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Currently working on new machines, making some improvisation tests.
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Belle Envie is a new indie electronic project from Canadian artist Gordon Huntley, hailing from Halifax, Nova Scotia.  

After spending the last 10 years touring and producing as a part of an electronic dance DJ duo, Gordon has rediscovered his early musical roots. As a teenager, Gordon played in bands in his hometown, while learning how to produce ambient and IDM music. It was after moving to Montreal where he discovered club dance music and began to focus on electronic music for the dance floor.  

Belle Envie means “Beautiful Desire”. The project comes as result of Gordon’s years of exposure to different corners of the electronic music world, with a a full-circle return to the music of his youth. 

Fans of Radiohead, Slowdive, M83, or Washed Out won’t be disappointed.

Did you see it too, up on the mountain?
Was it the sword of Orion, cutting through the night,
or was it some dark eye, reflected by the light?

“It all began when one of us was Leaving Laurel”.

For Leaving Laurel, their music is a story of an old friendship that over many years, almost accidentally, blossomed into a musical collaboration.

Birthed in late 2019, American artist Pierce Fulton and Canadian producer Gordon Huntley together as Leaving Laurel have developed a penchant for introspective melodic electronic music.

Inspired by their time together in the hills of Laurel Canyon, and from their formative experiments recording into old cassette tape players, the project materialized seemingly out of thin air - something neither of them knew they were looking for.

Chasing the nostalgic sound that came from their first collaborations, the pair finished their debut self-titled album at the start of 2021, just prior to a horrible tragedy.

Pierce passed away in April of 2021 after a tragic struggle with his mental health. The album is dedicated to his memory, and has come to represent much more than two friends making music together in the Laurel Canyon neighborhood of Los Angeles.  

After some time to reflect, Gordon decided to collect the pieces of the remaining music the duo had started, and to carry on with the project.

In the fall of 2021, Leaving Laurel played their first shows since the formation of the project, with Pierce’s older brother Griff taking Pierce’s place for their DJ sets.

Sparrow Orange (a.k.a. Aaron Boot) started his artistic career on the now-defunct label, Noise Factory Records out of Toronto, Ontario. From that humble label sprung the likes of Beef Terminal, K.C. Accidental, Robin Judge, Hexes & Ohs, Lowfish and the debut album from Broken Social Scene, Feel Good Lost. Sparrow Orange released two albums during the early 2000s, The Beauty of Strangeness which was quickly followed up by Hands and Knees Music—using layered cinematic explorations of sound which are overlayed with thick, experimental beats. It feels like a soundtrack of the mind, best listed to while one is drifting away.

Of Hands and Knees Music:

“Sparrow Orange introduces complex rhythmic layers but understating them as not to overshadow the other sounds. Drenched in atmospheric sweeps, this album encompasses a variety of emotions, articulating his music with a cinematic flair. [...] From the chillingly eerie to the sweetly sentimental, Sparrow Orange is undergoing a metamorphosis in technique and I look forward to new developments on his next album.” —Exclaim! Media

Sparrow Orange is now reintroducing himself with two albums entitled “The Hidden Tracks”, due to be released in the Spring of 2024. These albums are bringing back the original sound—tracks that were never released, now remixed and remastered. Sparrow Orange plans to release more sounds, using layered synths and relying heavily on house-made crackles, pops, and beats using common, everyday reverberations.

Sparrow Orange is following