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Posts Tagged ‘Tess Parks’
TESS PARK and the AURAS – ” I Believe In Everything ” EP
Posted: March 16, 2015 in MUSICTags: Psychedelica, Tess Parks, The Auras, Toronto
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TESS PARKS – ” Somedays “
Posted: March 12, 2015 in MUSICTags: Canada, Cosmosis Festival of Psychedelia, Tess Parks, Toronto
Tess Parks is a musician and photographer born and raised in Toronto. The granddaughter and daughter of musicians and an art school dropout, she moved to London at seventeen years of age to pursue music and to study photography. She has played as a solo act for the past four years between the UK and Canada.
After overstaying her visit in London, she reluctantly moved back to Toronto on the advice from one of her heroes. Once home, she put together her amazing psychedelic backing band of “sexy and talented musicians”, The Good People, in late 2012, compromising gifted guitarist Andrew McGill, bassist Thomas Huhtala and her record’s producer and multi-instrumentalist Thomas Paxton-Beesley.
Early in 2013, she released a self-funded EP “Work All Day/Up All Night“, which was recorded in Toronto. At the same time, Tess began demoing songs for what will become her debut album, which were also available via Bandcamp.
“I was brought up on Bob Dylan and Nirvana and The Beatles and Rolling Stones and Zeppelin and all that good shit,” says Tess. She’s hung out with the likes of the Dandy Warhols and met Alan McGee in London. “We stayed in touch, that was it really. I just got so lucky,” adds Tess. “I love Oasis, Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine… He’s affiliated with all of my favourite musicians.”
Tess describes her songs as “lo-fi alternative drones with a hypnotic vibe”. Another of her influences is Elliott Smith. Indeed, Tess is organizing and performing at a tribute night dedicated to the late musician at the Handlebar, Toronto on August 6.
Tess Parks’s debut album came out in November 2013. “It’s like the project that my whole life has been leading up to,” explains Tess. “I think it’s gonna be really special. I’m just the happiest I have ever been. I have the best band, they’re my best friends. It’s just so good to be alive. Music is the greatest.”
ANTON NEWCOMBE and TESS PARKS – ” Talkin About The Weather ” and ” Cocaine Cat “
Posted: March 11, 2015 in MUSICTags: Anton Newcombe, Brian Jonestown Massacre, I Declare Nothing, Tess Parks, Toronto
Work in progress: 6/3/15 Berlin songwriter Anton Newcombe and Tess Parks, In what’s been a quietly kept open secret for quite some time now, Brian Jonestown Massacre auteur Anton Newcombe has been working in Berlin with Toronto indie chanteuse Tess Parks for about a year now, sketching out slices of austere, almost baroque beauty without any of the fanfare of a BJM project. The duo, recording with engineer Fabien Leseure, have produced a handful of tracks for an album tentatively slated to be called “I Declare Nothing,”
which at this point is still considered a ‘work in progress.’ The latest song leaked out of the studio is this stately beauty that suggests the sad, dissolute grandeur of Crime & the City Solution as fronted by Nico. Everything we’ve heard from these sessions boasts a similar wrecked elegance, sincerely hopes the album finds its release some time this year. We tend to like it when our hearts are battered with a certain type of melancholia that brings to mind Nikki Sudden come back to life, and anyway, we’re all keen to pencil the album into our end-of-year lists.
The Fat Angel Sings 