With love from TA2 to you!
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Live Near Bellwoods CMW Living Room Series Starts Today!
Tattoo Sound + Music sponsored event "Live Near Bellwoods, CMW Living Room Sessions" kicks off today with a wealth of amazing talent! Check out the right up of our sponsored event in NOW Magazine here.
Come to The Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music at 821 Queen St. W and see for yourself. It's free and open to the public. No wristbands required. Set times are approximate.
3:30 - Wool on Wolves www.woolonwolves.com
4:00 - Paper Lions www.myspace.com/paperlions
4:40 - Allie Hughes www.alliehughes.com
5:20 - Rich Aucoin www.richaucoin.ca
4:00 - Olenka & the Autumn Lovers www.olenkalovers.com
4:40 - Pick a Piper www.pickapiper.com
5:20 - Hooded Fang www.hoodedfang.com
2:40- Ingrid Gatin www.myspace.com/ingridgatin
3:20 - The RG Morrison http://the-rg-morrison.tumblr.com/
4:00 - Loom http://loommusic.ca/
4:40 - Aidan Knight www.aidanknight.com
See you there folks!
Wednesday, March 2, 2011
March EarJam - CMW Talent & More
TATTOO SOUND + MUSIC, PROUD SPONSOR OF CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK
Our March EarJam app is up and running showcasing some of the many talents that will be performing at the 2011 Canadian Music Week Festival March 9th - March 13th in downtown Toronto.Such talents include Nash, Bravestation, Zoobombs, Paper Lions & Great Bloomers to name a few. We also have the rockin' additions of Fossil Collective and Vicious Kid!
Canadian Music Week = 5 nights of performance, more than 800 showcasing acts and 60 live venues in the downtown core.
See you during the Festival and in the meantime check the app for some tunes to tie you over!
Saturday, February 26, 2011
Pioneers of Sound - Oscars Past
Ladies and gentlemen, Douglas Shearer and Alfred Newman are two of those heroes.
Douglas Shearer (November 17, 1899 - January 5, 1971)
Born in Westmount, Quebec, a leader of sound desi
gn and technology for motion films started his career in the 1920's. He relocated from Canada to Hollywood when his sister Norma was able to find him a home at MGM. While there, Shearer out of necessity originated the concept of "playback" to eliminate undesirable background noise during sound recording. MGM's 1929 musical "The Broadway Melody" was the first time Shearer attempted to use this technique. It was the top grossing movie of the year and was the first sound picture to be awarded the Academy Award for best picture. He won his first Oscar for "The Big House" in the Best Sound Recording category (1930) and went on to win eleven more through the duration of his career in the categories of Best Sound Recording, Best Special Effects, and Scientific and Technical for such films as; "Naughty Marietta" (1935), "San Francisco" (1936), "Strike Up the Band" (1940), "10 Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944), "Green Dolphin Street" (1947), and "The Great Caruso" (1951). Shearer has worked on more the 900 movies in his career, has been nominated for an Academy Award 21 times, winning 7 times for Sound and Special Effect.
Alfred Newman (March 17, 1900 - February 17, 1970)
If you're not familiar with his work go and grab an
encyclopedia right now. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S on March 17th, 1900 Newman is the most nominated composer in Oscar history and falls second to Walt Disney as individual winner. He was know in his position at Fox to have contributed an extraordinary amount to film as a music composer, arranger, musical director and conductor. Best known for composing music in over 200 films he was also nominated for 45 Academy Awards. You may recognize his memorable scores in "How to Marry A Millionaire" (1953), "The Seven year Itch" (1955), "The King and I" (1956), and "Camelot" (1967) to name a few. In addition, he conducted the orchestra for all Rodgers and Hammersmith musical film adaptions with the exception of "Oklahoma!" and "The Sound of Music". His daughter, nephew ad two sons have played an important role in carrying on the Newman legacy to this day.
The Silver Screen would not have evolved sound wise where it is today without the influence of both of these talented individuals committing each to forty years of passion, innovation and dedication in their field.
This year's 2011 films nominated for both Best Sound Editing and Best Sound include Inception & True Grit. Also, Inception is up for Best Music (Original Score) and just won the BAFTA award for Best Sound in Britain.
Since it's Oscars Eve "everyone" is a winner for now. Enjoy the show!
Friday, February 25, 2011
The Artists Project - Showcasing Rea Kelly
It is with great pleasure that I present to you the wonderful and unbelievably talented Rea Kelly!
Rea is not only an award-winning broadcast producer for many of Canada's top advertising agencies, she's also an event planner and one heck of a visual artist.
Mark the date in your calendars folks. The Artist Project, an event not to be missed.
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Little City to Rock Canadian Music Week
There's nothing little about this band. Classic and solid, "Little City" is one loaded gun of a band. Every performance is delivered with strong emotion, lyrical intelligence and a wide variety of instruments. Your heart strings will be tugged at and your dancing shoes will start tappin' all by themselves.
Little City rocks the house at Canadian Music Week on Saturday, March 12th at the Velvet Underground. Doors open at 7pm, show begins at 8pm and Little City goes on at 9pm.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Tattoo Sponsors Select Events at CMW Festival!
We'll be sponsoring the Living Room Shows on Thursday, March 10th to Saturday, March 12th from 2pm-5pm. What's the Living Room Show you ask? It's a series of stripped down acoustic sets from top Canadian artists in an intimate environment. Come join us at the Toronto Institute for the Enjoyment of Music to hear the ambiance of acts like Paper Lions, Allie Hughes, and The Elwins to name a few.
In addition, we're also sponsoring the Ballroom CMW Mixer which is an exclusive event to industry professionals and artists from the festival only. Secret location and secret time. We can tell you that the lineup will include the likes of Allie Hughes, The Lines plus some DJ action.
Stay tuned for further details.
Rock n'roll.
Monday, February 7, 2011
Wooo Caela!
Production Coordinator | Media & Culture Liaison
Want proof that big things come in small packages? Meet Caela.
At an intimidating 5’ 2”, Caela packs more smarts, charm, and talent into one human being than anyone we know.
In fact, we needed two job titles just to contain all the great things she brings to TA2.
Ridiculous production chops. A gargantuan voice. Scads of friends in the worlds of music, advertising, photography, and oceanography.
Caela even lives large. She’s partied with Dave Matthews and Daniel Lanois. She’s a regularly performing singer/songwriter. And she has a scar four inches long but will never tell you why or where.
As you can tell, we think she’s kind of a big deal.
February EarJam Playlist
In the words of Ray Charles: "I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs, my kidneys, my liver, my heart...It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me-like food or water."
Hungry for great new music? our February playlist is up showcasing the likes of Hands and Teeth, Data Romance, Behind Saphire, Ori Dagan, Lady Hayes, Pacifika and The Rucksack Willies!
Download the Tattoo Sound + Music EarJam app for free here!
Monday, January 31, 2011
Welcome Nestor Chumak!
Jack White. Josh Homme. Nestor Chumak?
When Nestor isn't helping our engineers run a tight session, he's quietly taking over the music world one power chord at a time.
Writing and playing in several bands with pre-post-meta names like The Inhumanoids and Topanga, our young Nestor is poised for rock superstardom.
Right after he fetches your non-fat chai latte.
Friday, January 14, 2011
EarJam App - Latest and Greatest January 2011 Playlist
The January 2011 EarJam playlist is now up with a great variety of new talent to check out!
We've got an awesome lineup this month which includes The Elwins and the touching melodies/piano compositions of Megan Bonnell to name a few.
If you have yet to download the app you can do so by visiting the application store and searching "earjam".
Stay "tuned" for the upcoming February playlist.
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Skateboard Design by Local Toronto Artist - Juliana NueFeld
Fundraiser project for Freeskates. Hand Painted deck with watercolour, acrylic and spray paint.
Today in Music History
1992 - Nirvana appeared on NBC-TV's Saturday Night Live and "Nevermind" hit #1 on the US album chart
Saturday, January 8, 2011
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Monday, January 3, 2011
Hands & Teeth
http://handsandteeth.bandcamp.com/album/enjoy-your-lifestyle
http://handsandteeth.bandcamp.com/track/shine-on
Toronto based Hands and Teeth newest release is titled "Shine On" with the single available for download free of charge at their above link. 'Shine On' isn't quite an 'album'. It's a single they recorded as a gift for their friends and fans for their support over the past year. "Enjoy Your Lifestyle" is their previous album and is available for purchase from their site. Definitely worth a listen.
Enjoy!
Tomer Hanuka
Father
Limited edition of 350. Hand numbered.
19" x 25″ screen print. Printed by D&L Screen Printing.
Sold exclusively through Mondo Tees.
Limited edition of 350. Hand numbered.
19" x 25″ screen print. Printed by D&L Screen Printing.
Sold exclusively through Mondo Tees.
MGMT / CongratulationsLimited edition of 45 signed and numbered.
Archival UltraChrome print on Hahnemühle fine art rag.
Print size 13x19 inches.
we are sold out of these but there might be a few left on New Oral.
Life of PiArchival UltraChrome print on Hahnemühle fine art rag.
Print size 13x19 inches.
Marquis De SadeArchival UltraChrome print on Hahnemühle fine art rag.
Print size 13x19 inches.
Join!Print size 13x19 inches.
Artist: Tomer Hanuka
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