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HALIFAX, NS – March 16, 2006 – J.P. Cormier’s new indie label IAG! Recordings this week releases its third album, End of Blue, by Nova Scotia based singer-songwriter Lisa Cameron. End of Blue was recorded at Cormier Sound Studios, and co-produced and engineered by J.P. Cormier who also acts as guest multi-instrumentalist and vocalist on the project.
When you listen to Lisa, you can actually hear where her musical influence and inspiration comes from. Her voice sails over, under, and straight through melodies reminiscent of Nanci Griffith, James Taylor, and Emmylou Harris. You are immediately put at ease by her dulcet, melodic toning and creative arrangements. Lisa's ability to engage her audience, highlights her charming and intimate performance style.
“A gifted singer and writer, Lisa has a distinctive voice and sound that remains with you… Her passion for each song clearly shows through (and) creates a kind of vulnerability that makes her and her music just that much more endearing.” (Dan MacDonald, Cape Breton Post)
“The album is full of rolling melodies and straight-up tender lyrics about lost and found loves.” (Laura Graham, Halifax Herald)
IAG! Recordings, launched in January of this year, is a proudly independent and unique specialty label being developed by J.P. Cormier and his business team. Cormier will continue to release his own projects under Flash Publishing & Entertainment, while IAG! remains an entirely separate entity.
IAG!, the acronym for Independent Artist Group!, came about as a means to help further evolve and nurture the recordings and careers of some select artists with whom J.P. Cormier has had some professional and artistic connection.
IAG! Recordings will provide full service online distribution for the recordings it carries. It will offer customer direct sales, including stock and shipping services, as well as distribution of the recordings to a select group of independent and mainstream music retailers who have illustrated an interest and ability to stock, sell and re-stock roots based music.
For more information on the Independent Artist Group!, visit www.jp-cormier.com/webstore/iag.html. Visit Lisa Cameron online at www.lisacameron.ca. - Flash Publishing & Entertainment
End Of Blue Released At The Barn
By Dan MacDonald, Cape Breton Post
I spent a lovely evening at The Normaway in Margaree, Saturday. I enjoyed a lovely meal and lively conversation at the Inn then followed that up with a great concert in The Barn. It was the CD release party for Lisa Cameron's first release, End of Blue.
With Vern MacDougall on lead guitar, Steve Basker on
bass and a nearly voiceless J.P. Cormier on mandolin, Lisa
worked her way through a full two-hour concert, doing material from her new CD as well as some of her own personal favourites.
While End of Blue is a wonderful CD with a great sound, I was quite taken by her solo concert effort - just one voice, no harmonies or backing vocals.
Her passion for each song clearly showed through as she turned her pain and joy out for all to see, reminding me of
American vocalist Iris Dement in her presentation. It created a kind of vulnerability that made her and her music just that much more endearing.
As I mentioned last week, I like End of Blue. The CD is great and the live performance is as good, if not better. Lisa Cameron, backed by Vern MacDougall, Shelly Campbell and Joel Chaisson appear at the Louisbourg Playhouse on Sunday Sept. 26. Why not drop out to see her? - By Dan MacDonald, Cape Breton Post
Discography
End of Blue, 2004
For Taylor, I'll Take My Time, Disgusted, Already Down have received radio play.
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A gifted singer and writer, Lisa has a distinctive voice and sound that remains with you. … Her passion for each song clearly shows through (and) creates a kind of vulnerability that makes her and her music just that much more endearing.”-Dan MacDonald, Cape Breton Post-
Lisa Cameron grew up in Margaree Forks on Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia and now lives in Halifax. Raised in a musical household, she has been singing and playing guitar on stage for many years.
Since the release of her first solo album, End of Blue, in September 2004, Lisa has had a busy schedule. She has been featured on CBC Radio’s Information Morning in Cape Breton, played at the Strathspey Place Room during the 2005 ECMAs, and was chosen to compose and perform a song for CBC Cape Breton’s spin-off of the Canada Reads series. As a result of that performance, she was asked to perform her rendition of “Hush Little Baby” for a lullaby compilation called, Lullabies of Our Cape Breton, which was released in July of 2005. In addition to all of this, she has been travelling and playing around Nova Scotia, promoting End of Blue.
"End of Blue does not define itself as easily as the singer songwriter who describes herself as a folk singer, but whose writing influences range from bluegrass (I'll Take My Time), and country (Cheap Lipstick) to folk and other influences, including a tender, poetic fragment titled Lilies and Candles."
-Frank MacDonald, The Inverness Oran-
"The album is full of rolling melodies and straight-up tender lyrics about lost and found loves."
-Laura Graham, Halifax Herald-
When you listen to Lisa, you can actually hear where her musical influence and inspiration comes from. Her voice sails over, under, and straight through melodies reminiscent of Nanci Griffith, James Taylor, and Emmylou Harris. You are immediately put at ease by her dulcet, melodic toning and creative arrangements. Lisa's ability to engage her audience, highlights her charming and intimate performance style.
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