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Recording has begun!!

doerksen — Mon, 03 May 2010 03:28:08 +0000

Hello to all! This is a very excited and long-overdue message to inform our fans that recording on our very first album has officially begun today with our first drum tracking. It’s truly an exciting time and we “may” have some pictures and / or videos to go along with further news in the near future! Keep checking back and we will do our best to keep you updated!

Good Music We Bring to You and Your Kin

kieran — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 04:41:26 +0000

It is my pleasure to announce that December’s Insurgency has recently begun recording their latest project: A Christmas album, entitled A Yuri Hladio Christmas; Featuring Daniel Doerksen with December’s Insurgency.

Now, already we’ve had many neigh (like the horse)-saying critics asking questions like, “Why would a band begin recording a Christmas album on the day of Christmas??” “This is ludicrous?!” “I want my money back???!?!!1!!111eleven1″. We’re here to answer those three questions, with but one response.

We do things in our own time, once we feel it’s right (andalsowe’rereallybusy).

No news as of now as to when this bad boy will hit the market, but for now please feel free to have a taste of the first two tracks of the album, already fully mixed and mastered.

UPDATE: The songs should actually work now

Jingle Bells Download audio file (Jingel%20Bells.mp3)

Deck the Halls Download audio file (Deck%20the%20Halls.mp3)

Yuri Hladio – Piano; Daniel Doerksen – Drums

History in the making.

All the best to you in your holiday celebrations. Merry Christmas everyone.

- Bergman

So Maybe Our Quotes Need Learning Now

bergman — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 08:18:48 +0000

Hello everyone, it’s l’il Berga here – it has been too long!

First off, I’d just like to cordially thank all of you who came out to our last show with Living With Lions and Brighter Brightest, it was a blast! You guys are great fans. Thanks of course to the aforementioned bands – as well as Common Lives and Take Me To The Pilot – for sharing the stage with us and being awesome, and Circle Productions for having us play in the first place.

So things have settled down here just a little bit on the DI front since last weekend, as band members are recovering from sickness or traveling to far off lands to watch sports. But keep checking the site to make sure you don’t miss any info on our future plans – that includes shows, new music, videos, the whole shabang.

As a little bonus for you, I decided that I would love to post the lyrics to our oldest song online so you can see the amount of hard work that was put into it. I love explaining how this song was written at every show, and we even had the slideshow for you that one time to prove ourselves – but this will probably be easier seen than explained. Just know that this was a school project for grade 10 geography. Hope you enjoy!

05 – Canada/America Download audio file (05%20Canada_America.mp3)

Alaska ALRIGHT!!!

Washington We
Montana made
North Dakota no decision,
Minnesota Maybe
Wisconsin we
Michigan made
New York no yield (in)
Vermont victory,
New Hampshire Never had
Maine many
Massachusetts minutes (for)
Rhode Island relaxation, (the point) I
Connecticut couldn’t (see)

Yukon Territories You talk
Northwest Territories nothing, talk
Nunavut nothing
British Columbia ’bout Canada,
Alberta America,
Saskatchewan So
Manitoba maybe
Ontario our
Quebec quotes
Newfoundland/Labrador need learning
New Brunswick now, Before
Prince Edward Island professors educate improperly,
Nova Scotia NO SIR!!

Oregon Oh,
Idaho I
Wyoming went
South Dakota searching (for) danger,
Nebraska Never
Iowa I
Illinois intended
Indiana impolite,
Ohio offensive
West Virginia words. (Such) vicious
Pennsylvania pain,
New Jersey NICE JOB!!
Delaware Doesn’t (it)
Maryland matter? (Don’t it matter to you?)

California Can
Nevada not
Utah understand,
Colorado Can’t
Kansas keep
Missouri making
Kentucky known,
Virginia Vacation’s
Arizona all (I)
New Mexico need, Maybe
Texas time
Oklahoma off
Arkansas all
Louisiana (a)lone
Mississippi Many
Tennessee times
Alabama afterward, (I’ll still)
Georgia get
North Carolina nothing clear
South Carolina So call (me)
Florida forever… (One time I might)
Hawaii hear

- Bergman

P.S. Sorry for the monstrously long post!

How We Find Our Sound

kieran — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 01:21:59 +0000

Our band is constantly evolving our song writing process. At the moment, a lot of the music we have written has been written by pairs of us and not quite as a cohesive unit. Two people will come up with the meat of a song, and then the others just kind of fill things in. I have to say that it can be easier this way, but it’s definitely less diplomatic. It kind of works for us though, and we love the sharing that goes on, because there will be two of us coming to the group saying: “Check out what we made! How can you guys make it not suck…” That’s usually how things are prefaced. We have a very high standard that we think that our work should measure up to, and we never think that we have attained it. It’s probably good that we think that way though, because it pushes us to constantly improve our songs (although at a certain point I guess we’ll have to leave things alone or we’ll never finish a song). Now that we finally have a regular practice space again, we know that our joint song writing will evolve into something wonderful!

On a more personal note, a lot of what I write (which I then take to the boys so they can make it not suck), comes from long improvisational sessions at the piano. I mess around for a great deal of time, then I try to remember the cooler parts of what I played and start forming them into songs, adding lyrics, and splicing things together. I don’t know quite enough theory to pound out a song on paper (actually, there is no possible way for me to write our songs out in musical notation, I leave things like that up to Bergman and Doerksen, and Yuri, he’s learning too.), so I just rely on memory. But lately I have been recording pieces of my little improv times at the ivories, so that I don’t forget things.

Here are a couple of those sessions. (I apologize for their length, they are eight and ten minutes long). I recorded them without any breaks or cuts. Enjoy!

Download audio file (A%20Lack%20Of%20Direction.mp3)
Download audio file (My%20Mind%20Is%20An%20Earthquake.mp3)

Don’t forget to come to our November 21 show with Living With Lions, Brighter Brightest, Common Lives and Take Me to the Pilot!

- Kieran

Opening for Living with Lions and Brighter Brightest

kieran — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:11:41 +0000

It’s upon us!

In two weeks, on November21, 2009, we will be opening for Living with Lions (from Vancouver) and Brighter Brightest (from Toronto), and helping support Winnipeg bands Common Lives and Take Me to the Pilot!

The show will be at the Ellice Theater, which is on 587 Ellice Ave, and is all ages.

Tickets are only $8 in advance! You can pick them up from any band member from any band or at Mixtape.

Doors open at 7pm, show starts at 730pm.

Confirm your presence on Facebook and get your tickets. Email us or message us on Facebook for tickets.

We’ll most likely be on first, so get there at 7pm! Let’s pack this house and show the out of towners how awesome a Winnipeg crowd can be!

See you there!

- DI

PS: There is a map on our Shows page.

Welcome To Our New Home!

kieran — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:30:56 +0000

It’s been a long time coming, but we finally have a site for you.

This is where you will be able to see photos and videos of us, learn about upcoming shows, and most importantly, listen to our music. We will be posting blogs and news about the band, about things that we think are cool, insights into our souls, and stuff about you guys as well! Because no one is more important than our fans (psst, that’s you right?).

So enjoy this place, and if you have any comments, feel free to leave them in the comments section on a blog post or hit the contact page and send us an email. There will be updates all the time, so stay tuned!