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Raven Shields Performing As Part Of The Listening Room @ the Rivoli
This coming Wednesday, June 29th, Raven Shields will be performing as part of the Listening Room series @ the Rivoli. The series will feature both established and up-and-coming Canadian songwriters in the songwriters circle format. Joining Raven will be Chris Tait (Chalk Cirlce/solo artist) and Jena Gogo and Jay Mitchell of Blue Sky Miners. You can find more details about the evening here: https://www.facebook.com/events/363365023787086/ Tickets are $10 in advance or $12 at the door. http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1232045
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Alister Johnson Remix Of Shift By The Wilderness Of Manitoba Premieres Today
Live In Limbo premieres roster mate Alister Johnson’s remix of our track Shift today. Johnson says that, when he first heard the track Shift, the producer/remixer was drawn to the vocal melody and knew that he could expand on the song by re-contextualizing the sound. “I wanted to take it away from the acoustic / live sound and bring it into the analog synth / drum machine world. I feel that it worked out, but apologize to Alex Lifeson that his guitar solo from the original version didn’t make the remix!” It will be available on iTunes and Spotify this Friday, June 10th through our good friends the Confidence Emperors. By sheer coincidence, we are playing a show at the Monarch Tavern in Toronto on Friday so come out and hear some of the new songs that we have recorded for our new album!
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The Wilderness Of Manitoba Celebrates Completion Of New Album
Back in December, the Wilderness of Manitoba played a weekly residency at the Dakota Tavern to test drive fifteen new songs that they were planning to record for their fifth album. The successful shows and the positive response from the audiences energized the band going into the studio. With the same line-up that toured with Elliott Brood over a year ago, Will Whitwham (vocals/guitars/keyboards), Raven Shields (vocals, guitar), Tavo Diez de Bonilla (bass) and Mike Brushey (drums/percussion) entered Union Sound in January and cut the bedtracks in three days. Since then, they have been recording overdubs in Whitwham’s home studio and mixing with Matthew Fudge at Revolution Recording and Dan Weston at his studio.
To celebrate the completion of the album, the Wilderness of Manitoba will be playing a special show at the Monarch Tavern on Friday, June 10th. Come and see the band play the new songs live, and get a sneak peek of how the album is shaping up. Not all fifteen songs will make the album so this will be a great chance for people to share their favourites with the band. “The live show,” says founding member and main songwriter Whitwham, “is a constantly evolving portrait of the band and its efforts.”
When: Friday, June 10th
Where: the Monarch Tavern, 12 Clinton Street, Toronto M6J 2N8
Doors: 9:00 PM
Tickets: $12 in advance, $15 at the door
Ticket link: http://www.ticketfly.com/event/1199399-wilderness-manitoba-toronto/
Facebook event link:https://www.facebook.com/events/1711124919149095/
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We start mixing our new album tomorrow!
We’re excited to start mixing our new album on Wednesday at Revolution Recording in Toronto. For those of you who caught our Dakota shows in December, you will recognize a lot of the songs. We hope to have a single out in the late spring with the album following in mid-August. If you can’t wait that long, you can check out one of our more acoustic songs, Wild Wind, here: https://soundcloud.com/wildernessofmanitoba/wild-wind
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Recording Strings In L.A. For New Wilderness Of Manitoba Album
Recording violins with Laena Geronimo in Los Angeles tonight!
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Day 3 in the studio with the Wilderness of Manitoba
We were back in studio A at the Union Sound company today with Leon Taheny. We recorded fourteen bedtracks in three days! Everything is sounding good and we can’t wait to share the new tracks with you.
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Day 1 in the studio with the Wilderness of Manitoba
We started recording our new album today at Union Sound in Toronto with Leon Taheny! We got bedtracks done for Taking My Land, Easier and Clovers. Back at it on Tuesday.
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The Wilderness of Manitoba plays final night of December residency
This Wednesday, we are playing the final night of our December residency at the Dakota Tavern in Toronto. It’s been a blast trying out the new songs and getting your feedback! We are going to take that energy into the studio in January when we start recording our new album. The line-up this week will be familiar to those of you who have been to one of the other nights at the Dakota. In addition to the Wilderness of Manitoba’s set, Will will be performing with Lake Forest, his solo project, and Raven will be performing a set of her songs. So, to finish the year, a CanCon triple bill!
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Pheromone Releases Little Drummer Boy By The Wilderness Of Manitoba
Our good friends over at Pheromone Recordings have released our version of Little Drummer Boy in time for the holidays. Check it out on iTunes: http://bit.ly/twomlittledrummerboy and stream it on Spotify!
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The Wilderness of Manitoba Night II – Thanks Again!
We have great fans. Thank you so much for coming out and supporting our residency at the Dakota last night. We played nine brand new songs and you listened, applauded and whooped! We don’t take that lightly. Week three continues next Wednesday, December 16th and the fun begins all over again. Our special guest is Eamon McGrath. Our first set starts at 7:00 PM!
And, no, that’s not pyro in the photo!
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