiding in my room alone with you again
I try my best to see them
But you’re always around

Hollow skull, I’ll dance around my own fears
They know
That I won’t go too far they’ll drive my car
I let them steer
Won’t be long til that distance serves me no more
Won’t be long til I tell you how I feel

Fine dotted line, I’ll sign
My life away with you just to pass the time
I need stability in my life
And you’re always around"

Always Around

Fiction

Long Way

Just a music producer artist guy who loves steamed vegetables and is mostly blind in one eye. Here's my story.

In the 2020 clusterduck-shmitstorm, I quit my corporate job and moved from the Toronto area to Vancouver Island with my wife and two cats where I'd write and record the first Calm Canopy singles (, , , ) in a makeshift bedroom studio, which were all released over the span of a few months.

2021: the new songs made their way into new ears via various Spotify editorial playlists such as Indie All Stars, Fresh Finds, Fresh Finds: Rock, Fresh Finds: Indie, Fresh Finds: Pop, RADAR Canada, New Music Friday Canada, undercurrents, and Ready to Rock. I was floored. I felt like dancing; I did. I enjoyed a square of the darkest chocolate I could find. Then I got back to work.

Today, I continue to produce my indie rock/pop anthems of inner discovery from my home studio in a small town located West of Toronto. 🇨🇦 Thank you for lending me your ears.

- Mike

"Calm Canopy is one of those artists you should appreciate [...] it's a one-man-band who knows how to pen a song, play, record, and do everything else" - It's All Indie

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