Roots2Boot Recordings

New Dreams, Old Stories, the latest release from avant-folk- jazz quartet Way North, seeks to connect the past and present of our collective human experience. Old stories acknowledging a vast musical heritage are woven together to create fresh new sounds…

Carleton University names Petr Cancura as 2021 Artist In Residence

Carleton University’s School for Studies in Art and Culture is pleased to announce that genre-defying multi-instrumentalist Petr Cancura will be the artist-in-residence in Carleton’s Music Program for the winter 2021…

Leonid Auskern wrote a great review of Don't Let it Stop!

Some of our favorite quotes from it:

“The title song Don't Let It Stop! at times left me with the impression of Jimi Hendrix, who had returned from beyond…

Review from Jazz Journal,

A dizzy blend of ideas inspired by the likes of Charles Mingus and Ornette Coleman through to brooding film music, eastern and folk influences, Life Is A Gong Show is certainly never a dull listen.

As…

The Jazz Music Blog

Polish-Canadian drummer Jacek Kochan and musiConspiracy album release Occupational Hazard 

Drummer/composer/arranger Jacek Kochan’s new album Occupational Hazard is remarkable on a number of fronts. Not only does it represent the prodigious Montreal musician’s 22nd release as…

Review of Life Is a Gongshow by The Jazz Music Blog 

Songs of Tales is where the strange meets the beautiful, where simple songs are juxtaposed with sonic outlandishness, rhythmic complexity, and the excitement of uncertainty that makes you think…

Review by Richard Kamins

Songs of Tales is a truly trans-Canadian group in that each member of the quartet lives in a different location.  Petr Cancura (tenor saxophone, keyboards) resides in Ottawa, Gordon Grdina (guitars, oud, bass) in Vancouver BC…

Songs of Tales: Life Is A Gong Show 

by George W. Harris • May 25, 2020 • 0 Comments 

The band Songs of Tales consists of Gordon Grdina on oud, guitar and bass, saxophonist and keyboardist Petr Cancura, Jean Martin…

David Luhrssen wrote a great review

Jazz is a shared reference, a musical education held in common for the members of Songs of Tales. However, calling them a jazz group is misleading and limiting. Their new album opens with the…

Jacek Kochan video Part II
Jacek kochan & musiConspiracy - "misunderstood intentions" (j.kochan) from CD "occupational hazard"

elizabeth shepherd - voice, piano,
luis deniz- alto sax,
dan thouin - hammond b3 (solo),
anthony alexander - hammond b3, rhodes…

Jacek Kochan has released two new videos alongside his recent release occupational hazard Here is the first featuring the fantastic Elizabeth Shepherd.

Jacek kochan & musiConspiracy - "evident monk" (j.kochan) from CD "occupational hazard" 

elizabeth shepherd - voice, piano, 
luis…

From the moment lead-off track "Traure" transforms from Afrobeat funk to Celtic jam, it's clear that Life Is a Gong Show isn't your standard jazz LP. The debut LP from Songs of Tales works hard resisting (and then brazenly encompassing)…

New album out! 

Sons Of Tales 
"Life Is a Gongshow" 

Featuring: 
Gord Grdina on oud, guitar, bass 
Jesse Zubot - violin, synths, electronics, bass 
Jean Martin - drums, electronics 
Petr Cancura - saxophones, effects, keyboards 
out on Roots2boot Recordings 

BOY…

Great interview by Neon Jazz with Jacek Kochan:

Songs of Tales  –  Life is a Gong Show 

Link to full review

(Roots2Boot Recordings, 2020) 

This unique quartet has been desribed as “avante-jazz-pop.” Shadows of Mingus and Ornette Coleman intermingle with soundcapes and film scores. Their press release says…

You gotta love this review of Songs of Tales - Life Is a Gongshow by Midwest Records!

"SONGS OF TALES/Life is a Gong Show: Can you be award winners in the mainstream and still be underground sensations? Gordon Grdina and…

Songs of Tales featuring Gordon Grdina, Jesse Zubot, Jean Martin and Petr Cancura is available for pre-sale, ready for it's May 1st release. Recorded at the legendary Afterlife Studios in Vancouver, check out this epic album right here!

Roots2Boot officially launches as a record label. Several albums have already been launched under the label, upcoming release Songs of Tales Life is a Gong Show will mark the official launch. This album will be released on May 1st, 2020

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