BC Musician Liam Docherty Releases New Album GEMINI RISING

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LIFE ON THE WEST COAST HERE

The day has finally arrived! BC musician Liam Docherty is pleased to announce the release of his new album Gemini Rising out now on all digital streaming platforms. Listen here. 

Along with the album release, Liam is also premiering the lyric video for 2nd single 'Life On The West Coast'. The track is a devastating social critique of the inequity of life in Vancouver in 2023, as seen through the eyes of a 15-year musician. Some people experience Vancouver as "one of the most livable cities in the world" a place of natural beauty, opportunity, and wealth ('Cool sea breeze and the sun in the sky'), while others experience suffering and a struggle to survive ('You can trust me, I'll leave you to die').

"'Life On The West Coast' tells a story about four fictional characters from different socio-economic backgrounds as they navigate life in Vancouver in 2023," says Liam. "It addresses and reflects back common themes regularly represented in the media of wealth inequality, unaffordable housing, and the toxic drug crisis in the 2020s. The song asks the listener, 'How does Vancouver look through YOUR eyes?' And it finishes with 'we’re all just trying to find our way, searching for a brighter day'—a plea for compassion and recognition of the lives being led by others." 

Based on Vancouver Island, Liam Docherty is an official partner of Taylor Guitars and has been performing publicly since the age of 7. His new LP Gemini Rising follows the release of his 2020 debut album Modern. Magic. Melody., which earned critical acclaim and sold records internationally. The album also received TV, radio, and print media coverage from CBC, The Globe & Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The Times Colonist, and CHEK TV. It also yielded a nomination for New Act of The Year at the Maple Blues Awards and at just 13 years of age, he became the youngest person in the history of the awards to be nominated. 

Gemini Rising is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit liamdochertymusic.com.

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Toronto Musician Sandra Bouza Releases New Single + Video GOOD VIBRATIONS

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A SOUND IN THE DARK

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Toronto singer-songwriter Sandra Bouza sings her heart out on her new bluesy soul single ‘Good Vibrations' out now on all digital streaming platforms. Listen here. 

The second single from her new album, A Sound In The Dark, set for release on September 29th, 'Good Vibrations’ is about wanting to get past all of those horrible feelings right after a break-up. 

"This song was me trying to sum up all of those confusing feelings after a relationship ends,” says Sandra. "This relationship was also my first experience of being in love, so there was a lot of confusion swirling around, and questioning of decisions. Sometimes you want to bypass the questions to end all the emotional pain, and just go back to your comfort zone, even if it wasn’t that comfortable." 

Known as musical shapeshifter, playing R&B, Soul, Rock, and everything in between, Sandra has a lot to offer through her music and life experience. Having spent a large part of her life in Spain, as well as travelling to far corners of the world, Sandra’s worldly vision is evident in her songwriting. Sandra lets her stories breathe in songs that are deeply personal.

After years of travelling, Sandra returned to her hometown of Toronto in 2018 and, within her first year back, she won the Toronto Blues Talent search and came second in the city’s prestigious Soul Slam. The early promise of Three Years, her 2018 EP, and Falling Away From Me, her first full-length album that followed in 2020, put everyone on notice that Sandra Bouza was an artist to watch.

Everything came together for Sandra during an artist’s residence on Halls Island, where she wrote most of the material for her upcoming album, A Sound in the Dark. Everyone who’s heard her sing knows that Sandra’s always been a powerful vocalist and a compelling songwriter, but with the new recording, she has truly found her own voice, and the promise of her earlier work has come to full fruition.

'Good Vibrations' is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit sandrabouza.com.

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The Blaze Velluto Collection Releases New Single BABY

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OUT ON SEPTEMBER 29th

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Quebec City-based The Blaze Velluto Collection shares new single 'Baby (You Set My Love on Fire Everyday)' out now on all digital streaming platforms via Duprince Records. Listen here. 

'Baby (You Set My Love on Fire Everyday)' is the second single from The Blaze Velluto Collection's third LP What's on Your Mind? set for release on September 29th. Written by Blaze about his musical and life partner Little Miss Roy (who shares vocals on the song), the countryfied folk rock track feels new and timeless at the same time. 

"We met twenty years ago in the month of May," says Blaze. "We had our share of bad weather, but mostly sunshine. Infatuation is a phase, love is not. Here's an introduction to our story."

The Blaze Velluto Collection takes its name from a collection of songs assembled by the enigmatic Blaze himself. Raised in Quebec City’s anglophone community, he carries a music without boundaries through a blend of rock n' roll, folk, country, pop and R&B, wrapped in a benevolent psychedelic spirit and fertile imagery. This amalgam of genres also shines through the project's iconic visual identity. Over the years, Blaze has delivered music videos that transcend the limits of the mind. Look for the live session video for 'Baby (You Set My Love on Fire Everyday)' later this month. 

Since releasing their debut album Weatherman in 2017, The Blaze Velluto Collection has captivated Quebec and Canadian audiences, playing in festivals with a show that transports us to coastal America in the heart of July. On stage, Blaze is surrounded by a core group of musicians and singers composed of Little Miss Roy, Sheenah Ko, Guillaume Chiasson (Bon Enfant) and Jean-Étienne Collin-Marcoux (Beat Sexü). In the studio, he has made a habit of bringing together more than fifteen artists and friends during the production of his albums. Once again, the experiment has been fruitful, with Blaze preparing to unveil the expansive sound of What's on Your Mind? this fall, like a pledge to an endless summer.

'Baby (You Set My Love on Fire Everyday)' is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit theblazevellutocollection.ca.

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Vancouver Musician Colleen Rennison Releases New Single + Video I DO

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PERSEPHONE OUT LATER THIS YEAR

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Vancouver musician Colleen Rennison captures the dreamy bliss of having a summer crush on her new single 'I Do' out now on all digital streaming platforms. Listen here. 

'I Do' is the second single from Colleen's new album Persephone set for release later this year. The laid back R&B track wears its retro influences proudly, giving it a hopeful optimism that feels satisfyingly sweet.

"I wanted to capture the excitement and delicious agony of being enamoured with someone and daydreaming about them to the point of almost insanity," says Colleen. "I woke up in the middle of the night and wrote the chorus. I'd been listening to a lot of The Temptations and The Supremes and had been crushing on a graffiti writer who's name I kept seeing everywhere, hence the line: 'every time I see your name/ I seem to hear sweet refrains.'"

Colleen burst onto the music scene in 2011 with blues-rock group No Sinner. The band made immediate waves with music critics comparing her to blues belters like Janis Joplin and Maggie Bell, but Colleen is entirely her own invention. Her voice is technically astounding, but the experience behind it inhabits every note. She entered the film industry at the age of five and that rootless existence as a child actor is still there in her undying commitment to the performance—nobody is more explosively honest or vulnerable onstage—and also in the demons that animate her.

No Sinner achieved enormous success abroad before hitting the wall, painfully, in 2016. Attempts to generate a new career in New York and Austin left the singer in a new kind of limbo, while the bad and dangerous situations persisted. Exiling herself to Vancouver Island only deepened the crisis. Back in Vancouver she was spat out into the Downtown Eastside, where things might have gotten worse—but didn’t. Miraculously, Colleen found the help she needed. She found the right friends, the right kind of support, the internal discipline, and, finally, the creative partner she always deserved. Entering producer Felix Fung’s New Westminster studio in early 2021, Colleen Rennison began work on the record that will stand as the truest expression of her art and her first true masterpiece. 

'I Do' is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit colleenrennison.ca.

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BC Musician Liam Docherty Announces New Album, 1st Single OUT NOW

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1st SINGLE + TITLE TRACK OUT NOW

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BC blues musician Liam Docherty takes inspiration from the stars with his new single ‘Gemini Rising’ out now on all digital streaming platforms. Listen here. 

'Gemini Rising’ is the first single and title track from Liam’s new album (out on June 30th), which was written and recorded when he was 15 years old. 

"The song is inspired by my study of Greek Mythology and specifically the mythology of the Gemini star constellation,” says Liam. "The themes are experienced by all of us, every day, as we go about our lives, specifically; separation, loss, longing, love, and reunification. The song is about two people who have been separated and are destined to overcome all odds to reunite."

Based on Vancouver Island, Liam Docherty is an official partner of Taylor Guitars and has been performing publicly since the age of 7. He’s opened shows for the legendary Terry Robb, Ken Hamm, Mississippi Delta Bluesman Terry “Harmonica” Bean, and BC Hall of Fame Inductee Doug Cox, among others. 

Set for release on June 30th, Liam's new album Gemini Rising follows the release of his 2020 debut album Modern. Magic. Melody., which earned critical acclaim and sold records internationally. The album also received TV, radio, and print media coverage from CBC, The Globe & Mail, The Vancouver Sun, The Times Colonist, and CHEK TV. It also yielded a nomination for New Act of The Year at the Maple Blues Awards and at just 13 years of age, he became the youngest person in the history of the awards to be nominated. 

'Gemini Rising' is available now on Spotify, Apple Music/iTunes, and other digital retailers and streaming services worldwide. For more information, please visit liamdochertymusic.com.

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