Kit Soden

Artist Information

Biography

It has been a productive couple of years for Kit Soden. It started with the release of "Like a Dancer Unstrung" in summer of 2010, which was a collaboration with author/lyricist Steven Erikson, and continued with his subsequent 25 city Europe tour in the spring/summer of 2011.
Upon his return to North America, Kit spent the rest of the summer in the Green Mountains of Vermont, recording his follow-up album "Into the Silence." Although he had been performing primarily as a duo with violinist Aliza Thibodeau, the album was conceived as full band project - guitar, bass, violin, drums - which then expanded to contain 15+ instruments, including brass quintet, harp, and church organ.
The album is set to be released in the spring of 2012, and Kit and Aliza are planning a tour of the East Coast, as well as a return to Europe in the autumn.

Instrumentation

Aliza Thibodeau - violin and backing vocals
Kit Soden - guitar and vocals

Discography

Like a Dancer Unstrung - 2010
Around The Corner - 2007
Live in Montreal EP - 2009

Official Website

http://www.kitsmusic.com

Links

• MySpace
• Twitter
• Facebook

Audio

• Tuxedo Cadillac
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• Like a Dancer Unstrung
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• Reaper's Gale
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• One Thread
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• This road is Like a River
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Lyrics

• Like a Dancer Unstrung
• Tuxedo Cadillac
• One Thread

Video

Glass of Water - Kit and Aliza - Live in Redpath.mov

Photo Gallery

Press

• Montrealer Kit Soden’s musical endeavours cover a lot of ground. [+ Show ]
  

  Montrealer Kit Soden’s musical endeavours cover a lot of ground. “From classical to modern art-music...Montrealer Kit Soden’s musical endeavours cover a lot of ground. “From classical to modern art-music to folk,” he says. “I take what I experience and work at interpreting it musically. As a songwriter, the lyrics inspire my compositions. I tend to fuse styles, using the necessary colours of the musical, orchestral and timbral palettes to bring the words to life.” A particularly interesting fusion is that of Soden’s music and voice with the words of Canadian-born fantasy author Steven Erickson, a superstar in the field of swords and sorcery thanks to his rich and challenging epic series of novels, the Malazan Book of the Fallen. “My sister Emily introduced me to [the series],” Soden recalls. “I was amazed at his imagination. The scope of his storytelling is huge. His poems, at the beginning of some chapters, are always so descriptive. They seemed like they were already songs. “It did not dawn on me to write a song with his poetry until mid-way through the seventh book. Without giving away part of the story here, it was a powerful moment, and it inspired me to write ‘Lay of the Bridgeburners,’ my first song interpretation of his poems, in November 2007.”
  This didn’t go unnoticed by Erickson himself, whose fans’ user-forum comments led him to Soden on YouTube. “It turned out we both were trying to contact each other. We got in touch in May 2009, and he sent me some unpublished poetry to add to the Malazan poems I was already working with. From that point, I recorded demos and sent them to him, until I had a full album’s worth of material.”
  That album is the recently released Like a Dancer Unstrung, which he’ll be touring through Europe in the spring with his partner, violinist Aliza Thibodeau (McGill-based roots unit the Bombadils also play on the record—“A great live band,” says Soden, “as well as a professional studio group”). At the same time, Soden has another full album of work with Erickson that’s soon to be recorded.
  “He gives me a lot of creative freedom in my interpretations of his words. He also is appreciative of my edits, in terms of turning his poetry into lyrics.”

Setlist

-Like a Dancer Unstrung
-Tuxedo Cadillac
-Repear's Gale
-One Thread
-Bottomless Well
-Lay of the Bridgeburners
-Bard's Curse
-Snow Ghosts
-Looks at the World
-Intricate Patience
-Pocket of Blue
-where you come from
-highway 101
-Back on Broadway
-traffic in america
-characteristic
-Riverside
-endless
-Hummingbird
-Around the Corner
-storms
-nov 26th
-wandering sky
-the blank page
-what was it?
-Next Day
-Silver Glasses
-Unseen
-Castle Junction
-Hills of Vermont
-Scenery
-Somewhat Addicted
-Blurred Footsteps
-Mention
-WIB
-Wonder Why
-San Francisco
-crazy things
-Settings
-Flux

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