Kid Koala - Floor Kids - Five Spot Stomp

Puff LP: In the air without a shape

Bernice - He's The Moon

Puff LP

Bernice - Passenger Plane

Bernice - Glue

La Force 
"You Amaze Me"

a Force is Ariel Engle, vocalist and newest member of Broken Social Scene, whose acclaimed 2017 album Hug of Thunder is marked by her enchanting lead vocals on "Stay Happy" and "Gonna Get Better." The music of La Force is nocturnal pop, layering seductive melodies over restrained electronics, lead beautifully by Engle's undeniable voice. Shaped with Warren Spicer of Plants & Animals, and featuring members of Suuns, Patrick Watson, and Broken Social Scene, first single "You Amaze Me" – a love song to husband and bandmate Andrew Whiteman –defines the tender but powerful essence of La Force. Stepping up to the role first helmed by the immeasurable talents Leslie Feist, Emily Haines (of Metric), and Amy Millan (of Stars), Engle brings La Force's singularity to the familial energy of Broken Social Scene.

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La Force - You Amaze Me

La Force - TBT

Interview with Lesley Rankine / Music from Ruby (and Pigface)

Songs:
1)  Chickasaw (Pigface)
2) Paraffin
3) Tiny Meat (Mark Walk Mix)

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709 - Ruby

This is a song off a record I loved as a child. It’s by an Acadian folk singer (Angèle Arsenault) who smiles broadly with her bowl haircut on the cover. It’s from a different time. It feels honest and guileless. 

The lyrics are what La Force is. A contrast between power and vulnerability. The central theme throughout the song is that we are simultaneously our strength and our weakness. What we desire is also what we are afraid of. 

It is sung from the perspective of a woman and has feminist undertones. It evokes the idea of how a women in her power is open to consumption by others. 

I’ve been singing this song at the start of most shows lately because it sets the tone for the show and the la force experience which is a tightrope walk in which power and vulnerability find their equilibrium. 

I use my own vulnerability as a foil for the audience to connect to this universal feeling. It is through my open vulnerability that I and they feel my power. Voila. The song mirrors the act of performance.

La Force - Je suis libre

Lucky One (Apostle Of Hustle Remix)

Frazey Ford - The Kids Are Having None of It

Salt Peter 2020

The Whole Is Equal To The Sum Of Its' Parts - Acoustic Mix

Lesley Rankine is Ruby.  She began her career as the lead singer of noise band Silverfish in London, leaving after the release of the album Organ Fan (1993, Creation Records).  She was involved in Pigface, the loose knit industrial noise collaboration of Trent Reznor and Martin Atkins of PIL. She subsequently moved to Seattle and joined producer Mark Walk, a former bandmate in Pigface, to create her solo project, Ruby.  They decided on the name Ruby, as it was shared by both of their grandmothers.

Ruby’s first release was the acclaimed electronic-downtempo-trip hop album Salt Peter (1995, Sony/Work).  The collection was recorded entirely digitally, which was still quite ground-breaking at that time, employing computers without a band, though she did perform with a band in concert. The single “Tiny Meat” was a Modern Rock hit, with heavy support from major market alternative radio stations.  The remix album, Revenge, The Sweetest Fruit followed in (1996). Ruby's second and last album was Short-staffed at the GenePool (2001), followed by Altered and Proud, the Short Staffed Remixes (2001).

Lesley’s other notable projects include an appearance on Monster Voodoo Machine's Suffersystem (1994, Chicago Trax), which won a Juno Award; a duet with Tom Jones on a cover of the “Kung Fu Fighting” for the Jackie Chan movie, Supercop, and a Mountain Dew commercial appearance singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls", directed by Samuel Bayer.

2013 marked a renaissance for Ruby, taking touches from the past to emerge anew in the present.  Always progressive with the use of technology in music, Lesley has more ways to play than ever.  Her process has revealed regular audio and visual releases, collaborations, and connections with new fans and longtime followers.


The Whole Is Equal To The Sum Of Its' Parts - Acoustic Mix

Rubyofficial

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