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We've moved!
Hi friends! We've done a little bit of shuffling here on tumblr; now that we have an actual, amazing player on our website, our player tumblr has been rendered obsolete. So, all of our tumbling activities (there will be more, we promise!) will take place on our *new* tumblr blog (it was the old player blog; don't worry, it's confused us too), weirdcanada.tumblr.com. It'd be great if you could give us a follow over there.
Really excited about the Weird Canada distro!
Us, too :-)
Nick Schofield from Weird Canada recently stopped by Freelove Fenner’s home studio The Bottle Garden to photograph and discuss some of their favourite objects used during the recording of Do Not Affect A Breezy Manner. Read the full interview here.
The benefit of the doubt
cover art: David Lee
From the exploration and imagination of Marie LeBlanc Flanagan:
I want to give you the benefit of the doubt, but I feel an urgent need to set the standards of the space. I wouldn’t tolerate a friend sexually harassing someone in my bathroom, or shouting racial slurs in my kitchen. In the same way, I want to make sure that Weird Canada is a space where people can feel safe. Not safe from challenge, but safe from the mundane and banal hatred that certain people face in every remote gas station and bank, in every park, and on every street. I want to make a space where the loudest voices and the biggest wallets don’t make the rules.
As a curator and a leader, I am accountable to my community, both in ensuring that it is a safe and inclusive space, and in challenging our relationship to each other and the outside world.
In my last couple years of leading Weird Canada – a community that exists to encourage, document and connect creative expression across Canada – I keep asking myself, “Is this art gay-bashing, or is it irony? Is this book furthering the objectification of women, or is it third wave feminism? Is this music cultural appropriation, or is it someone trying to explore their own origins?”
Free speech has nothing to do with this. This is about asserting community-defined, community-inclusive boundaries in a very specific community space.
I would have more good faith about the whole thing if at the root of these circumstances I didn’t always find a clustering of mainly straight, middle class men, wrapped in a shroud of ambiguity and confusion. There’s nothing wrong with straight white men, they are just born into their bodies like the rest of us, but why are they so often at the centre of these ambiguous, problematic circumstances?
All I have to go on is the visuals, the optics. The artists I deal with rarely bother with an artist’s statement. I often don’t know the stories, the gender, the race or the sexual orientation of the artist. And those details matter. There is a big difference between a gay man writing a homophobic-slur-rage-anthem, and a straight man writing the same song. One is an expression of lived pain, the other an unnecessary exacerbation and extension of that pain.
It is exhausting.
Many organizations and individuals avoid this assessment fatigue and instead just assume the best, often falling into jargon and defences of free-speech when challenged. Free speech has nothing to do with this. This is about asserting community-defined, community-inclusive boundaries in a very specific community space. Spaces without intentional boundaries have boundaries as well, they are just the default: invisible, normative, and exclusive.
Artists can and should express anything and everything that emerges. Anything else will lead to stagnation and cultural suffocation. Art should be about exploration and imagination, not pandering to the hippest trends in activist etiquette.
Still: don’t pilfer the choicest pieces of linkbait from other people’s struggles, as if creative expression is some kind of exploitation buffet. If your art is selling parts of someone else’s identity, while ignoring their current or historical struggle, you should closely examine your expression. I’m not saying “NO” I’m saying ”think.”
You will never see your own face. You will see photos, reflections and refractions.
There are many thoughts here that you could legitimately use as bicker bait, but I challenge you to read these words to find value rather than searching for the inevitable parts that rough your fluff. I am exhausted with being the culture police. Myself, I’m a human being dropped into this world without skin. Every speck of dust or dirt goes straight into my muscles, grinding against me every time I move. I don’t want to police anyone’s art, or anyone’s expression. I don’t want to exclude, to hurt, to offend. I want to love, to expand, to grow.
You will never see your own face. You will see photos, reflections and refractions. Listen to the world around you. Creatively express your own lived experience, practise empathy and thoughtfulness: all of our art will be stronger, and all these conversations will fade away.
Marie LeBlanc Flanagan is the Executive Director of Weird Canada/Wyrd Arts Initiatives.
Ephemera :: Carl Didur on Zacht Automaat (Calico Corp.)
To celebrate the momentous release of the Zacht Automaat 2LP on Calico Corp., we met up with Carl Didur in his hobbit-sized attic space for the latest edition of our Ephemera series! (Photos by Rico Moran)
http://weirdcanada.com/2013/10/ephemera-carl-didur-on-zacht-automaat/
Diana's lounge-pop shapes into strangely emotional paint puzzles.
Gino Soccio is the best
Zacht Automaat - Disturbed Ground
Zacht Automaat continue to melt minds with the surprise release of their 11th album this morning! Turn on, tune in, drop everything else you're doing...
http://zachtautomaat.bandcamp.com/album/disturbed-ground
Babysitter does it again! Check the Victoria revolution rockers' new vid for "Cemetery House", re-recorded from its no-fi o.g. appearance on Tape 666 and set to appear on the band's upcoming split with Monster Treasure. Animation by Uncle Phil!
The Weird Canada Guide to Upcoming Releases (2013)
Test pressing for the Zacht Automaat double LP from Calico Corp.
Going into this project, we had no idea that we were going to end up with such a monster post. But hey, it's incredibly exciting to see so many of our favourite labels, artists (and recent discoveries) kicking out new tunes! In line with the Weird Canada m.o. of covering physical releases only, this list is exclusively grippable objects (LPs, 7"s, 10"s, lathes, tapes, CD-Rs, and in the case of Healing Power and Spa Kosmische's fantastic Fruits comp, a CD // bath salts combo). Dig in, and leave a comment if we missed anything crucial!
August
A Sacred Cloud - Ensoleillé, 1972 CS (Arachnidiscs)
Average Times - Average Times CS (Bruised Tongue)
B.A. Johnson - Mission Accomplished LP (Mammoth Cave)
Beard Closet // Prymate Pyramid - Split CS (Arachnidiscs)
The Bloody Circuits - Sad Boys CD (Peace Country Diaspora)
Braids - Flourish // Perish LP (Arbutus // Flemish Eye // Full Time Hobby)
Diana - Perpetual Surrender LP (Paper Bag)
Diane // Mormon Crosses - Split CS (Self Released)
Chief Thundercloud - End of August CS (Craft Singles)
Failing - Failing CS (Isolated Now Waves)
Feel Alright - Oahu Ohio 7” (Mammoth Cave)
First Base - First Base LP (HoZac)
Fist City // Piss Test - Split 7” (Drunken Sailor Records)
The Foggy Notions - The Foggy Notions CD (Self Released)
Gold - Losing Your Hair 7” (Mammoth Cave)
Hobo Cubes // Taiwan - Split 12” (Pleasence)
Kapali Carsi - Clear Space In Apex Quarters CD (Inyrdisk)
Kapali Carsi - Evil Veil CD (Inyrdisk)
Ketamines - Eleven Eleven 7” (Leaning Trees)
Ketamines - You Can’t Serve Two Masters LP (Mammoth Cave // Southpaw)
Lab Coast - Walking On Ayr CD (Mammoth Cave)
Le Rabot - alpha-61/bykov CS (Jeunesse Cosmique)
The Mandates - The Mandates LP (Mammoth Cave)
Mas Aya - Kairos CS // CD (Healing Power)
The Moas - The Moas CS (Self Released)
Nervous Talk - Introductions 7” (Mammoth Cave)
New Positions - Wet Dreams CS (Pleasence)
Sarah Neufeld - Hero Brother CD // LP (Constellation)
The Pink Noise - Greedy Heart LP (Skrot Up)
Pink Wine - Untitled LP // CS (P. Trash // Hosehead)
Partli Cloudi - Two Moron Ever Nose CD (Arachnidiscs)
Quaker Parents - Rubber Match CS (Craft Singles)
Steve Adamyk Band - Monterrey 7" (Hosehead)
The Subatomics - Big Smoke CS (Self Released)
Tranquil Heat - Tranquil Heat CS (Isolated Now Waves)
Various Artists - Fruits CD // Aromatics (Healing Power // Spa Kosmische)
Darren Williams - Reed CD (Bug Incision)
Yaocave - Itchy Urbainity CD (Ramshackle Day Parade)
Zones - Real Time CS (Self Released)
September
Abject Pax - 7” EP (Sewercide Records)
Andy Boay - Title TBA Lathe (Bruised Tongue)
The Albertans - Dangerous Anything LP (Kingfisher Bluez)
Aube - Title TBA CS (Dub Ditch Picnic)
The Auras - EP2 (Optical Sounds)
Babysitter // Monster Treasure - Split CS (Shake Records)
Bad Channels - Bad Channels LP (Kingfisher Bluez)
Bitter Fictions - Journeying & The Returns 10” Lathe (Shaking Box Music)
Bonnaventure James // Sleepy Head - Split CS [Reissue] (Self Released)
Cathar - Waste In Shape + Form CS (Isolated Now Waves)
Chevalier Avant Garde - Resurrection Machine LP (Fixture)
Crabskull - Phlegm Bomb Trick$ CS (Dub Ditch Picnic)
Crabskull - Keep The Evil Away CS (Dub Ditch Picnic)
DJ Kinetik - Cosmik Freakout Vol. 4 CS (Dub Ditch Picnic)
Expwy - Deep Joy CS (Kinnta)
Fiver - Lost the Plot (Triple Crown Audio)
Forming - Title TBA CS (La Cohu)
François Couture - Title TBA CS (La Cohu)
Guy Dallas - EP CS (Healing Power
Heavy Chains - 7” (Bruised Tongue)
Kindest Cuts - Title TBA CS (Dub Ditch Picnic)
Kvik - Title TBA CS (Prairie Fire Tapes)
Le fruit vert. - Passiflore CS (Los Discos Enfantasmes)
No Warning - Resurrection Of the Wolf 7" (Bad Actors)
Ramzi Title - DeZombi CS (Los Discos Enfantasmes)
The Reference Desk // Beached Out - Split 7” (Self Released)
Ross Birdwise - Frame dog 2CS (Los Discos Enfantasmes)
Sam Shalabi - Mindlessness 2CS (Los Discos Enfantasmes)
Shooting Guns - Brotherhood of the Ram LP (Self Released // Easy Rider)
Snail Poison - Live in the Hatnhimen Caves CS (Dub Ditch Picnic)
Spectre // Dirty Frigs - Split CS (Heretical Objects Cooperative)
Strange Attractor - Back To The Cruel World (Mammoth Cave // Bruised Tongue)
Teenanger - Singles Don't $ell LP (Telephone Explosion // Southpaw)
Tiers - Winter LP (Artificial // Hand Drawn Dracula)
Various Artists - Optical Sounds Compilation Vol. 2 CD (Optical Sounds)
Vast Glory - Title TBA CS (La Cohu)
Velvet Glacier // Abe Undent — If We Don't, Remember Me 12" (Nutritional Content)
Walrus // Chief Thundercloud - Split CS (Poncho)
Walrus // Psyche Tongues - Split CS (Poncho)
Walrus // Shadowfolk // Gnarwalz // Sheepman - Split 7” (Poncho // Out of Sound)
White Poppy - White Poppy LP (Not Not Fun)
WHOOP-Szo - Qallunaat/Odemin 2LP (Out of Sound)
Wizard Of - Heather/The Swarm CD (Inyrdisk)
Wolfcow - Satanic Vacation CS (Self Released)
Yes Men Jr. - Title TBA CS (BumChin)
YlangYlang - Blossom CS (Lava Church)
October
A Sacred Cloud - Ensoleillé, 1972 LP (Jeunesse Cosmique)
Automelodi - Surlendemain Acids LP (Electric Voice)
Babel - Sturm und Drang CD (Arachnidiscs)
Jef Barbara - Soft to the Touch LP (Club Roll)
Black Givre - Autorail LP (Jeunesse Cosmique)
Born Gold - I Am An Exit LP (Art Control // Hovercraft)
CFCF - Outside LP (Paper Bag // Dummy)
Dead Ranch - Antler Royal CS (Prairie Fire Tapes)
Devonian Gardens - Solar Shifting CS (Self Released // Beyond Beyond Is Beyond)
Doomsquad - Kalaboogie LP (Hand Drawn Dracula)
H/A/B/Y/S/S // YlangYlang - Split CS (Jeunesse Cosmique)
Einar Jullum - Overraskelsen CS (Kinnta)
Fern - Title TBA EP (Sound & Silence Collective)
Ketamines - So Hot! 7” (Hosehead)
Lonnie in the Garden // Planet Creature - Split CS (Perdu)
Marine Dreams - Corner of the Eye LP (You’ve Changed Records)
Michael Jacket - Cruelty LP (Not Unlike)
Phèdre - Golden Age LP (DAPS)
Gisèle Ricard - Électroacoustique LP (1980-1987) (Tenzier)
GMS - GMS CS (Isolated Now Waves)
Saxsyndrum - Future Circus LP (Self Released)
Shevil - Shevil LP (Superbob)
SIANspheric - The Owl b/w Smokin' Richie 7” (Noyes)
Solar Coffin - Title TBA CS (Prairie Fire Tapes)
Stepmothers - Title TBA LP (Self Released)
The Soupcans - Parasite Brain EP (Jack Shack // Telephone Explosion)
Sun Stone Revolvers - Title TBA LP (Optical Sounds)
Tim Hecker - Virgins LP (Paper Bag // Kranky)
Tim Hecker - Mirage LP [Reissue] (Kranky)
Tired Wires - Hark CS (Already Dead)
U.S. Girls - Title TBA 12” (Bad Actors)
We Hunt Buffalo - Blood From A Stone LP (Self Released)
The Wizards // The FAPS - Split 7” (Sound & Silence Collective)
Yamantaka // Sonic Titan - UZU LP (Suicide Squeeze // Paper Bag)
Zacht Automaat - Zacht Automaat 2LP (Calico Corp.)
November
Babel - Rillingen CD (Arachnidiscs)
Black Walls - Communion LP (Pleasence)
The Disraelis - Title TBA LP (Optical Sounds)
Jack Deming - Airless CS (Kinnta)
Fet. Nat - Title TBA LP (E-Tron Rec.)
Force Fields - Title TBA 7” (Noyes)
Freelove Fenner - Title TBA LP (Fixture)
H. de Heutz - Title TBA EP // LP (E-Tron Rec.)
The Pink Noise // Man Made Hill - Split 7” (Inyrdisk)
The Royal Iguana Fur - Untitled CD (Peace Country Diaspora)
The Royal Iguana Furs - Survivors of the 1962 Massachusetts Stapler Fight CD (PCD)
Tess Parks - Title TBA LP (359 Music)
Toronto Homicide Squad - II CS (Pleasence)
Tough Age - Tough Age LP (Mint)
December // Beyond
Actual Water - Title TBA LP (Bad Actors)
Alissa Arnason - Title TBA LP (Sound & Silence Collective)
Colin Fisher - Title TBA CS (Healing Power)
The Courtneys - Title TBA 7” (Hockey Dad)
Cresting - Title TBA CS (Fixture)
Chris Dadge Quartet - Dan Meichel Archives Vol. 2 CD (Bug Incision)
The FAPS - Title TBA LP (Sound & Silence Collective)
Fleshtone Aura / Dylan Nyoukis - Split LP (Bennifer Editions)
Freak Heat Waves - Title TBA LP (Hockey Dad)
Grown-Ups // Woolworm - Split 7” (Debt Offensive)
Hobo Cubes - Apex Ideals LP (Debacle Records)
Hobo Cubes - Ascencion 3” CD (Revolving Door Records)
Homeshake - Title TBA CS (Fixture)
Michael Horwood - Musique Concret 7" (Bennifer Editions)
Ketamines - Stay Awake 7” (Mint)
Krang - Prairie Tragedy LP (Self Released)
Les Zerreurs - Title TBA CS // LP (TBA)
Mark Templeton + Kyle Armstrong - Extensions LP // DVD (TBA)
Moon Socket - Title TBA LP (Noyes)
Mystics - Blood On My Mind 7” (TBA)
Nihilist Spasm Band - No Record LP [Reissue] (Lion Productions)
Poler Bear - Title TBA LP (Sound & Silence Collective)
Post Namers - Central Banks Exploding CD (PCD)
Scattered Clouds - Title TBA LP (E-Tron Rec.)
Seth Smith - Lowlife OST LP (Fundog)
Sheer Agony - Title TBA LP (Fixture)
Silver Dapple - Title TBA 7" (FORCHRISTSAKE)
Simply Saucer - Saucerland 2LP (Logan’s Hardware)
Skullbong - Title TBA CS (Healing Power)
Tropics - Title TBA LP (TBA)
Various Artists - 2013 CD (Ramshackle Day Parade)
Various Artists - Weird Pop From The Peace Country Vol. 2 CD (PCD)
VKNGS - Title TBA LP (Noyes)
We Need Secrets - Melancholy and the Archive LP // CD (Noyes)
The Wizards - Title TBA LP // CD (Sound & Silence Collective)
Yacht Club - A Bad Way 12" EP (Bad Actors)
Outlier Film Festival takes place from November 21st to 24th in Halifax, Nova Scotia and focuses on...
From our friends at Obey, a new film fest out on the East Coast.
Blind Horses - Mindy
Heartbreaking and surreal new video from Chevalier Avant-Garde.
New LP available September 3rd on Not Not Fun Records !!!
Track list:
1. “Darkness Turns to Light” 2. “Wear Me Away” 3. “Joyride” 4. “Today Tomorrow” 5. “Dead Night” 6. “Emotional Intelligence” 7. “Without Answers” 8. “Dizzy” 9. “Skygaze” 10. “Existential Angst”
