Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Q, Amythyst Kiah, Moonshine, Cadence Weapon, Tom Odell, Stone Giants, Keys N Krates, Ormiston, and Kenny Mason

By Will McGuirk

We are not our faces, we may not even be our voices, we are many, and most of all we are a blend, and more and more we are hearing non-genre music, neither this nor that, hip nor hop, rhythm nor blues, but a blend of voices and faces, nearing the one, hearing the all.

“When I wrote ‘On Me’, I was inspired by reading about how face recognition technology was being used by law enforcement and then that got me thinking about the myriad ways surveillance has become normalized in everyday life.” - Cadence

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Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Dana Sipos, half-alive, Tom Odell, Rich Aucoin, Steven Wilson, Nuela Charles, 404vincent, and Tim Delaney

By Will McGuirk

“I was in Christchurch when the bombings occurred in the mosque, which of course was greatly mourned by all of New Zealand and the world. The aftermath of the 2010 earthquake was still very palpable and evident there. So ‘Light Around The Body’ is primarily about infusing oneself with the strange and beautiful and sometimes painful and strives to make sense of the senseless.” - Dana Sipos

“‘Time’s always right to fix what’s wrong’. That line felt like the open door to address the social climate we’ve all been surrounded by for nearly a year now & prompted the idea of transformation of one’s immediate & eventually global environment by looking inward first, to look in the mirror & realize that is where the change is going to begin.” - Josh Taylor, half-alive

“you're just a monster and I'm not scared” - Tom Odell

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