"Hazy golden afternoon light filters down on our old battlegrounds / Muted echo’d cries from way back when we were alive / When the living folded us inside..."
Letting "100 Years", by Canadian experimental artist Ryan Bourne, wash over me I am feeling a lot of things. The acoustic core with ambient sounds that feel like creatures in a forest in Georgia, in the California mountains, in a South American jungle feels like nature passing through me. It is like watching my own eulogy but one that is living not dying. That is what I am feeling as I hear Ryan's vocal countenance trippy, peaceful and zen like float behind my eyeballs in reverse. Granted it is late and for whatever reason I am operating on only a few hours sleep.
"Hazy golden afternoon light filters down on our old battlegrounds
Muted echo’d cries from way back when we were alive
When the living folded us inside
Beating our hearts
And we grew like a strange family tree
Before everything burned out and I turned 100 years old.
Now it seems we hardly existed but I swear I was there 100 years ago."
There is a sense here held in truly beautiful vocal melodies that the world as fucked up as it is right now will pass through and make it to the other side and in a thousand years we will get along with each other. The song awash in the kind of beautiful noise of big waves breaking feels as heavy as they do translucent. I feel a collision of Sparklehorse, Flaming Lips, John Lennon and a cold stiff wind through forest trees. This new song by Ryan Bourne (Chad VanGaalen, Jon McKiel, Lab Coast, Ghostkeeper) shares 2nd single from his new album "Plant City" - produced & featuring Chad VanGaalen.
Here are pertinent press notey stuff to read or simply absorb through your skin:
Over the past decade, Bourne has been one of western Canada’s most in-demand players and collaborators, logging major hours onstage and in the studio with some of the most compelling acts in the Canadian independent music scene. Since 2015, Bourne has played bass, guitar, keyboards, and sang backing vocals in Chad Van Gaalen’s current live band and appears on a track from Van Gaalen’s critically acclaimed recent LP Light Information. Bourne has also been a key member of Metis avant-indie experimentalists Ghostkeeper, Stints with Sackville indie rock auteur Jon McKiel, Calgary pop-nugget purveyors Lab Coast, post-disco outfit Sleepkit and heavy psych rockers Devonian Gardens, Edmonton’s Marlaena Moore, and Reuben & The Dark have also added to Bourne’s busy schedule. On top of his live and studio work, Ryan Bourne is also a composer, artist and designer. His solo and collaborative work explores experimental, avant-garde and psychedelic approaches to pop songwriting. Ryan works with themes of spiritual transcendence, transformation, mortality, isolation, and fluidity. His visual work explores these subjects via vibrantly colored loosely figurative and abstract works in painting and large-scale installation, the latter in ongoing collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Reid, whose ongoing project "Neon Funeral" was first exhibited at Contemporary Calgary in 2020. They currently perform as the experimental synth-pop performance art duo Hair Control.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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"Hazy golden afternoon light filters down on our old battlegrounds
Muted echo’d cries from way back when we were alive
When the living folded us inside
Beating our hearts
And we grew like a strange family tree
Before everything burned out and I turned 100 years old.
Now it seems we hardly existed but I swear I was there 100 years ago."
There is a sense here held in truly beautiful vocal melodies that the world as fucked up as it is right now will pass through and make it to the other side and in a thousand years we will get along with each other. The song awash in the kind of beautiful noise of big waves breaking feels as heavy as they do translucent. I feel a collision of Sparklehorse, Flaming Lips, John Lennon and a cold stiff wind through forest trees. This new song by Ryan Bourne (Chad VanGaalen, Jon McKiel, Lab Coast, Ghostkeeper) shares 2nd single from his new album "Plant City" - produced & featuring Chad VanGaalen.
Here are pertinent press notey stuff to read or simply absorb through your skin:
Over the past decade, Bourne has been one of western Canada’s most in-demand players and collaborators, logging major hours onstage and in the studio with some of the most compelling acts in the Canadian independent music scene. Since 2015, Bourne has played bass, guitar, keyboards, and sang backing vocals in Chad Van Gaalen’s current live band and appears on a track from Van Gaalen’s critically acclaimed recent LP Light Information. Bourne has also been a key member of Metis avant-indie experimentalists Ghostkeeper, Stints with Sackville indie rock auteur Jon McKiel, Calgary pop-nugget purveyors Lab Coast, post-disco outfit Sleepkit and heavy psych rockers Devonian Gardens, Edmonton’s Marlaena Moore, and Reuben & The Dark have also added to Bourne’s busy schedule. On top of his live and studio work, Ryan Bourne is also a composer, artist and designer. His solo and collaborative work explores experimental, avant-garde and psychedelic approaches to pop songwriting. Ryan works with themes of spiritual transcendence, transformation, mortality, isolation, and fluidity. His visual work explores these subjects via vibrantly colored loosely figurative and abstract works in painting and large-scale installation, the latter in ongoing collaboration with interdisciplinary artist Rebecca Reid, whose ongoing project "Neon Funeral" was first exhibited at Contemporary Calgary in 2020. They currently perform as the experimental synth-pop performance art duo Hair Control.
-Robb Donker Curtius
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"Ryan Bourne (Chad VanGaalen, Jon McKiel, Lab Coast, Ghostkeeper) shares 2nd single from new album "Plant City" - produced & featuring Chad VanGaalen"
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