Photogmusic, Partus Films and Ottawa’s Voice Box bring you the 4in1 Sessions. Each session will take place in one of Ottawa’s many historical parks bringing local acts and touring bands together for free public performances.

Band: Fevers
Location: Dundonald Park in Ottawa, Canada
Song: Passion is Dead / Long Live Fashion
Band Info: feversband.com/
Video Info: partusfilms.com
Gatekeeper: photogmusic.com
Fevers are an Ottawa-based five-piece and purveyors of independent, electronic pop. Theirs is a fresh take on a classic genre, combining indie rock and electronic music. They build on the work of current and past electronic artists to develop their own distinct sound—one that is at once wholly modern and informed by careful listening.Fevers are Colin MacDougall, Jim Hopkins, Martin Charbonneau, Mike Stauffer and Sarah Bradley.

Photogmusic, Partus Films and Ottawa’s Voice Box bring you the 4in1 Sessions. Each session will take place in one of Ottawa’s many historical parks bringing local acts and touring bands together for free public performances.

4Iin1 # 2

Artist: Lisa Bozikovic
Accompanying Artists: Lisa Conway (Del Bel) & Laura C.Bates
Location: Dundonald Park in Ottawa, Canada en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dundonald_Park
Song: This is How We Swim
Artist Info: lisabozikovic.ca/news lauracbates.com/ delbelmusic.com/site
Video Info: partusfilms.com
Gatekeeper: photogmusic.com

Bozikovic is a Toronto singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist who “maps out introspective narratives with clear, evocative turns of phrase, then uses her nuanced delivery to magnify each emotional dip and swerve” (Sarah Liss CBC). Her songs ebb and flow with quietly ornate moments – a riot of strings here, a whimsical Moog solo there. On both her debut Lost August (Dec 2009) and her upcoming release This is How we Swim (Fall 2012), she worked with co-producer Sandro Perri and Heather Kirby (Ohbijou) to embellish her keys arrangements with experimental techniques and lush orchestration. Following the wave of critical acclaim surrounding the release of Lost August, CBC named her as one of the top artists to watch in 2010 (Excerpt from http://lisabozikovic.ca/about)

The park commemorates the Soviet Defector Igor Gouzenko who was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945, with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. This forced Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada.
Gouzenko exposed Joseph Stalin’s efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the technique of planting sleeper agents. The “Gouzenko Affair” is often credited as a triggering event of the Cold War.
It was from this park that Royal Canadian Mounted Police agents monitored Gouzenko’s apartment across the street on the night men from the Soviet embassy came looking for Gouzenko. The memorial plaques are the result of four years of effort by history enthusiast Andrew Kavchak, who first came across Gouzenko’s case, and decided that “the first major international event of the Cold War” deserved a memorial.

Photogmusic and Partus Films bring you the 4in1 Sessions; four bands in one park….every so often. This monthly event is the brainchild of Ming Wu, the founder of photogmusic. Each month a new session will take place in one of Ottawa’s many historical parks bringing local acts and touring bands together for free performances.

4Iin1 # 2

Band#1: Del Bel
Location: Dundonald Park in Ottawa, Canada
Song: No Cure for Loneliness
Band Info: delbelmusic.com/site/about
Video Info: partusfilms.com
Gatekeeper: photogmusic.com

Park Fact: The park commemorates the Soviet Defector Igor Gouzenko who was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945, with 109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. This forced Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada.
Gouzenko exposed Joseph Stalin’s efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the technique of planting sleeper agents.

The “Gouzenko Affair” is often credited as a triggering event of the Cold War.

It was from this park that Royal Canadian Mounted Police agents monitored Gouzenko’s apartment across the street on the night men from the Soviet embassy came looking for Gouzenko. The memorial plaques are the result of four years of effort by history enthusiast Andrew Kavchak, who first came across Gouzenko’s case, and decided that “the first major international event of the Cold War” deserved a memorial

The next session will be taking place @ Victoria Island and will feature:

The Musettes http://music.cbc.ca/artists/The-Musettes
The Gallop http://thegallop.bandcamp.com/
Brandon Allan http://villaseurat.bandcamp.com/
Lukas Grant http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rChhC6YQDfc

The Ottawa Rock Lottery is back! This year’s roster includes a gaggle of rockers ready to come apart and reassemble into genre bending super groups.

What is Rock Lottery?

25 musicians from all different genres and bands.

5 bands determined by randomly pulling names out of a very stylish hat.

24 hrs to create a 20 – 30 minute set of all original music.

1 night only. Proceeds going to The Ottawa Food Bank.

In the spirit of collaboration we teamed up with Valkaline, Halt Imaging & filmmaker Kevin Millington to create this year’ web commercial. Big thanks to all the musicians and production assistants that came out to play in sand.

Video Directed by: Craig Allen Conoley / Camera Operators: Luca Fiore, Kevin Millington, Craig Allen Conoley, Patrick Brewster / Edited by Luca Fiore

Come out to the Lotto May 19th @ Mavericks – Tickets now available @ Vertigo Records

For more info visit: http://ottawarocklottery.com/

The bill:

~ Amos the Transparent
~ The Love Machine
~ Fevers
~ Zoo Legacy
~ Fire and Neon
~ The Peptides
~ Brad Morden
~ Aardwolf
~ Miss Polygamy
~ Roberta Bondar
~ Zebrassieres
~ The Strain
~ Elly May
~ Autumn’s Canon
~ Loon Choir
~ Ian Keteku
~ Ornaments
~ Josef Pollock
~ Mackenzie Rhythm Section
~ And What Army
~ David Little g
~ Three Little Birds
~ Silver Creek
~ Jesse Dangerously
~ Hotshotcasino

In the heart of Ottawa’s Chinatown district a vocal shaman is helping empower and enlighten others through a series of vocal workshops. In our latest promotional video we sat down with the founder to discuss his workshops and why he believes our culture has stopped singing in community.

“Voice Emergent‘s founder, Barclay McMillan, has a passion for sharing his innovative voicework that was fueled by his own personal experience of the healing power of sound.

Barclay has been creating opportunities for people to discover, or recover, their singing voices and explore them in a context of healing and well-being since 1991. He offers a range of courses and informal singing gatherings in Ottawa and has taken his work to other parts of Canada, the US and Europe.

A graduate of Carleton University and the University of Toronto, Barclay completed doctoral studies in practical Divinity (D. Min.) at UCS, Oakland. His dissertation, “Dancing Voice, Moving Spirit”, is a heuristic study of the transformative experience of participants in his LifeSong program.

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He is a former teacher, naval officer and radio broadcaster. He was the host of Mostly Music, the CBC’s classical music flagship. Barclay has contributed many articles to The Encyclopedia of Music in Canada and The Canadian Encyclopedia. An experienced public speaker, he has entertained service clubs, university societies, churches, and medical conventions with his good-humoured, articulate enthusiasm for the human voice and its potential.”

“After doing LifeSong, my singing and ability to express the emotional depths of my songs grew by leaps and bounds. I am head and shoulders above where I’ve ever been before.“ say’s Sue Foley, recording artist and Juno Award winner

For more information on Voice Emergent, the various workshops and how you can get involved go to voiceemergent.com

Partus Films will be releasing Ferrishweel’s debut music video for ” UN PEU AU NORD ET SANS DISTORSION”. This live performance was shot @ LE TEMPORAIRE and features – Philippe Charbonneau, Mathieu Charbonneau, Simon Trottier, Olivier Fairfield, Pietro Amato & Erla Axelsdóttir.

Five years ago, in a backroom apartment in Montreal, Simon Trottier and Mathieu Charbonneau sought refuge from the distortion and began synthesizing what would become Ferrishweel. The instrumental project would grow over the next few years and result intwo albums, “Songs from the Backroom”, their 2009 debut and “Un Peu Nord Et Sans Distorsion”, their latest endeavor receiving much praise since it’s 2011 drop.

“There is definitely an emphasis on keeping the acoustic nature of the instruments that we play” says Mathiueu, sitting on a flowery couch surrounded by mannequins and kitty cat paintings at Le Temporaire in Gatineau Hull.

Simon Trottier recalls pre-producing the second album with his friend while on tour in the mountains of British Colombia.  Simon felt compelled to infuse nature’s imagery and essence into the music. Out of these conversations, Mathiueu would birth the title of their next endeavor.

Not devoid of all things amplified, “Un Peu Nord” strikes a balance between its acoustic underpinnings and its electric leanings; a democratic blend of the past and present, structure and anti-structure, the organic and artificial.

When asked about the nature of the music, Mathiue remarks,  “Some songs are really composed and others have much more liberty in between sections for spontaneous noises. In fact, we know that some sections will always be totally improvised.”

For more info on the band visit http://ferriswheel.bandcamp.com/album/un-peu-au-nord-et-sans-distorsion

Live video for “Better Days Ahead”, written by Amanda Rheaume.

Tony Raybould – drums
Nick Gauthier – guitar and vocals
From the album “Light of Another Day” available on iTunes

Check out Amanda’s website http://www.amandarheaume.com/

CREDITS
Director . Editor . DOP – Craig Allen Conoley
Sound Recording – Luca Fiore
Location – Blacks Corner / Carleton Place . Ottawa . Canada

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Now that voting has begun we can officially  share “Opposable”, one of 20 entries in OIFF’s 72 Hour Film Challenge! The film was jointly produced by Valkaline, James Park Photography, Partus Films and a handful of extremely talented and hard working individuals.

Please take a moment to watch the film and support our entry by officially voting @ http://oiff.ca/2012/02/10/opposable/

Extra special thanks goes out to Ottawa's newest art hub/cafe...The Daily Grind...The Mexican brownies and gracious accommodations were much appreciated! Visit TDG @ http://www.thedailygrind.ca/

Over the course of the last 72 hours, Partus Films, along with Valkaline, James Park Photography and a slew of talented local professionals, pooled their resources and creative minds together to create “Opposable”, a story about a lonely man who learns there’s more to life when he breaks his arm and is forced into a cast that causes him to give everyone a “thumbs up”. The narrative short has been entered into The OIFF 72 Hour Film Challenge where it will compete against 20+ other teams for the grand prize /The Adobe Creative Suite and a Red One production package from Parktown.

Stay tuned for updates on the selection process and if we made the cut!

Until then….

Here’s a little movie poster and some stills courtesy of Partus Films!