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Grammy award-winning Attacca Quartet, as described by The Nation, “lives in the present aesthetically, without rejecting the virtues of the musical past”, and it is this dexterity to glide from the music of the 18th through to the 21st century repertoire that place them as one of the most versatile and outstanding ensembles of the moment – a quartet for modern times. “…a surprisingly powerful experience” THE STRAD Passionate advocates of contemporary repertoire, their latest recording, Orange, features string quartet works by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Caroline Shaw. Greatly received by the critics, Attacca Quartet won the 2020 Grammy award in the category “Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance” in recognition for their work on this album. Previous recordings include three critically acclaimed albums with Azica Records, including a disc of Michael Ippolito’s string quartets, and the complete works for string quartet by John Adams.

Touring extensively in the United States, recent and upcoming highlights include Carnegie Hall Neighborhood Concerts, New York Philharmonic’s Nightcap series, Lincoln Center’s White Lights Festival and Miller Theatre, both with Caroline Shaw, Phillips Collection, Chamber Music Austin, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, and Trinity Church at Wall Street where they will perform the complete cycle of the Beethoven String Quartets. Attacca Quartet has also served as Juilliard’s Graduate Resident String Quartet, the Quartet in Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Ensemble-in-Residence at the School of Music at Texas State University. Outside of the US, recent performances include Gothenburg Konserthuset, MITO Septembre Festival in Italy, and their debut in London at Kings Place and in Oslo at the Vertravo Haydn Festival. As well as their recent tour in Central and South America, they will return to Europe for a tour of ten concerts around Sweden as well as taking part in the Prague String Festival and September Me Festival in the Netherlands.

Passionate advocates of contemporary repertoire, their latest recording, Orange, features string quartet works by Pulitzer-prize winning composer Caroline Shaw. Greatly received by the critics, Attacca Quartet won the 2020 Grammy award in the category “Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance” in recognition for their work on this album. Previous recordings include three critically acclaimed albums with Azica Records, including a disc of Michael Ippolito’s string quartets, and the complete works for string quartet by John Adams.

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This is the biography of Patrick Watson (based on things he told me.)

Once there was a boy named Patrick Watson who was born on a military base in the Mojave Desert. His father rode around in planes carrying bombs, waiting for a command to drop them that never came. He was the baby in a family of five, which would include a future figure skater, an engineer and an air force pilot, but he was seven years younger than his next older sibling. The trouble with being born this late into a family is they have all already gone mad, and they are engaged in domestic dramas, chasing each other around with knives. He was left to make too many assumptions about love and life on his own, and he still has the philosophy of a wise beyond their years wide-eyed child.

The family moved to Hudson Quebec when Patrick was four. He was asked by an old gentleman by the name of Frank Cobatt to sing in the church choir. Perhaps they met in the cough drop section of the local grocery store. And Patrick sang in the church and his little boy’s pretty, melancholic voice broke everyone’s heart. And the choir director had him sing at the foot of a grave at a funeral. Because there is something in his voice that captures all the lovely things in life we can only hold onto temporarily and how their transience is what makes them wonderful. Patrick started playing piano when he was a child, of course. The piano used to belong to a boy named Gordon. The boy would appear as a ghost and teach Patrick how to play in the middle of the night. Even if Patrick played at three in the morning, his mother never interrupted these vital lessons. He showed me the photo of Gordon who looked, more or less, like a terrifying psychopath with tuberculosis who probably slit his whole family’s throats while they were sleeping. But I did not say so.

Patrick says he became a singer by accident. He thought he would compose scores for others to play, which seems like an odd thing to say because he is so clearly sprinkled with the pixie dust that causes a person to be transfixing on stage. And it’s now hard to imagine Montreal without the soundtrack of his songs. But he met the artist Brigitte Henry who was taking surreal underwater photographs of people in their clothes to make a book. This seemed like very important business to Patrick, so he made music for her exhibition. They performed the show at the porno movie theatre Cinema L’Amour. It was sold out. Brigitte Henry still designs some of his album covers, including this one. Patrick likes to hang on to people. He met his first guitar player Simon Angell playing guitar on the small streets of Hudson. In his first jazz class at college he walked in and Robbie Kuster and Mishka Stein were both sitting there. It was as though they were all waiting for each other. They would play together for the next twenty years. While they were working on his first album, the band lived in an abandoned church. They were kicked out for ringing the church bells when homeless people came in to be married, waking all the neighbours up in the middle of the night, in a misguided attempt to let them know love existed.

They opened up for James Brown where they learned to manage a large crowd. Every day before a concert James Brown and his team would hold hands and pray the show would be amazing. This taught the band that being on stage is a humbling honor and a music show is where people come to have a mystical experience. In the end, it was not so different than when he sang in church as a boy.

While writing this new album, the drummer Robbie left, Patrick and his partner separated, and his mother passed away. Much of this album is about having a wave knock you over when you realize that everything you have in life can be wiped away in a moment. He brought a notebook underneath the waves and composed tunes about melancholy while listening to the lonely hymns of mermaids. And the songs are about how sometimes you have to sing a love song to yourself when no one else will. Melody Noir is about writing a song to the hole inside us all.

Some of the songs, including Turn out the Lights and Look at You, are about falling in love again and learning how to be intimate in a new way. And how surprising it is that, although life can change, it can turn out to be better in so many ways than you could ever have imagined. And, ultimately, the album is about rebuilding your life from scratch.

The songs are marked by the idiosyncratic personalities of each of his band members. Mishka Stein grew up in the Ukraine where he wore little suits and accidentally set his building on fire, but he did a brave job helping the firemen put it out. A sweet Soviet latchkey boy, he spent much of his time watching Russian cartoons. The influence of the absurd anthemic melodies of those cartoons can be felt in the songs, particularly Look at You and Melody Noir.

Joe Grass, who has been playing guitar and pedal steel since Loves Songs for Robots, is a jackknife of sounds. He always creates a distinctive voice within the band’s particular brand of music. Evan Tighe landed magically at the perfect moment to take up the drums. The band was very lucky to find such a great drummer in time.

Patrick also worked with Leonard Cohen on one of his last songs before the legend passed away. This had a profound influence on the way he writes lyrics and the possibilities of poetry in song. The collaboration influenced his vocal delivery to be more dry, to have less notes and to simply deliver the words.

The beginning artist’s craft is so intuitive and odd, drawing from a trunk of recipes for happiness and hope. They begin with an idea that the world is good and things and love will work out. The mature artist creates from a place of melancholy and understanding of foibles and accepting a story that has already been written. It’s the difference between singing a solo at a stranger’s grave as a child and singing one at your own mother’s funeral.

It’s the same magical and sweet Patrick Watson on this album, but each of the feelings are deeper and dive down to stranger places, where even happiness seems impossible to bear. So the album moves from a dark place of loss to one of hope and magic and new love. The way you thought life was going to work out, but never does. Then it sometimes turns out to be more beautiful and surprising once it is broken.

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Patrick Watson is clearly excited about his European tour.

After a sold-out show in Amsterdam and a London appearance tonight, Watson already has a good idea that his new album,  Love Songs for Robots , is working. 

Speaking today before his set tonight at London's Shepherd's Bush Hall, a pumped Watson told  Daybreak  he's excited to share the new songs with a live audience. 

"At first, it's nerve-wracking in the beginning a bit because you're finding your feet. But at the same time, this record has got the best response of all the records we've done live in terms of people not knowing the songs and responding immediately." 

Nerves aside, he recognizes the pleasure he gets from playing music for strangers. 

"When we walk on stage, we're just kind of happy to make noise for people and enjoy a great evening," he said. 

"There's not much more to think about than that. Hey, I'm gonna spend a wonderful evening with a bunch of strangers in all these different places and share a musical experience. It's a fairly simple thing for us. No matter which city and which sold-out show, we're still always playing for people and people are people." 

Accompanying him is the band that won the Polaris Music Prize in 2007. The same one that played to more than 100,000 people at the 2009 Montreal Jazz Festival. 

Watson says the new album is inspired by his interest in science fiction and, musically, by the soundtrack for the movie  Blade Runner. 

He says he meant this album to be less cerebral and more appealing "to the belly".

"It's a very visceral record. It's not as airy and psychedelic as the other ones. It's a bit more grounded in a weird way so I guess people really respond to it well."

After London, Watson and his band head to Paris for a third sold out show, then Berlin and Brussels before coming back to North America at the end of May. 

They'll play Osheaga in Montreal in August. 

Love Songs for Robots  officially drops tomorrow, but you can stream it now on  cbcmusic.ca . 

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Jeanette Kelly works as the arts reporter at CBC Montreal. She's also the host of Cinq à Six, Quebec's Saturday afternoon culture show on CBC Radio One.

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Patrick watson debuts live video of "look at you"; on tour now, 23rd january 2020.

Canadian artist  Patrick Watson debuts a live video of “ Look At You ” today, which was recorded during a three-night run of sold-out shows at Mtelus in Montreal , Quebec . The song appears on Watson’s album, Wave , which is out now on Domino / Secret City (Canada). 

Additionally, Watson continues to take his lauded live show on the road this year with an extensive run of worldwide dates. The run of shows includes performances at  Los Angeles’ Lodge Room  and  New York’s Webster Hall.  Tickets are available for purchase at patrickwatson.net . See below for complete tour details.

Watson composes, performs and records his albums with his full band, which includes Joe Grass (guitar), Evan Tighe (drums) and Mishka Stein (bass). The recipients of Canada’s Polaris Music Prize in 2007, in addition to Juno and Polaris nominations, Watson and his band have toured on all continents, on occasion playing with full orchestras to bring the rich music to life. Raised and still living in Montreal, Watson has composed several scores for both film and television, including a trailer for “The Walking Dead” and Wim Wenders’ 3D film Everything Will Be Fine .

PATRICK WATSON LIVE 2020

January 23—Los Angeles, CA—Lodge Room SOLD OUT January 24—Los Angeles, CA—Lodge Room January 26—Phoenix, AZ—Crescent Ballroom January 28—Dallas, TX—Club Dada January 29—Austin, TX—Antone's  January 31—Mexico City, MX—El Plaza Condesa February 20—Barcelona, ES—Sala Apolo February 21—Madrid, ES—Teatro Kapital February 23—Lisbon, PT—Coliseu February 24—Porto, PT—Casa da Música  SOLD OUT February 26—Paris, FR—Olympia February 27—Bordeaux, FR—Le Rocher de Palmer February 28—Nantes, FR—Stereolux March 1—Lille, FR—Aeronef March 3—Zurich, CH—Rote Fabrik March 4—Lausanne CH—l'Octogone SOLD OUT March 6—London UK—Barbican March 8—Brussels BE—Cirque Royal March 9—Utrecht NL—TivoliVredenberg  SOLD OUT March 10—Utrecht NL—TivoliVredenberg March 12—Berlin DE—Metropol March 14—Istanbul TR—Zorlu April 9—Toronto, ON—Danforth Music Hall April 10—Woodstock, NY—Colony Café April 11—Burlington, VT—Higher Ground April 13—Philadelphia, PA—The Foundry April 14—Boston, MA—The Sinclair April 15—New York, NY—Webster Hall April 17—Washington, DC—Union Stage April 18—Columbus, OH—Ace of Cups April 19—Grand Rapids, MI—Pyramid Scheme April 21—St Paul, MN—Turf Club April 22—Chicago, IL—Thalia Hall April 23—Nashville, TN—The Basement East    

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Patrick watson wave, album | 18th october 2019.

Watson’s sixth studio album is about having a wave knock you over when you realize everything you have in life can be wiped away in a moment – and then learning how not to drown in the process.  The songs are about how sometimes you have to sing a love song to yourself when no one else will, allowing the sound carry you and learning to trust where you will land. It is very personal and intimate, and it is the most humble of all their records.

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• 1 Dream for Dreaming
• 3 Strange Rain
• 4 Melody Noir
• 6 Turn Out The Lights
• 7 Wild Flower
• 8 Look At You
• 10 Here Comes The River

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Patrick Watson’s Big, Metaphorical Backyard

By emma brown, photographed by shawn brackbill, photography shawn brackbill, april 26, 2012.

ABOVE: PATRICK WATSON, THE MAN (CENTER) WITH PATRICK WATSON, THE BAND

Patrick Watson has had a rather eclectic career—the band has toured with James Brown, played with Philip Glass and John Cale, and managed to turn a bicycle into an instrument for the song “Beijing.” Watson’s fourth album, Adventures in Your Own Backyard, is a return to a simpler, more traditional instrumentation—a wispy, optimistic, spring-like folk-pop record. Understated indie the modern, multi-hyphenate way. Unlike their previous albums, Adventures was recorded all in one studio in Montreal, an appropriate setting for this ode to home album.

If you are confused as to why we are referring to Patrick Watson as “they,” it is because Patrick Watson is actually a four-piece band, not a solo artist. Don’t let the single-person name or comparisons to warbling singer-songwriters such as Jeff Buckley and Devendra Banhart, confuse you; members of Patrick Watson include guitarist Simon Angell, and percussion man Robbie Kuster, bassist Mishka Stein, as well as the eponymous Patrick Watson the person (vocals, piano, guitar etc.) Forgive us, Watson fans, if we stated the obvious, but as the below  is with Patrick Watson singular, about Patrick Watson plural, it seemed like a necessary clarification to make. Here,  Interview talks with Mr. Watson about backyards, soul music, and quiet people.

EMMA BROWN: Hi Patrick, where are you right now?

PATRICK WATSON: I’m in the studio in Montreal.

BROWN: What are you doing there?

WATSON: I come here every day if I’m not working and play piano, play music.

BROWN: Articles about your music always begin with “Patrick Watson is a band, not just Patrick Watson.” Do your bandmates ever get frustrated?

WATSON: In the beginning, it was tricky because we didn’t think we were going to be a band; when we started, [we] were doing multimedia projects. By the time [Patrick Watson] grew into a band, it was difficult to change the name because we had built this name for ourselves. I think over the years, people have realized we’re a band and when they see us live, the musicians really stick out. At this point, I think people are okay with it.

BROWN: So you’ll never be “The Band Formally Known as Patrick Watson”?

WATSON: [ laughs ] Maybe. That could be fun. We’d tried to find a band name—but that’s another thing, we couldn’t find a good band name that really stuck, that was like, “Wow, that’s great!” For me “Patrick Watson” is an entity now, I almost have to change my name. [ laughs ]

BROWN: Do you have nickname?

WATSON: No, but I guess I should now that the band stole my name. [ laughs ]

BROWN: You could be Watson Patrick.

WATSON: Watson Patrick, yes! [ laughs ]

BROWN: I wanted to ask you some questions about your new album, Adventures in Your Own Backyard . When you were little, did you ever read those nature magazines, Your Big Backyard ?

WATSON: No, I’ve never heard of them. What are they?

BROWN: It’s sort of National Geographic for five-year-olds.

WATSON: That sounds awesome. I wish I’d had them.

BROWN: Do you have a backyard?

WATSON: I do now. I didn’t have one for a couple of years because I lived in a loft. [But] a backyard for me is more [being] with the people around you, your friends. I think that’s what defines your home; not your actual, physical home. When you travel a lot, what makes you feel at home is when your friends whom you know really well are there, your girlfriend.

BROWN: I hear you use some rather strange instruments on your albums, something about a bicycle?

WATSON: That was for the last record; we kept it pretty simple with this record. We just wanted to make a bunch of touching songs that really gave us goosebumps.

BROWN: How do you decide which instruments to use on which song—do you write them all on the piano?

WATSON: It’s different each time. We just use the instruments that tell the best story for each song. It’s pretty easy, when you start building a song, you’ll hear it in your head and you’ll know what [instrument] you’ll need to use.

BROWN: I really like your song “Quiet Ground,” can you tell me a little bit about it?

WATSON: You know when you get in an elevator, and there are 20 people in the elevator, but everybody’s dead quiet. You can just hear everybody thinking really loud in the back of their heads because it’s so awkward—the silence—and you’re so curious about what the other 20 people in the elevator are thinking. You have to think of the song kind of like that. [Some people] are not extremely vocal about [their thoughts]—[they] can’t find a way to say it—so they’re like a sleeping parade. The elevator example is how I think of the song; it’s for quiet people to talk. A lot of loud people have been talking over the years; they have these huge voices but don’t say much. I’m sure there are a lot of really quiet people who have a lot more intelligent things to say than the loud people. [ laughs ]

BROWN: Do you think of yourself as a quiet person?

WATSON: Oh, I don’t think so. I wouldn’t be counted as the most quiet person; I’m not loud either. I have a best friend, the guy who helped me write that song, whom I would consider a quiet person in the sense that [he’s] someone who has amazing ideas, would be an amazing person in this world, but just can’t find his place in it the way it works. He’s on the sidelines and does his own thing, so it’s kind of a waste. [“Quiet People”] is a dedication to the kind of brilliant people whom you just wish you could get to know better. Dedicated to the quiet people.

BROWN: Have you always been making music?

WATSON: Yeah, since I was seven, I guess.

BROWN: What was your first instrument?

WATSON: No, I sang in a choir. I was a choirboy. [ laughs ] I grew up in a small town, and we had a little church that could fit about 50 people. The guy who ran the choir was this really great, old gentleman who said, “Why don’t you sing in the choir?” And then “I think you should sing a solo!” I was like, “Really, I’ve never sung before.” “Watch, you can do it!” I started taking piano after that. I just remember music always being a part of my life. I was never like, “I’m gonna be a rock star,” or “I’m gonna be in a band.” [It was more] “I just play piano, and I’m always going to play piano. That’s who I am and that’s cool.” I think music became so ingrained in me that it was not even my choice. I do like choral music a lot, the voice is a pretty strong instrument—out of all the instruments, it’s the most intimate. There’s nothing you can do about it, it just feels so good when you hear a bunch of voices sing together.

BROWN: I saw your Spotify SXSW playlist, and you have a song by the Swingle Singers.

WATSON: The who? The Swingle Singers? They put that in there? I dunno, we put a whole bunch of things in there. How funny. All of us pitch in, and we don’t pay that much attention. I guess we should though, I think people take them very seriously. [ laughs ]

BROWN: What are you most excited for on this album?

WATSON: I’m really excited to go to the States. We’ve spent a lot of time in Europe over the past few years. We really love touring, it’s always a crazy adventure, the high and lows are very spread apart. I think it’ll be the first time that the American audience will get a chance to know us. When you travel, you can see lots of great buildings and monuments and stuff, but the best part of traveling is meeting people as you go. Those are the people who made the places you go to anyway. All my memories of traveling—yeah, there are some buildings or landscapes that I’ll always remember—but I still think I remember the people I meet more than any of that.

BROWN: How do you meet people when you’re traveling—aren’t you busy all day playing shows and unloading/packing up equipment, etc.?

WATSON: Everybody always wants to meet musicians. [ laughs ] You can go to any random bar around the world and be like, “I’m a musician,” and they’ll have something to say to you. It’s kind of this weird passport where you can go around and as soon as you say you’re a musician, you’re welcome. It’s very difficult for me to travel now without music just because I’m so spoiled. It’s a huge luxury to go and play your music for all these people around the world and having come up to you in a special way—they really want to show your their city, or really want to show you where they are from. If you are just traveling, you don’t get that same welcome.

BROWN: What cities are you playing in?

WATSON: I never check where I’m going to go. When I get in the airplane, it’s fun to see where I end up. [ laughs ] With touring, there’s always a whole system around you, you can be like a four-year-old—jump in the van and hope for the best! It’s a bit ridiculous. Usually it makes me laugh. I remember one time we were in Europe and we were in the tour bus—and that’s the worst because all you have to do is get back in the bus—I woke up in the morning and walked out of the tour bus, I had my underwear on not realizing I was in the middle of a city, it was 12 o’clock in the afternoon, in Brussels, in the main street. I was like, “Ohhh… why hello, people! What language do you speak?” [ laughs ]

BROWN: Do the countries all blend together?

WATSON: When you go away for a month on tour, there’s only so much information you can take in. You’re traveling city by city every day. I think five of the 30 days you actually keep with you and the rest becomes mush . And when you get back you’re really mushy.

BROWN: I also wanted to ask you about James Brown; you toured with him once, right?

WATSON: Oh yeah, a long time ago.

BROWN: How was that?

WATSON: That was special. [ laughs ] The one thing I’ll always remember about those shows is, every time, before we went on stage, he’d get all the lighting and sound guys together, and everybody would have to do a big prayer, they would have to ask to put on the best show of their lives every night. There was this kind of beautiful respect—an inspiring way of taking the stage. James Brown is known for party music, but after touring I had a better understanding of when they say “soul music,” what they meant. It wasn’t party music, it was a very spiritual experience for those musicians; it was about letting go and going somewhere else. I remember being profoundly touched by that. I wouldn’t have expected to have that with James Brown, from what I knew when I was a kid.

BROWN: Do you have a pre-performance ritual that helps calm you down?

WATSON: Yeah, there’s one song I always listen to because it puts me in a good mood, and in people-person mode. It’s Simon and Garfunkel’s “The Only Living Boy in New York,” for some reason the song just calms me down.

BROWN: Is there a song you like to listen to when you’re angry?

WATSON: I hadn’t thought about that. That’s a good question. I’ll pay attention next time I’m angry.

ADVENTURES IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD COMES OUT TOMORROW . FOR MORE ON PATRICK WATSON, VISIT THE BAND’S WEBSITE .

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This week’s “back by popular demand” program features Canadian singer-songwriter Patrick Watson , who grew up in Montreal; people often compare his art-music sensibilities with those of Rufus Wainwright or Gregory Alan Isakov. Also joining us is another Canadian singer-songwriter (and returning eTown visitor) Basia Bulat . Basia shares songs from a recent album produced by My Morning Jacket’s Jim James. Then, we’ll have an inspiring conversation with this week’s eChievement Award winner Brandon Dennison, a young man from West Virginia who helps coal miners who’ve lost their jobs because of automation or mine closings find meaningful work and solid income to support their families.

Patrick Watson

A singer/songwriter, film composer, and pianist based in Montreal, Canada, Patrick Watson makes explorative chamber pop with his band — also called Patrick Watson — often blending spare indie pop, synthesizer experiments, cinematic orchestral song, and a melancholy tone. The group’s second album, 2006’s Close to Paradise, won the Polaris Prize. After composing music for several short films, Watson made his feature-length debut with It’s Not Me, I Swear! in 2008. Released in 2015, Love Songs for Robots became his band’s fourth straight album to reach Canada’s Top Ten, and he found success again in 2019 with the arrival of his sixth long-player, Wave. After Watson went viral with the decade-old single “Je Te Laisserai des Mots” to the tune of hundreds of millions of streams, he released 2022’s Better in the Shade, which drew on literary inspirations.

Though he was born in California, Patrick Watson was raised outside of Montreal in Hudson, Quebec. After singing in local church choirs as a boy, he sang and played keyboards in the ska band Gangster Politics while in high school. They released an eponymous LP via Stomp Records in 1998. After graduating, he left the band and began to explore other types of music, including electronica and ambient, and went on to study jazz and classical piano performance, composition, and arranging at Vanier College in Montreal. In 2001, he released the album Waterproof9, which consisted of experimental music accompaniment to a photo book by Brigitte Henry titled Waterproof. In 2002, he decided to start a four-piece chamber pop group, bringing in bassist Mishka Stein, drummer Robbie Kuster (both of whom he had met at university), and former Gangster Politics guitarist Simon Angell. The group, which was technically still a solo project with a backing band, released Just Another Ordinary Day and began performing around Canada. They were booked at the 2005 Pop Montreal Festival, a show that led to the formation of Secret City Records, the label that issued Watson’s sophomore album, Close to Paradise (which featured the same band), in 2006. Also charting in France and the Netherlands, it reached number four on Canada’s album chart, and was awarded the Polaris Prize in 2007.

Around that time, Watson began scoring short films, including 2006’s Gravity Boy and 2007’s Neuf. He scored his first features, It’s Not Me, I Swear! and Hidden Diary in 2008 and 2009, respectively. Patrick Watson’s third full-length album, Wooden Arms, also arrived in 2009 and made the shortlist for that year’s Polaris Music Prize. It peaked at number six in Canada. The pared-down Adventures in Your Own Backyard followed in 2012 and climbed to number two on the album chart, and the ambient-leaning Love Songs for Robots reached number three upon its release in 2015. The latter featured prior collaborator Joe Grass on guitar in place of Angell.

In the meantime, Watson continued to compose music for shorts, documentaries, and theatrical features. His score for the 2016 thriller The 9th Life of Louis Drax saw release by Varèse Sarabande that September. In 2017, he returned with the stand-alone single “Broken,” which found its way onto several TV series, including Grey’s Anatomy and The Good Doctor. He also contributed to Tower of Songs, a tribute concert to Leonard Cohen in Montreal that also included Elvis Costello, Philip Glass, and Lana Del Rey, among others. In mid-2018, he issued another single, “Melody Noir,” before following up with the French song “Mélancholie” featuring Quebecois singer Safia Nolin. It was issued by Secret City Records in conjunction with the start of a European tour. A year later, Watson issued his sixth full-length, the inward-looking Wave.

In the early 2020s, Patrick Watson’s elegant 2010 chamber ballad “Je Te Laisserai des Mots” went viral on social media, driving hundreds of millions of streams. In the meantime, he prepared a studio album with a focus on lyrics inspired by works of writers like Virginia Woolf, Denis Johnson, and Samanta Schweblin. The resulting Better in the Shade arrived on Secret City in 2022.

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Basia Bułat

Canadian singer/songwriter Basia Bulat created significant buzz in the indie world with the release of her first full-length album, 2007’s Oh, My Darling. It introduced a rich, expressive voice that proved to be the ideal vehicle for folk-influenced songs that dealt with love and life with a combination of sadness and wonder. Meanwhile, her melodies were bolstered by a band that incorporated strings and keyboards along with the traditional drums and guitar. Oh, My Darling was short-listed for the Polaris Music Prize and launched a successful series of tours in addition to further albums in the decade to follow. Along the way, she made fans of other musicians, including My Morning Jacket’s Jim James, who produced her fourth and fifth long-players, 2016’s Good Advice and 2020’s Are You in Love? In 2022, The Garden reinterpreted select songs from her first five albums for a pared-down band and string quartet.

Born Barbara Josephine Bulat in Toronto in 1985, Bulat was raised in suburban Etobicoke with a mother who taught piano and guitar (Etobicoke was amalgamated into Toronto proper in 1998). She later resettled in London, Ontario, where she recorded and self-released the EP Basia Bulat in 2005. The following year, producer Howard Bilerman — best known for his work with Arcade Fire — took Bulat and her band into the studio to record her first full-length record. The result, Oh, My Darling, caught the ear of esteemed U.K. label Rough Trade, which released the album in April 2007, before she had a deal in Canada or the United States.

British reviews for Oh, My Darling were enthusiastic, and a tour of England and Europe impressed critics and fans alike. The Canadian independent label Hardwood Records signed Bulat in mid-2007 and released Oh, My Darling later in the year. The album fared well in the songwriter’s homeland, where it was short-listed for the Polaris Music Prize (an honor it lost to Caribou) and encouraged Bulat to continue touring. She remained on the road for several years, playing a slew of international dates while compiling material for her next album. Heart of My Own arrived in early 2010.

Bulat’s home country began to recognize her as a national treasure, inviting her to participate in two sacred Canadian events: an appearance on Hockey Night in Canada in December 2011, and in mid-2012, singing the national anthem at an Ottawa Senators baseball game. In October 2013, she issued her third album, Tall Tall Shadow, her first offering for Secret City Records. It reached number 25 on the Billboard album chart in Canada. After writing a batch of songs inspired by a romance gone sour, Bulat recorded her next full-length, Good Advice, in Kentucky with Jim James producing the sessions. It saw release in February 2016 and climbed two spots higher in Canada, peaking at number 23.

It would be some four years before Bulat returned with her fifth album. Recording sessions started with James at the Joshua Tree and were initially informed by Bulat finding love again. The sessions were then put on hold for nine months while she returned to Montreal after the death of her father and to make sense of the emotional roller coaster her life had been on. The resulting Are You in Love? was finished in 2019 and issued on Secret City in March of 2020.

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and the news that Bulat was expecting her first child both helped to inspire the songwriter to find new meanings in some of her existing songs. Also taking inspiration from artists like Kitty Wells and Willie Nelson, who would revisit the same song in the studio as their voices and outlooks changed, Bulat selected 16 tracks to re-record with her band’s guitarist and bassist alongside string quartet arrangements by Owen Pallett, Paul Frith, and Zou Zou Robidoux. Produced by Bulat and Tall Tall Shadow’s Mark Lawson (Arcade Fire, Beirut), The Garden arrived on Secret City in February of 2022.

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Patrick Watson: “We want to plant a seed here that can grow” – Interview

Patrick Watson

Montrealers Patrick Watson are more than the one man they’re named after. In Canada, their album Close To Paradise has been Polaris-nominated. The UK is about to hear why as it reaches these shores.

Ahead of that, musicOMH met up with their lead singer, sometime Cinematic Orchestra collaborator and the man who lends his name to the band for a natter about the band’s music, the Montreal “scene”, and how he came to record a single while drunk on vodka, and wearing a cowboy hat and boots…

While his band’s album is a musically-complex, serious affair, Patrick Watson comes across as a jolly, smiley, friendly fellow. Sporting an unkempt beard (as are his bandmates who come in and out of the room but don’t really get involved in the interview) he seems raring to talk. When asked to tell readers who may be unfamiliar with the band about who they are, he is keen to clarify how the band came about and how it ended up taking his name.

“So we as a band are called Patrick Watson. How it started was that originally, some years ago, we were asked to do some music to accompany a book of photography. Having built a CD to go with all these images we thought it would be fun to do it live and it worked really well and people freaked. We didn’t really think we were gonna be a band at that point but over a period of five or six years we got to a point where it became very difficult to change the name. It was difficult to find a name that suited us especially as we had such an eclectic music style. The second album was a kind of middle point, and now here we are at this third album which is much more song orientated.”

Their first UK single, a double-A side of Luscious Life and The Storm, has just been released in the UK, and perhaps Watson’s finding it hard to keep up. “Oh. Has it been released? I didn’t even know that. It’s funny – I don’t really think about singles. It’s an old art form to me and it doesn’t really work for us because each of our songs is so drastically different. Luscious Life is the only song on the album that sounds like Luscious Life. The Storm is the only song on the album that sounds like The Storm. That’s kind of what we worked on for the album was to make sure that every song had its own identity completely. That’s pretty important.”

When it’s suggested that perhaps the two songs were chosen to showcase two different sides of the band, he agrees. “Luscious Life is I guess more of a pop song. It’s funny though – The Storm doesn’t really work in England when we play it live. We try to add a country feel to it – a bit of a Johnny Cash feel, and I don’t know if that really goes down that well over here. Yeah – I think that’s a weird choice. I would’ve released Luscious Life with maybe The Great Escape, or even a more simple song like Man Under The Sea. When we recorded The Storm we didn’t have a label and we kind of thought we should have a label and we should be touring. It was like a stormy road and I just knew there was a shit storm to come. It was a premonition that something was coming. When we recorded the second half of the song, as a joke I wore a cowboy hat and boots, and did it half-naked and super-hammered on vodka. I think someone drew a picture, but it got lost.”

“Maybe we’ll find a new band name for the next record…” – Patrick Watson, front man of the band Patrick Watson, on a confusing band name…  

As for the album and the current European tour, “well, the album’s not officially out here yet… (although is available to download) “but it’s been out in Canada for a while. The time seemed right now because we have such a good team behind us helping to put it out here. We’ve been playing Europe a lot and are building a buzz now. We want to plant a seed here that can grow…”

But his home country is where things have really taken off. “Canada has been hectic, especially in Quebec. We’d also like to develop a following in France and Belgium as we speak French. But really I just have simple expectations. I know we can play shows and we can sell records. I just don’t know how many.”

As one of so many critically acclaimed bands emerging from Canada at the moment, and in particular from Montreal, is there a scene and how does he feel about it?

“Well it’s not really a scene because no-one sounds alike and none of us really have that similarity. It’s more of a scene in that we all see each other and we’re all close friends. I guess I’m closest to The Besnard Lakes as we recorded the album with Jace (Lasek), their singer, but really everyone gets on well.”

“It was like a stormy road and I just knew there was a shit storm to come…” – Patrick Watson gets meterological

When he talks about artists he’s been listening to, the names Sufjan Stevens , Beirut and American band Rachel’s come up. He’s also been listening to a lot of classical music as well as British acts The Beatles , Pink Floyd and Nick Drake and anyone who’s heard the album won’t find any of those influences surprising.

As for what’s next for the band “well, we still have lots of Europe to do. We’ve got to get our seeds planted over here and our feet on the ground. And we’ve started working on the next record. We’ll start doing some improv sessions and then we’ll start bringing in the new sound. The next record will sound different – very percussive. A little less layered but with a little more detail. A little bit more energy though. Maybe we’ll find a new band name for the next record. There must be something that conjures our sound. I would have liked it to be called Cinematic Orchestra. I thought that was a great name for a band, but they stole it.”

“It’s also important that people know we’re not a singer/songwriter project. That’s probably the furthest thing from it. The band doesn’t have that vibe. When people hear our title, that’s probably what they think we are, but we really aren’t. We’re all studied musicians and when we were younger we’d always see bands that played for five years and would never really play again. So we were always afraid of being a band because we want a musical career for the rest of our lives.”

Watson is a young, amiable musician and his band have made one of the most impressive albums of the year. Just remember that it’s definitely not the work of a singer/songwriter.

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Patrick Watson Extends U.S. Tour and European Tour

The singer songwriter, Patrick Watson, has extended his U.S. and European tours with dates from July until December. You can check out the dates and details, after the break.

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On Friday, April 5, the Black Keys will release their new album, Ohio Players . That same day, tickets go on sale for their newly announced International Players Tour. The tour will find Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney performing across North America in the autumn. See the band’s tour schedule, including spring shows in the United Kingdom and Europe, below.

The Black Keys have previewed their follow-up to 2022’s Dropout Boogie with “ Beautiful People (Stay High) ,” “ I Forgot to Be Your Lover ,” and “ This Is Nowhere .” The band recently premiered This Is a Film About the Black Keys at the 2024 SXSW Film & TV Festival .

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The Moscow Metro Tour is included in most guided tours’ itineraries. Opened in 1935, under Stalin’s regime, the metro was not only meant to solve transport problems, but also was hailed as “a people’s palace”. Every station you will see during your Moscow metro tour looks like a palace room. There are bright paintings, mosaics, stained glass, bronze statues… Our Moscow metro tour includes the most impressive stations best architects and designers worked at - Ploshchad Revolutsii, Mayakovskaya, Komsomolskaya, Kievskaya, Novoslobodskaya and some others.

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The guide will not only help you navigate the metro, but will also provide you with fascinating background tales for the images you see and a history of each station.

And there some stories to be told during the Moscow metro tour! The deepest station - Park Pobedy - is 84 metres under the ground with the world longest escalator of 140 meters. Parts of the so-called Metro-2, a secret strategic system of underground tunnels, was used for its construction.

During the Second World War the metro itself became a strategic asset: it was turned into the city's biggest bomb-shelter and one of the stations even became a library. 217 children were born here in 1941-1942! The metro is the most effective means of transport in the capital.

There are almost 200 stations 196 at the moment and trains run every 90 seconds! The guide of your Moscow metro tour can explain to you how to buy tickets and find your way if you plan to get around by yourself.

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You would like, admiring the frescoes in kurskaya and komsomolskaya metro stations, marvelling at the architecture of the moscow metro, listening to your guide's commentary, essential information *, duration 1 hour 50 minutes, starting time 2:00 pm.

Set off to discover the most breathtaking stops on Moscow’s beautiful metro system on this walking tour.

Some of the stops on the Moscow metro are real masterpieces. Head underground and admire the Moscow metro with your guide.

During your guided tour, you will get to admire the Ploshchad Revolyutsii , designed by the architect Dushkin. There are no fewer than 72 sculptures in this station!

You will then explore Kurskaya station, built in 1938. The design, mosaics and slogans will immerse you in the era of Stalin. You will also see the frescoes depicting Russian victories in Komsomolskaya station.

Then, continue to one of Moscow’s must-see metro stations, Novoslobodskaya , which resembles an underground palace: marble, stained glass windows...

Join your guide to explore the most lavish and important metro stops in Moscow! 

• Availability: every day (excluding exceptional dates)
• Duration: 1 hr. 50 mins approx.
• Departure point: The Kremlin
• Languages: English
• Please wear comfortable shoes
• Metro tickets are included for the metro stations visited during the activity 
• A valid student card will be requested from participants who have booked the reduced student tariff
• A minimum of 2 participants is required to book this activity

Price includes

• Metro tickets
• The services of an English-speaking tour guide
• The guided tour of the Moscow metro

Price doesn’t include

• Access to stations not included in the tour
• Hotel pick-up/drop-off
• Tips (optional)
• All other extras

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"I know I'm going to have a good chance to win" - Joaquin Niemann is confident about his chances at 2024 Masters

J oaquin Niemann will be playing in the Masters 2024 thanks to a special invitation from the organizers. The Chilean is confident that he will be able to take advantage of this opportunity and claimed that he has "a good chance to win" the tournament.

Niemann is outside the top 50 of the Official World Golf Ranking (OWGR) since LIV Golf events (where he has been playing since 2022) do not receive ranking points. However, his performances in 2024 have been so outstanding that they did not go unnoticed by Augusta National officials.

On his current sporting form and his chances at the Masters 2024, Joaquin Niemann said (via LIV Golf Updates):

"It's a golf course [Augusta National's] that I've been enjoying the last couple of years. I haven't had a really good result yet, but I'm looking forward to it. If I keep playing the way I'm playing, I know I'm going to have a good chance to win."

Joaquin Niemann started his 2024 season by winning the Australian Open held by the PGA Tour of Australasia. He also played in the Dubai Desert Classic held by the European Tour and finished T4. He played one event on the International Series of the Asian Tour as well, finishing in the top 10.

In the current LIV Golf season, Niemann has won two out of the four events so far (LIV Golf Mayakoba and LIV Golf Jeddah) in addition to finishing fourth in Hong Kong. He currently leads the individual rankings on the circuit as well.

Joaquin Niemann has played at the Masters Championship four times (2018, 2021, 2022, 2023) with three cuts made. His best performance was in 2023 when he finished T16.

Which LIV Golf players will join Joaquin Niemann at the Masters 2024?

In addition to Joaquin Niemann, 13 other LIV Golf players will participate in the Masters 2024. The others qualified thanks to their status as former champions or because of the places they occupy in the world rankings.

Defending champion Jon Rahm leads the group as one of the main favorites to challenge for the title. The other 11 players are as follows:

• Bubba Watson (former champion)
• Dustin Johnson (former champion)
• Phil Mickelson (former champion)
• Patrick Reed (former champion)
• Sergio Garcia (former champion)
• Charl Schwartzel (former champion)
• Bryson DeChambeau (Major champion, last 5 seasons)
• Brooks Koepka (Major champion, last 5 seasons)
• Cameron Smith (Major champion, last 5 seasons)
• Tyrrell Hatton (OWGR)
• Adrian Meronk (OWGR)

The group has a combined 13 titles in the Masters Tournament and 22 titles in Major championships. The reigning Masters champion (Rahm) will be joined by the reigning PGA Championship champion (Koepka). Both played in the last edition of the Ryder Cup along with Tyrrell Hatton.