Onward, Voyageur

Veterans of the Vancouver indie scene, Annie (Zolty Cracker, Duplex!, knock-down-ginger, The Beekeepers, Great Aunt Ida), Christine (knock-down-ginger, Girl Friday, Swanyard), Joyita (Daisy Duke, Big Yellow Taxi, Vancouver Youth Symphony Orchestra) and Dan (Lonesome Canadians, Cro-Magnon Man) formed Onward, Voyageur in the winter of 2006 and immediately began writing and performing original material. In late 2007 they entered the studio to record four tracks for an upcoming EP. The results? Songs of loss and isolation that tease the exotic and strange from the quotidian, songs sung on back porches in dusk light, songs that invoke the lush landscape of some unknown country of the imagination, clockwork lullabies that mark the dreamtime of the life behind the life you live. Characterized by tight vocal harmonies, serpentine guitar lines, atmospheric keys and laid-back rhythms, the heady pop potion of Onward, Voyageur is laced with just enough bitterness and bite to make it linger on the sonic palette long after the last chord fades. Was that a dream, or a premonition? Onward, Voyageur!... more...