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It was a hectic Ottawa on December 3, 2011. I didn't get to see Austra but I did manage to catch two acts. The first act was Tasseomancy (formerly Ghost Bees ) Never seen them with a backing band. Just say it wasn't dance music. Their set was very indie dark folk-noir music. Apparently they had sound difficulties during the set but manage to pull it off. Very [...]
Not sure if they be happy to see this Polaroid?? Tasseomancy (formerly known as Ghost Bees) has released a music video for their upcoming album "Ulalume" on Out Of This Spark . Also you can see them live doing back up vocals for Austra. The new music video they dropped is called Heavy Sleep. They totally changed their music (name) and went to this whole dark "Timber Timbre" sound. Since Taylor and Simon helped out on their new material. Think of [...]
Do you love playing musical family trees? Joining the dots as bands split, former members reform and new personnel from other groups join, only for these bands to break-up later and do it all over again? "So where did you guys first meet and get together?" can often lead to rather convoluted answers for many groups. The answer to this question, if you were to ask it of Tasseomancy , gives an even stranger response – in the womb. Yet even although these two twin sisters have spent their lifetime together their history as a group is not straightforward. [...]
Tasseomancy is the art of fortune telling by interpreting patterns in tea leaves. The twin sisters Sari and Romy Lightman 's great great grandmother, who was also on the cover of their depute album "Tasseomancy" they released under the name Ghost Bees , was a tea leaf reader. The sisters apparently liked the name of their first album so much, that they decided to name themselves after it. Their new project is a continuation of what they did as Ghost Bees combined "with heavier, ambient sounds, influenced by death ritual, hebraic song, war drums, ancestry and myth", as they quote. [...]
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Die Teeblätter in der Tasse verheissen Gutes: Hübsche Zwillinge mit übersinnlichen Kräften und dem Gespür für zauberhafte Melodien sind um eine der Platten des Winters besorgt. Die vermeintlich telepathisch veranlagten Zwillingsschwestern Sari und Romy Lightman stammen aus Halifax und repräsentieren mit rustikalem NeoFolk das schöne New Weird Canada. Die Single 'Healthy Hands' veröffentlichen sie unter neuem Namen als Tasseomancy, in Anlehnung ans Teeblattlesen und ihre Debüt-EP von vor zwei Jahren, als sie noch Ghost Bees hiessen (und mit magischer Aura auch unsere Frau Stallone für sich einnahmen ). [...]
We don't usually post news on herohill; we know the deal. You want the free music, not the commentary but honestly, when I heard that Sari and Romi were recording new music - under the new moniker Tasseomancy - with production and backing band support from Taylor Kirk and Timber Timbre I had to tell someone. The combination of Ghost Bees and Timber Timbre is enough to make Rob Zombie or Wes Craven shudder in fear, but honestly the new textures and ambient sounds the girls are experimenting with are nothing short [...]
Toronto - August usually brings a few things to Toronto - heat, the Beer Festival, the Taste of Danforth, some sort of strike, really high utility bills and the Summerworks Festival . Now in it's 20th year in existence, the Summerworks festival celebrates the best of Toronto's thriving indie theatre and arts scene. Recently, they have also incorporated a music portion to this festival as well and this year the lineup features an impressive list of performers. Lets take a look at some of the acts. The Hidden Cameras August 5th and August 6th. [...]
Facebook Summerworks has long been an established name in Toronto's theatrical community, staging successful festivals every Summer (hence the name) for as long as I've lived here, but in the last couple of years, they've been expanding their mandate with a musical series that has aimed to get theatre fans to to discover some of the city's best up-and-coming independent music and vice versa. Each year has gotten better and better, and the just-announced 2010 music series is handily continuing that trend. As previously mentioned , the main [...]
Once again, The Great Escape moved London down to Brighton for three days of excess by the seaside. Having taken on board complaints about distances between venues from last year, more venues have been taken on, making it easier to get between shows and to dip in and out of performances. As ever there is a mixture of unknowns, hot tips and established names, all playing in a variety of places. This year even saw The King Blues playing in Brighton's sewers (insert your own joke here). A festival for punters and industry alike, this means a plethora [...]
The three day music convention / shin-dig that is the Great Escape in Brighton is the biggest event of its kind in the UK. With a host of conferences, parties, gigs and fringe events, it has become an important date for both the music industry and fans of new music. This year the event saw beautiful sunny weather hit the coastal town, an expanded line up of daytime gigs, more quality fringe events and a significant number of highlights. The Music Nova Scotia showcase in the Queens Hotel brings the first [...]
Following on from our recent coverage of the 2010 Camden Crawl our attention now turns to the UK's south coast and the Great Escape, another multi-venue, multi-gig, urban festival held in Brighton. The Great Escape is currently Breaking More Waves favourite event of this nature in the UK, for a number of reasons: The event is three days long, rather than one or two like other similar festivals, enabling you to catch an even greater number of artists, many of whom perform twice at different venues and times. [...]
Ghost Bees can give an interesting answer to the question "Where did you meet?" For they first encountered each others presence in the womb. Yet thankfully these two Canadian twins are very different from X Factor duplicate-mentalists Jedward. For Romi and Sari Lightman have a sound and character more akin to the medieval plucking and plinking sounds of Joanna Newsom and the delicious oddness of CocoRosie, than any Simon Cowell approved 'artist'. They do however share a sense of Jedward wackiness with their Myspace suggesting that they sound like "slicing a grapefruit and really long hair that sways from [...]
Toronto - My first show of the year was a No Shame showcase at the Garrison featuring Casey Mecija (of Obijou ), Ghost Bees and the Wilderness of Manitoba . Aside from Wilderness of Manitoba, I don't really know much about the other two acts. I think I saw Obijou perform in a tent at that Book in the Park thing before, but I think I only went because it was a nice day outside and I wanted to see what this whole 'reading' craze was all about. Anyways, if you [...]
Ghost Bees - Vampires Of The West Coast
Amelia Shaw Brisbane is a long way from Toronto. So long that many Australian artists barely make it over here once in their careers, let alone as many times as An Horse have been here in just the last 10 months. The duo of Kate Cooper and Damon Cox brought their scrappy two-piece pop to town five - that's FIVE - times in 2009 at venues of all sizes; in March at the Tranzac as part of Canadian Musicfest, at the Horseshoe in April and again in June supporting [...]
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{Ireland, 1913 } Ghost Bees - Tear Tassle Ogre Heart If I still wrote with a pen, then I get the feeling that trying to write up this song would involve something little and brittle and metal going snap! and the ink would flow ceaselessly, forming and spooling on the page. And if I didn't keep writing, keep forming the endless black into words and images and clumpy similes, it [...]
Here is part three on who I might or will see at Pop Montreal . 1pm: East Meats West III at the Notman House. Its a BBQ with some Kelp Records + Mint Records musicians playing there. Flecton Big Sky, Carolyn Mark, Hot Panda, The Pack A.D., Snailhouse, Andrew Vincent, Chris Page and Hollerado 7pm: tUnE-YaRdS at the Musee d'Art Contemporian (aka Museum of Contemporary Arts) 8pm: Ghost Bees at the Ukrainian Federation Options: Videotape at the Jupiter Room 9pm: Yo La Tengo at Club Soda Options: Adam [...]
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