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Greg MacPherson :: Dropping Fireball on the World

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by Matt Williams

Winnipeg’s own hardest working man in showbiz, Greg MacPherson, will release his sixth studio album, Fireball, on October 29. The album combines MacPherson’s lightning-in-a-bottle live show energy with the skills of award-winning engineer Cam Loeppky and the razor-sharp, heart-pounding drums of Rob Gardiner. Stylus caught up with him over some expensive rum between painting his basement floor and an early-evening photo shoot. Continue reading “Greg MacPherson :: Dropping Fireball on the World”

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Michael Feuerstack :: Always intimate

photo: Scott Da Ross
photo: Scott Da Ross

by Myke Lewis

Michael Feuerstack writes soft, inviting music that evokes space and distance. His sound is like a warm autumn evening with the setting sun gently pushing through the leaves of trees and reflecting off lakes and rivers and the windows of trains passing in the distance. Calling from the Yukon to talk about his latest record, Tambourine Death Bed, seemed perfectly fitting. Continue reading “Michael Feuerstack :: Always intimate”

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Claire Bones :: More than skin and bones

photo: Laura Sexsmith
photo: Laura Sexsmith

by Gilad Carrol

As I sit on an old leather couch in the back of a Winnipeg sticker shop, I cannot help but feel slightly anxious for my interview with Winnipeg’s marvelous and always surprising songstress, Claire Bones. After months of attempting to get a few moments of her time, she finally agreed to meet with me. She required that we met somewhere recluse and dark. After remaining quiet following the release of her beautiful “Call You a King” single last December for the Beach Station Blues record, Claire opened up to me about her new take on songwriting as well as new influences in her musical life. Claire is a guitar stalwart and imaginative and often times spiritual lyricist. As she spoke with me, it became clear that Claire has some incredibly exciting musical experiments in the works. I wanted to get to know her. We spoke for hours, and this interview represents a brief summary of the topics we broached. Continue reading “Claire Bones :: More than skin and bones”

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Emma Cloney :: Trading Stars for Streetlights

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by Broose Tulloch

Five years ago Emma Cloney told her husband that she not only wanted to learn how to play the guitar, fiddle, and banjo, but that she wanted to teach herself.  What’s a boy to do, but lay a banjo, fiddle and guitar under the Christmas tree? Emma and the guitar felt an instant bond, and the songs that would make up her first album (2011’s Something To Say) started to flow. Continue reading “Emma Cloney :: Trading Stars for Streetlights”

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send + receive v15 :: EVP Project

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by Daniel Emberg

Last fall, a Winnipeg artist named Doreen Girard and a Montreal colleague named Kier-La Janisse got to chatting. They were discussing the work of Daphne Oram, an electronic musician probably best known as a co-founder of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop. Inspired by Oram’s idea of harmonic frequencies as a portal to telepathic communication, Girard and Janisse found their way to Electronic Voice Phenomenon, an obscure paranormal occurrence that seized the imaginations of such luminaries as Edison, Marconi, and Tesla. Girard and Janisse each rounded up five women from their respective cities to create installations exploring EVP, and they call the program Voices From Beyond. It recently debuted at this year’s Film Pop, and will now be presented at various venues around downtown Winnipeg throughout the send + receive festival. Winnipeg is represented by Irene Bindi, Doreen Girard, Andrea Roberts, Leslie Supnet, and Gwen Trutnau. Montreal participants are Elisabeth Belliveau, Kara Blake, Ruby Kato-Attwood, Erin Sexton, and Malene Szlam. Check the send + receive website for details on the wheres and the whens associated with all those whos. Stylus had a great exchange with the aforementioned Girard about the EVP Project, and you get to read it as soon as your eyes get past this part! Continue reading “send + receive v15 :: EVP Project”