You Can Can is an echoed affirmation, an album which traces song forms around silence, field recordings, and degraded analog memories. This is folk music transmogrified and mutated, as if recorded and reconstructed in Pierre Schaffer’s GRM studio.

Not your typical Mariposa folk duo, the group is comprised of Toronto avant-music scene stalwarts, vocalist Felicity Williams (Bernice, Bahamas) and bricolage artist and synthesist Andrew Zukerman (Fleshtone Aura, Badge Epoch). The album feels like a somnambulant conversation, fragmented and half-remembered with Williams’ vocals traveling through a landscape of field recordings and Zukerman’s saturated concrète topographies. It is an electro-acoustic assemblage, both analog and digital, comprised of air, electricity, minerals, wood, and water. Although the album nods towards traditional forms of folk and musique concrète (if at this point it can be called a traditional form), it is outwardly and inwardly contemporary; non-linear, citational, opaque, and sui generis. In a way it feels like a sonic index of the narrative experiments found on the infamous Language school-related publisher The Figures, in the work of Lyn Hejinian, Clark Coolidge, and Lydia Davis. In the musical continuum, the album picks up where Linda Perhacs left off in the early 70’s—explored by Gastr Del Sol in the ‘90s—a convergence of rural acoustic idioms and urban avant-electronics. This is country music for the discerning cosmopolitan citizen of the 21st Century.

You Can Can is Felicity Williams & Andrew Zukerman.
Mixing, Photography & Insert Artwork by Andrew Zukerman Stem Mix and Mastering by Sandro Perri Vinyl Master by Brandon Hocura Design by Alan Briand

Instruments: Human Voice, Guitar, Tape Machines, Modular Synthesizers, Field Recordings, Handbells & Piano. Failure Figures features Dan Fortin on Bass and Thom Gill on Guitar & Synthesizers.

BUY VINYL: www.seance-centre.com/shop/you-can-can
BUY DIGITAL: https://youcancan.bandcamp.com/album/you-can-can

You Can Can - Everything In Time (Excerpt)(36SC)

mode keen

https://www.nts.live/shows/guests/episodes/mori-mori-18th-july-2025

NTS Mix 18/07/2025

nimbus1.4

let me scan that riffs

"Carried on a current of submerged texture and swirling whispers,
“we love chains because they shine” feels like dredging for old
memories in a flood and finding that while some things might be lost forever, they can still somehow find a way to stay with you.

Drowned silhouettes of percussion pour in through waterlogged speakers. Indistinct yet nearly recognizable vocal samples circle in diminishing patterns, their sources vaguely familiar and somehow impossible to fully grasp, the mind reaching for a half remembered moment through the distortions of time. And through it all a profound stillness and sense of immediacy resonates, as if watching old photographs drift
downstream and trying to capture the last of their details in your mind."

music and cover by Defled
master by Shy⠀
text by Ghosttropics
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released November 26, 2025


09.defled - ultima Lumvr

yyu - night 4

Won't be on here long
rough new mix of new ideas,
Need a partnering vocalist with a higher vocal range

Pre winter spirit [wip]

This EP is a short ambient project where I tried to recreate the sound of my summer trip to Málaga and Alicante, Spain (2025). I aimed for a more organic feel by replacing saw waves with guitar and bass.

TRIPLE TAN LINE

original by @palpatin66
             @onexmpt

mne ne zastavit [edit]

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