The Tangible Ears

Genre: Jazz
Secondary Genre: Pop Kingston, Ontario Canada Contact

The Tangible Ears will surprise you with their eclectic style and smooth chord changes. The band blends jazz and blues with indie and pop elements creating a polished and original sound unexplored by their contemporaries.

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Biography

“The production is meticulous and well thought out, the sounds got creative spunk, it’s super smooth, elegant and refined, grounded, in a jazzy, rock, pop feel.”

-Kingston This Week

“…the future of [the Kingston] music scene.”

-CBC Radio 3

The Tangible Ears are a Kingston based progressive indie band dedicated to smooth chord changes and innovative songwriting. Forming in late 2006, The Tangible Ears released their debut EP "Hear the Ear" in May 2007. The bands’ original effort was a duo consisting of Julian Flavin and Nigel Ward. The song writing process began and Evan Mullen, Max Benninger, David Farnell and Angus Benderavage joined the band on bass, drums, alto saxophone and trumpet respectively. Over the course of late 2006 early 2007 the band set out to gig as much as possible in order to expose the area to their original music. "Hear the Ear" received critical acclaim along with airplay on CBC’s Fresh Air and CFRC radio. The Tangible Ears quickly became a prominent act on the Kingston music scene.

This local success inspired the band to write a new, full length album to be called “Whims”. Due to distance between band members, the recording process was strenuous. Regardless, the band refused to lose sight of their goals. With transcendent effort, through slogs of science tests, flight exams, Berklee auditions, indigo shifts, hand renderings, and hockey games, Whims was finally completed in early March 2008. The CD marks a significant milestone for the band. Now playing to sold out audiences with Ottawa’s Souljazz Orchestra, and releasing their second original project, the Tangible Ears bring with them a crowd of loyal fans. The Tangible Ears have proven their dedication to the Canadian music scene, and will remain on the forefront of original music for years to come.

Living Unintentionally Fast - CBC Radio 3 song of the day. To listen and download:

http://radio3.cbc.ca/blogs/2008/06/New-Music-Canada-Track-of-the-Day-for-June-17-The-Tangible-Ears-Living-Unintentionally-Fast

Instrumentation

Julian Flavin - Keyboards, Vocals
Nigel Ward - Guitars, Vocals
Max Beninger - Drums, Vocals
Angus Benderavage - Trumpet, Violin
Dave Farnell - Saxophone
Evan Mullen - Bass

Discography

Spring 2008 - "Whims", our debut full length CD. Songs from the CD along with an interview will be featured on CBC's Bandwidth in April.
Spring 2007 - "Hear the Ear", An Ep recorded at home which received airplay on CBC and Queen's Radio.

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Setlist

2007 "Hear the Ear" Ep

Future Garden
Mostly Benign
Still Funktioning
Doris and I
Florentine Wine

2008 "Whims"

Broke Up Words
Your Inner Suede
Living Unintentionally Fast
You Blues
The World's Excited
All of Your Friends
At a Fray
Mono
So Tired

Our 2 CD's permit us to play two, hour long sets of original music.

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