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This page is full of highlights from past shows - it's for those of you who like the randomness of live performance and don't mind hearing bad (sometimes very very bad) recording quality; awful tuning; people playing completely the wrong thing at the wrong time, etc. In fact this page is for those of you who, like me, enjoy these things and appreciate them as part of the adventure and excitement of creating, performing, and listening to music. This page is an audio documentation of the band's development; and it's a token of appreciation to our friends who are far away and would like to come to our shows abut can't. If you've come to this page looking to hear the studio recordings from Truth in The Dark (our new album): those are on the main page - just go to the top of the page and follow the 'Home' link and they'll be in the audio player on the right side of the screen. Because we put new tracks up on this page after almost every show, it's a good idea to join the mailing list (at the top of this page) so you'll get a notification when there's new music here. Whenever I post a new track it stays on this page until I get sick of it - generally a couple weeks to a month. The really nice tracks stay forever, the really bad ones only last a couple days. You're welcome to download whatever you can get your hands on from this page - just don't sell it on the street, ok? Thanks for visiting! |
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The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra live @ the Tranzac, Toronto ...sometime in February '08? only the sun enjoys this weather comet letter from london truth in the dark let's fall in love driving me backward poetry moment featuring Tomy Bewick |
25-04-08:
¡¡ New Stuff !! Here's a set of songs from a show we did at the Tranzac back in February. We were back there again last night to do another show and my friend Chris Warren came to the show and gave me this recording he'd made of us a couple months ago. Thanks Chris! I really like a lot of these tracks - they're really live and sometimes a bit sketchy, but they have a realy good energy to them. I remember that being a really fun show and that the audience that night was really having a good time. You can feel that positivity in the recordings somehow. This set also includes a poetry collaboration with Tomy Bewick. I've been slack about setting up more of those... don't think we've done one since Tomy's - but I'll be getting back to that for sure. So: these are yours to download! They won't be up on this page forever so, if you like collecting weird little moments of sound, please go ahead and grab these now... just right click on the name of each track you want, select the 'save file' thing and it's yours! |
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Live
@ the Tranzac Club:
January 16 2008 If you have a
Youtube account you can make a comment on this video on the Youtube Page if
you'd like.
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Recorded by Susan
Carey
Video of "I'll Try": Susan Carey is a filmmaker from Guelph who's working on a documentary about "music and cultural responsibility", which includes performances by and interviews with members of Blue Rodeo, Mr. Something-Something, trombonist Scott Thompson, and the Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra. She keeps popping up with a camera where ever we play - keep an eye out for her at our shows from January - March and, if you see her, buy her a drink... she's doing good work and deserves some appreciation! I'll post information about the progress of this documentary and where you can see it on this website. Go to the top of the page and join the mailing list if you're really curious. This video is, of course, pretty grainy because it's from the Youtube repost... we'll have some prettier stuff here soon! |
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Arraymusic Studio: October 14 2007 in concert with
Thollem McDonas,
pianist
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Recorded by Jeff
Vidov
Chamber Concerto with Thollem McDonas: Performing with the great American pianist Thollem McDonas was an artistic high point of 2007 for us. Thollem loves spontenaity to the point of absolutely refusing to rehearse this music at all! So this live premiere recording has the wonderful vibrancy of in-the-moment creativity. This excerpt is from the middle section of the concerto, and it also features our good friend Peter Ing on viola. |
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Clinton's:
October 4
2007
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Recorded by Hiro
(Clintons' sound
technician).
Radio Canada Hulla Balloo: This track is one of my favourites on this page! The Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra collaborates with a different spoken word artist each show. Spencer is the author of two poetry chapbooks: 'Sometimes I Wish Raptors Existed So I Could Get Disemboweled And Finally Spill My Guts To Someone' and 'My Name Is Scientist'. He's also a major force on stage as this recording clearly demonstrates. I love the quiet "thanks for having me" at the end. |
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The
Parkdale Revolutionary Orchestra
Demo Recording (2006) |
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Kristin Mueller-Heaslip, soprano Jennifer Wardle, saxophone Natalie Wong, violin Orly Bitov, cello Blitz Kaler, bass Michael Rosenthal, percussion Recorded and engineered by Paul Talbot |
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The demo recording has five tracks,
all of which have remained standards in the
Orchestra's repertoire. The first three tracks are available here for
listening; this recording is available in CD form. |
