Recording: Doit!

Artist: Doit!

Song: [excerpt from first piece]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Tiki Room), February 23, 2019.

Doit! - [excerpt from first piece]

Nearly a year to the day after recording what would become their first album, Emily Denison (trumpet) and Andrew Furlong (double bass) reconvened to celebrate Labour of Luck, the first tape on Patrick O'Reilly's W/DRWN label. Skronking and scraping in louder swells (as well as quieter, lean-in stretches) the pair augmented their instruments' standard sounds with extra breath-bursts and percussive explorations. Denison, having decamped to Montréal, is a less-frequently seen figure than previously in these parts, but in time, there will surely be more labours/luck from this pair.

Recording: Patrick O'Reilly & Laura Swankey

Artist: Patrick O'Reilly & Laura Swankey

Song: [excerpt]

Recorded at The Tranzac (Tiki Room), February 23, 2019.

Patrick O'Reilly & Laura Swankey - [excerpt]

This celebration of W/DRWN's first tape was also a preview of a forthcoming one, with Patrick O'Reilly & Laura Swankey preparing to record together. Based on the quality of the performance, this set was album-worthy on its own, through it'll be delightful to hear this duo rendered in something a bit less lo-fi. The pair had enough DD-7's on hand to delay a train, while Patrick O'Reilly also brought out one of his 4-track recorders along with some endless looping cassettes to quadruple the glitchy gloop from his 16 Second Delay.