January 27, 2012

E.C.M. Award Nominations!

East Coast Music Award nominations were announced today and we snagged three of 'em. Bam! Constellation is up for BEST GROUP RECORDING and BEST JAZZ RECORDING and our video "Agricola & Sarah" is up for VIDEO OF THE YEAR. Exciting times! The video award is a public vote so you can help us try and win it if you like... We'll let you know once the voting opens. The ECMAs are in Moncton this coming April... gonna be fun, no doubt.

January 24, 2012

Becky Siamon, Paper Beats Scissors

Couple of friends or ours have new albums coming out - just got a listen to the new Paper Beats Scissors album which is coming out this spring and it sounds awesome! He recorded it in Montréal, Sydney Smith did the artwork and Forward is releasing it so it is like Constellation's cousin album - have a listen here. Also, Becky Siamon is a great singer who is a friend of ours that we've often shared stages with. She is releasing her first record Breakfast Epiphanies this week with a show at the IDOW festival in Halifax. It also sounds great and a bunch of us played parts on it (Matt, Nick, Gina, Adam and Alec to be precise)- check it). Congratulations to Becky and Tim on putting out some good music!

January 19, 2012

Agricola & Sarah Award, Ham Jam, and the USA

I don't know if we ever shared this news with you all - our video Agricola & Sarah won a gold award in the animated film category at the California Film Awards in 2010. I just stumbled across that again today. Nice work Jason and Sydney who lovingly made this piece ... In other news, we just confirmed that we'll be part of the line up at a cool festival in Kars, NB called Ham Jam this June. We also have exciting news about some touring in the USA that we'll be able to tell you more about soon!

January 14, 2012

YAS Ball

Wicked time at the YAS Ball last night (semi-formal university masquerade bash). Anyone with any photos of the party should send them to ross@gypsophilia.org so I can post them. It reminded me of all the great gigs we've played at King's College in the past, including one at the Wardroom very early on in our life as a band... the audience was crazy and we were paid in pitchers of beer. Hope we get to do that all again soon!

January 9, 2012

YAS ball, Edmonton video

Here is a video I just came across that was produced at the Jazz Fest in Edmonton this summer past. The first half features a wild Japanese saxophonist's group - the Kazutoki Umezu KIKI BAND - and the second half features some interview and performance footage of us. Reminded me what a great time we had at that festival and in that city. Among other magic, that was where the "slow elbow" was caught on film. Also exciting is that We've been asked to play at King's College's annual semi-formal dance, the YAS Ball this week. Going to be a blast - that school knows how to have a good time.

December 25, 2011

Happy Holidays, festive remix

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone. As a present to you here is a festive re-edit of a tune off our new record (make sure to wait for the jingle bells to drop!). Click here for the free download. In fact, our record label Forward Music is offering a free download of its whole catalogue (including some of our music) for two days only (24-26 Dec). Get it while it's hot.

December 6, 2011

Red, fire, fast rain and really good coffee cake!

"Hey were you listening to the radio this morning? CBC 1 had some folks talking about being able to smell/taste/see sound etc. anyway, they played one of your songs, Montréal, and asked what the folks saw/smelt/tasted, apparently your music is red looks like fire then fast rain and tastes like really good coffee cake where the sugar cinnamon mix is just right to taste a little nutty." (!)

November 24, 2011

Evergreen Photos, Fables show…

Check out these wonderful photos of our show at the Evergreen theatre in Margaretsville, NS. My favourite picture is this one that captures the forest of raised hands, both on and off stage (we were doing the wave!). Photo credit goes to the very skillful Steven and Ellie Kennard. You should check out their website to see a bunch more good show photos. We also want to thank the wonderful humans of Tatamagouche, NS who came, clapped, sang, jumped, and russian-folk-danced up a storm at Fables Music Club last weekend. Good times, great sandwiches, and extremely frosty beer glasses are to be had there. Check 'em out!

November 16, 2011

Glowing Review of Constellation

Check out this wonderful review of Constellation that was just published on the website Southern Souls - We are lovin' that people are enjoying this album! I especially like the nostalgic nod to the North Street Church Dance Party days as well as the line "apocalyptic synths" in reference to Valse Povero.

November 15, 2011

Zuppa, Tatamagouche, and Evergreen glow

Massive fun playing in Margaretsville at the Evergreen theatre in front of a sold out crowd this weekend - they were packed in every corner of the place! The highlight was getting the whole theatre to do the wave like we were all at a football stadium. Hilarious. Stay tuned for some photos of the night. In other news, this Friday we are playing a couple of tunes at the music room in Halifax as part of a fundraiser for the very wonderful Zuppa Theatre Company. Then on Saturday we are playing at Fables in Tatamagouche, NS. See you at one of those. Stay tuned for more news.