peter dreams

Peter Dreams is the band July Talk. Dreimanis has been recording his debut solo record through 2023, as his band takes a brief break from touring. The songs are raw, intimate and honest, backed by the spacious sonic environment of MOONRiiVR, a new project founded by two established creators in the Toronto music community (Gavin Gardiner and Champagne James Robertson).
Peter Dreams’ debut album will be released in early 2024 by Six Shooter Records

moonriver

Moonrivr‘s debut album, Vol. 1, is a captivating journey into a distinctively out-of-time sonic universe. Created on an old analogue tape machine, the songs feature reverberating slide guitars, wonky string synths, and nimble percussive environments. Thematically diverse, the tracks range from reflections on everyday pleasures to meditations on world politics and climate change. Led by Gavin Gardiner (Juno-nominated front person of The Wooden Sky fame) and “Champagne” James Robertson, the ensemble stumbled upon something special during the early pandemic days. They joined forces with bassist Ben Whitely (The Weather Station, Basia Bulat, Julia Jacklin) and percussionist extraordinaire Lyle Molzan (Kathleen Edwards, Corb Lund), refining their sound at All Day Coconut studios. With a refreshing, magical creative process, MOONRIIVR draws from decades past while transcending the boundaries of any era.

nyssa

Toronto pagan-punk-poet NYSSA has put her hands into the lion’s mouth, gathering her performing and songwriting powers to conjure the unruly energy of rock n’ roll. Out from under fear’s thumb, NYSSA now sings about wild things, old gods, romance-beyond-borders, and the exorcism of trauma. She has quested, and she has returned.

The goal is fevered connection, a ritual-sense of music as communal release. NYSSA keens and wails and brings her audience along with her to a place of deep feeling, movement, and joy. Her lyrics are poetic and clear, lunar, eerie, angry; NYSSA’s voice is the strong container for all of it. As Dionysus would want it, over-abundance is the way. Guided by the incantation and invocation of the three C’s: Collaboration, Choreo, Covenhood!, NYSSA’s sound and stories run deep into ancient mythos, Celtic lore and back through our modern idols. Re-swaggering, re-wilding hyper-masc night moves and magick hips (think Jagger, Mink Deville, Danzig),  NYSSA’s magnetic, elastic ways make satyrs of us all.

Long-listed for the 2021 Polaris prize for her debut solo album Girls Like Me, NYSSA now plays with a killer 6-piece band, a real rock ’n roll coven, featuring Lukas Cheung (Mother Tongues), Nastia Koza (KOZA), Jay Anderson (Badge Époque Ensemble, Biblical), Brandon Lim (Yamantaka//Sonic Titan), and Jess Burgess (Essie Watts)

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