The music editors at online retailer CD Baby has included our album Deep Sleep on a playlist of their favourite Afropop. Mr. Something Something is featured along bands like Antibalas and NOMO. The CD Bab y editors write: “we’ve picked artists whose irresistible use of rhythm is sure to get you up and dancing through the remainder of these cold, winter months.”
Dear friends,
Since January 2007, I (Johan) have curated and hosted a reading series/neighbourhood cabaret called FREE SPEECH in Toronto’s West End. The series proudly showcases the prose, poetry, spoken word, comedy, storytelling and songwriting of Parkdale-High Park based writers and performers. FREE SPEECH has featured some of the country’s finest writers, actors and musicians including Michael Winter, Justin Rutledge, Bob Wiseman, Mary Jo Leddy, Shyam Selvadurai, Carl Wilson, Claire Jenkins, Ray Robertson and Elizabeth Shepherd.”
FREE SPEECH celebrates its second anniversary on Monday, January 26 when the 2009 season kicks off with four exciting (more…)
Jan 20, 2009.
Dear friends,
Happy new year to all and congratulations to our American friends on this memorable day! Let’s hope that today marks the beginning of a global society moving toward peace, equality and sustainability.
Me and my Mr. Something Something compadres will spend the next little while writing and recording our next album so we won’t be out on the roads again until the end of March. (more…)
Happy 2009 everyone.
It’s my pleasure to introduce you all to a project that I have been working on for the past year or so. The group is called Harmattan Road, and features some familiar ‘somethings’: percussionist Dave Chan and wind-man Marcus Ali. Steve Mancuso also joins in on percussion and a few other guests make appearances on occasion. We play select repertory from Ghana as well as some original compositions that fuse a love for African music with jazz forms and textures. My bet is that it’s even dance-friendly…
If you’d like to hear the group live, we will be opening for Must Stash Hat at the Rearview Mirror (193 Baldwin, west of Spadina) on Feb 6th (9pm) and with our friends from Ainike (Ainike.ca) at the Silver Dollar on February 7th (930pm) before they hit the stage.
Then on Feb 14, bring your sweetheart out for some great vegetarian eats at The Jade Elephant (2913 Lakeshore @ Islington). We play from 9pm to 12am/$10.
If you are interested in more info about the group, don’t be a stranger: booktheband@gmail.com or look us up on Facebook.
stay warm
Larry
