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Store: The Vinyl Room
City: Chatham Ontario Canada
Location: 325 Queen St. Chatham
Phone: 519-351-2727
The Vinyl Room is a brand new store in Chatham that carries records, nostalgia items, and collectables. Go check it out.
Opened May 2011
Email your info on bands & events to:
chatham_music_archive@hotmail.com
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Artist: Half Past Four
Release: Rabbit in the Vestibule CD
Date: Jan 2008
Home: Toronto
Genre: Rock & Pop
Formed: 2005
Chatham Connection: Drummer Art Pisanski played the drums & percussion for this release.
Members:
Kyree Vibrant – vocals
Constantin Necrasov – guitar
Igor Kurtzman – keyboards
Dmitry Lesov – bass
Tracks: 1. Missing Sevenths, 2. Johnny, 3. Poisoned Tune, .4 Southern Boogie, 5. Twelve Little Words, 6. Underwater, 7. Lullaby, 8. Strangest Dream, 9. Biel, 10. Dwayne, 11. Salome, 12. Bamboo, 13. Rabbit
Notes: Half Past Four offers exquisite musical novelty and experimentation to true musical connoisseurs and rock-party goers alike. Drawing its inspiration from unique heritage of King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Jethro Tull and many other progressive, kraut, art and math-rock bands, Half Past Four takes pride and pleasure in taking progressive rock a little further and planting its seeds in the harsh soil of contemporary popular culture.
Preview & buy the CD online here.
Visit their webpage here.
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Band: Daybreak
Release: When Heaven and Hell Collide
Year: 2011
Genre: Rock
Home: Wallaceburg
Members:
Eric Badder – Lead Guitar/Back vox
Chris Driessens – Bass Guitar/Back vox
Todd Elliott – Drums/Percussion
Danny Owens – Vocals/Rhythm guitar
Preview and buy the CD online here.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/daybreak3
Visit them online @ http://www.myspace.com/wearedaybreak
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Artist: Demo Kid
Release: Home Demos Vol. 4
Year: 2011
Genre: Rock/Pop
Home: Chatham, On. Canada
Musicians:
Shawn B. – All instruments & Recording
Jesse V. – Vocals (track 4)
Rivers Coumo – Vocals & writer track 7.
Tracks
1. Pocket Full of Candy
2. To Die For
3. Beautiful Day (Free Download)
4. Our Little Secret (Free Download)
5. Don’t Stop the Party (Free Download)
6. On Holidays
7. My Brain is working over time.
8. Sex in Space
Notes: This is a collection of home recordings and song ideas produced, engineered, mastered, written, performed and mixed by Shawn B. at his home studio. Except #7, Vocals & Lyrics written by Rivers Cuomo of Weezer. Shawn has been busy connecting the local scene by running the Chatham Music Archive website which promotes local music releases & events on a daily basis. He is also a home recording enthusiast who has been releasing music for many years to friends and local music lovers.
Watch the CD Preview below.
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Artist: Sarah Hiltz
EP Release: Letters
Year: 2010 (July)
Genre: Folk, Jazz
Home: Chatham Ontario
Notes: The “Letters” EP was created as a pilot project in July, 2010 as an accompaniment product for a show combining music and spoken word. The intention was to extend it into a full length, fully produced album in the future.
All the original package contents (credits, information, handwritten letters) are included in PDF format when you purchase the entire album.
Tracks
01. We Are Gods
02. I am for sound
03. First Nail Hammered
04. Brother
05. Small Town Blues
06. What I Thought
07. I Won’t Cry
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Visit her online at http://www.sarahhiltz.com/.
Preview or buy the album @
http://sarahhiltz.bandcamp.com/album/letters
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Band: Assume No Order
Release: Slaggered (EP)
Date: 2011
Genre: Experimental instrumental metal
Home: Toronto
Download the Release for free, click here.
Notes: Nigel Barylewicz began in Chatham as a guitar player for local death metal bands while in high school. He later moved to Toronto and began releasing experimental (mostly metal) albums, performing all the instruments on the recordings.
Musicians
Nigel Barylewicz – Nigel Barylewicz
Grant Johnson – 3AM Radio Theremin Outro
Tracks
1. Aggregate, 2. Solidification, 3. Pelletized, 4. Blast Furnace.
Discography
Assume No Order – 2011 – Slaggered (EP)
Assume No Order – 2010 – Nothing More
Assume No Order – 2007 – Exit Dark (EP)
Assume No Order – 2002 – Nigel
Nigel Barylewicz – 2001 – A Selection Of Works
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