An unreleased recording of Some Other Time featuring Mary Margaret O'Hara. Seems apropos right now.
Back on the tune a day bike soon :)
xox ub

Some Other Time

This is the first single from Communism's debut album, Get Down Get Together, released September 2016 on Zunior.com distributed by Outside Music on vinyl, cd, digital, and chocolate. Artwork by Jason Logan of The Toronto Ink Company, each album and CD jacket is hand painted with homemade inks.
Utopian Wake-Up Rock
High Ideals and High Kicks

Get Down Get Together

Forgiveness

Communism's first release, a bonus track from our album Get Down Get Together, released September 2016
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Heartfarmer

Kelly Levasseur passed away at his home in Hamilton on May 5, 2016 at the age of 41 years after a painful and protracted battle with undiagnosed mental illness. Born on August 8, 1974 to Leon (deceased) and Eileen Levasseur in Winnipeg MB. His family moved to North Bay ON in 1981, where Kelly attended SJSH, and graduated from Widdifield SS. He was deeply involved in theatre and music throughout his youth, winning acting awards and playing in bands, all the while developing his skills as a talented chef. From a young age he had a huge affinity for cats, chess and the great outdoors. He attended Concordia University before moving to Vancouver, before returning home to North Bay to care for his elderly father. He was a fiercely intelligent and keenly sensitive soul who will always be remembered for his stoic courage, loyal friendship, astute observations and wry wit. Kelly will be deeply mourned, as he was truly cherished, by his surviving mother Eileen, his only sister Treasa (Geoff), his niece Emma, his trusted companion Marmaduke, and his extended family, as well as the many souls he touched along the path of his life. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Kelly's name to the Canadian Mental Health Association. A memorial service will take place at Liuna Gardens in Stoney Creek ON, on Saturday May 14 at 2pm. Please feel free to post photos of Kelly here and we will share them at the service.

"Passenger" recorded August 2005 in London, Ontario.

Written by Kelly Levasseur.  Performed by Kelly Levasseur, Tim Preston, Steven Poulin and James Tanney.

Passenger - Kelly Levasseur

Noura Mint Seymali: Arbina
Release Date: September 16th, 2016
Order now: https://glitterbeat.lnk.to/Arbina

The release of Noura’s debut album “Tzenni”(2014) launched her onto year-end top ten lists and the stages of renowned international festivals. Vice/Noisey hailed ”Tzenni” as "arguably the best psych / blues album of the year” and NPR noted: “the arrival of Mauritanian vocalist Noura Mint Seymali in front of Western audiences feels like the start of a new era.” In 2015, Noura was named at the African Union's first-ever AFRIMA awards as "Best Female Artist from North Africa” and in June of this year, she joined Damon Albarn (Blur, Gorillaz) and The Orchestra of Syrian Musicians for a high-profile European tour presented by Africa Express.                                             

Noura Mint Seymali now returns with a blistering second album.

Arbina is Noura Mint Seymali’s second international release. Delving deeper into the wellspring of Moorish roots, as is after all the tried and true way of the griot, the album strengthens her core sound, applying a cohesive aesthetic approach to the reinterpretation of Moorish tradition in contemporary context. The band is heard here in full relief; soaring vocals and guitar at the forefront, the mesmerizing sparkle of the ardine, elemental bass lines and propulsive rhythms swirling together to conjure a 360 degree vibe. Arbina refines a sound that the band has gradually intensified over years of touring, aiming to posit a new genre from Mauritania, distinct unto itself; music of the “Azawan.”

Supported by guitarist, husband and fellow griot, Jeiche Ould Chighaly, Seymali’s tempestuous voice is answered with electrified counterpoint, his quarter-tone rich guitar phraseology flashing out lightning bolt ideas.  Heir to the same music culture as Noura, Jeiche intimates the tidinit’s (Moorish lute) leading role under the wedding khaima with the gusto of a rock guitar hero. Bassist Ousmane Touré, who has innovated a singular style of Moorish low-end groove over the course of many years, can be heard on this album with greater force and vigor than ever before. Drummer/producer Matthew Tinari drives the ensemble forward with the agility and precision need to make the beats cut.
 
Lyrically, the Moorish griot tradition is complex and associative. Poetry is held in a continuum between author and audience in which a singer may draw on disparate sources, selecting individual lines here or there for musicality to form a lyrical patchwork expressing larger ideas via association. A griot may relate her own thoughts and poetry, sing poetry written for and about her by a third party, and transmit lines from one party addressing another in the course of a single song. With this ever-fluid narrative voice, stories are told.

Arbina is a musical act of devotion, calling upon the creator to channel grace through us and uplift our actions.

Arbina

Noura Mint Seymali - Arbina

NOMA is:
Guitars: John Gzowski • Rainer Wiens • Nilan Perera 
Drums: Great Bob Scott • Pierre Tanguay • Peter Valsamis 
Bass: Linus Yaw 
Keyboards: James Gray 
Trombone & Composer: Tom Walsh

- from the 1992 album "Climbing the Waltz" 
  Contextural Music (CM 0101)

© tom walsh (socan) 1992

NOMAtom walshdark jazzno wave

Climbing the Waltz

Hocketonk

CBC Interview on THE CURRENT with Anna Maria Tremonti May 10 2012. It is a little story that happened in the south of France in the early 1970's.

Erella Ganon interviewed about her lunch with Picasso

This was written and produced by Andrew Johnston in 1999. 
Kindergarten-aged Celeste speaks as do some of my dearest friends and my (recently passed) mom too. 

 It is a one hour documentary about my very first brain surgery and the people that helped look after me. It all makes me feel so lucky. Still now, it is remarkable.
Hearing these voices is such a wonderful experience for me. Hope they bring you something wonderful too. Enjoy.

CBC radio IDEAS Erella Ganon Documentary -Brain Surgery For My Soul

One of One Live @ The Rivoli, Toronto -Summer 1986. With Charlie Salmon- Vox & guitar, Elaine Stef- Guitar, Paul Tribe- Bass, Rob McCartney- Drums & vox and Steve Shortell -Woodwinds, Vox & Percussion.  

CBC radio IDEAS Erella Ganon Documentary -Brain Surgery For My Soul

Erella Beaubella

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