Conrad Schnitzler

He passed away last August. Here is a nice article about him. I first discovered CON in 2008, after knee surgery.
I was immobilized for weeks... unable to do much. I took my prescribed Oxycontin & listened to the unbelievable sounds of the colour series by CON from the 70's - 80's. It's like he was the doctor, and had the right soundtrack for that occasion...

I HEAR SATAN

A CORPUSSE show booked for Hamilton this weekend was cancelled. The monthly show put on by 705sound features experimental artists, and takes place in a church. The church group decided at the last moment not to have Corpusse perform there because they assumed we are linked to the devil. That's ok, because we may play with Damo Suzuki in the WITCH HAMMER later in the spring...

Corpusse, Les Fontaines, Bay of Creatures

Spent the day with Corpusse at Harlow Sound in Toronto, recorded 4 new tracks for our upcoming full length LP on Hammer City Records. I brought along an Atari 2600 with Synthcart, a Korg vocorder & a Korg Super Section drum machine to do the job. We ate veg thali from Rajdhani at Albion & Islington beforehand, as necessary.
CORPUSSE

Les Fontaines
Yesterday I spent the evening with Heiki Sillaste, we had potato vodka and talked about Lego, but mostly we put together the art for the new Les Fontaines full length album Magic touch. This maybe a "divorce" album, but mostly a "record geeks on beaucoup much french boisson and disco" album.

This album was recorded almost exclusively at a cabin in the woods near Owen Sound where we would also exclusively shop at Randy's Records

Bay of Creatures have also finished a 7 song album to be released this spring 2012, recorded mainly in Williamsburg New York City with Nik Marcillio producing. B.O.C. are Lorenz peter & Jay Isaac, this will be our 3rd album but 1st on vinyl! Album art is currently being created, and looks like the LP might emerge from Europe as opposed to The Great White North.

Despite poodles and amazing sandwiches trying to deter us, we produced 5 songs on the spot, the other two were recorded here at HQ.
release dates and other info to follow...

DJ LP at Then Gallery

I will be spinning some records I found in Quebec and lot's more at THEN gallery tomorrow night! Entitled Two Dans, It's an art show with Dan Taylor & Dan Rocca come early.

This is a random picture from the batch of recent finds! A cool one featuring Ecama from the group SPACE, famous for Magic Fly... I may play this one, but you get the idea, Spaced out!

corpusse

A show tonight with CORPUSSE at Velvet Underground on Queen, who knows what may happen. The calendar looks normal, but in the night, THERE IS TRAGEDY! Here is link to a live CORPUSSE recording.

LES FONTAINES

Les Fontaines

Mr. H. Sillaste has been tweaking the knobs for a while and experimenting with thoughts outside of the knobs. Mr. L. Peter has also applied his knowledge of “electronic” instrumentation to many projects as the self described “soundscape engineer”. pressing keys and applying patterns to mr. h sillastes’s rhythm arrangements is the next step in a manificently precise plan. Toronto’s Les Fontaines release their debut 7″ single on the paper+sound record label. Wrapped in a fanciful sleeve, the single has been released in a limited edition of 200 copies. Once they’re gone…they’re gone! Les Fontaines will be releasing their debut album “Magic Touch” on paper+sound, in Summer 2012.

check out Les Fontaines Burn the Mattress is the debut single available here for download or we can order the 7" on the Paperplusound website. Mastering for the new full length album is almost complete. Should be available by summertime!

Scenes from the Future

These scenes are from my new graphic novel, not so new to me because I have worked on it for too long, but it is finished and will be released in 1 years time. I have been in Quebec city to finish it off and do all the necessary edits, revisions etc. I don't have a title yet, but have a few ideas in mind, and a bit more time to think about it. I am not including any details yet as to what it is about, but I can say that it is fictional, and more fantasy than science fiction. I hope to generate a bit more interest in this and other comics projects this year on this blog... also up to date listings on other passions like record collecting and musical projects.