RUMOURS
Jan 21, 2010
Despite what it says under ‘release date’, All We Make Is Enemies is now available through the iTunes store, as of TODAY! We recommend you pick it up — I promise it will be the best $2.97 you’ve ever spent.
That’s right. It costs less than your latte.
xo, CdT
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Jan 19, 2010
Happy New Year to you. At least ten different people on ten different occasions have told us they’ve heard we’re coming out with a new album.
We’ve made no official announcement about this, so it’s fantastic news to us!
We are recording this spring. We will also play some new songs at many upcoming shows in western Canada. Please stay close to the Shows page.
Thank you for being here.
CdT
L’Axis de la Conversation / We Make Dew
Old Song + New Song + George W. Bush.
Live @ Broken City Social Club in Calgary, AB. Feb 13, 2009.
DISCOGRAPHY
ALL WE MAKE IS ENEMIES
CATALOG: AX002
FORMAT: 7” + MP3 / MP3 / M4A (iTunes)
RELEASE DATE: June 2009 (tour), Feb 2010 (Canada, iTunes + online)
TRACKLISTING:
1) All We Make Is Enemies
2) The Pull (Morgan Greenwood Mix)
3) Ladders and Snakes
DELUSIONS OF SAFETY
CATALOG: AX001
FORMAT: CD / MP3 / M4A
RELEASE DATE: September 2007
TRACKLISTING:
1) Readymade Heart Attack
2) They Can See Your Ghost
3) Don’t Be Alarmed (there’s a carcass)
4) Autumn In Juilliard
5) Stop The Car
6) L’Axis de la Conversation
7) The Pull
8) Christian Science
THERE’S HOPE FOR YOU YET (JUST KIDDING)*
CATALOG: (none)
FORMAT: CD
RELEASE DATE: Oct 2006
TRACKLISTING:
1) L’Axis de la Conversation
2) Dizzy and Drunk With Love
3) The Pull
4) Homemade Hearts / Highway Arteries
5) Parasite
*This album is currently out of print.
BIO
Axis of Conversation is a broken-hearted dance party of strings, samples and stolen noises covered in Canadian snow.
Falling somewhere between Brahms, Bowie, The Books and Broken Social Scene, it’s a band that’s (thankfully) pretty difficult to pigeonhole. Perhaps it’s easiest to call it a band full of surprises. If you’re familiar with its introspective recordings and you’re seeing it live for the first time, you might be a bit shocked to find a confident collective in full control of the sweat-soaked dancefloor at its feet. Yet, that’s exactly what you’d find.
It started with There’s Hope For You Yet (just kidding), a five-song EP hand-painted with splatters of fake blood. Musically, it featured everything from hands beating pennies in pockets for percussion, to the voices of an ex-lover spun backwards on a Kaoss Pad. In three months, it had all but disappeared from Calgary record shops and sidestage tables - only to turn up on the airwaves of the much-revered (and now defunct) Brave New Waves on CBC Radio 2. Next thing you know, BeatRoute Magazine were calling it the “soundtrack to a pleasant dream”, and FFWD Weekly hailed Axis of Conversation “the newest and coolest band in town.”
Next came Delusions of Safety —- an intimate and unsettling pop record born from newfound friendships and personal tragedy. It climbed college charts in ten Canadian cities, including Ottawa, Halifax and Calgary. Delusions went on to garner love from Vue, New York’s Global Rhythm and CBC Radio 3. It has since spun in Australia, Germany and the midwestern United States.
Today, Axis of Conversation has grown from one to six members, and is comprised of equal parts Filipinos and quasi-Ukranians (not that there’s anything wrong with that). The band has also become a sleeper-hit at several major Canadian music festivals, including the Vancouver Jazz Festival, Calgary’s Sled Island and NXNE in Toronto — the latter of which proclaiming Axis of Conversation among its top 60 acts. Not bad for a festival with a lineup of over 500 bands.
To coincide with its June/July 2009 tour, Axis of Conversation made its first foray into the world of vinyl with the 7” release, All We Make Is Enemies. Never to alienate those that missed out on that golden summer, the mini-EP will be available via download in early 2010.
Axis of Conversation has shared the stage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Snailhouse (Belle Orchestre), Hey Rosetta!, The Most Serene Republic, The Pack A.D., The Lovely Feathers, Woodpigeon, Rubik, Arkells and members of Bedouin Soundclash.
CONTACT: booking (at) axisofconversation (dot) com
Axis Of Conversation – All We Make Is Enemies
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All We Make Is Enemies is a 3-song mini-EP, lovingly pressed on 7” coke bottle green vinyl.
It’s title track is the sound of impatient hands and a heavy conscience, and easily the most accurate document of Axis of Conversation’s live show.
Side B (‘The Pull [Morgan Greenwood Mix]’) is a spastic and somber reinterpretation of the band’s quietest ballad by Morgan Greenwood, the chief architect behind Absolutely Kosher’s ambient pop darlings Azeda Booth.
The third track (available via bonus download) is ‘Ladders and Snakes’ — a light-hearted account of Calgary’s struggles with urban sprawl and downtown hipster migration, uniting a honky-tonk stomp with an inner-city beatbox.
All We Make Is Enemies is available now by visiting HERE.
You can also find it as a download through various online music sites (including iTunes), and in record stores across Canada beginning February 2010.
For more, please visit our DISCOGRAPHY.
They Can See Your Ghost - live @ Broken City. 02.13.09.
SHOWS
Feb 20, 2010 - Marquee Room Calgary AB
Feb 21, 2010 - Vicious Circle Calgary AB
Mar 27, 2010 - Local 522 Calgary AB
PAST SHOWS
Dec 19, 2009 - The Palomino w/ The Brenda Vaqueros, Calgary AB
Dec 12, 2009 - [Beatles Cover Benefit] w/ Woodpigeon, SAVK Calgary AB
Oct 2, 2009 - [CdT Solo] The Palomino w/ Rubik, The Ghost Is Dancing Calgary AB
July 30, 2009 - Broken City w/ Here Is What Is, Fox Opera Calgary AB
July 23, 2009 - The Palomino w/ The Lovely Feathers Calgary AB
July 19, 2009 - Vicious Circle Calgary AB
July 3, 2009 - Cafe Deux Soleils Vancouver BC
July 2, 2009 - Vancouver Jazz Festival: Media Club Vancouver BC
June 25, 2009 - Sled Island Festival: The Palomino Calgary AB
June 22, 2009 - The Club Regina SK
June 18, 2009 - NXNE: The Supermarket Toronto ON
June 12, 2009 - The Hydeaway Edmonton AB
June 6, 2009 - The Slice Lethbridge AB
Hello. Here are some additional links you may find useful:
AxiCon’s Electronic Press Kit (EPK)
Justin Scott (visual art)
Pirates Press (vinyl pressing)
Reuben Ghose (audio production)
Axis of Conversation –
Jangle jangle.
RUMOURS
DISCOGRAPHY
BIO
Axis Of Conversation – All We Make Is Enemies
All We Make Is Enemies is a 3-song mini-EP, lovingly pressed on 7” coke bottle green vinyl.
It’s title track is the sound of impatient hands and a heavy conscience, and easily the most accurate document of Axis of Conversation’s live show.
Side B (‘The Pull [Morgan Greenwood Mix]’) is a spastic and somber reinterpretation of the band’s quietest ballad by Morgan Greenwood, the chief architect behind Absolutely Kosher’s ambient pop darlings Azeda Booth.
The third track (available via bonus download) is ‘Ladders and Snakes’ — a light-hearted account of Calgary’s struggles with urban sprawl and downtown hipster migration, uniting a honky-tonk stomp with an inner-city beatbox.
All We Make Is Enemies is available now by visiting HERE.
You can also find it as a download through various online music sites (including iTunes), and in record stores across Canada beginning February 2010.
For more, please visit our DISCOGRAPHY.
SHOWS
