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a city in her name – i.JAMES.JONES.
p(ART) TWO from the series LAST NIGHT AN 8-TRACK SAVED MY LIFE – i.JAMES.JONES.
thin.KING. SOON COME. – i.JAMES.JONES (NOW AVAILABLE)
LET OUT – i.james.jones (t.K.S.C.)
Every few years, someone around the ideaFACTORY would get fed up and approach i.james.jones about releasing the “lost record” thin.KING. SOON COME.
Methods ranged, but none prevailed. Every time it seemed like it would come down from the shelf, it somehow managed to keep its dusty place. Jones calls it his “lost record”. Some off us call it his “cursed record”. (As one bP co-conspirator declared “it is cursed, cause he believes it is cursed”. It may be so).
thin.KING.SOON COME. was recorded during his time with the now defunct District Six Music (Zaki Ibrahim, Tumi and the Volume, Tanika Charles), …his Parkdale era.
Heard in total, it is portrait of an artist pulled, stretched even, but not scattered. Honest, reflective, angry and clinging to love. Perhaps with hindsight it is also easy to see how it foreshadowed the depression and reclusive time that would follow it.
On a record with some incredible big studio work by Shaun Christie at King West Studio, our favourite joints around the office certainly remain the 8-Track intrusions that poke and jab at the polish of the main body.
Perhaps none better than “LET OUT”.
BENNY the ANGRY PENNY (FIRST SKETCHES)
The first project under development by the BP KIDS wing of the boldPIGEON.
Created by KUMALO & JONES (N.L. KUMALO / i.james.jones), the “FIRST SKETCHES” gives us an early look at BENEDICT VON COPPERBOTTOM aka “BENNY THE ANGRY PENNY”, an ornery (and quite possibly misunderstood and under-appreciated) old coin, and the adventures which made him so.
“riotLab” – Toronto City Riot
CLICK TO WATCH “riotLAB” (a boldPIGEON presentation)
Late last year the Toronto City Riot released their self-titled debut. Defying easy classification and convention, the album is a slept-on gem. Think danceable-psycadelic-punk, raw and soulful.
Now stop thinking, and download the record
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