The Sands

The Sands had their The Beast to Bone Release at the China Cloud VancouverBC Feb 6th: "What a fantastic show! Hauntingly beautiful, achingly honest and super cool music performed flawlessly. Garnering great reviews across the country and beyond, the music of Beast to Bone hits Vancouver. Two longtime musical friends and collaborators celebrate the release of their independent new work. “Vancouver singer Julie McGeer and cellist/pianist-about-town Peggy Lee have created a charmingly idiosyncratic little keeper in their first joint foray as The Sands. Beast to Bone, produced with the help of West Coast violin iconoclast Jesse Zubot — who helmed Tanya Tagaq’s Polaris Music Prize-winning Animism last year — flutters between indie folk, jazz and experimentalism in beguiling fashion, its breathy vocals and lilting, gossamer melodies belying an undercurrent of toughness that occasionally manifests itself in knotty guitar tones and lyrical darkness. It’s quite a unique piece of work, casting a spell.” Hold On” is pure, sighing, brassy pop pleasure.” -- Ben Rayner, The Toronto Star “**** “Astonishing!! Peggy Lee and Julie McGeer have great synergy and they pr... more...