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Peace Flag Ensemble return on their third LP with sharper focus and a wider lens. The record is their most canorous and their most accessible.  The ambient free jazz collective’s early recordings were gauzy, percussion-less affairs where the piano was sparing and additional instrumentation was often textural, but on Everything Is Possible each member of the sextet finds …

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Toronto-based lo-fi pop group No Frills returns with the release of “Shopping in the Toothpaste Aisle,” the first single from the band’s highly anticipated second album, Sad Clown out March 7, 2025 through We Are Busy Bodies. Known for weaving sardonic punchlines into sunny pop hooks, lead songwriter Dan Busheikin continues to strip his songs …

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Record Record Label, a Canadian vinyl reissue label operated by We Are Busy Bodies is announcing three vinyl reissues as part of its ongoing release series by late 90s Saskatchewan alternative group Filmmaker, orchestral pop ensemble The Hylozoists, and mid-90s grunge torchbearers hHead. All three albums will be released on February 28, 2025.  Filmmaker – …

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We Are Busy Bodies is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a five-day festival. This celebration coincides with the label’s 200th release: the third album by Saskatchewan ambient jazz group, Peace Flag Ensemble, set to be released in March 2025. The album, titled Everything Is Possible, is a fitting reflection of the label’s journey and achievements. “We Are …

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Stefan Gnyś (pronounced G’neesh) recorded what would have been his first album Horizoning, at Heidebrecht Recording Services in St. Catherine, Ontario, Canada on April 21st 1969. Ten tracks were cut in a day-long session that Stefan had perfected over the previous 12 months, with the songs Horizoning and English Oaks having been inspired by a trip to the UK and Europe during the eventful …

1969 Canadian folk nugget issued for the first time on We Are Busy BodiesRead More

Recorded less than a year after Funky Africa, South African guitar wizard Almon Memela returned under the release name Soweto to issue Broken Shoes. The album features two fifteen-minute songs that saw Memela backed by none other than Soweto’s Pelican Club house band. The songs are funky, soulful, and full of swagger. Shimmering keys, soulful …

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Lauded by The Wire as having made “two of the most beguiling electronic albums of recent years,” and described by The Guardian as “something of a virtual one-man Radiophonic Workshop from Vancouver”, Kristen Roos returns with a third volume of his Universal Synthesizer Interface series, to be released November 22nd. Paying homage to the first wave of 1980s algorithmic music software, this …

Having released “two of the most beguiling electronic albums of recent years,” (The Wire), the Canadian artist returns with the third volume of his homage to early algorithmic music softwareRead More

Rythmetic: The Compositions of Norman McLaren. Out November 29th. “McLaren specialised in radical short animations, feeding off everyone from Mondrian to the surrealists, and encompassed a huge variety of techniques.” – The Guardian   “He’s a constant source of invention, wit, exhilaration and delight.” – British Film Institute ***  Pioneering Scottish-Canadian animator Norman McLaren (1914-1987) – creator of seminal short films Dots, Neighbours, Synchromy and …

Pioneering animator Norman McLaren’s soundtrack works from 1940s to 1970s to be released in a new career retrospective for the first timeRead More

Music For Horses is Christo Graham’s 10th album and third to be released on October 4 by We Are Busy Bodies. The album is a bit of a return to Graham’s 2020 record Turnin’s sensibilities. He had written those songs over a year and recorded them all to tape within a month and took a similar …

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Can machines sing? With his Synthetic album cycle, Rich Aucoin answers that question with a resounding, exuberant “yes.” The four-part project sweeps listeners through a gallery tour of synthesis history, giving voice to a chorus of specimens from the past century of electronic sound. On Season 3, Aucoin deepens his dive into the variegated genealogy …

Rich Aucoin shares new single, ElectroCompRead More