We’ve updated our Terms of Use to reflect our new entity name and address. You can review the changes here.
We’ve updated our Terms of Use. You can review the changes here.

Hall

by Flophouse jr

supported by
Gordon Rempel
Gordon Rempel thumbnail
kathleenf90
kathleenf90 thumbnail
/

  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
    Purchasable with gift card

      $7 CAD  or more

     

1.
In the Beginning/ How it's Going to End 04:11
info
buy track
2.
Listening 03:46
info
buy track
3.
Between 03:34
info
buy track
4.
Inside a Whale 03:57
info
buy track
5.
Wrong Side of Town 03:57
info
buy track
6.
When You Say 04:13
info
buy track
7.
You Tried 03:28
info
buy track
8.
R.F.Y.L. 04:07
info
buy track

about

In 2000, I released the first Flophouse jr album that I recorded in my basement apartment on an old 1/2" 4-track Otari tape machine. It was the first serious personal release of music I had offered up to the world and it garnered some local Vancouver interest as well as some international glances due to my friend Ken Beattie pushing some Vancouver artists onto a wider scene. I named it Woodland after the street I was living on at the time. It seemed apropos given my surname and possibly a tip of the hat to the timely Tom Waits song, What’s He Building?, due to the homemade approach.

So now we jump ahead almost 25 years to a new life back in our home province of Ontario and I am releasing Fjr's seventh album and in keeping with the tradition of Woodland, I am naming it Hall, after the street we are currently living on, once again to reflect a new start on an old life. All the tracks were written here in our new home town of Windsor, Ontario after anything I still had in progress from the Vancouver days was finally ditched (not for lack of trying...)

This album seems like a breath of fresh air to me- chock full of new instruments and recording gear acquired after the debacle of the moving company helping themselves to the contents of much of my studio.
The guitars are turned up, the drums are punchier and the vocals and harmonies are a bit more forceful- almost like a rock'n'roll record I might have listened to in the early 70's perhaps. I was most likely channelling the vibe of those records that I had been reacquainting myself with and enjoying on the vintage hi-fi I setup since we moved here.

The album title suggests a path to move from one place to another which is exactly what we did in the fall of 2021. Lyrically, these songs are impressionistic extrapolations from many of the events that were happening to us and our surroundings in that time. The album cover photo depicts an electrical fire in a tree across the alley from our house we inadvertently captured upon returning home from a winter vacation.

Like the previous album, A Matter of Time, I have made videos for each song from public domain movies and shorts to offer a visual accompaniment to the tracks.

The youtube link to these videos is

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SShnLHsnNw4&list=PLpzi4txmnZ-2ToZxNqRjD6KqmAwsUYJUO

credits

released January 9, 2024

Recorded at JFD EAST Studios

Produced engineered and mastered by Flophouse jr

Jon Wood: Instrumentation, electronics, field recordings, vocals
Belinda Bruce: Vocals

license

all rights reserved

tags

about

Flophouse jr image

Flophouse jr Windsor, Ontario

contact / help

Contact Flophouse jr

Streaming and
Download help

Redeem code

Report this album or account

If you like Flophouse jr, you may also like:

Bandcamp Daily  your guide to the world of Bandcamp

On Bandcamp Radio

Featuring Riley Pinkerton (aka The Rat Queen) from the theatrical NYC rockers, Castle Rat.
listen now