Search For Quiet Cities was written and recorded by Rick Bortolotti (keys, saxophones, sampler) and Alan Shoesmith (guitar, sampler) sometime around 1988. This is a February, 2014 remaster and remix by Alan Shoesmith. 

Search For Quiet Cities

Simple Life

Ray Marchica: Drums & Percussion
Jeffrey Lee Campbell: Guitars
Rob Preuss: Synths, Piano

it started life as a drum track...

Long Distance

From the Album "Good Things" (c) Half Past Four 2013

Good Things

12/04/2013

Rise

13/04/2013

Spin The Girl

This Soundcloud page is dedicated to the original songs written and performed by songwriter Kyree Vibrant and her various bands before she became the lead singer of Half Past Four. These are her albums:
Angry Shoppers - Panty Pudding 1992
Jack and Jill (movie soundtrack with Norman Orenstein) 1998
The Vibrant Lounge - Neopolitan 1999
Kyree Vibrant - Apricot Lip 2000
Dandelion - Bird Shoulders 2003
Dandelion - Parallel Universe (soundtrack) 2003
The Mad (Movie Soundtrack/Score) 2006

and with Half Past Four
Rabbit In the Vestibule 2008
Good Things 2013
Land of the Blind 2016

Bio:
Born and raised in Burlington, Ontario, Kyree is as much a visual artist as she is a musical artist. She studied Film, Television and Media Arts at Sheraton College and has directed more than ten music videos for her own band and others, a short film and a feature. She took the first steps of her musical path with the piano and vocals. She joined legendary Toronto Progressive Rock band Half Past Four in 2005.

“I was taking singing and piano lessons when I was 9 or 10,” she recalls. “I come from a musical family – my mom’s a singer, my dad played piano and I've been writing original compositions since I was a child."

Upon moving to Toronto, her entry into the music scene was serendipitous.

“I was doing a gig for the Chinese New Year at the Phoenix Concert Theatre. And that’s where I met members of the Chronic Harmonic, a band fronted by local artist and filmmaker Chris Minzz, who had just decided to leave the band. So they were looking for a new singer and they brought me on and we became the Angry Shoppers. It was like progressive cartoon pop.”

Also a student of classical opera, it was initially jazz and lounge music to which Kyree gravitated, genres that exquisitely suited her wide vocal range.

“John Alcorn used to invite me to sing jazz songs when he’d play with Sandra Caldwell in venues all around Toronto and I was an original singer and collaborator with Jaymz Bee's Royal Jelly Orchestra.”

Before joining Half Past Four in 2005, Kyree wrote and produced four original solo albums of different musical genres. She has written music and scores for three award-winning/nominated films, Jack and Jill (2000), Love Is Work (2004) and, with Half Past Four, The Mad (2006).

“I like to express myself with prog-rock, more than any other genre,” she declares. “I love the story quality. I love the places that it goes. It’s an adventure. It’s got twists and turns. It’s constantly ever-changing and that keeps me interested.”

Simple Life

Dandelion/Vibrant Lounge/Angry Shoppers

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