December 28th, 2009 / 1 Comment
Each January, our intrepid Kenna Burima puts together a festival called The Midway, held adjacent to the annual High Performance Rodeo here in Calgary. Last year, Woodpigeon performed a set of Bjork tunes, and a recording has just re-surfaced, thought earlier lost due to an exploding hard-drive. While we put some pretty big arrangements together, this stripped-down version of ‘Aurora’ has always been my favourite of the night. A guitar, some voices, and a hushed theatre (and a little demo that we worked from too).
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December 10th, 2009 / 3 Comments
Late this summer, the editors of MOJO magazine asked if WP would be up for covering a song from Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Without admitting I’d never actually listened to it, we set about re-building the track ‘Mother’ into something a little different from the original everyone seems to love. Talk about pressure, but it’s out at newsstands now, free with the December issue. (Otherwise, just take a listen to it here. We won’t tell).
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October 17th, 2009 / 0 Comments
We know we should be asleep, but sometimes you just want to stay up and sing with your friends.
xox, mark + catriona sturton + shane turner
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October 15th, 2009 / 7 Comments
The new Woodpigeon album Die Stadt Muzikanten is available for pre-order via Boompa Records starting today. And because everyone’s all about the pre-order bonuses these days, we’ve got a few nice ones in store for you too.
First of all, all copies of Die Stadt Muzikanten released in our home and native land of Canada will receive the bonus mini-album disc BALLADEER / to all the guys i’ve loved before, a collection of new tunes recorded in Calgary and Dublin.
Secondly, the first 100 orders will receive a special Die Stadt Muzikanten poster, featuring album artwork by the amazing Jeff Kulak.
And finally, everyone who pre-orders before the 12 January 2010 release date will also receive some bonus .mp3 recordings between now and then, including (but not limited to, because who knows what will make its way to tape between now and then) some solo acoustic renditions of the songs from Die Stadt Muzikanten. These bonus .mp3s will also come…
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September 4th, 2009 / 0 Comments
There’s far more to Vík í Mýrdal than just its record as the rainiest place in Iceland (the seas are so rough here, they’ve never been able to build a harbour). It’s also one of the most inspiring views one will ever see. In tribute, a new song, dedicated to Reynisdrangar, the three trolls. (Listen for the rain through the window … a bit of a theme with these recordings).
xox, mark + benjamin stacey of reykjavik.
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September 3rd, 2009 / 0 Comments
Our pal Jack Day is one of our favourite folk traditionalists. It was hard enough to get him to play into a “newfangled” recorder, and then he kept trying to throw me off by holding phrases and being difficult. So, one take. No overdubs. A song handed down for ages, and now from us to you.
xox, mark + jack day (chris dadge on beatz)
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August 1st, 2009 / 1 Comment
..but it’s still dark inside.
xox, mark and louise hull, rob ranger and chris dadge
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July 23rd, 2009 / 3 Comments
There’s not much else to do when it’s rainy but stay inside and pay tribute.
xox, mark and louise hull
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July 20th, 2009 / 0 Comments
Tomorrow afternoon, WP leaves the comfy confines of our prairie Canadian abodes for a short string of festivals and shows in UK cities we haven’t made it to quite yet. In preparation, the focus has not stayed on booking the necessary train tickets or filling the gaps left in accommodations. No, instead, it has been the far more important act of filling up one’s iPod touch that has taken up much of this last-minute panic zone.
Just added: Scout Niblett’s This Fool Can Die Now, Quasi’s Field Studies and Featuring “Birds”, Stereolab’s Sound-Dust, and The Magnetic Fields’ 69 Love Songs. These join Coeur de Pirate’s Coeur de Pirate, Do Make Say Think’s You, You’re a History in Dust, and John Cale’s Paris 1919. I’ve been figuring out a perfect time and place to listen to some of these records. Am I alone in thinking Scout Niblett’s simply perfect for an Icelandic sunset?…
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