tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-60478813509248935762024-02-07T03:42:52.872-05:00CURSED ARROWSJack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.comBlogger138125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-62379058134240071062014-10-29T12:36:00.001-04:002014-10-29T12:40:25.495-04:00CURSED ARROWS COVER HALL & OATES ON “COUVRE PROJET” LP<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We've just released a new collection of songs called "Couvre Projet." </div>
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Features songs by Neil Young, Talking Heads, Elliott Smith, and more...</div>
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They are available for free or PWYC here: </div>
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The ever-articulate media connoisseur Dan Gorman over at Modern Superior explains further:</div>
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-89878727228263710752014-10-19T02:21:00.001-04:002014-10-19T02:21:39.412-04:00<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-75366419008516278302013-10-07T11:44:00.001-04:002013-10-07T11:44:47.710-04:00Classic Covers Project - #5 - Last Call (Elliott Smith)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The fifth instalment in our extensive classic covers series* is Last Call, a lyrical dirge that appeared on Elliott Smith's game-changing 1994 debut LP Roman Candle. </div>
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In the accompanying video - on the 10th anniversary of his death in October 2003 - you will see and hear us at our most vulnerable, playing the collective characters in all of Elliott's songs, living our lives and loving each other and constantly questioning our own perceptions and the world around us, wondering "Who are we? Why are we here? How can we make this life worth living?" </div>
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Elliott Smith recorded Roman Candle in 1993, while he was still in the Portland-based band Heatmiser, which he'd formed with Neil Gust a few years prior. He intended the songs on Roman Candle more as basement demos than a finished record, and aspired only to put out a single. When he presented the songs to the label Cavity Search, they released the album in its entirety, sparking the beginning of a storied solo career for Mr. Smith.</div>
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Heatmiser, a grungy rock act, had left Elliott seeking a softer and more intimate way to present his songwriting and voice with Roman Candle. "I thought my head would be chopped off immediately when it came out because at the time it was so opposite to the grunge thing that was popular..." He said years later. "The thing is that album was really well-received, which was a total shock, and it immediately eclipsed (Heatmiser), unfortunately." Smith followed his minimal acoustic debut with the LP's Elliott Smith in 1995 and Either/Or in 1997, both released on the label Kill Rock Stars. His self-titled debut was still dark and minimalistic, but Either/Or began to showcase Smith's gifts for multi-tracking a variety of instruments and layering parts he'd performed and recorded himself. </div>
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Elliott's mainstream recognition increased after he recorded the track Miss Misery specifically for Portland director Gus Van Sant's film Good Will Hunting. The film was an Academy Awards darling - and Smith himself was nominated for his original song and performed solo on acoustic guitar at the televised ceremony in 1998. Miss Misery lost out to Titanic's My Heart Will Go on, but Smith was able to appreciate the humour of the situation and described performing at the Oscars as "surreal."</div>
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Elliott moved to Brooklyn, NY and was able to sign to the much larger Dreamworks Records label to release his next record XO, a formidable pop record fleshed out with additional musicians, strings, horns, Chamberlins, and intensely memorable lyricism. Known by acquaintances as a heavy drinker and pill user, prone to suicidal outbursts and a few unsuccessful attempts, Smith toured in support of the record backed up by the Portland duo Quasi, and musicians such as Jon Brion and Rob Schnapf. On rare occasions when he'd perform solo, Smith was notorious for aborting songs mid-performance if they weren't sounding good enough to meet his standards. "What's the point of playing a song badly?" he has said. "It'd be better to play it and mean it, than to just walk through it."</div>
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Nomadic Mr. Smith picked up and moved to LA from NY in 1999, recording the beautiful Beatles cover Because, which appeared on the soundtrack to another Oscar-winning film, Dreamworks' American Beauty. Riding the momentum of this track came the album Figure 8, partially recorded at Abbey Road Studios in England and released in 2000. A lush and beautifully orchestrated album, led off by the jangly old-time piano of the first track Son of Sam, Figure 8 would prove Elliott's worth in many music critic's eyes. Though the elaborate instrumentation was a far cry from his lo-fi bedroom acoustic debut, this was Smith sounding as he wished to sound, fully produced and polished yet retaining his vigorously raw lyrical energy and stubborn, laid back vocals whose emotional veracity was undeniable. This would be Elliott Smith's final album completed in his lifetime. </div>
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Throughout all his accomplishments and self-described failures, Smith was a darkly affected man, haunted by past abuses by his step-father and leaving a trail of broken relationships behind him. Many of those who confronted Elliott about his addictions and his tendency to teeter on the brink of death found their dealings with him come to an abrupt end. A fundamentally private person, fans can only know what he has chosen to express through his unquestionably remarkable body of musical work. Throughout 2001-2003, Smith was apparently in the midst of heroin and crack addiction, and performed very sparingly . Attempts were made to record a follow-up to Figure 8 in studio with Jon Brion, but the sessions prove fruitless and Smith went on to record the material himself, with occasional guest appearances from the likes of Sam Coomes of Quasi and Stephen Drozd of the Flaming Lips. The stunningly candid record would later be released posthumously under the name From A Basement On A Hill. One need only listen to that record to glimpse both the emotional turmoil and musical genius of Elliott Smith towards the end of his life. </div>
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Despite an arrest by the LAPD and attempts at rehab leading to severe withdrawal from prescription psychiatric medications and alcohol, among other things, Smith continued to perfect his final (markedly louder, pitch-shifted and noisier) recordings and contributed songs to more films, including Wes Anderson's The Royal Tennenbaums. He was scheduled to mix his final record with Larry Crane in November 2003. </div>
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In late-October, though, police were called to Smith's place in California - which he shared with his girlfriend - to find him collapsed on the living room floor with multiple stab wounds to his chest. He died in the hospital shortly thereafter. </div>
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From A Basement On A Hill was released in 2004, a year after Elliott's death and a year after Ryan and I met. When we heard about Elliott's death in October 2003, we were inexplicably shocked despite the series of clues Smith left us fans along the way alluding to the end. I returned home to find Ryan in tears for the first time since I'd known him. Elliott had been one of his truest inspirations, a songwriter just like him, who'd left behind the bombastic youthful meanderings of his early bands to sit and make acoustic records by himself, holed up in a bedroom. Ryan's debut solo album, a moody and unsettling collection of 18 songs entitled Nothing Left Unsaid, was released in 2003 in quiet tribute to Elliott Smith. I'll never forget the tears in his eyes as he told me the news, and the weight of the information on my heart and mind. It was in large part due to our shared love of Elliott Smith that we found the nerve to begin performing music together 10 years ago. </div>
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Thank you Eric Stanley for requesting this song. You commissioned one of our most uncharacteristic and meaningful works, knowing all too well your brother's uncanny ability to crawl inside Elliott's world of singing, writing and playing. Cursed Arrows have included more Elliott Smith covers in our extensive repertoire than songs by any other artist. </div>
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*Cursed Arrows are a post-proto-punk duo from Canada. Our Classic Covers Project was initiated during the making of our 2013 full-length original album, SONIC UNION. All songs were performed and recorded by us, specifically by fan request, and remain unreleased outside of Youtube. All videos were shot and edited by Cursed Arrows. </div>
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-19947296811154365492013-08-29T16:16:00.005-04:002013-08-29T16:16:49.556-04:00Classic Covers Project - #4 - White Rabbit (Jefferson Airplane)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The fourth instalment in our Classic Covers* series is such a classic, indeed, that it feels futile even to begin to explain the song's significance. But we'll give it try, for our younger viewers.</div>
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Kyle Baron, the fan who requested this track, knows our taste in music because he's seen us perform live in Toronto several times. In fact, he's been one of the few hardcore fans who's made the trek out to see us play dive bars and not-too-shabby venues. He gave us a few options - all of which suited Jack E's singing voice perfectly - but this one was the most challenging. </div>
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White Rabbit was written by Grace Slick when she was still in The Great Society, somewhere between 1965-1966. She brought it, along with the beloved "Somebody To Love" with her when she joined Jefferson Airplane. The band recorded the two Slick-penned tracks in 1966 and they appeared on the album Surrealistic Pillow the following year. It became a top-ten hit in America, following Somebody To Love on the Billboard charts. </div>
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More importantly, the song is widely regarded as a masterpiece, a sonic collusion between folk balladry and psychedelia. The Alice In Wonderland imagery lends a dreamy literary quality, and the bolero-inspired crescendo was at the time unprecedented in rock and roll. The song is often associated with hallucinogenic visionary experiences, and pop culture has had no qualms about depicting it this way (see the bathtub scene in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas). Slick herself, however, has characterized it equally as a call to literary arms. White Rabbit, which took "about an hour" to write, is about "following your curiosity." The White Rabbit, a symbol of childhood curiosity, leads Alice to drugs, which Slick says was "why the song was written. "All major children's books do this. In "Peter Pan," sparkle dust lets you fly. In the "Wizard of Oz," they awaken in a poppy field to see the beautiful Emerald City. Our parents read us stories about chemicals that make it possible to have a good time." Explains that line "The ones that your mother gives you/Don't do anything at all," doesn't it?</div>
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White Rabbit has been a part of our repertoire in live performances for years now. It goes without saying that this is a very difficult song to perform and do justice, particularly as a duo with a drumming lead singer. Grace's voice is unparalleled, but Jack E does her best to capture - if not the grace of the original - the feeling in your gut as you listen to it for the first time, and let it carry you away. We didn't polish it up; just recorded a solid take and shot some video of ourselves recording and figured we'd let this one stay as genuine and spontaneous as possible. Just like our live sets. The painting depicted at the end of the video was done by Mr. Ryan Stanley as part of his recent series of fan-commissioned works. Grace Slick is herself, a highly accomplished visual artist and we urge you to visit her art if you haven't already had the pleasure. </div>
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Sincere thanks to Kyle Baron, not just for requesting such a powerful, influential, unique, beautiful and appropriate song for us to record, but for being a true fan. Kyle could never have known that Jefferson Airplane's Volunteers was one of Jack E's favourite songs as a child. It is always a pleasure to revisit this music. We hope you enjoy and feel the emotion behind the recorded version of this track, dedicated to you. </div>
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Thank you Grace Slick, for teaching Jack E how to sing as a little girl, with lilting beauty, or icy venom and rage whenever required. As adults, we can appreciate now that you were "'singing with the force and anger that women were afraid to express at the time." Thanks Jefferson Airplane for being one of our favourite bands of all time. </div>
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*Cursed Arrows are a post-proto-punk duo from Canada. Our Classic Covers Project was initiated during the making of our 2013 full-length original album, SONIC UNION. All songs were performed and recorded by us, specifically by fan request, and remain unreleased outside of Youtube. All videos were shot and edited by Cursed Arrows. </div>
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-44381496871191204682013-08-15T11:38:00.003-04:002013-08-15T11:44:05.927-04:00Classic Covers Project - #3 - Lungs (Townes Van Zandt)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The third instalment in our fan-requested Classic Covers* series is Townes Van Zandt's 1969 prescient lyrical ditty, Lungs.</div>
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Dave Burns, the delightfully intuitive fan who requested this song couldn't have picked a more poignant one for us. In fact, his three potential selections were so wonderfully idiosyncratic that we were a bit torn as to which to play, but no songs - or artists - resonated so deeply with us as Townes' Lungs. He is a songwriter after our own hearts. </div>
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Van Zandt purportedly stated that "this song should be screamed and not sung," as recounted by Lyle Lovett. An arguably criminally-underrated songwriter, Townes got his start covering Lightning Hopkins and Bob Dylan in Houston. After following his dying father's suggestion that he play more originals, he spent most of his years touring low-rent bars and performing for very small audiences. It is said that he never released a commercially successful album, despite having been covered famously by Bob Dylan (a self-proclaimed fan of Van Zandt), Emmylou Harris, Willy Nelson and Merle Haggard. He lived reclusively outside of Nashville in the '70's and recorded less frequently as the decades wore on. Many of his records are widely regarded as overdone, no doubt the work of zealous producers. Only live performances revealed the true Townes Van Zandt. The 80's found him recognition as a songwriter as his songs - recorded by others - Pancho and Lefty and If I Needed You hit the top of the US country charts. The 90's saw him touring with The Cowboy Junkies in the US and Canada and the outing helped expose his music to a fresh generation. Sonic Youth drummer Steve Shelley approached Van Zandt in 1996 hoping to record and release a new album for him; Townes agreed. Just before recording was to begin, though, he fell down a stairwell and severely injured himself, and despite attempts to push through and record the record in a wheelchair, the effort was woefully abandoned due to Townes' unsettled and intoxicated condition. He died "naturally" in Tennessee on New Year's Day (1997), the same day on which his idol, Hank Williams, had passed away. </div>
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Often inextricably linked to his music is the pathos surrounding his existence; the alcoholism and heroin addiction; the youthful diagnosis with manic depression, shock treatments, and failed attempts at normalcy before succumbing to his musical drifter calling. All of these negative images are overshadowed by the masterful poetic symbiosis of his songs, and his casual, yet candidly sensual singing voice. Like so many genuine artists and so-called cult musicians - his personal plight has inspired legions of fans to break free from their own spiral into depression in favour of paying witness to life's harmonious beauty. </div>
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We count ourselves among them. To pursue music ascetically means to "blow everything off - family, money, security, happiness, freedom." Thank you Dave Burns for the stunning song selection. Buried deep in our hearts and minds, it is one that will not soon leave our repertoire. </div>
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The song's lyrics do it the greatest justice, so without further ado:</div>
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Breath I'll take and breath I'll give</div>
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Pray the day ain't poison</div>
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Called the devil partner</div>
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Who'll kill the raging cancer</div>
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Seal the river at its mouth</div>
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Fill the sky with screams and cries</div>
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And I for one you for two</div>
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Thank you sincerely forever, Townes Van Zandt. </div>
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Here's an editorial take on the song (includes two original versions of Lungs for your ears): <a href="http://www.blogger.com/%C2%A0http://www.avclub.com/articles/how-townes-van-zandts-lungs-veers-from-platonic-ep,89423/"> http://www.avclub.com/articles/how-townes-van-zandts-lungs-veers-from-platonic-ep,89423/</a></div>
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*Cursed Arrows are a post-proto-punk duo from Canada. Our Classic Covers Project was initiated during the making of our 2013 full-length original album, SONIC UNION. All songs were performed and recorded by us, specifically by fan request, and remain unreleased outside of Youtube. All videos were shot and edited by Cursed Arrows. </div>
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-29728689637370096732013-08-09T10:39:00.001-04:002013-08-15T11:39:25.407-04:00Classic Covers Project - #2 - She's Gone (Hall & Oates)<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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The second instalment in our Classic Covers* series is She's Gone, a widely-known soulful soft-rock track from inveterate songwriting duo Hall and Oates, originally released in 1974.</div>
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***Prior to viewing this instalment we must politely INSIST that you FIRST watch the original Hall and Oates video here: </div>
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One of Jack E's mom's favourite bands, and thus an unintentional early influence on the female half of Cursed Arrows, Hall and Oates are ubiquitous radio staples across the adult-contemporary pop spectrum and hold the crown as best-selling musical duo of all time. The track She's Gone managed to hit #7 on the Billboard Hot 100 a few years after its release. The song weaves an intimate, yet widely appealing tale of heartbreak. </div>
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The most compelling aspect of this track, requested by our fans in the Toronto/Guelph rock outfit The Folk, was the fantastically strange promotional film that the duo produced to support the song - pre-MTV of course, in 1973. According to Oates it was likely " one of the first music videos ever made." The thoroughly blasted duo shot this hilariously lazy-eyed video under the direction of Oates' sister, armed with tattered living room chairs, monopoly money, and memorable costumes. Needless to say, the TV channel never aired their visual masterpiece and it was left up to Oates himself to leak the video online in more recent years.</div>
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The track - selected for us by a promising young rock act called The Folk (featuring Sara and Emma Bortolon-Vettor, twin daughters of the aforementioned Larry Vettor, and rounded out by Mark, Liam, and Patrick) at first confounded us. After wrapping our heads around Hall and Oates' sense of humour, and getting a kick out of the lyrical vibe (Think I'll spend eternity in the city/Let the carbon and monoxide choke my thoughts away), we eventually found our own groove. </div>
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Curiously, a month after we finished production on our version of She's Gone, a weathered original pressing of Abandoned Luncheonette, Hall and Oates' debut album on which She's Gone originally appeared in its extended format, materialized before us on a dirty sidewalk. We took the record home and it plays just fine....clearly karma had a hand in all of this.</div>
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Thus we present our farcical take on a satirical promotional video for a classic pop song - one that we hear blaring out of satellite radio anytime we enter a grocery store. Jack E's mom would enjoy this video. We hope that The Folk - the talented souls who believed in us enough to request that we reinterpret this song - get as many laughs out of it as we did. </div>
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*Cursed Arrows are a post-proto-punk duo from Canada. Our Classic Covers Project was initiated during the making of our 2013 full-length original album, SONIC UNION. All songs were performed and recorded by us, specifically by fan request, and remain unreleased outside of Youtube. All videos were shot and edited by Cursed Arrows. </div>
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Formed in Calgary, Alberta, Canada (Jack E's hometown and birthplace) in 1964, the group toured endlessly, endured many lineup changes, moved to Toronto, found success on major US labels and charts, notably when the oft-referenced track "Sweet City Woman" hit Billboard hard in '71, followed by appearances on the likes of the legendary Whisky-A-Go-Go in L.A, a forged friendship with good old Wolfman Jack, an appearance on The Dating Game, and a performance at Keith Moon's 26th birthday party... </div>
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Wild Eyes was a markedly heavier track for the Stampeders and one that won them a new subset of fans. Our own beloved and respected fan Larry Vettor saw fit to request that we cover this song, knowing it would hit a nerve with us, and we proudly dedicate our version of the song - and video - to him. </div>
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Thank you Larry Vettor for helping to fund our musical exploits, producing such exceptionally kind and talented offspring, and demonstrating to us that we might have more in common with The Stampeders than Calgarian roots and a singing drummer! </div>
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Thank you Stampeders for the time-tested classic song. </div>
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-31911782665811276282013-04-20T11:59:00.000-04:002013-05-10T12:16:42.005-04:00Sonic Union - Available Now!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-3904701556697469272013-03-24T19:42:00.001-04:002013-05-10T12:02:18.187-04:00THANK YOU EVER SO MUCH<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Just wanted to say another sincere THANK YOU to everyone who's ever supported us in any way - by offering kind words, helping promote our records, going to shows, <a href="http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/cursed-arrows-sonic-union-lp-pre-order">buying records</a>, playing our music on your radio shows/DJ nights, liking and commenting on our posts, re-posting, following, subscribing, adjective-ing and re-tweeting, reading, watching, listening, and engaging.<br />
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A mere 40 individuals pre-ordered our new record; we cannot thank all of you enough. You alone paid for the pressing of half of our 500 12" records! That is a monumental accomplishment and a true testament to your fan-dom. The record's been mastered by our ideal candidate, and is about to be sent off to an audiophile-adored legend to cut the lacquer. We couldn't be more excited for you to hear it. We'll tell you more about the making of the record soon...<br />
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We've been a band for nearly 7 years now and we can't thank you enough for journeying with us. Our promise never to repeat ourselves rings true in our minds and <a href="http://cursedarrows.com/press.html">your hearts</a>. <br />
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To everyone who has pre-ordered our 4th album SONIC UNION, your commissioned songs, poems, paintings, short stories, CDs, DVDs, and vinyl records will be on their way to you later in the spring.<br />
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To everyone across Canada who still wants to see us live - WE'RE COMING LATER THIS YEAR!</div>
Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-46497984451833611252013-02-11T01:51:00.001-05:002013-03-26T13:19:56.856-04:00Sonic Union LP To Be Released On Record Store Day - April 20, 2013<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-1043953291013725512013-01-30T19:20:00.001-05:002013-03-21T19:07:31.911-04:00WATCH: SONIC UNION Commercial, Close To The Exit, Southern Souls<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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We stayed up all night making this 1.5 minute promotional film for our new album, SONIC UNION.</div>
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Keep watching after the commercial for another new film,<br />
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We met up with our friends the Hammer City Roller Girls to shoot videos for the first two songs off of the new album, "Little Girl Blue," sung by Jack e, and "The Destructor," sung by Ryan.</div>
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-23618653094454188192013-01-07T15:44:00.000-05:002013-01-07T15:50:40.301-05:00CAPTAIN BEEFHEART COVER + EPIC VIDEO UPDATE + 4TH ALBUM COMING SOON<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-67960073369784257892012-12-21T12:11:00.001-05:002013-01-07T15:49:57.028-05:00LISTEN: NEW SONG! "I Thought I Was A Nice Guy, But I'm An Asshole"<iframe width="400" height="100" style="position: relative; display: block; width: 400px; height: 100px;" src="http://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/v=2/track=3315851028/size=venti/bgcol=000000/linkcol=4285BB/" allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0"><a href="http://cursedarrows.bandcamp.com/track/i-thought-i-was-a-nice-guy-but-im-an-asshole">I Thought I Was A Nice Guy, But I'm An Asshole by Cursed Arrows</a></iframe>
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-15429474158915186252012-12-01T04:03:00.000-05:002012-12-03T14:31:49.639-05:00Chronicles: Autumn 2012<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Some days are average. Some are terrible. Some are glorious. Still others see you driving 20 hours away from your adopted home, away from the salt and green and into the grey. They'll see the stench of cat piss and rattle of vintage tube amps inside a clown car, with wilderness, lakes, mountains and plains rushing by. They'll see your face in the clouds, up and away...</div>
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We've had so many great experiences of late, I figured it's time to share. Since September we've discovered the punk-soaked beauty of the DIY Collective art space in Barrie, the live-in bohemia of the Artel space in Kingston. In Windsor we were ghosts in a roomful of delightful goblins. The lights and sound of the Legendary Horseshoe Tavern, where the sound engineer is a professional gentleman, where musician of many achievements <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acid_Test_(band)" target="_blank">Steve Fall</a> (aka, Jeffrey the Corpse from my favourite director Bruce McDonald's <a href="http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/highway_61/" target="_blank">Highway 61</a>) helped load out our tiny stack of gear and inoculated us with positive vibes on the strangest of full moon nights, where fabulous DJ Shannon brought on Dance Cave flashbacks, and Ryan unwittingly scrawled our name just beneath that of the holy <a href="http://basementrug.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/jack-white-drumming-at-the-horseshoe-tavern.jpg" target="_blank">Dead Weather</a>, infused us with goodwill towards rock'n'roll humanity. We discovered the Twin Peaks-worthy interior of Trinity Lounge in Sarnia, full of smiling, dancing faces and met many sweet, generous folks who were kind enough to buy our records afterward, including a very inquisitive <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Genn" target="_blank">Dave Genn</a>, whose band 54-40 had just performed at a big theatre around the block. </div>
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I am left almost without words to describe the exhilarating transcendence of attending the live shows of Bob Dylan, Neil Young and Patti Smith (both in one evening, no less). Suffice it to say that I smiled through the Bob show, nearly lost consciousness during Tangled Up In Blue, and was a weeping soggy mess for much of the Neil/Patti sets. When the stage lights came on and she appeared before us singing "Dancing Barefoot," it was all I could do to keep from climbing over all the politely confused Crazy Horse devotees before me as I ran toward Patti onstage in ecstasy. Venue security ejected a rock'n'roll dad who'd just lit up a joint with his pre-teen son in tow. The two were gleefully singing along to Powderfinger as The Man put his feeble foot down, and my middle finger went up. The duo of Jack White shows in Toronto/Montreal led us to hotel rooms with ominous red lighting and smoky back alleys lined with big sexy black tour buses. I smiled into SUVs as Pokey Lafarge vociferously savoured the aroma of my stogie. These excursions inspired a second video update, soon to be released.</div>
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Never ones to stay very long in one place, we are booking the next leg of our tour westward, but not before revelling in Ottawa's abundance of vegan food (to the chagrin of our pocketbooks). Our show at the phenomenal Daily Grind Art Cafe was positively memorable and its staff and proprietor Mike are among the warmest and most inspiring people we've met. We made the first of many visits to <a href="http://www.facebook.com/vinylalibi" target="_blank">Vinyl Alibi</a>, and made lovely friends who shared their wedding with us - a real honour. Fellow Albertans and DIY comrades <a href="http://thefamines.ca/" target="_blank">The Famines</a> showed us a napkin dancin' time at the Silver Dollar Room in Toronto, where historically significant promoter of the ages <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/650496--dan-burke-wasted-days-and-wasted-nights" target="_blank">Dan Burke</a> gave us another shot, and me a big'ol hug at the end of the night. We narrowly avoided a police shutdown of a punk house show (rivalling those of our early youth) in downtown Brantford, near the train station, by falling over onto our gear and causing Wayde to lose his glasses. The train station itself harbours fine music in a cafe setting over the din of railway traffic a few feet away. Ryan once again severely wounded his Gretsch in a tragically unceremonious headstock accident, taking the babe from his arms for a good week of repair. Once the guitar was back in action, The Brain - a cornucopia of beat era<b> </b>inspiration and a real visual pleasure - accepted us into its heart as we revelled in its impeccably staffed and lovely bathroomed glory with Hamilton sweetheart Aron <a href="http://www.southernsouls.ca/dluxe/" target="_blank">D'Luxe</a> D'Alesio. The evening found us filming and swooning over Aron's haunting (haunted) guitar landscapes in a late-autumn delirium while Dylan Hudecki helped us out with the camera(s) - and reuniting with a lot of old <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ford_Plant" target="_blank">Ford Plant</a> friends as the night went on. <br />
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Our dear friends <a href="http://familiarfiends.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Familiar Fiends</a> filled our heads with their naked Ontario-via-Montana anthems, and the Copocs let us fill their magical home with our music - and recording equipment. Their records will show you the love. We all filmed some time capsule worthy footage at a low-key show at Homegrown Hamilton - the finest smelling, warmest, most ideologically sound venue we've seen of late. The seductive aroma of newly roasted coffee enveloped us as we performed alongside fellow workhorse CA Smith, whose songs and presence are always enchanting, and later, as we attended the Canada-wide premiere of Seth Smith's film <a href="http://www.lowlife-movie.com/" target="_blank">Lowlife</a>, a film dominated by stellar acting and ethereal East coast scenery. We continue to play shows with the Fiends and our new comrades and unofficial high school reunion candidates <a href="http://hawkeyessongs.bandcamp.com/" target="_blank">Hawkeyes</a>, all of whom we are hoping will join us on our epic jaunt around this rugged country in the newest of new years. </div>
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To wind it all down, we've found a cozy new art space for the winter months, so we can zero in on our final mixes and album art - not to mention hundreds of hours of video production that will accompany our fourth full-length release to come in the regenerative springtime. Before that, you can expect a lot of written words, avant-garde video, photographs, paintings, and whatever else we get our hands on as we keep out of the blowing snow. </div>
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-12437365566626284542012-10-29T23:53:00.003-04:002012-10-30T14:46:21.724-04:00Watch: NEW VIDEO for "Not The End"<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Shot in various locales between Ontario's "Homegrown Hamilton" and rural Nova Scotia, and with help from our friend Paul Copoc, the Ryan Stanley directed new film "Not The End" depicts the transition from earth to sky.</div>
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I edited together footage of myself performing one of my earliest attempts at songwriting in contrasting settings. This was, in part, to help show the path from idea to realization in pure documentary style - similar to the song's lyrics.</div>
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The bridge depicted at the end of the film has personal significance, but can also serve as a symbol of the lack of compassion for human existence that occurred in the village of Africville, Nova Scotia.</div>
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Lyrics:<br />
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Curse the town where I grew up<br />
And fell back down<br />
Force too many bastard smiles<br />
I should leave here for awhile<br />
So I talk to the dead<br />
And I talk with my hands<br />
You live inside your head<br />
But this is not the end<br />
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Guns blaze and the leaders smoke cigars<br />
You wouldn't take one<br />
Standing in the schoolyard<br />
Saw my neighbour try to choke his wife<br />
With a telephone wire<br />
She wore a neck brace after that night<br />
And no one said goodbye<br />
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Over-analyse the stares of the people uptown<br />
Never let your actions<br />
Precede their reactions<br />
You think you're tough<br />
But it's rarely enough<br />
If you keep digging up<br />
You will only find dust<br />
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Where your bones used to be<br />
And your recollections of me<br />
Unshackled by grief<br />
For a life you can't lead<br />
So you try to forget<br />
Leave your keys in the door again<br />
Spout wisdom from a can<br />
But this is not the end<br />
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This is not the end</div>
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Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-23849367004666173282012-09-24T15:48:00.001-04:002012-09-24T15:53:44.625-04:00Jack E's 10 Tips for New (Female) Drummers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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1. Know that players like you are a dime a dozen. It is not unusual to be a female drummer in most musical realms these days. Don't rely on your gender as your drumming identity.</div>
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2. Let your body move like a drummer's body should. Don't maintain that stick-up-the-ass with robot arms posture so many have on the drum throne. Your entire body should move fluidly and rhythmically.</div>
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3. Don't be afraid to make drumming faces. Drumming is not glamorous. Never has been. Never will be.</div>
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4. Exercise regularly. Get in the best fucking shape of your life. Drumming won't do this for you, but it'll be easier to nail all those parts if you've been training.</div>
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5. Eat well. Take vitamins and eat mostly vegetables and healthy proteins. Drink therapeutic herbal teas. Consume copious amounts of clean fresh water at all times, especially the day of a show.</div>
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6. Hit hard. Not purely for the sake of hitting hard - your drumming should match your music - but uncertain lack-luster motions (in rock music) lead to underwhelming sonic results.</div>
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7. Dress like somebody who belongs onstage. Sure, you have to dress for comfort (denim with no stretch ain't gonna cut it), but you're not a groupie or a stage hand. Don't wear ugly fucking shit purely for comfort, unless that's truly how you want to present yourself.</div>
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8. Don't be afraid to be as masculine as you are feminine. There is nothing girly about sitting on a stool with your legs open. Don't play coy, 'cause your fuckin' legs are open for business.</div>
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9. Know how to set up and maintain your drum kit. Never let sound engineers, stage hands, other drummers, or audience members betlittle your knowledge of the drums. If they treat you like shit tell them you don't need their advice, and to go fuck themselves. </div>
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10. KNOW HOW TO PLAY THE FUCKING DRUMS!!! This means practising many hours a day forever. Don't rely on that ubiquitous "You're pretty good...for a girl" audience response. Blow them all away with your abilities, not your bouncing boobies.</div>
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We haven't put any time or money into promoting our <a href="http://cursedarrows.bandcamp.com/album/skin-behind-the-shroud" target="_blank">Skin Behind The Shroud EP</a> - been too busy composing and recording new music. So thanks sincerely to everyone who's given the tape a listen and taken the time to write about it!</div>
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It's a good indicator of where we are headed next.</div>Ryanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00020428992660621139noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-3504353778620989312012-06-26T19:43:00.003-04:002012-08-05T13:11:00.192-04:00Knives Falling From The Sky: Photos of Summer<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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</div>Jack E Bluehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090671687508507699noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6047881350924893576.post-38886741894478368352012-06-22T20:07:00.002-04:002012-06-22T20:23:42.973-04:00Watch: ONE IN THE BLUE Movie<div style="text-align: center;">
<i><span style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;">"We rushed to the cottage where she spent an hour literally spinning in my arms and Alvah walked in right in the middle of our final ministrations of the Bodhisattva. We took our usual bath together. It was great sitting in the hot tub chatting and soaping each other's backs. Poor Princess, she meant every word she said. I really felt good about her, and compassionate, and even warned her: "Now don't go wild and get into orgies with fifteen guys on a mountaintop."</span></i><br />
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