In Your Corner (For Scott Hutchison)

Just Know It

Just Know It (Felix Cartal's Sunset Remix)

Into Sunsets

Just Know It (Felix Cartal's Sunset Mix)

Hilda: Season 1 (Original Series Soundtrack)

A New Life

4000 Years

Hilda End Credits (Extended Version)

Discovering the Elf Village

The Big City

Walking with Jorgen

Hilda End Credits (Episodic Version)

The Plight of the Mountain Giants

Welcome to Trolberg

Hilda Carries On

Melody

Cut The Brakes

Diminishing Returns

Natural Light

My Dreams Are Getting Weirder

Hit The Wall

No Such Things As Wasted Love

Soapbox

Proximity

For Him

It Might Be Raining

Sound The Alarm

Contained Free (Interlude)

A Christmas Song

Produced by Colin Stewart (Black Mountain, Cave Singers) at The Hive in Vancouver, Oh Fortune carries collaborations from many esteemed improvisational and experimental musicians including Eyvind Kang (Beck, Bill Frisell, Marc Ribot, John Zorn), Jesse Zubot (Nels Cline, Mats Gustafsson), Gord Grdina (Gary Peacock, Paul Motian), Kenton Loewen (Mats Gustafsson, Jerry Granelli), JP Carter (Fond Of Tigers, Inhabitants) and Peggy Lee (Wayne Horvitz, Veda Hille).

Currents of mortality, isolation, and desperation run through the album, and yet its title comes from a reflection of a ticker-tape parade celebrating the return of Gertrude Ederle to the United States in 1926. For a heartbeat, she was the country’s biggest celebrity. She had just become the first woman to swim the English Channel, and simultaneously the new world-record holder (previously held by a man).

There exists in Oh Fortune this chaos of juxtaposition. It could be taken as a sad or dark album, yet musically it kicks with more ferocity and tenacity than people may expect from Mangan. It debates melancholy while it anticipates incredible moments of glory and victory. It’s not sad, it’s simply honest. 

07 Oh Fortune

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Titled in reference to a Kurt Vonnegut poem, Nice, Nice, Very Nice was recorded in Toronto in fall 2008 under the creative eye of producer John Critchley (Elliott Brood, 13 Engines). Dropping in to add their talents were such folks Justin Rutledge, Veda Hille, Mark Berube and members of Elliott Brood, Said The Whale, Hidden Cameras, Major Maker and Small Sins.

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