Halifax pop artist and composer Rich Aucoin shares his long awaited newest album Synthetic – A Synth Odyssey: Season 2, the latest instalment in his four-part album series, announced last year. On Synthetic: Season 2, Aucoin continues his journey through the history of synthesizers. The second entry in his quadruple LP series once again features an armada of the world’s most rare, …
On his third solo LP, Find Yourself Lost, Dawson veers toward the fringes of country and western. Although ‘cosmic’ has become catchall descriptor in both country and ambient music, Dawson reaches for something more earthly. Something more grounded. Ribboning miles of pedal steel nestle into hushed tones and gossamer textures. Reflecting on the process he states, “It took some time to …
Vanity Mirror, dreamy lo-fi bedroom pop via Toronto and Los Angeles, have just announced their highly anticipated debut LP PUFF (due out Spring 2023 on We Are Busy Bodies) with an advance single and video for the song Tuesday’s News. Tuesday’s News features colorful piano riffs and artful backbeats from Vanity Mirror’s Brent Randall (Gentle …
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We Are Busy Bodies would like to extend its congratulations to Rich Aucoin for his Juno nomination for Electronic Album of the Year. The nomination is in support of Synthetic Season 1, the first of a four-part album sequence coming out over a two-year period. This is both We Are Busy Bodies first label release nomination …
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Reissues of Pure Particles and Green Dream In F# out April 14 The Bug Club – surely by now a shoo-in for everybody’s favorite three-piece garage band from Wales – have signed to We Are Busy Bodies for North American reissues of their debut full-length album Green Dream In F# and their 2021 mini-LP Pure …
dumama + kechou | Link to hi-res photo here | Photo credit: Chris Kets (September 22, 2022 – Toronto, ON) – Acclaimed independent music label, We Are Busy Bodies, is excited to announce the development of its new North American booking division. The creation of the booking division was driven by recognizing an opportunity to …
Illustrious Vancouver-based alt-rock outfit Limblifter is back with a new single “Haystack Rock” from their upcoming 5th studio album Little Payne, out October 31 on We Are Busy Bodies Records. Produced by songwriter, singer, guitarist Ryan Dahle, the eclectic, genre-spanning new LP features a variety of notable collaborators including mind-bending sax solos from three time GRAMMY …
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We Are Busy Bodies and electronic composer, Rich Aucoin announces an ambitious quadruple album broken into four seasons. The four seasons/LPs being staggered in 6 month intervals for nearly two years of continuous music releases! The first album, Synthetic Season One is out October 19, 2022. It began at The National Music Centre in Calgary, …
UWUW (pronounced you-you) have just announced the release of their debut, self-titled LP with their lead single Scattered Ashes. With some of Toronto’s most experienced and revered musicians making this project possible, it’s no wonder why the sonic presence of this project demands your attention and doesn’t let you go. The impressive cast of players …
Canadian label We Are Busy Bodies announces the reissue of the rare and sought-after 1973 Venezuelan jazz album Espejismo (‘Mirage’) by Virgilio Armas Y Su Grupo, offering a fascinating snapshot of the thriving music scene in early 1970’s Caracas, until now largely undocumented because of the musical dominance of Venezuela’s far larger southern neighbour, Brazil. Pianist and bandleader Virgilio …