Fallen Tree Records Announce First Quarter Releases:
Jay Aymar – January 17
Ayla Brook & The Sound Men – March 13
100 mile house – March 27 — Logan and Nathan – April 24
LABEL WILL BE AT FOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL 2020 IN NEW ORLEANS
DUO LOGAN AND NATHAN WILL BE SHOWCASING THERE AS WELL
Canada’s newest independent record label, Fallen Tree Records, is ready to start 2020 with an impressive line-up of releases that will please fans and astound critics everywhere. From love songs to social awareness to various award-winning artists, the label’s roster speaks volumes when it comes to integrity and honesty.
Statement from Peter Chapman/President of Fallen Tree: “These coming releases all grow from the roots we laid down last year thanks to the support of numerous DJs and media outlets who supported Silent Winters, Jessica Heine, and Jon Brooks. On each recording, we discover life isn’t black and white. Ayla Brook & The Sound Men move us with their kinetic roots-rock sound that encourages us to find time for the simple things, 100 mile house explore how feeling the pain of loss, shows that one has loved, and Logan and Nathan color the world with their beguiling laid back freak-folk. And to start it all, we also have the reissue of the cinematic Your Perfect Matador from Jay Aymar, an album sorely overlooked.”
Ayla Brook & The Sound Men – Desolation Sounds (album)
Release date: Mar 13, 2020
Listen/download/lyrics/release sheet/press shots:
https://fallentreerecords.com/promos/ftr1018-absm-ds
Single: “All That I Wanted to Do” – Listen/download: https://s.disco.ac/sogkynooxezn
Release date: Jan 10, 2020
“There’s a humbling sense of community and musical honesty, adding to its organic aura. Brook is a wonderful songwriter and an even better vocalist.” ~ Exclaim!
Ayla Brook (pronounced Ey–Lah) makes music as raw and vast as the Canadian prairies and as broad and deep as the Pacific Ocean. From his remote conception in BC’s Refuge Cove to his upbringing in Lily Plain, Saskatchewan, to forming The Sound Men in the prairie capital city of Edmonton, Ayla has never wavered from his original vision of honest roots rock.
That vision is brilliantly captured on Desolation Sounds, the new album by Ayla Brook & The Sound Men, produced by Terra Lightfoot and mixed by Jon Auer of The Posies and Big Star fame. It’s a collection of songs and stories about friends and family. With levity, grit and grief, we’re pulled into human connections stronger than the ding of a phone notification. They burst with rock and soul and the western charm that has become the band’s trademark sound.
That was proven when they were named Roots Artist of the Year at the 2018 Edmonton Music Awards, the capper to a full summer of folk and indie music festivals. Whether they’re packing dance floors in honky-tonks or rock clubs soaked in wine and whiskey, Ayla Brook & The Sound Men deliver a tapestry of hurtin’ and feelin’ tunes about life on and off Canada’s barstools.
For Fans of: Terra Lightfoot, Wilco, Blue Rodeo, The Faces, Daniel Romano. Website: https://www.aylabrook.com
100 mile house – Love and Leave You (album)
Release date: Mar 27, 2020
Listen/download/lyrics/release sheet/press shots: https://fallentreerecords.com/promos/ftr1015-100mh-laly/
Single: “Worth the Wait” Release date: Jan 17, 2020
Listen/download: https://s.disco.ac/evozckxaxtld
There’s a poignant double meaning behind the new album Love and Leave You by the Edmonton, Canada, based folk duo 100 mile house. As on their previous award-winning work, Peter Stone and Denise MacKay seem naturally attuned to life’s impermanence, the reality that we must cherish what we have while knowing we must eventually let it go.
Made with a host of guests ranging from JUNO nominee Chloe Albert to a heart-swelling string section, Love and Leave You builds on the themes of longing and love of 2016’s Hiraeth, which earned 100 mile house a Western Canadian Music Award, and a Canadian Folk Music Award nomination. On Love and Leave You they have emerged—stronger, wiser, and more honest than ever before.
Denise explains, “Our writing has evolved from songs about Peter moving to Canada from England and the two of us meeting each other, to songs about the struggles of starting a family, the loss of loved ones and how the visions you had for your life inevitably change. We believe our songs have grown in the same way our relationship has as we’ve matured.”
From a sonic perspective, Peter adds, “For Love and Leave You, we decided to strip everything back, and even though there’s a fair bit of instrumentation on it, I’d say it’s our most bare-bones recording to date. I wanted to take this approach to give the album its character, but also to force the songwriting and lyrics to the forefront.”
As they approach two decades since their first chance meeting, both Stone and MacKay’s lives and the music they make have become inseparable. It’s palpable the moment you hear them sing together, and cuts even deeper as the stories they tell unfold. 100 mile house makes timeless music in the truest sense; by opening themselves up in ways, many of us wish we could. And on Love and Leave You, with Stone’s deft production bringing the songwriting and lyrics to the fore, we share that connection, and for that reason alone, it is their best work to date.
For fans of: Donovan Woods, Dan Mangan, The Small Glories. Website: https://www.100milehouse.co.uk
Logan and Nathan – The Happening (album)
Release date: Apr 24, 2020
Listen/download/lyrics/release sheet/press shots:
https://fallentreerecords.com/promos/ftr1019-ln-h/
Single: “Lonely” Release date: Jan 17, 2020
Listen/download: https://s.disco.ac/dlxtqoextzme
Underneath Vancouver-based freak-folk duo, Logan and Nathan’s laid-back vibe is an urgent call to action. With beguiling soul-infused grooves, they tackle relationships, consumerism, political apathy, the climate emergency, colonialism and indigenous rights on their breakthrough second album, The Happening.
“The Happening is an intentional look into the present,” writes Logan and Nathan in the liner notes. “Inspired by the silence of cold, the loss and discovery of self, birds singing, endless space, by connection to earth and place; by a desire to see the world through different eyes.” The duo spent a large portion of the last year in Eeyou Itschee in Northern Quebec, where they taught youth in the Cree community through non-profit arts programs Youth Fusion and Mikw Chiyâm. Those experiences led to a rapid clarity of the message. It also introduced them to Rex Smallboy of the Neyaskweyahk (Ermineskin) Cree Nation who co-wrote and raps on the track, “Where Do We Go.”
Building on the intimacy they shared on their debut Chasing Tales (And a Few Other Things) (FTRC1005, 2018), and the fans they have been collecting through appearances at Canmore Folk Festival, house concerts and traditional venues, The Happening affirms Logan and Nathan an essential must-see.
For fans of: Bahamas, Lisa Hannigan, Joanna Newsom, and Patrick Watson. Website: https://www.loganandnathan.com
Logan and Nathan at Folk Alliance International – 2020
Wednesday, Jan 22 (into Thursday morning)
12:30am – 1:30am – The Alberta Room – #1122
Thursday, Jan 23 (into Friday morning)
1:25am – 1:40am – The Gin Join – #1129
Thursday, Jan 23 (into Friday morning)
2:30am – 2:55am – FAI First Timerrs Room A – #1211
Friday, Jan 24 (into Saturday morning)
2:10am – 2:30am – Access Film Music RED – #1019
Saturday, Jan 25
10:30pm – 10:50pm – The Alberta Room – #1122
Saturday, Jan 25 (into Sunday morning)
2:30am – 3:00am – Bliss Hippy Room – #921
Other Fallen Tree Records performing at FAI:
Jessica Heine: Saturday, Jan 25 (into Sunday morning) 2:00am – 2:20am – BreakOut West – #820
Reissue:
Jay Aymar – Your Perfect Matador (Reissue)
Release date: Jan 17, 2020
Original release date: Sep 21, 2018
Listen/download/lyrics/release sheet/press shots:
https://fallentreerecords.com/promos/ftr1017-ja-ypm/
Behind the album video: https://youtu.be/sRtPPDtXG5Y
Walls are Pages [Lyric Video]: https://youtu.be/–sxUTVG-Sc
“This alone should elevate Jay Aymar to front and center stage where the likes of John Prine [and] Randy Newman stand. He’s that good.” ~ John Apice, No Depression
“There is no quibble about raising him to the higher rungs on the steep ladder of Canadian singer-songwriters, not just his contemporaries but of all time.” ~ Doug Swanson, Penguin Eggs
Through orchestrated layers reminiscent of the plushest art galleries, Jay Aymar (pronounced Ay-Mar), consummate songwriter and poet, rises from shadowed concrete beds to bring us a cinematic view of the colossal battles between love and art, bred through the transience and demands of touring. Your Perfect Matador celebrates the juxtaposition and necessity to “do a little wrong, to make things right,” illustrated by visual artists Banksy, Vincent van Gogh, and Leonardo da Vinci. It’s a narcotic cocktail of edgy post-Americana, swampy southern roots-rock with touches of soul and funk.
Produced by Michael Phillip Wojewoda, featuring guest vocals from Shakura S’aida, Alejandra Ribera and Chloe Charles with string arrangements from Drew Jurecka.
For fans of: Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, and Mark Lanegan. Website: https://jayaymar.com
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