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Great Lake Swimmers – Live at 100.5 The PEAK

Posted on 02 February 2010 by Brian

Great Lake Swimmers live in the PEAK Performance Lounge
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Tags: great lake swimmers, intense level, nature beauty, pulling on a line, tony dekker

Great Lake Swimmers Live Tiny Desk Concert Video

Posted on 24 December 2009 by Brian



When Tom Jones showed up for his Tiny Desk Concert a few months back, Bob Boilen’s shabby workspace quickly cut the legend’s larger-than-life persona down to size. Here was a huge-voiced, lionized pop star and icon, and he seemed exposed and more than a little nervous. (Of course, Jones is also one of popular music’s all-time great pros, so he banged out an unforgettable set like a champ.)

Few paragraphs about Tom Jones transition seamlessly into paragraphs about Great Lake Swimmers singer Tony Dekker, but I was struck by how shy both men seemed when presented with a tiny spotlight and a office full of happy strangers. Showing up alone — no band, no road manager — Dekker was enormously kind, but his timidity was apparent whenever he wasn’t softly singing one of his band’s gorgeous folk-pop songs.

Fortunately, unlike Jones, Dekker plays music that’s ideally suited to a bit of introversion. Throughout a career that spans four albums — in this three-song set, “Everything Is Moving So Fast” and “Pulling on a Line” were both drawn from Great Lake Swimmers’ latest, Lost Channels — Dekker has developed a sterling track record for gentle ruminations on nature, beauty, conflict and the human body.

Nowhere does Dekker’s music hit harder than on my favorite Great Lake Swimmers song, “Various Stages” (from 2005’s Bodies & Minds), which closes this three-song set. Dekker trots out a harmonica for the song, which chronicles a relationship marked by both “various stages of undress” and “various states of madness.” Cutting a complex relationship’s worth of emotions and struggles down to a few minutes, “Various Stages” conveys an intense level of intimacy — appropriate to his surroundings here.


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Tags: great lake swimmers, Palmistry

Great Lake Swimmers – Palmistry

Posted on 29 October 2009 by Brian

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Tags: Chad VanGaalen, elliott brood, Fucked Up, great lake swimmers, Hey Rosetta!, Joel Plaskett, K-Naan, Malajube, Metric, Patrick Watson, Polaris Prize Short List

Polaris Prize Short List Nominees Revealed

Posted on 07 July 2009 by Brian

Today the short list of the nominees for this year’s Polaris prize were announced. There has been a lot of discussion today surrounding the displeasure of the repeat nominees, and to those I say – can’t we all just get along and celebrate that we have a chance to showcase some FANTASTIC Canadian music!!!!! Get over it there is no shortage of talent on this list. Are they the best of the year? That is a different answer for everybody, but this is the list supported by the votes of a very large number of our Canadian music media.

Elliott Brood

Mountain Meadows

Toronto, ON

Website | Myspace

Fucked Up

The Chemistry of Common Life

Toronto, ON

Website | Myspace

Great Lake Swimmers

Lost Channels

Toronto, ON

Website | Myspace

Hey Rosetta!

Into Your Lungs

St Johns, NL

Website | Myspace

K-NAAN

Troubadour

Toronto, ON

Website | Myspace

Malajube

Labyrinthes

Montreal, QC

Website | Myspace

Metric

Fantasies

Toronto, ON

Website | Myspace

Joel Plaskett

Three

Halifax, NS

Website | Myspace

Chad VanGaalen

Soft Airplane

Calgary, AB

Website | Myspace

Patrick Watson

Wooden Arms

Montreal, QC

Website | Myspace

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