SOUND
Drawing on a diverse range of once dubbed ‘race’ music, spiritual folk songs and tender blues - while combining elements of entrancing storytelling and captivating performance, The Phonogarde transcends the boundaries of tradition to create a unique voice unlike anything heard before.
PERFORMANCE
Prior to finding an edge of the Earth and falling off it, The Phonogarde had been experimenting with the relationship between performer and audience through a diverse range of experiences along the Windsor-Ottawa corridor; including performances with Buck 65, the Neverending White Lights, and a landmark show at the Ottawa Folk Festival in 2007.
Mind To Move A Mountain is to be a new solo EP, the first in a series of three recordings currently under construction. The record promises to capture the stark yet supple urgency of The Phonogarde's performance style in check and balance with the delicately fertile landscape of song.
PRESS
“An opening slide guitar num …
SOUND
Drawing on a diverse range of once dubbed ‘race’ music, spiritual folk songs and tender blues - while combining elements of entrancing storytelling and captivating performance, The Phonogarde transcends the boundaries of tradition to create a unique voice unlike anything heard before.
PERFORMANCE
Prior to finding an edge of the Earth and falling off it, The Phonogarde had been experimenting with the relationship between performer and audience through a diverse range of experiences along the Windsor-Ottawa corridor; including performances with Buck 65, the Neverending White Lights, and a landmark show at the Ottawa Folk Festival in 2007.
Mind To Move A Mountain is to be a new solo EP, the first in a series of three recordings currently under construction. The record promises to capture the stark yet supple urgency of The Phonogarde's performance style in check and balance with the delicately fertile landscape of song.
PRESS
“An opening slide guitar number set the tone for a set that was stepped in blues and folk, including a take of "Goodnight Irene." The Phonogarde piled some serious vocal gymnastics onto solid guitar work, proving unafraid to push the voice to a scream, draw it in to a whisper, or twist it to suit the song. It was the kind of dynamic performance that you need to hook people with a solo opening set.”
- Jeremy Ethridge, Independent
“The Phonogarde offered a soulful contemporary blues sound reminiscent of the likes of Ben Harper and Jeff Buckley. An extremely evocative and personal set was almost entirely comprised of original material that offered fantastic vocal range and tambour coupled with guitar work that was sensitive and intricate yet raw and abrasive. The set finished off with a few songs played on a makeshift lap steel guitar that had been fashioned out of ‘an old beater out of the basement’ and a piece of copper pipe.”
- Vox Magazine
DISCOGRAPHY
Sketches, the phonogarde, 2008.
