harmonies

Writing Harmonies with Quote The Raven

This week SongTalk welcomed Newfoundland Americana/Folk duo Quote the Raven. Jordan Coaker and Kirsten Rodden-Clarke have been bewitching audiences with haunting harmonies and East-Coast meets Americana songwriting for a decade. Their album Golden Hour (2018) earned multiple nominations including the 2019 ECMA Rising Artist and the award for 2019 MusicNL’s Group of the year.… Read the rest

Voices Only with Jordana Talsky

by Michael Proudfoot

We have a fascinating show this episode with our special guest, Jordana Talsky. Jordana is a singer, songwriter and vocal looper who fuses multi-genre influences into her own sound. She accompanies herself by voice with a Roland Boss RC505 loop station.… Read the rest

Two guitars, 20 harmonicas, harmonies and beat boxing with Taylor & Bryn

by Neel Modi

The uber-talented duo of Talyor & Bryn impress the team with their fusion of styles and great sense of humour with 3 live performances, including an improvised lyric and melody by Taylor for their final song.

We discussed:

Taylor’s songwriting workshop
Bryn’s harmonica workshop
The IMSTA Songwriting Contest
lyric progressions
the effectiveness of stops in a song
improvisation
why the need for so many harmonicas

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