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Debut show: New Year’s Eve 2009.

Live wire

Lots of live show activity this coming week!  On Tuesday and Wednesday Magali plays solo at Johan Hultqvist’s monthly FREE SPEECH salon and at the last (for 2009) of Graham Wagner & Becky Johnson’s Iron Cobra comedy and improv show at the Comedy Bar.

On Thursday she is joined by John Tielli and Stephanie Markowitz at the Gladstone for a FREE show with Michelle Mcadorey and Betty Burke presented by Blocks Recording Club.  

Get all of the show details here!

Watch out for lightning!

This Friday, it’ll be like this, except that you will be where I am sitting and I will serenade you with Phonemes songs and John Tielli will be there singing Metal Kites and we’ll sing together too. This Friday at the Holy Oak on Bloor Street close to Lansdowne in Toronto. 

 

This Friday, February 23rd at the Holy Oak

RRRECORDING! Blog entry #1

Today’s meeting with Jamie Bunton over spaghetti and tomato sauce results in full stomachs and a solid plan.  Can’t wait to get started on the new song series.  Mostly about Jack: husband, father, QC, lover of spirits and wine, sweet pickles and fried onions.   More on that later… 

For now, it’s all about practicing to the click, becoming blind with the time, just going to wear it like a coat.

CUTE!

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Somebody planted a bomb

In 1989, Bob Wiseman released “In her dream”.  Here is a clip of the Phonemes playing the song “No Commotion” at the 20th anniversary release party at the end of July.  That night Magali was joined by Katie Crown, Stephanie Markowitz, John Tielli and Julie Faught.   For more clips of the evening. You can go to here. 

April, let’s!

 

Friends in Bellwoods II out August 25th!

 

So now what is happening is that you can sneak a listen to the new Phonemes track “April, let’s send his colleagues an e-mail” on the Out of This Spark website – home of Friends in Bellwoods II – a compilation that benefits the daily bread food bank.   That’s right!  The record is available on August 25th and there are several release shows scheduled – check out Out of this Spark’s site for details.

Friends in Bellwoods

Way back in April, Magali headed down the road to Bellwoods, said hello to a dog and did her best not to wake Jenny upstairs.  James brought the wine and toolbox and now we have the never before recorded  Phonemes song - April let’s send his colleagues an e-mail to add to the list of tracks that appear on Friends in Bellwoods II.

New Friend

There are a couple of release parties in the works of which we will let you know soon… in the meantime here is a little bit about the recording from the Friends in Bellwoods site…

Out of this Spark is proud to announce the release of Friends in Belwoods II, a 40-song, double-album set of rare, new and unreleased selections from some of Canada’s most innovative independent musicians, available August 25, 2009.

In 2006, Ohbijou’s Casey Mecija and her bandmate, James Bunton, knew it was time to document and showcase some of the music being created in her home on Bellwoods Avenue in Toronto. In an attempt to render a “digital diary of the house”, the pair curated the first Friends in Bellwoods compilation later that year. Their keen sense of changes taking place in the neighborhood, and their relation to the gentrifying forces at work, led them to consider the geographic connection between the house and a heavily trafficked food bank. As a result, all proceeds from the original and the second compilation go to The Daily Bread Food Bank. The first edition of the compilation has raised over $11,000 since its release two years ago.

Friends in Bellwoods II operates as an archival document that beautifully arrests and captures the sound of a moment in the city’s history. It features rare and unreleased tracks from acclaimed artists such as Final Fantasy, Forest City Lovers, The D’Urbervilles, Great Lake Swimmers, The Acorn, Sandro Perri, Basia Bulat, Timber Timber, Katie Stelmanis and Ohbijou. Many of the songs were recorded in the house; listen carefully and you might hear the detailing of the house’s life recorded-a window creaking, a kettle boiling, the resident dog shuffling, the constant rotation of friends and musicians that continue to animate a small bungalow on Bellwoods Avenue.

Summer cover

This summer, it’s time to pay tribute. 

 

 

First off on June 24th and 26th Magali will be performing as part of the Burning Torch: Royal City tribute nights in Guelph and Toronto respectively.  There is also the fact that Kyle Donnelly from Forest City Lovers and the D’Urbervilles is going to play the bass and Stephanie Markowitz will sing!    

Others to play include: Gentleman Reg, Andy Magoffin, Nathan Lawr, Jenny Omnichord and Wooly Leaves among others. 

All of this to celebrate the release of a new album of Royal City rarities and b-sides.  Learn more about that here.    

Then! on June 29th, Magali, Sean Dixon, Ulysses Castellanos, John Zytaruk & Collette Savard and YOU get together for an evening of murder folk ballads. Okay? Ok.  More here.  

 

Also in July … Blocks Recording Club re-releases, on vinyl, Bob Wiseman’s  In her Dream, his critically acclaimed first record.   It’s the 20th anniversary of this recording and  the Phonemes get to celebrate by playing a show on July 30th (@ the Gladstone) with many other fans, friends and most of the musicians who appear on the original recording.   

You can always check details about all of these performances in the  shows section as the dates approach.

You’d be so nice, you’d be paradise

Home time.  Currently busy, collecting thoughts, laundering, visiting new babies and putting together some photos from the last two months of touring with Laura Barrett (Canada, April) and Forest City Lovers (Europe, May) to share with you.  Until then, enjoy a clip from our show in Cellatica, Italy below: