Album well and truly launched

Posted on December 1, 2014 by amtlpaul

What a great evening we had at La Vitriola last Wednesday evening! I opened the show and also closed it with my band. In between, Alden Penner mesmerized with his solo playing, and Wider Smile made us smile and dance. Here is a photo Alden posted of us playing:

http://instagram.com/p/v5GgJ-ioYN/?modal=true

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It’s Out! When We Get There is Here!

Posted on November 22, 2014 by amtlpaul

When We Get There Front 6

Now available via https://amontrealpaul.bandcamp.com/album/when-we-get-there

1.
Dead Again/Born Again 01:53
2.
Love Leaks 02:27
3.
In a Sense 01:50
4.
May This Day 03:27
5.
Mango Revolution 03:45
6.
Mendacity in Motion 04:35
7.
Letter Never Sent 04:44
8.
Awaiting an Awakening 02:56
9.
Tahini 02:28
10.
I Don’t Mind 02:37
11.
Out of the Music Box 03:07
12.
Despair’s Borderline 03:30
13.
Nothing is Revealed 06:08
14.
This Moment’s Music 03:50

credits

released 22 November 2014

Songs by Paul Beaulieu (registered with SOCAN) except words for #14 by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi, translation by Coleman Barks.

Basic tracks (except #7,9,11,14 and parts of “Nothing is Revealed”) produced by Laura Crapo with engineering assistance from Alden Penner. Recorded March 2014 in Montreal, QC. Instrumental overdubs and mixes for these tracks by Laura Crapo spring 2014. Further vocal overdubs by A Montreal Paul, summer 2014.

A Montreal Paul- Vocals, guitars
Laura Crapo- Keyboards, drums, whistling (on “Mango Revolution”), Instrumental arrangements

“Letter Never Sent”, “I Don’t Mind”, “Despair’s Borderline”, and “This Moment’s Music” recorded by Max Demarais at Bridgehead Studio, Longueil, QC, April 2014. Further vocal overdubs and mixing by A Montreal Paul, summer 2014.

A Montreal Paul- Vocals, guitar

“Nothing is Revealed”: parts were recorded as in 1): the basic track for the other parts is a demo recorded by A Montreal Paul in 2013, with overdubs recorded, produced and mixed by Shane Watt in September- November 2014. Sections edited together by A Montreal Paul.

A Montreal Paul- Vocals, guitars, organ, melodica, percussion, instrumental arrangement

Laura Crapo- Keyboards, drums, instrumental arrangement

Shane Watt- Melodica, keyboards, percussion, instrumental arrangement

Mastering by Fran Ashcroft at Happybeat Studios, UK, in November

Cover photo by Rachel Trooper (racheltrooper.com)

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A Montreal Paul on “Underground Sounds”

Posted on November 19, 2014 by amtlpaul

On Monday, November 17, 2014 we appeared on the second hour of the CKUT show “Underground Sounds”, hosted by Nick Schofield. Two tracks  from the new album “When We Get there” were played, and we performed three songs: “Carnival of Light”, “Dreaming Again”, and “As a Mellotron”. The interview touched on such diverse topics as slush, French immersion programs, and Mellotrons. The interview begins around 8 minutes in:

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A poster for the album launch

Posted on November 12, 2014 by amtlpaul

Two weeks from today…amontrealpaulposter

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A Montreal Paul LP Launch with Alden Penner, Painful Shivers and Wider Smile, Nov 26 in Montreal

Posted on November 5, 2014 by amtlpaul

When We Get There Front 6Subversive Creation Productions presents…
An Outbreak of Song, launching “When We Get There”, an album/zine hybrid

Featuring performances by:
Alden Penner (https://aldenpenner.bandcamp.com/)

Painful Shivers (http://popmontreal.com/artists/painful-shivers/)

Wider Smile (https://widersmile.bandcamp.com/)

A Montreal Paul with his band Carnival of Light and other friends, including Mari Sild of the Jazzotopes (http://jazzotopes.com/)

At La Vitriola (4602 St-Laurent, Montreal, QC)

Doors: 8 PM
Show starts: 9 PM sharp
Price: $12 ($20 with album/zine)

Cover photo by Rachel Trooper (http://racheltrooper.com/home.html

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When I Do

Posted on October 21, 2014 by amtlpaul

A recently written song:

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Recent recordings on Soundcloud

Posted on October 18, 2014 by amtlpaul

Here is a cover of an REM song, “Let Me In”:

And here is an original, called “Better off with Harper”. It was inspired by an ad campaign of Facebook calling on all of us who can stand for the Conservative Party of Canada to stand with them, and telling us we’re “better off” with Prime Minister Stephen Harper:

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Video playlist from my Sept. 12 performance at the Yellow Door

Posted on October 13, 2014 by amtlpaul

Here is a link to the playlist from my Sept. 12 live performance. The video footage is courtesy of Yellow Door Coffeehouse host Marc Nerenberg. The videos are of excellent quality; a complication arising from this is that they take a long time to upload, so only three videos in the playlist. Another video from the show, in which I and the audience created a collective improvisation together, is also available here.

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A first video from my Sept. 12 performance at the Yellow Door

Posted on October 3, 2014 by amtlpaul

On September 12, 2014, I was the featured performer at the Yellow Door Coffeehouse. Here is the first of a series of videos from that show. In it, I led a process of collective musical creation through improvisation, a technique that I learned some years ago and have developed in workshops since. This was the first time I attempted it at one of my performances. I think this idea can be developed further, but it was a good first attempt, I think. Since my songs not very well-known, and are sometimes not the easiest to follow, as they often meander off in interesting but unexpected directions, my challenge is to find ways to make the audience part of the show.

Thanks, by the way, to Yellow Door Coffeehouse Host Marc Nerenberg for very kindly editing and providing me with video footage from this show. More videos to come in the coming days!

 

 

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Playing at Death of Vinyl at 6307 St Laurent, Saturday Sept 20

Posted on September 19, 2014 by amtlpaul

I will be playing a guitar with a special design on it- a fictional map on it, actually- by Shane Watt, who is a fictional mapmaker, and who produced my album Awaiting an Awakening. I will be accompanied on a drum (also with a special map on it) by Eric Bent. It should start at 5 pm. It’s all part of a music themed art show called “Artificial Palaces: A Selection of Musical Maps”

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