abroadcom – listening to Canada with focus on Germany

BarKanada airing SAT March 14th, 11am EST on www.Tonkuhle.de

Wichtig: Unbedingt schon mal Romi Mayes vormerken, live in der Bluesgarage in Hannover LGH am 26. April 2009 – she down and dirty, u name it. She good!

Ein froehliches Fruehlingshallo allen Besucherinnen und Besuchern der BarKanada im Maerz – waehrend es hier gerade wieder geschneit hat, ticken die Uhren schon nach Sommerzeit – auch schoen, wenn man das Ende der kalten Jahreszeit wie die meisten hier nicht abwarten kann :{)

Happy Birthday 2 Scott – a stinking Aquarius, a creative whirlwind that can never seem 2 be on the same field 4 more than 2 seconds in a row and charms with the intuition of a bosom … so in the March edition we’re trying 2 talk 2 each other, playing unpublished material of previous band Freesouls, offering some more of the Blues Summit live delicacies as well as music from Ross Neilson, Scott McCord, Sloan, Sam Roberts, sprechen ueber die Juno Awards und die Indie-Music Week in Toronto und vieles Unsinniges und Unnoetiges mehr.

…. das Foto zeigt Scott vor zweieinhalb Jahren, seine 40 Jahre alte Gibson reparierend.

Scott Arena repairing his 40 year old Gibson

playlist

Shake It Upside Down – Steve Marriner GOIN’ UP

Believe In Me – Sloan PARALLEL PLAY

Detroit ’67 – Sam Roberts LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2008)

Down On The River Road – (Scott Arena) Freesouls CHANCES WE TAKE

Stainless Steel – (Scott Arena) Freesouls CHANCES WE TAKE

Who Put The Blame On Who – Peacework CHOICES

Have It All – Peacework live @ Mesquites, Montreal

I ain’t buyin’ – Steve Rowe FIVE

Emily – Scott McCord BLUES FOR SUNSHINE

Call Me Gone – Ross Neilson EARLY GRAVE

Cried Like Baby – Shakura S’Aida BLUEPRINT

Mercy On Me – Romy Mayes ACHIN IN YER BONES

Shake It Upside Down – Steve Marriner GOIN’ UP

Tags: choices, freesouls, PEACEWORK, Romi Mayes, Ross Neilson, Sam Roberts, Scott McCord, Shakura S'Aida, Steve Marriner, Tonkuhle

BarKanada 2.edition airs SAT, Jan 3rd 2009, 11am EST, @ tonkuhle.de

Hello again, and a very happy (and, hmmmmh, what would be most spectacular – more reasonable?) new year -

I’d like to update u a little bit:

1.
The second edition of BarKanada is scheduled to air
SAT, 3rd of January 2009, 11am-12pm EST – tune in live on the internet @

tonkuhle. de (click on “Livestream” in the right menu column)

2. I found out, that Tonkuhle artists should be receiving royalties because of German GEMA paying out entitlement depending on how much played on Tonkuhle via fm – all they need is the playlist, and that I provide… for now u can look up those details here:
rideauguide. blogspot. com

Wer hat, der kann:

Part D und E sind der schoenste Teil der Sendung. Das Lied veraenderte voellig seinen Charakter waehrend sich diese Violine hineinschleicht, absolut zeitgleich mit Lovelace, seinen Dank sagend fuer die zahlreichen Briefe ins Gefaengnis und wie die Unterstuetzung seinen Geist erheiterte.

Ich haette das nicht geplant: das Klangstueck von Tanya Tagak Gillis (vermutlich schlimme Ausprache ihres Namens) verlieh meiner Lovelace Quote eine Dynamik, die mich an einigen Stellen staunen liess. Schwierig, sich als Autor zu sehen. Fuehlt sich eher an als waere ich in der Ausfuehrung taetig, ziemlich krank …

Zur Hoelle mit den Manuskripten – es lebe die Intuition!

Alright, I know this is Canada:

D and E are the most beautiful parts of this’ month’s edition. The song changed completely as soon as this violin (or viola?) was sneaking in, on the same split second as Lovelace is saying his thanx for all the letters to prison and how they uplift his spirit.

I couldn’t have planned it: Tanya Tagak (probably overwhelmed with the pronunciation of that name) Gillis’ sound piece gave my quote some dynamics that stunned me at times. Impossible to think I authored that. Feels more like I’m channeling something, pretty sick …

2 hell with the manuscripts – long live intuition!

Thanx 4 reading and try listening 2 it – cinema for your mind is a fascinating thing …

In terms of time management for this year I’d have only one comment:
All we’re still debating is, how 2 soften up the changes. If we act now, maybe they’re gonna be easier 2 survive.

New nukes will be a disaster for an economically fragile period not to speak of the relatively irreversible and permanent damage and its “bonus” features which come with the highly radioactive and hot waste, vising its capabilities as potential material for A-bombs, and, actually at the beginning of that most decadent way of getting wasted, the mining of Uranium.

Show the government where ever u can: Profit has its reasonable and crucial limits.

Oh what a wonderful place this could be, if we made it one.

Ok, back 2 work!
Thanx 4 letting me waste ur time

Maren Molthan
barKanada@gmail.com
tonkuhle. de
rideauguide. blogspot. com

playlist
Steve Marriner Shake It Upside Down (total about 2 min) Going Up 2007
Meredith Luce Great Lake Swimmers Neck Of The Woods 2008
Black Cats (about 2 min) October 2007
Snow Country (live) Neck Of The Woods 2008
Chickadee (live) Neck Of The Woods 2008
Neck Of The Woods (live) Neck Of The Woods 2008
Terry Tufts Awake Ye Drowsie Sleeper The Better Fight 2005
Tanya Tagaq Gillis Fire Ikuma with Mike Patton AUK/BLOOD 2008
Terry Tufts Embracing The Addiction The Better Fight 2005
Jack De Keyzer That’s The Only Time Blues Thing 2007
PEACEWORK Takes My Blues Away Choices 2007
Blue Rodeo Try Greatest Hits 2001
Molly Johnson Rain Lucky 2008
Steve Marriner Shake It Upside Down Going Up 2007

Internet:
http://www.thebranchrestaurant.ca/
http://baldachin.com

Tags: barKanada, Blue Rodeo, deutsch, Jack De Keyzer, Meredith Luce, Molly Johnson, PEACEWORK, Terry Tufts

PEACEWORK release – a lot of fun!

PEACEWORK and Bova Sound – good vibrations!

fltr:
Phillip Shaw Bova
Scott Arena
Philip Victor Bova
Maren Molthan

PEACEWORK – all together now!

fltr:
Tanya Barkhouse
Peter Woods
Phillip Shaw Bova
Scott Arena
Philip Victor Bova
Maren Molthan
Eric Hasnick (hiding)
Gale Edmunds

SHINE!

vltr:
Tanya Barkhouse
Gale Edmunds

all photos by Gord Glaze (www.commeleon.com) – he went home to get the camera and shot tons of fantastic photos, thanx so much, Gord!!!

Tags: cd release, choices, PEACEWORK

PEACEWORK – choices: program details

this is what it looks like when a chocolate bar packaging falls in love with an e-string… nothing like a g-string but nonetheless pretty tempting, isn’t it?!

By the way, this exact diy cd booklet took me about ten minutes to make (it all starts with an empty Kleenex Box, but I hope to have a movie on myspace soon ?)) – wonder what the exact definition of that word is).

I donated it to CASE, and I know for a fact that one of our fans bid $ 50 on it during their fundraiser last week on Saturday 10th – he confirmed now that the organizers notified him, that he was the winning guy.

Anyway, everybody who followed our invitation, thank you very much for your involvement and donations – what a magic night we had – no greater feeling than people coming together and celebrating within the same spirit – I know you won’t let us down tomorrow! PEACE!

PEACEWORK cd release “choices”

SAT NOV 17th
baldachin inn ballroom (www.baldachin.com)
111 st lawrence @ main
merrickville
613 269 4223

approximate program:

8 pm doors open

“12strings2bodies” – the acoustic set

“live saver” – co2-neutral diy cd packaging and why we still want the whole f…ing bakery

“choices” – the full band set

complete line-up:
lead and back vocals, rhythm and lead guitar: Maren Molthan & Scott Arena
bass, backvocals: Phillip Victor Bova (bova sound)
drums: Philip Shaw Bova (Hilotrons)
keyboard: Erik Hasnick (Jimi Knox And The Group)
saxophone: Peter Woods (jazz duo with Brian Browne)
back vocals: Gayle Edmunds and Tanya Barkhouse (Uncommon Ground)

Tags: bova, cd release, choices, PEACEWORK

PEACEWORK: Independent soul formation releases debut CD in Merrickville

Are you ready? Love and Peace Maren & Scott

myspace.com/peacework maren@peaceworkband.ca scott@peaceworkband.ca

Press release:

PEACEWORK: Independent soul formation releases debut CD in Merrickville

SAT 17th November 2007
doors open 8 pm

baldachin inn ballroom (www.baldachin.com)
111 st lawrence @ main
merrickville
613 269 4223

tickets @ harry mclean’s pub (same address) or from the band $ 20 includes admission and cd at door

There are ten songs on the album “choices” – containing brand new material, Scott points out: “Just To Be With You” is a song that I wrote for Maren, when we were visiting her family in Germany earlier this year. It was awesome to present it only three days later on a huge Berlin outdoor stage where one of her friends put us up to play for the Green Party on a worker’s day celebration (bits and pieces of that experience soon on myspace). There were easily 10 000 people

PEACEWORK Marianenplatz, Berlin, Germany

gathering – it is then when you realize that people can make a difference every day, with your choices where to shop, how to travel or commute, how to work, what to eat – everything is connected. And that is how we got our band motto, every step counts!”

Maren Molthan and Scott Arena founded the band PEACEWORK three years ago. They both play guitar and sing. The CD contains entirely original material, groovy songs with a message. “Have It All”, first on the cd, is a typical example, explains Maren: “I was listening to CBC when George W got reelected, and just felt devastated, he would have another four years to ruin the country some more… so many people left the government that day, and I remember all those applications for Canadian residency or even citizenship coming in from down there – three hours and a heated discussion later, the song was basically written – we have too much at stake to let foolish marionettes in politics carry out the monstrous ways of unsustainable neo-economics. To write that song was our way to speak out against the arrogance!”

In addition to the ten audio files that can be played on cd players, the artists threw in two movies, all songs in mp3 format and the lyrics of the songs in pdf – included on the data part of the cd – a part that windows and mac computers will be able to read. “It was kind of important for both of us, to have something physical like a cd, but we sure are fascinated with the digital market – maybe we’ll do the next album on a USB-drive, like the Barenaked Ladies. We like the idea of reusing things and giving the consumer a “choice” … that word is just everywhere”, smile the musicians.

Very proud are the two song writers to have the Phils from Bova Sound, Ottawa, play drums and bass. They are a father and son team and also produced the PEACEWORK cd (and Scott’s first with his former band Free Souls). Phillip Victor Bova (bass) and Philip Shaw Bova (drums) are also known for their superb analog guitar and mic preamps, regularly sold from their company Sage to the band members of Tom Petty and other successful Rock’n Rollers.

Furthermore will the band receive reinforcement in form of hot and holy back vocals by two local female singers known from gigs in the area with the formation Uncommon Ground.

A message from the band:
Yo!

we’ve got two songs up from our brand new cd (check CD Baby and itunes etc. after the release) -

Listen for free and come out to the release in Merrickville – nice break from the big city, as there are tons of lovely b&b’s right in town, and with the various arts and artisan stores you might get some x-mas shopping done at the same time.

Think twice: Your dollar is going to make a big difference in a Canadian community instead of going to a big corporation!

PEACE OUT, everybody!

Tags: live music, PEACEWORK