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      alli sunshine &
     the blue sparrows

      elvira aos

      acres of lions

      christopher arruda

      eric bearclaw

      jon bone

      alysha brillinger

      cabin fever sessions

      cadboro collective

      kim churchill

      the crackling

      dj ai

      mike edel

      kemal evans

      fairweather father

      cory friesenhan

      natalie germann

      gold and shadow

      johnny good

      eric harper

      alex hicks #1

      alex hicks #2

      joshua hyslop

      illi jo vs bearclaw
      & adam james

      illi jo (solo)

      adam james

      john jenkins'
   smalltown revival

      jeff kalesnikoff

      kid on the pavement

      geoff lundstrom

      zachary lucky

      brandon mason

      jean-paul maurice

      camille miller

      peter mcgee
      & alex hicks

      ryan mcmahon

      robin mills

      justin nozuka

      myc sharratt

      andy shauf

      eliza smith

      sonreal

      emily smythe

      bryce styan

      the warped 45s

      vince vaccaro

When Aaron Bethune (artist manager/consultant... you should know him if you want to get serious about your career as a musician --- www.playitloudmusic.com) contacted me about doing a session with Eliza Smith I was excited to see what we could do. I first heard of her a couple years when she was doing some recording. I never really heard her music at that time though so when I listened to a few tracks I was extremely impressed. At the same time, I wasn't totally sure how her genre (r&b/soul with a hip-hop flavour) was going to work as an acoustic session. She worked on some arrangements with Ayaka Kinugawa on the piano and we setup to get into St. Andrew's church for the shoot. That was a great call because the acoustics were incredible and they let us use their grand piano as well. Very cool!!!

For the second part of the shoot we wanted to try something much more loose.... so we setup downtown at The Vault coffee shop (big thanks Demeter!!). The first track was an on-the-spot improv which turned out great. For the last track we pulled Duncan in to take over the guitar work (who just happened to pop into The Vault) and Andrew jumped back on the bongos

Thanks to everyone for all their work on this shoot.... Jesse Bone for running the boom, all the artists, Aaron for helping to arrange things and St. Andrew's and The Vault. And of course, Music Maxx ( musicmaxx.com ) for their continued support of the local music scene. If you don't shop there... you should!!!!

Allright... go treat yourself to this amazing voice.... watch the videos.

artists link: www.myspace.com/elizasmith1

session. 005 track. 1 artist. eliza smith piano - ayaka kinugawa bongos - andrew rollins song. all night long (cover)
session. 005 track. 2 artist. eliza smith piano - ayaka kinugawa song. how could you
session. 005 track. 3 artist. eliza smith keyboard - ayaka kinugawa guitar - andrew rollins song. untitled freejam
session. 005 track. 4 artist. eliza smith keyboard - ayaka kinugawa bongos - andrew rollins guitar - duncan symonds song. get away (cover)