Highlife Records: CDs & VINYL

Seven years after his last solo record ‘The Return’, the path is now open for Highlife Records co-owner Kevin Finseth’s new album, ‘The Captive Road’.

Ambient hymns, alt-gospel, opium soul – call it what you like, ‘The Captive Road’ is the distillation of a life lived following the road less traveled.

Kevin’s songs show many influences – from Leonard Cohen to Bon Iver, Nino Rota to the Coen Brothers, Ethio-jazz to desert blues – these whispering short stories draw the listener into a world of beautiful sorrow.

The Captive Road features a who’s who of Vancouver musicians – Peggy Lee, Frazey Ford, Alpha Yaya Diallo, Joseph Pepe Danza, Lisa Pham, Mallory Temple, The Bedouins, Forbes MacKay and Andrew Smith.

Kevin Finseth plays acoustic piano, bass balalaika, accordion, marimba and sings. On the captive road the lyrics are spare, the notes are few, the rhythms reluctant, the melodies redemptive.

Recorded at Andrew Smith’s Vancouver Live Sound Studio over the course of a year, Kevin returns to it’s warm and intimate environment for the CD release Party.  525 Seymour St. (near Pender) – www.kevinfinseth.highlifeworld.com  

Joining Kevin on Nov. 11th will be:

Peggy Lee – Cello
Paul Pigat – Bass Balalaika and Electric Guitar
Mallory Temple – Drums
Greg Shea – Accordion, Marimba and Piano
Lisa Pham – Backing Vocals
Andrew Smith – Electric Guitar

Tickets for this limited capacity event are only $15.  Doors @ 8pm.
Available exclusively at Highlife Records.
Get yours today!

Vancouver Live Sound – 525 Seymour St. (near Pender) – The Seymour Building

Did we mention we’re excited about this record? I guess we did. It is his first studio album of all new music in seven years!

Here are some more interesting appetizers. An interview in Pitchfork and a preview of one of the new songs:

“It’s weird talking about really funky old neighborhoods that you haven’t been to in a while. There’s this corner of 9th and Hennepin in Minneapolis.
It used to spell trouble; now it spells sandals and yogurt.”

Read the full interview on Pitchfork here.

Tom Waits – Back In The Crowd by antirecords

Erudite as always.
Film by local phenoms: getgrounded.tv

3 minutes. From Mastering through to Shipping!

Whet your appetite with this “Making Of ” audio documentary and then come in for your Deluxe Edition CD!

Listen to an exclusive Making Of documentary – Hear the stars of the film, including George Clooney and producer T-Bone Burnett talk about the making of the legendary film soundtrack.

Hear previously un-released tracks – In The Jailhouse Now, Keep on the Sunny Side and The Lord Will Make a Way – recorded during the original recording sessions but not used in the film:

O Brother Where Art Thou?
10th Anniversary Deluxe Edition sampler:

The BBC does it again! Thorough and interesting. Great vintage footage of Ernest Ranglin, amongst many others…

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