The Wooden Sky have made album track 'Take Me Out' available as a free download via their label Loose Music's Soundcloud page.
Ahead of the release of their new album 'Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun' on the 8th October, Canadian quintet The Wooden Sky have made album track 'Take Me Out' available as a free download via their label Loose Music's Soundcloud page.
'Take Me Out' (which "...gives a hint of the palette used throughout the record: gentle waltz time, distant, elegiac vocal harmonies, and a vocal that sits midway between 'Cold Roses' and 'In The Aeroplane Over The Sea'. TLOBF) is the first track to be taken from the forthcoming record and is a fitting introduction to the beautiful, introspective folk created by The Wooden Sky.
To mark the release of 'Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun' the band will be heading out on an extensive European tour this autumn, with a run of UK dates in early October. Let me know if you'd like to come along to any of the below.
05/09 - BERLIN, Lido
07/09 - ERFURT, Frans Mehlhose
09/09 - COLOGNE, Underground
10/09 - PARIS, Point Ephemere
14/09 - STRASBOURG, La Laiterie
15/09 - BASEL, Parterre
16/09 - LUCERNE, Treibhaus
17/09 - ZURICH, El Lokal
18/09 - FREBURG, Swamp
19/09 - OFFENBACH, Hafen2
20/09 - AMSTERDAM, Paradiso
21/09 - HAMBURG, Reeperbahn Festival
25/09 - DUISBURG, Steinbruch
26/09 - GOTTINGEN, Apex
27/09 - LEIPZIG, Moritzbastel
28/09 - VIENNA, B72
03/10 - CARDIFF, Buffalo Bar
04/10 - LONDON, Windmill
05/10 - PRESTON, Mad Ferret
09/10 - LONDON, Slaughtered Lamb
10/10 - GLASGOW, Captain’s Rest
11/10 - HARTLEPOOL, The Studio
12/10 - SUNDERLAND, Independent
13/10 - OXFORD, Oxjam
Since 2003, The Wooden Sky has been pushing the limits of folk and country. After touring on the success of their sophomore album 'If I Don't Come Home You'll Know I'm Gone', the band was ready to try new things. Singer Gavin Gardiner explains, "After two years out on the road, it seems everyone had their eyes and ears open searching for new textures to play with."
'Every Child a Daughter, Every Moon a Sun' began to take shape when the band gathered last year at a cottage along the banks of Georgian Bay, Ontario. Conflicting schedules and studio availability delayed recording but gave the band time to continue writing. "It didn't take long for the record to increase in scope. What began as a simple collection of 9 songs quickly ballooned into an 18-song opus; 13 songs ended up making the record. It did come dangerously close to being a double album."
Much of the album was then recorded at Montreal's Hotel 2 Tango studio with Howard Bilerman and Radwan Ghazi Moumneh. Subsequent sessions were recorded in various studios, apartments, lofts, churches and a working farm in Ontario and Quebec: "Everywhere seemed to offer new possibilities, and limitations. At the time it was a lot of work lugging all that gear around but each space seemed to bring its own energy to the song. There were times in the summer we'd race back to the farm after a show to record all night. It was exciting and that kind creative explosion seemed to carry us through.
Published on 24 August 2012 by Wayne Feltham
