Betty (New Demo)

In the summer of 2012, I had just finished a long Canadian tour with Three Chords and the Truth. I decided to take a sublet in Toronto at my Friend Stef’s house for the month of August in order to write and record a group of my own songs that had been piling up for some time. I ended up tracking 33 songs (mostly in kitchen, complete with fridge sounds) with the intent of finishing them up over the winter. 
In January of 2013 I was moving west again, and while passing through Saskatoon, I convinced my friend Ryan to lend his talents to record overdubs on a dozen or so of these old tracks. I had planned on finsihing things up and releasing a 15 song album called “Magnetic West”(as in everytime I tried ot move east, the west pulled me back). I had a tracklist together as well as album art and a orugh idea of what i needed to finish the project. After a few months of porcrastination, I decied to start from scratch again and started re-tracking, and planing for future projects. 
In November of 2017, I found myself going though a computer of old recordings and coming across my half done Magnetic West tracks. I decided to go through eveything I had, and come up with the 10 songs That I liked the best. I added a few overdubs, edited a few others, re-mixed, add mastered these 10 songs over the course of month and dediced to re-name the album “Magnetic Anything”. The west is not the only thing that pulls me. I move towards people, places, ideas, and anything else that looks like it could be a light on the horizon. Im glad the light of these songs from 5 years ago pulled me back to finish them. Now that they’re here, they are here. I am free to be pulled towards new horizons again. 
Please enjoy.

Magnetic Anything

Ten Tumors

Don't We Live The Life?

Widow's Watch

The Man I Am

Wherever You End Up

Silhouettes

Bird Song

Terrible Wind

Demo of a new song for the upcoming album. 

Humble Mountains - Demo

Dumbest Guy

A self proclaimed 'tall, blonde, sing-song man', Jon Ostrander has been writing, performing, and even threatening to record and release music for well over a decade. 
In a past life, he was the lead singer/songwriter in the the Dawson City folk trio "Three Chords and the Truth", as well the fondly remembered "Dredge Pond Swans", and in the self proclaimed Yukon super group "Community Chest"
Jon has been a long time contributor and solo performer at the Dawson City Music Festival over the years, sharing the stage and hosting workshops with many of Canada's greatest artists.
His most recent release is a collection of recordings from 2012/13 which have been re-mixed, mastered, and released in 2018 under the title "Magnetic Anything"

Jon Ostrander

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