#jett pace

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Derrière Old Man Canyon se cache Jett Pace de Vancouver, un folkeux canadien qui a sorti un bel EP, Phantoms & Friends. Vivement un premier album !

Bonne écoute et bonne soirée :)

Old Man Canyon - Phantoms & Friends http://www.deezer.com/album/7408659

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possible new project, or near-miss project?

This interview with Jett Pace, aka Old Man Canyon, popped up today as he plays the Winnipeg Folk Festival...

AMBY: Are you listening to music that is different than before?

OLD MAN CANYON: Definitely, yeah. I don’t listen to any folk music really, anymore. I’m listening to a lot of Michael Jackson, Prince and that kind of stuff and obviously The Beatles. I’m just trying to mesh those, that authentic kind of vibey, dancey experience.

AMBY: Are there plans to record differently this time around?

OLD MAN CANYON: Oh yeah. It’s going to be very different, I think.

AMBY: What do you have planned? Hide away somewhere?

OLD MAN CANYON: Yeah, that’s kind of what I want to do. There’s a couple of producers that had some interest, like Danger Mouse. But I don’t know. Part of me wants to do it on my own. I did an audio engineering school a few years ago, so I understand the recording process pretty well. I have a little studio.

AMBY: How did that go about, did Danger Mouse call you up one day?

OLD MAN CANYON: My manager is really good friends with his manager, so it is all intermingling where people hear stuff. I don’t know. He’s so influential when he produces an album, I love his stuff and you can tell what he produces.

AMBY: But you don’t want to have your own self taken away in that?

OLD MAN CANYON: Exactly. Exactly. We’ll see man, but I don’t know.

AMBY: Some people could be so tempted by that though, by the name “Danger Mouse” – I’m in! How do you control that urge?

OLD MAN CANYON: I just try and feel what feels right.

AMBY: If you listen to his Broken Bells project, that sounds like what you’re talking about with the disco-folk.

OLD MAN CANYON: Oh yeah. I think they’ve been kind of a big influence on me in the past and some of the new stuff as well. I just want to create. I write all my own, do my own demoes and what I do is play all of the instruments, alone in my basement in my studio. Then I bring it to the band and they just expand the parts, because I’m not too good at drums and bass. But the demoes are almost sounding at the point where I almost want to release the demoes. It is also nice to have a producer that has a different outlook on your songs and hears things that you don’t hear and wants to bring little parts out. I’d like to maybe get a producer to maybe hide out with me in this cottage and be more open to sharing.

AMBY: Or do it up Yeezus style, complete it yourself then drop it off at Rick Rubin’s house to strip it down.

OLD MAN CANYON: Yeah, is that what he did? I’d be down for something like that too.

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Gimme Your Answers: An Interview w/ Old Man Canyon

Jett Pace constantly evolves and finds himself through his song.

Although frequently celebrated for the placement of his songs in various acclaimed television programs from Suits to Shameless, the Vancouver native’s true accomplishment is his evolution and self-discovery that includes experimentation with hip-hop alongside Colyn Cameron from Wake Owl to his current project with Old Man Canyon.…

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Check out this interview I did with Jett Pace from Old Man Canyon for Midwest Action.

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Old Man Canyon is the work of one man, Vancouver's Jett Pace. Phantoms & Friends is from the April 2013 five-song EP by the same name. The song is a builder, striking out with the chord progression that establishes the plodding melody which runs throughout the song, adding light percussion, and Jett's eerie echoed vocal and then building on those elements. The end result is musically pleasing, and Jett's vocals fit nicely within the melodic framework.

Now for a complaint or two. If you are headed over to Old Man Canyon's web page, then you will have the only spot where everything is linked as it should be. The bandcamp.com site has no external links. Facebook links back to the web site only-which is better than not linking to anything (bandcamp.com). A reminder to all artists when marketing yourselves, don't forget to link all of your content to everything else.

These are minor complaints, though, and should not detract you for one moment from exploring Old Man Canyon's music and making a purchase. All five songs on the EP are worth the price of admission. Pleasing, sometimes, upbeat (Wiser) or mid-tempo full-on-harmony filled bits (The Road), these are well done alterna-indie-folk-pop gems. Take a listen and make a purchase!