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The rest of the band back her up with some minimalist guitar and bass, some understated brass and the occassional set of handclaps. The music is perfectly suited for a small room or a basement jam session. There's only six songs on the EP, but all of them are great and show promise of much more. If a full-length is coming, it should be stellar, if these first few songs are any indication. By Steve Marlow Aug 12, - Earshot! I have a mild obsession with songs featuring hand claps.

Perhaps its because I know I can participate as I can't play a real instrument and only sing in the shower , or maybe its some weird form of nostalgia stemming from childhood. It's the gorgeous simplicity that draws me in and finds me clapping along at my desk. For their first EP, of just six songs, a pat on the back is in order for Bent by Elephants, a folk six-piece from Montreal.

Each song is as beautifully laid out as the one next to it, so the whole proves equally strong. The songs detail real stories, and it's the down-to-earth, willing-to-explain-almost-anything qualities that lie in both the music and the lyrics that warrant attention.

Currently featuring Chesley Walsh vocals , Luke Fowlie guitar , Ryan Frizell trumpet , Alex Whyte guitar, trombone, vocals , Paul VanDyk upright bass and newest member Charlotte Cornfield drums , this band are, for the most part, comprised of classically trained musicians.

They brought together learned and honed talents that created sweeping, warm, explorative tunes of lost encounters, close ties and a love for Canada. There is nothing on this EP that doesn't fit with something else, and there is a good amount of variation in solo efforts on it to boot.

Walsh's vocals are uplifting, while each instrument finds elements of shy or brash to work with. It's almost cautionary that this is their first try.

I feel like a lot of the songs are based on certain people. Are they real? Walsh: Yeah, most of them are. I'm from Los Angeles, originally. I was travelling along visiting friends and family that were kind of dispersed along the West Coast, kind of hitch-hiking and taking busses and ride shares and stuff down the way and I met this guy Victor.

Somehow both of us got stranded in Sacramento together because our rides ditched us. He had this very specific kind of spiritual live-by-the-seat-of-your-pants attitude that I dug a lot. I have no idea how to get in touch with him. What about the other songs? Fowlie: [For "Saskatchewan Pool"] I was at a cottage with family. I've been going there forever. Once there was a tornado when I was there by myself and I thought it was a very romantic songwriting story. When all the lights went out, I was sitting there by candlelight writing.

Walsh: I felt that when I listened to it, and he told me about it. I wrote the lyrics about a similar experience I had had in the mountains in California and basically, I had an amazing time with this one person and then it passed and I haven't seen them in forever.

Actually, come to think of it, most of the songs I feel like are about people that I knew for brief periods of time and then haven't been in contact with. I think that would be the idea for that song; we weren't really thinking about the outcome of it.

It's kind of about time passing and observing a moment or the space around you in particular. The EP also sounds like it would do really well on a movie soundtrack to me.

Walsh: Yeah, man! I've always said that about the way Luke writes songs, I always said that Luke should go into film, and I think we're both interested in that in our own way. What kind of film would you like to be on? Fowlie: I've seen some really good documentaries. There's this one about [artist] Andy Goldsworthy that a guitarist played all the songs for. I really like that kind of thing. It's appropriate. Independent --Jessica Lewis - Exclaim Magazine.

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She quickly gained Linda K. Johnson has been a professional dance-based, multidisciplinary artist living in Portland, Oregon over for 30 years. Over these three decades of creative practice, she has taught, performed, created, Wynn Kiyama is an assistant professor of musicology and ethnomusicology and the music history coordinator at Portland State University.

He received a Ph. Liz Kohl is a pianist, instructor, collaborative musician, and yoga instructor based in Portland, Oregon. She holds degrees in music from the University of Washington B. Lee is on the faculties of the University of Soprano Hsin Yi Lin, praised for her sparkling voice and vibrant stage presence, excels in music ranging from Baroque to contemporary.

Enthralled with movement, music, and the human body, Lavinia Magliocco trained from a young age to be a professional ballet dancer while attending North Carolina School of the Arts and School of American Ballet SteepleChase Records recording artist Joe Manis has been applauded for his "big tenor sound" and his "intense, updated take on the Rollins-Trane tradition.

Dunja Jennings Marcum is an adjunct clarinet instructor at Portland State University and maintains a successful studio in SE Portland that consists of students throughout the Metro area. She has been an active Todd Marston has pursued a diverse music career ever since his days playing in punk bands and jazz combos as a teenager. His love of music has guided him to receive a jazz piano education at Berklee College of She has a flourishing voice studio at PSU and also teaches vocal Ben grew up in Andover, Massachusetts.

He spent his high school years with trombonist, Phil Wilson. During his summers, he studied with German trombonist Jiggs Whigham. After attending Berklee College of Music in Since moving to Portland in , trombonist, John Moak has quickly become an integral part of the Northwest music scene.

John has more than three decades of professional experience performing with symphony Multi-instrumentalist John Nastos was born and raised in Portland, Oregon, where he found his love of music while exploring the vibrant local music scene.

Before graduating from high school, John enrolled at Michael O'Connell joined the school in teaching acting and voice. Daniel Partridge has been the horn instructor at Portland State University since He is an active performer, soloist, and clinician.

He is the principal horn of both Symphony Tacoma and the Vancouver Hannah Penn, mezzo-soprano, enjoys a diverse career as a performer of opera, oratorio, and recital literature. Frequently praised for her musicality and the timbre of her voice, Ms. Penn has recently been called Kerry Politzer is a jazz pianist with classical and Brazilian influences.

Jeff Putterman is a unique guitarist and composer who has performed as a soloist, sideman and ensemble leader in clubs and concert halls from coast to coast and abroad. A former instructor at the Musicians Charles Reneau is an instructor of trombone and bass trombone at Portland State University, as well as the bass trombonist of the Oregon Symphony.

He is a busy educator, teaching privately and at PSU, as well as Megan Sand, mezzo soprano, joined the voice faculty at PSU in fall of teaching voice part time. She left Oregon State University in to have more time with her family after twelve years teaching Connie Titterington is a member of the adjunct piano faculty at Portland State University.

She is an active chamber musician and accompanist. Connie teaches conceptually, with a mind for body awareness and Strut , Persephone , Get Denise Westby grew up knowing that flute was her "thing".

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