Drummer, songwriter and guitarist Paul Lamarche stopped by to trade songwriting tips.
For this special episode, each of the Song Talk Radio hosts shared one of their own songs for discussion. We talked about:
Part way through her cross-country tour which began in her hometown of Edmonton, Alberta, singer/songwriter Rebecca Lappa stopped in at the Song Talk Radio studio to share two original songs. She was accompanied on piano by the talented musician Nick Samoil. We talked about:
Patrick Ballantyne stopped by to pull apart two of his fave songs. The open and emotive “Cowboy” by Randy Newman, and “Somewhere” from West Side Story by Stephen Sondheim and Leonard Bernstein.
We had the pleasure of having the prolific Toronto poet, novelist, and singer/songwriter Robert Priest (with David Hynes on guitar) back in the studio to share a couple of his children’s songs. We talked about…
Paul Novotny (born Peterborough, Ontario, 1958) is a composer, bassist, producer, and engineer. He is the bassist on the international runaway hit video-game, CUPHEAD; over 50,000 sales in 2017.
As a producer, his record label has achieved three Juno nominations and one Juno win for Joe Sealy’s Africville Suite. He has composed music for feature films, commercials and TV including CBC The National, CBC The Hour (G. Stroumboulopoulos) and CBC News Now.
He has a Masters in music composition and in 2017 presented a lecture in Stockholm to the International Art of Record Production conference on music production in immersive multi-channel surround sound.
He owns the independent record label Triplet Records Inc. and audio production company, The Audio Producers Inc. He also works in TV post production as re-mixing/mastering engineer; recently working on Gord Downie’s Secret Path project.
Paul Novotny is endorsed by Universal Audio and HHB Canada.
He will be performing in concert at The Burlington Performing Arts Centre on March 3rd at 7:30 pm with friends Robi Botos-piano, Alison Young-Sax, and Daniel Barnes-Drums.
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Canadian and internationally-reaching singer/songwriter Jeffery Straker joined us to talk about his process, collaborations, and great songwriting advice.
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We also welcome Linda Lavender who will be helping out on the tech board in the future. Thanks and welcome aboard Linda!
Join the gang as we go over our favourite bits of the last year and lots more stuff!
We talked about:
Multi-talented Toronto poet, novelist, and singer/songwriter Robert Priest brought two great songs to the show. He also brought two talented musicians to back him up – guitarist and vocalist David Hines and guitarist Bob Cohen. We talked about a wide range of things including:
You don’t necessarily need to have a fantastic voice to write or even perform songs well. We looked at some of our favorite songwriters with unusual voices and how they did it.
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