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Images by Derrick Belcham
Sound by Nora Bouazzouni
Produced by Nora Bouazzouni for La Blogotheque
NxNE 2010, Toronto
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CBC Radio 3 presents:
LIBRARY VOICES / PAPER LIONS – CANADIAN TOUR DATES –
**w/ special guests Bend Sinister
Tuesday, September 28, 2010 – St Catherines, ON – Mansion House **
Wednesday, September 29, 2010 – Hamilton, ON – Casbah **
Thursday, September 30, 2010 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe **
Friday, October 01, 2010 – TBA
Saturday, October 02, 2010 – Montreal, PQ – Petit Campus (POP Montreal)
Sunday, October 03, 2010 – Ottawa, ON – Café Dekcuf **
Wednesday, October 06, 2010 – Charlottetown, PEI – Hunters Ale House **
Thursday, October 07, 2010 – Fredericton, NB – Capitol **
Friday, October 08, 2010 – Halifax, NS – Seahorse **
Saturday, October 09, 2010 – Sackville, NB – George’s Roadhouse **
Tuesday, Oct 12, 2010 – Sault Ste Marie, ON – Lop Lops **
Wednesday, October 13, 2010 – Thunder Bay, ON – Jacks **
Thursday, October 14, 2010 – Winnipeg, MB – Royal Albert Arms **
Friday, October 15, 2010 – Regina, SK – The Exchange **
Saturday, October 16, 2010 – Saskatoon, SK – Amigos
Sunday, October 17, 2010 – Moose Jaw, SK – Cultural Centre **
Wednesday, October 20, 2010 – Yorkton, SK – The Spot **
Friday, October 22, 2010 – Edmonton, AB – Avenue Theatre
Saturday, October 23, 2010 – Kelowna, BC – Habitat (*WCMAs – Library Voices ONLY)
Tuesday, October 26, 2010 – Victoria, BC – Lucky Bar **
Wednesday, October 27, 2010 – Duncan, BC – Cowichan Theatre **
Thursday, October 28, 2010 – Tofino, BC – The Legion **
Friday, October 29, 2010 – Vancouver, BC – Pit Pub **
More Library Voices dates coming soon!
We are very pleased to present you with the music video for Haunt This House.
The video was (literally) constructed by Andy Dixon using stop motion and about ten bazillion still images.
Mr. Dixon is one of the countries most creative and hardest working talents – he has his own design company Chemistry Designs, he runs Ache Records (Death From Above 1979, Hot Hot Heat, The Winks) and has released countless amazing albums of his own with Red Light Sting and Secret Mommy to name only a couple. . We are very flattered that through all of this he still managed to find time to stitch together this dreamy psych-pop video for Haunt This House.
Exclaim! Presents:
Library Voices Summer Tour 2010.
Please join us as we celebrate the release of Denim On Denim.
We will be keeping a tour diary of our travels. You can follow it here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Library-Voices/25889251432
Library Voices and Young Soul records label-mates Rah Rah are both on tour across Canada throughout June. In keeping with the tours, we’re giving away a big pile of Young Soul record’s music, so enter below!
We have received a number of very kind and generous offers from music fans wanting to donate to Library Voices.
We don’t feel right taking anything without giving you something in return. In response to your kindness we headed into the studio & recorded a little somethin’ somethin’ that we would like you to have for free.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 13, 2010
LIBRARY VOICES
LOSE EVERYTHING IN STUDIO FLOOD
NATIONAL TOUR DATES WILL BE HONOURED
On April 13 Library Voices released Denim On Denim, a feel good summer-pop album with an apocalyptic tinge – to an overwhelmingly positive critical response. Three weeks later their studio/rehearsal space would be destroyed in a flood of biblical proportions. Their space was located in the 10,000 sq ft basement of the Regina Cultural Exchange, a provincial, non-profit arts organization and building. The water, which is believed to have stemmed from a burst water main, reached over 8ft deep across the entire basement. The plumbing firm responsible for repairs estimates 598,000 gallons of water, weighing approximately 4.9 million pounds infused the space and destroyed everything the band had.
Literally every instrument and piece of gear was destroyed except for a saxophone and a Moog synth that miraculously floated to safety. Some of the instruments lost included a vintage Roland Juno 6, a Korg SV-1, a Fender Jazz Bass, an Ernie Ball Music Man, a vintage Korg PS-900, countless guitars, amps, horns, drums, organs, microphones, reel to reel tape machines and tape, and a Casio Sk-1 circuit bent by Tablebeast with only 100 in circulation (other owners include Trent Reznor of NIN and Devo).
Library Voices also had several thousand dollars of rented equipment, which despite purchasing the rental insurance is not being covered. In addition to the equipment loss, many of the bands worldly belongings suffered the same fate including; all of Amanda’s artwork, Michael’s academic career, a massive comic book collection and a couple hundred of Brennan’s records, including our prized copy of No Jacket Required.
Library Voices, along with many others in Regina’s music community have been working around the clock to haul the wreckage out of the Cultural Exchange, in an effort to get the venue up and running as soon as possible. It is one of Canada’s longest running all-ages venues, and it is in a time of need. The band have pledged to borrow, rent and extend their lines of credit in the name of rock & roll to ensure they don’t have to cancel any upcoming tour dates.
LIBRARY VOICES – SUMMER TOUR DATES – 2010
June 11, 2010 – Winnipeg / Royal Albert Arms
June 12, 2010 – Thunder Bay / Crocks
June 13, 2010 – Sault Ste Marie / Lop Lops
June 16, 2010 – Montreal / Il Motore
June 17, 2010 – Ottawa / Maverick
June 18, 2010 – Guelph / Ebar
June 19, 2010 – Toronto / Horseshoe *NXNE Show
June 21, 2010 – Peterborough / Red Dog
June 24, 2010 – London / Call The Office
June 25, 2010 – Waterloo / Maxwell’s
June 26, 2010 – Windsor / Phog Lounge
June 27, 2010 – St. Catharines / S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival
July 15th- 18th – Ness Creek Music Festival
July 22nd – 25th- Calgary Folk Music Festival
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For further information on Library Voices, please contact:
Julie Booth
Freshly Pressed PR
416 536 2698
julie@freshlypressedpr.com
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It’s official. We’re headed right, or East, in support of Denim On Denim.
We are also incredible excited to announce we’re starting a series of concerts that will take place in actual libraries!
It’s hard to believe that an entire generation has never had to hike down to the library to do research for school reports on tigers or the Canadian Shield. They’ve never had to plagiarize a 1976 Encyclopedia Britannica as if it were the ‘be-all-end-all’ on any subject. Search engines computing algorithms have replaced the card catalogue. Tiny dancing pixels at 72dpi have replaced the tactile experience of sifting through pages. The txt message has even replaced the love letter. The Wiki-generation may single handily be responsible for the extinction of the public library. This concert series is Library Voices modest attempt from keeping their favourite social institution from going the way of the woolly mammoth, the honeybee, and Star Trek TNG. It is our hope that, if even for just one night, communities with gather somewhere besides their local watering hole – that they will converse face to face, that they will share in experiences, and if all goes well maybe even sign out a book or two.
Library Voices would also like to take this opportunity to publicly vow that you won’t find us performing in internet cafes a few years down the road…
LIBRARY TOUR DATES – MAY 2010
Saturday May 1 – Weyburn Public Library (2:30pm) – Weyburn, Saskatchewan
Saturday May 1 – Moose Jaw Library Theatre (7:00pm) – Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
Saturday May 15 – Estevan Public Library (6:00pm) – Estevan, Saskatchewan
LIBRARY VOICES – DENIM ON DENIM TOUR – JUNE 2010
Friday June 11 – Winnipeg, MB – Royal Albert Arms
Saturday June 12 – Thunder Bay, ON – Crocks
Sunday June 13 – Sault Ste Marie, ON – Lop Lops
Wednesday June 16 – Montreal, QC – Il Motore w/ The Grates
Thursday June 17 – Ottawa, ON – Maverick w/ The Grates
Friday June 18 – Guelph, ON – Ebar w/ Besnard Lakes & Young Galaxy
Saturday June 19 – Toronto, ON – Horseshoe Tavern (NXNE)
Monday June 21– Peterborough, ON – Red Dog
Thursday June 24 – London, ON – Call The Office
Friday June 25 – Waterloo, ON – Maxwell’s w/ Off Victoria
Saturday June 26 – Windsor, ON – Phog Lounge
Sunday June 27 – St Catharines, ON – S.C.E.N.E. Music Festival (w/ Shad, Lights, & more)
more dates coming soon….
Our cotton-tech/traveling companion Handsome Joel Hansen snapped these photos.
The trip to this show consisted of a 1863Km drive, a new alternator,2 separate blizzards, pushing the van up the summit of a mountain, 1 lost cell phone, 2 continental breakfasts, 1 new air freshener.
The trip home consisted of 1 smashed drivers window and 9 endless hangovers.
Our cotton-tech/traveling companion Handsome Joel Hansen snapped these photos.
Rae Holtsbaum took some lovely photos at our CD release!
You can view her other work here!
Taken from The Straight
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Library Voices
Denim on Denim (Young Soul)
5/5
I sure hope the members of Library Voices are New Pornographers fans, because it’s a comparison they’re going to get whether they like it or not. It’s unavoidable, really. Like the better-known Pornographers, Regina’s Library Voices specializes in giddy indie pop layered with electric guitars, analogue keyboards, and multipart vocal harmonies. Heck, the eight-piece band even has a lead singer named Carl (Johnson in this case, rather than Newman).
Hopefully they’ll take it as the compliment it’s meant to be. After all, the New Pornographers are one of the most popular and critically well-regarded acts to ever emerge from this country’s indie milieu. Having already received props from SPIN and The New Yorker, Library Voices looks to be headed for its share of international recognition as well. Based on its debut full-length, Denim on Denim, it’ll be well-deserved.
This is a group that knows its way around a hook but isn’t afraid to offset its bubblegum sweetness with unexpected bursts of noise. Observe the fuzz-skronk guitar that rips through the surface of “Family Night” for an examples, or the swirling feedback and synth oscillations that close out “Haunt This House”. Keyboardist Michael Dawson, who writes Library Voices’ lyrics, also has a few lyrical concerns that add a jagged edge to the otherwise upbeat proceedings. These include, in no particular order: self-medication, the weight of other people’s expectations, and the apocalypse. In fact, Dawson seems particularly obsessed with the end of the world, as it’s the theme of at least two songs—“End Times” and the instantly unforgettable “Party Like It’s 2012”.
One hopes that getting all this dark stuff on record has helped Dawson get it out of his system, and the album’s closing tune, “Hello, Cruel World”, suggests that it has: “I spent a winter indoors just getting to know my new self/I read some books and wrote some songs/And when I emerged I was who I claimed to be.” We should all be so lucky. For the love of God, Michael, please post a reading list on your blog.
The incredible Christine McAvoy shot some photos of our show on Saturday, February 10, 2010 in Vancouver. Please visit her site HERE.
We are very pleased to announce that Denim On Denim charted at #5 on iTunes Canada on release day!
It is available HERE
Some time ago we “shot” a music video with Andy Dixon (Chemistry Design, Ache Records, Secret Mommy, The Red Light Sting, etc, etc.). I say “shot” because the video is actually created using countless still photographs and Andy’s insane stop-motion editing skills.
We are really excited about it – so excited in fact that we couldn’t wait to share some of it with you. Here are a few screen shots from the Haunt This House music video.
Look for the video posted here VERY soon.
Library Voices – Drinking Games (music video) from Young Soul on Vimeo.
Here is the video we’ve made for Drinking Games.
Artist: Library Voices
Song: Drinking Games
Album: Denim On Denim
Release Date: April 13, 2010
Label: Young Soul Records
Produced by: Jayden Soroka and Colin Hubick
Directed/Cut/Visual Effects: Jayden Soroka
Secondary Visual Effects: Tim Thurmeier
Special thanks for Neil McDonald for letting us have free reign over his studio and for having so much junk.
Denim On Denim CD RELEASE TOUR
April 09 – Courtenay BC @ Avalanche w/ Yukon Blonde & In-Flight Safety
April 10 – Vancouver BC @ 560 Seymour w/ We Are The City
April 16 – Estevan SK @ ECS
April 17 – Yorkton SK @ The Spot
April 20 – Lethbridge AB @ Henotic
April 21 – Edmonton AB @ Black Dog
April 22 – Canmore AB @ The Canmore Hotel
April 23 – Saskatoon SK @ Amigos
April 24 – Regina SK @ The Exchange
May 01 – Moose Jaw SK @ Library Theatre
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Drinking Games
Insider Trading (On Outsider Art)
Haunt This House
Party Like It’s 2012
Write Me A Myth
Bookish
Bodies Of Fiction
Model City
End Times
Family Night
Balloon Menagerie
Hello, Cruel World
Denim on Denim will be released on April 13, 2010(Young Soul Records /EMI). Young Soul Records is the most recent label to join a decorated EMI Label Services roster alongside the likes of: Arts & Crafts, Hidden Pony, Secret City, Ultra Records, Century Media and Side One Dummy – all utilizing EMI Music Canada’s distribution and services reach.
Denim on Denim was (painstakingly) recorded in Regina in the back of a local dance studio. Staying true to their objective of documenting spacious and concise pop songs meant omitting dozens of ideas and tracks from the final mixes. Yet, the record is still teeming with instrumentation – guitars and keys, horns and synths, and (of course) the occasional feedback loop. Denim on Denim was produced by Library Voices and Orion Paradis and features guest appearances from co-prairie musicians and friends in Woodpigeon, Rah Rah, Sylvie, Northcote, as well as Andy Shauf. Right down to the die-cut album packaging – the exterior cut-away lightening bolt revealing the denim inner sleeve, demonstrates the attention to detail that extends to every corner of their work.
As with their previous EP, Denim On Denim is rich with cultural reference. Stan Getz and Fyodor Dostoevsky make cameos in songs about late night escapades. Similarly, Haruki Murakami, Charles Bukowski, Dennis Wilson, and Gram Parsons (among others) weave their way through tales of indulgence, promiscuity, modern living, and the forthcoming apocalypse. This is feel good music for an audience with a conscience (albeit likely, a guilty one). Lead single from Denim on Denim – Drinking Games is available at http://www.myspace.com/thelibraryvoices
The bands unabashed celebration of the term ‘pop music’ has at times, been met by confusion, leading some to expect bubble gum or auto-tuned FM shine. Although apologetic for the misunderstanding the band stands behind the term. They could have called it, “Post-Twee-Power-Folk-Nu-Beach-LoFi-Modern-Indie”- but they didn’t. It’s pop. Just pop. You know, like The Stranger, The Zombies, and Videodrome.
LIBRARY VOICES – WINTERrr TOURrr 2010
Feb 12 – Regina, SK – The Exchange *CBC Canada Live Session w/ Northcote
Feb 18 – Nelson, BC – Spirit Bar
Feb 20 – Vancouver, BC – Saskatchewan Olympic Pavillion 9PM
Feb 21 – Vancouver, BC – Saskatchewan Olympic Pavillion 9PM
Feb 22 – Vancouver, BC – Saskatchewan Olympic Pavillion 9PM
Feb 23 – Vancouver, BC – BC Place – medal ceremony
Feb 25 – Kelowna, BC – Habitat
Feb 26- Calgary, AB – Gateway (SAIT)
Feb 27 – Edmonton, AB – The Pawn Shop
