By Will McGuirk
When space becomes place, the mattering divides; the place-makers, the placed, the displaced, the misplaced - Lack of space they move to a new space, recently a digital space. Follow if only to steady, but to get ready move to a musical space. The acoustic space is all.
Toronto singer-songwriter Mav Karlo (the solo project of Menno Versteeg, the founder of Royal Mountain Records), has shared his latest single and video, “Detonator”.
“Detonator" is about that moment when you stop saying to yourself “I’m such a fuck up” and start asking “why am I such a fuck up?” It’s a long and a hard process, but an important one, and that’s reflected in the wordier than usual verses. I wanted the detail in the lyrics to act like dots in a pointillist painting, disparate images that when taken together convey a singular emotion.” - Mav Karlo
Singer/songwriter Peter Katz has a released a new track, “KMOTM” from his upcoming album, ‘City of Our Lives’ due to drop Nov. 25 2020. Its anew direction for Katz and well worth a listen.
“Part of what I wanted to do with this new music is not have it be just about my story. It’s in there – it’s all in there – but I don’t want to be that guy anymore. I think that my older approach to writing was about holding on rather than letting go. This music feels like letting go to me. And I hope that when people hear it, they can hear their own story in it too and that maybe it can help them feel like letting go.” - Peter Katz
“When our relationship has no hurt and it just plain feels good, we start to question if it’s really real because everything that has been real to us has come wrapped in pain. We start imagining a world where it’s not too good to be true and that world is Hearts Town… Hearts Town is a place where you can come broken and open, regardless of your past and find love, just like we have.” - Michael Trotter (The War and Treaty)