Michael C. Duguay Shares New Video EP ‘Unprecedent’
Following his return to music with the release of his deeply personal and powerful LP The Winter of Our Discotheque at the end of 2020 and its remix accompaniment, Kingston-based Canadiana/folk artist Michael C. Duguay has shared his new video EP Unprecedent.
The three track EP was written during the early stages of the first lockdown of 2020 and seeks to make sense of the shift of the world, as Duguay shares, “These songs seek to make meaning of influence, governance, estrangement, inheritance, screen-time, appropriation, paternalism, social unrest, social distancing, social media, socialism, and the barrage of thoughts and anxieties that surfaced, for me, in the spring of 2020”
His unique and unfiltered vocal delivery stands out against the wall of folk instrumentation as the one-shot takes from a small studio in Kingston add to the homegrown Canadian aesthetic.
In a press release, Duguay shares:
“These videos were filmed by Kingston filmmaker Josh Lyon in October 2020 and feature the musical contributions of Liam Cole, Jason Mercer, and Teilhard Frost, was engineered by Dylan Lodge, and mixed by Jason Mercer.
This was the sort of serendipitous, incidental band that could only have come together as the small region of Frontenac county was ushered into the eye-of-the-storm green zone status, allowing four music-starved musicians with no history of working together the fleeting opportunity to responsibly play and commune with music after months of forced abstinence and withdrawal. Stylistically, this work deviates from both the dark cosmic-country/gothic americana of my last record and the avant-garde reinterpretation series that followed, and pays homage to my country-western and bluegrass-oriented adolescence and musical upbringing in Peterborough, where, as a teenager, I performed in The Silver Hearts and with Washboard Hank, and later with Nick Ferrio, The Burning Hell and Evening Hymns.”
Watch the videos in this playlist below:
Unprecedent
Track list:
- Guns or Butter
- Wild Water
- Helen of Troy
