Hotel rooms can do strange things to you.

When creativity meets talent, drive, and encouragement from a valued mentor, the results can be spectacularly successful and incredibly fulfilling.

Ottawa-based ethereal alternative/electro-pop duo Paragon Cause are such a case, as their new full-length album, What We Started, is a powerfully bold statement by a band that is brimming with confidence and artistic zeal.

Coming less than a year after the release of their EP Lies Between Us, it sees the dynamic musical duo of Michelle Opthof and Jay Bonaparte reunite with producer/songwriter Sune Rose Wagner, a Danish pop music legend, best known for his band The Raveonettes. Together, over an intensive and intensely collaborative session in the fall of 2019, they composed, arranged and produced an collection of 10 exceptional new songs, that highlight the magical way Paragon Cause have evolved as artists, developing a style and sound that is imbued with emotional darkness, light and plenty of shades of grey.

Wagner had been a long-time idol of both Opthof and Bonaparte, but this time around, they were less star-struck and approached the sessions that would lead to What We Started with a heightened level of confidence and focus in their own abilities, seeing Wagner now as more of a valued senior collaborator.

New album: https://sundarsubramanian.bandcamp.com/album/opening

Composer, guitarist, theorist, educator, originally from Ottawa. Here, you will find a mix of acoustic and electronic compositions as well as demonstration recordings of more standard classical and jazz repertoire on guitar.

Compositeur/guitariste/théoricien/enseignant canadien, originaire d'Ottawa. Voici des compositions acoustiques et électroacoustiques ainsi que des interpretations des morceaux du répertoire standard classique et jazz.

Nouvel album: https://sundarsubramanian.bandcamp.com/album/opening

Cooking up sounds made of 1s and 0s. Occasional intrusion of "real" "instruments" and found sounds. The only kinds of drops you'll hear is me throwing something off my balcony. Music to accompany your most mundane activities. I sometimes fantasize about having a pseudonym, but I come up with these bad band names instead.

Constellation425 is my solo project. 
I also play keys in the band Forgotten In The Woods Again.
I write for Echoes & Dust.
I run the Ottawa Experimental Music page on Facebook.
I host the radio show Hexon Bogon at CKCU 93.1 FM (Alternate Sunday mornings from 2 a.m. to 7 a.m.)

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