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If you're a sap for slow sad folk songs a la Bon Iver, then Revelstoke is your new obsession. Warm and enchanting, this Toronto based artist has started to turn heads with his orchestral one-man-on-stage live shows. Now working on a new album, his debut Espirit d'Escalier EP is worth your time, so curl up with a glass of wine and let it sink in! Here's a preview of a new track you won't find on that EP: - Clash Music
If you're a sap for slow sad folk songs a la Bon Iver, then Revelstoke is your new obsession. Warm and enchanting, this Toronto based artist has started to turn heads with his orchestral one-man-on-stage live shows. Now working on a new album, his debut Espirit d'Escalier EP is worth your time, so curl up with a glass of wine and let it sink in! Here's a preview of a new track you won't find on that EP: - Clash Music
Toronto’s Revelstoke is a bit of an enigma: arresting harmonies and soaring, symphonic arrangements, achieved with little more than a mandolin, a banjo and a slide guitar. Befitting Revelstoke’s celebration of spaces as living phenomena, its sound evokes a natural grandeur that elevates a tiny town like Revelstoke, British Columbia over even Toronto, which is a big part of the idea at the heart of the project. Perhaps that’s the operative word: elevate. Andrew Seale, the man in this one-man band, set out to celebrate what he found during a trip to the west coast a few years ago. In the world enshrined by Seale, trees sway, dance and laugh, and the Rockies themselves are the hands clapping to the music that Revelstoke creates. Is the town the music? The musician? If it’s the latter, what we have here is a study in the transcendental.
Go if: You like the idea of the most made from the least, dialed up to eleven. - Torontoist.com
How's this for a compelling concept of a music video: "It's a cross between The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Le Voyage Dan La Lune." That description comes from Revelstoke main man Andrew Seale, who used that concept for the video for "Dans La Mer (Howl for Sade)" from his upcoming EP My-Oh-My.
The animated clip accompanying this quirky folk waltz shows a well-dressed couple plunging into the ocean in a vintage-looking underwater capsule. They see a bevy of sea creatures and get into an altercation with a giant squid before the capsule unexpectedly turns into a rocket and they blast off into space.
Watch it below courtesy of our friends at AUX.
Revelstoke will release My-Oh-My with a show at Sneaky Dee's in Toronto on October 25. - Exclaim.ca
How's this for a compelling concept of a music video: "It's a cross between The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou and Le Voyage Dan La Lune." That description comes from Revelstoke main man Andrew Seale, who used that concept for the video for "Dans La Mer (Howl for Sade)" from his upcoming EP My-Oh-My.
The animated clip accompanying this quirky folk waltz shows a well-dressed couple plunging into the ocean in a vintage-looking underwater capsule. They see a bevy of sea creatures and get into an altercation with a giant squid before the capsule unexpectedly turns into a rocket and they blast off into space.
Watch it below courtesy of our friends at AUX.
Revelstoke will release My-Oh-My with a show at Sneaky Dee's in Toronto on October 25. - Exclaim.ca
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Towns are an abstract idea, in the same way that music is. The logician would argue that since a town is abstract and music is abstract then a town must be music. Revelstoke is a town in the British Columbian Rockies. One of the most beautiful towns in the world (as most settlements hiding in the mountains are), where the tectonic hands clapped loudly and bent their geological elbows high into the sapphire sky. And the trees laughed and swayed and danced between the snow and the grass. Revelstoke is also music or maybe a musician. An abstract musician. For convenience let's agree it's a who, not a what. However, should we choose to go the "what" route, Revelstoke is a series of mini symphonies built using a 40-year-old mandolin from Ireland, a banjo (the people's instrument) named freedom and a guitar played with slides or violin bows or small hands. If we go the "who" route, Revelstoke is the brainchild of Toronto-based multi-instrumentalist Andrew Seale. With a keen eye for storytelling and a delight for confusion, the experimental folk jams are sure to crawl through your ears and into your memory - after all who says weird can't be catchy? Confusing? Abstract?
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