Simon Angell Discography of CDs

Simon Angell discography After spending nearly five years on the road promoting 2006's Close to Paradise and 2009's Polaris Music Prize-nominated Wooden Arms, Patrick Watson and his band retreated to the Montreal-based singer/songwriter's apartment to craft the appropriately titled Adventures in Your Own Backyard. Spare, haunting, and emotionally charged, Watson's fourth outing feels a little voyeuristic, like walking in on a character in the midst of a moonlit soliloquy. The lush chamber pop arrangements that have become ...

Simon Angell albums Before starting his quartet, Patrick Watson explored a variety of musical forms, from rock to electronica, and though Close to Paradise is clean indie pop, these other influences show up in the album frequently. A Coldplay for the hipster crowd (that's X&Y-era Coldplay, not Parachutes Coldplay), Watson and his band write lush, ethereal, spacey melodies that swell into Jeff ...

Simon Angell CD discography While sampling and sample-based sounds are ubiquitous in post-millennial music, rarely have they become the creative impetus for an artist's entire recorded output. Consider electronica maven Amon Tobin; from his early work mining obscure vinyl artifacts for his experimental drum & bass, to his more recent forays into video-game soundtracks, Tobin's work exhibits a continued evolutionary path from hip-hop ...

Simon Angell music CDs Recording information: Breakglass Studios; Greenhouse, Iceland; La Frette, France; Studio 105. Arrangers: Patrick Watson; Simon Angell; Mishka Stein; Robbie Kuster. Personnel: Patrick Watson (vocals, acoustic guitar, piano, organ, sound effects); Katie Moore (vocals, background vocals); Lhasa (vocals); Ligia Paquin (alto, strings); Simon Angell (guitar, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo, charango, sound effects); Robbie Kuster (acoustic guitar, marimba, drums, ...

Simon Angell songs Elsiane is the duo of Elsieanne Caplette (vocals/ keyboards) and Stephane Sotto (drums). Caplette met Sotto when she arrived in Canada from Peru in 1999 and the pair hit it off immediately. Their music is electronica, trip hop that recalls the best elements of Bjork, Portishead, Morcheeba plus styles of world beats, ambience, jazz notes and even some classical ...

Simon Angell CD discography Recording information: Studio Fast-Forward, NDG, Quebec, Canada (01/04/1998-01/16/1998). Photographers: Patrick Gogerty; Paul Chapman; Ben Smith ; Jeremy Chapman. Personnel: Patrick Watson (vocals, keyboards); Dave Bulger (vocals, percussion); Simon Angell (guitar); Louis Nagy (trumpet, Fender Rhodes piano); Liam Chapman (trombone); Tim Doyle (drums). Audio Mixer: Victor Rice.

Simon Angell albums Recording information: Svenska Grammofonstudion, Goteborg (09/2008-10/2008). Personnel: Erika Alexandersson (vocals, flute, pump organ, percussion, background vocals); Simon Angell (acoustic guitar, electric guitar, lap steel guitar, banjo, background vocals); Emil Strandberg (trumpet, flugelhorn); August Wanngren (trombone); Cecilia Persson (piano, pump organ, ARP synthesizer); Martin Höper (double bass, electric bass, background vocals). Audio Mixer: August Wanngren.