In a review published in The Toronto Star the other day John Goddard gives Shine Your Face 3 out of 4 stars and calls the new Mr. Something Something record “the group’s most accomplished work yet.”
Read the review in its entirety here.
Last week, The Toronto Star ran an article about the SoundCycle, our bicycle powered sound system. The paper also sent a camera team over to our rehearsal space for a demonstration of the system in action. If you’re wondering how the SoundCycle works and would like a detailed explanation, watch this video.
Hello friends,
We’ll celebrate the launch of our new album Shine Your Face with two shows at Supermarket in Toronto tonight. We’ll have an 8-piece band including a 3-piece horn section so don’t miss this show.
The first show starts at 8 pm, the second at 10 pm. Doors at 7:30 pm.
Hello friends,
if you missed us on CBC Radio’s arts & culture show Q this past Friday you can catch most of the show as a podcast here. We played four songs live on the air and chatted about activism, dancing, bicycle powered shows and our new record Shine Your Face of course.
The British compilation The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival which features a track from our 2007 album Deep Sleep, a collaboration with Ikwunga the Afrobeat Poet, has climbed to #8 on the European World Music Charts. The compilation is also getting great reviews around the world. Australian music magazine Cyclic Defrost calls Di Bombs “one of the cleverest and overtly political songs on the album”.
Get your copy here.
The track “Di Bombs” from our 2007 album Deep Sleep, featuring Ikwunga the Afrobeat Poet, is included on The Rough Guide to Afrobeat Revival, a British compilation that will be released in more than 50 countries today. The album features such great artists as the legendary Tony Allen, Antibalas and Fela’s son Seun Kuti. We are proud to be in such good company.
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…)
