Tawhida Tanya Evanson is a poet, author, producer and Ashik. With a twenty-five-year practice in spoken word, she performs internationally and has released four studio albums and six videopoems. Her poetry collections include Bothism and Nouveau Griot, and her debut novel Book of Wings won the 2022 CAM/Blue Metropolis New Contribution Literary Prize. As Mother Tongue Media, Evanson produces interarts events including the upcoming Afrofuturist concert film CYANO SUN SUITE premiering in 2023. She moonlights as a whirling dervish.

A prolific songwriter, Lily Frost currently has 12 albums under her belt, under 5 different labels -- Warner, Nettwerk, Aporia, Boxton and Marquis.  Lily Frost comes from the Montreal underground mod scene.  She moved to Vancouver in 1992 after singing in Cairo for 6 months on a ship on the Nile, and went from busking rockabilly to spearheading the Cocktail nation with her band The Colorifics who led the Blue Lizard Lounge scene throughout the 90's.

Lily then signed to Nettwerk as a solo artist before moving to Toronto where she was born.  She has been working hard with Aporia and Marquis for the past decade.

Lily is a dramatic, stylish performer who draws from the aesthetic of Audrey Hepburn in Breakfast at Tiffany’s, the soundtracks of Quentin Tarantino, and the hot and bothered emotional drama that goes on between us fascinating humans.  The poetry of Rimbaud, the erotica of Anaïs Nin, and torch singers like Julie London and Juliette Greco all serve as strong influences.

Frost has toured from Paris to Los Angeles and has shared stages with the likes of Pink Martini, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Coldplay and many more. Her awards include the Video Silver Sun through Bravo, a Gemini nomination for her theme song co-write for the hit TV series “Being Erica”, and Vancouver Female Vocalist of the Year in 2003.

Lily's songs have been frequently placed in TV shows and movies such as Grey’s Anatomy, Crazy Beautiful, Chevy Cobalt, Charmed, Felicity, and many more.

Her efforts are now focused on curating a show that combines swing, rockabilly, burlesque, dance and fashion in an event called Big City Social.  Ideally, this show will hit the road to her most responsive markets of Mexico City, Los Angeles and Toronto.

"Lily Frost’s Rebound EP is the sexy, sassy story of a woman confidently exploring her romantic alternatives, told with bold horns, twangy guitars, and smoky vocals, in a moody, cinematic atmosphere. Utterly compelling."
~ Howard Druckman, Editor in Chief, SOCAN

Poet, sound artist, performance artist, radio producer/host, media producer, Mohawk

One of the world's foremost dub poets and Professor of Creative Writing at Ontario College of Art and Design University

Welcome to the ARCHIVE OF INDIAN MUSIC (AIM) – the repository of gramophone recordings of India!
AIM seeks to digitize and preserve for posterity the valuable slices of India’s cultural history and musical heritage. The Archive is a custodian of these treasures and makes these available for all through its different dissemination arms. 
Come, join us in this fascinating exploration of an era that has gone by, listen to some of the best voices and the most divine instruments of this country cutting across various genres- Hindustani classical, Carnatic classical, Theatre, Early cinema, Folk and the rest! 


Sad songs / Singer-songwriter / Portland, Oregon

Writer and singer. Webworker. Digitalist. From Goderich, Ontario, Canada via Kingston, Jamaica, landed in the Brecon Beacons National Park, Black Mountains, Wales.
Backing tracks for the Landscape demos courtesy of Wikiloops, http://wikiloops.com

Not a revivalist, but a musical revisionist, Julian Taylor masterfully re-combines and updates the vintage sounds that inspired him, to create bold, innovative songs.  

Taylor, of both West Indian and Native Canadian decent, is a charismatic frontman, prolific songwriter, and endearing individual – the kind who immediately connects and makes you feel at ease. That character of warmth and generosity permeates everything Taylor does. A calm, somewhat self-effacing person offstage, Taylor morphs into an intense, incendiary and almost shamanistic presence onstage. Toronto poet Robert Priest describes him as “the kind of artist forever in the zone, the voice limitless, the songs full of feeling and memorable hooks.”

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