silver
speakers
1.
another red train
2. kensington market
3. my prime minister
4. silver screen
5.
so wonderful
6. we will be alright
written, performed and recorded by tyrone
warner
may-june 2007 – all copyright
tw
sounds like: pedro the lion,
hayden, ryan
adams, low, the
lemonheads
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biography:
Something is happening for
Toronto-based songwriter, tw. After uprooting from
Kingston,
Ontario
in 2005 and leaving his band Strike the Set behind, it wasn’t clear what
direction the new music would take.
Taking on a
variety of side projects, recording experiments, solo performances and a few
gigs with drummer Steve Johns under the moniker Western Country,
tw invested several months in a new writing project,
that has become the independently released Silver Speakers EP.
Two years later,
picking up where Strike the Set left off, the new Silver Speakers is infused
with a moodier, contemplative and playful lyricism.
The entire
project was put to ones and zeros on a digital four-track recorder in
tw’s east end apartment over the course of several
weeks in late spring 2007. The EP is a collection of songs that engages a
variety of perspectives, and employs a variety of styles, knit together by a
common musical thread.
If Strike the
Set leaned heavily on programmed beats and driving electric guitars, Silver
Speakers finds its strength in deeply reflective, mostly acoustic-driven
meditations. However, the past is not entirely left behind; one previously never
recorded classic “So Wonderful” surfaces here alongside a re-imagined “Silver
Screen.”
Silver Speakers, translated to the live format, is a stripped
down and naked affair. It builds on the integrity of the recorded medium to
offer raw and intimate snapshots of city life and all its contradictions.
For
tw and Silver Speakers, the city’s streets have
become life’s illuminating metaphor.
The streets
bring us closer together. The streets steal us apart. Themes of city life,
interrupted by rumbling streetcars, subconsciously weave themselves into the
Silver Speakers soundscape.
Characters teem
along the city’s thoroughfares, as they teem through our lives. Alleys, parks,
markets and shops, all backdrops to the sometimes swirling soundtrack of the
street exposed in the dissonant refrain of “We Will Be Alright.
Another red
train.
A coffee shop. An army surplus
store.
Each location
lends itself to tw’s deeper lyrical discussions of
identity, place and responsibility; each serves as a jump-off point to further
contemplate relationships to the built places and relational environments
shaping human existence.
