I wrote this song, ‘I’m Taking the Train,’ (featuring the Woodshed Orchestra) as the Artist on board the VIA Rail train, ‘The Ocean’ that travels from Montreal to Halifax. Filmmaker Dave McCallum of Lightstruck Film & Media created this video using footage I captured with my iPhone on board, ‘The Canadian’ that travels from Toronto to Vancouver.
“A great CD. Good numbers, meaningful texts and excellent performance.” — (via Google Translate)
“Let’s begin with props where they are surely due: this album sounds like a rock album should. It has not been overproduced or overprogrammed. Every instrument—guitar, bass, drums, organ—sounds live, regardless of how or when it was recorded. And it’s clear Autotune never touched the vocals, whose imperfections shine like diamonds, reminding you that this is real music made by real human beings.”
It looks like a community centre or a campus – inmates live in shared housing, wear their own clothes, order groceries once a week – but Kitchener’s Grand Valley Institution for Women is a prison. “We can walk around [between buildings],” an inmate tells me, “but we can’t leave.” We’re sitting in a gymnasium set up for a special International …
Talk about dropping bars behind bars. Inmates at the Grand Valley Institution for Women in Kitchener have released a 10-song music album, called “Undisclosed Location.” It’s the first album written and recorded at a federal women’s prison in Canada and part of the Pros and Cons Program. Founder of the program Hugh Christopher Brown tells 570 NEWS it all started …
When she first walked through the doors of the music room at Grand Valley Institution for Women, Bayley didn’t know what to expect. “I never knew I was musically inclined,” she told CBC News køb viagra i danmark. “I never played an instrument before in my life.” But when another inmate put a bass guitar in her hands and a …
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KITCHENER — The voices of inmates at Grand Valley Institution for Women will be heard around the world through a groundbreaking new album released online. It’s the first album written and recorded at a federal women’s prison in Canada, and available for anyone to listen for free. “I hope that the music first of all moves them on its own …
“There’s a lot about this record that reminds me of Van Morrison, the deep spirituality and the fluid jazz notes being the foremost. Brown has a range of talents… He’s a fearless artist.”
“An album best heard in the late hours, preferably with a broken heart or a sense of ennui, PACEM is an excellent collection of songs on which to ponder.”
“The songs are big and bold, unafraid, unashamed to flaunt their heritage… This is the work of a veteran who still has things to say.”
“Pacem is about hope, grief and love, but first and foremost it is about friendship and the obvious joy of playing together.”
“…Toronto’s Stephen Stanley certainly sounds like the type of guy you’d like to hang out with — his is an engaging brand of rock for grown-ups, awash with E Street flourishes and head-bobbing harmonies. “
“Roots rock band have to mean it or things will apart pretty damn quickly. But when it’s done right, it can be great and heartfelt. Canadian quartet The Stephen Stanley Band are pushing all the right buttons on their new album Jimmy & the Moon…”
“The song ‘Love, The World’ is about a number of things to me, and the meaning keeps shifting since writing it. What is constant is compassion. It is a bit of a mystery, but it feels like compassion is loaded with light and dark, which is why it feels risky; especially since there is no other way through… I have …
“Back in the early ‘90s, Lowest Of The Low seemed far ahead of their time in terms of adding true song craftsmanship to a post-punk template. Now with Jimmy & The Moon, the Stephen Stanley Band fully embodies that approach, while adding to the legacy of his past accomplishments.”
“Keeper of the Flame is a delicate, thoughtful shuffler led by piano and Brown’s sincere vocals that focuses on following your inner light.”
“The other half is the album’s musical sophistication and songwriting scope. The power of Jimmy & The Moon lies in the fact that while it’s imbued in Canadiana, it doesn’t allow itself to be limited by it. The musicianship is grand and superior… Warm, pure nationalistic sincerity with worldly swagger. Albums like this one make me proud to be Canadian.”
“Stanley and producer Brown have created some adventurous and jangly spins of rock/pop and folk energy that shine the spotlight on Stanley’s formidable songwriting, vocal, and guitar-playing skills.”
“…the album quickly captured my heart. Pacem warms you on cold winter days with music that feels like a warm fire. It is also music that overflows with feeling and talent.” (via Google Translate)
