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.

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You Can Can - S/T (36SC)

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You Can Can - Papyri & Papaver (36SC)

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

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