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Smiling in Winter by Spoons from their second album Arias & Symphonies (1982)
Gordon Deppe: vocals, guitar
Sandy Horne: bass, vocals
Rob Preuss: Jupit...
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Smiling in Winter by Spoons from their second album Arias & Symphonies (1982)
Gordon Deppe: vocals, guitar
Sandy Horne: bass, vocals
Rob Preuss: Jupiter IV, SH-2000
Derrick Ross: drums, percussion
Mike Jones: Engineer
Sources:
http://en.wikipedia.org = {Spoons (Band)}
http://www.thespoons.ca/
http://www.myspace.com/spoons80
About the Band:
Spoons are a Canadian New Wave-new romantic synth pop music group who formed in 1979 and were popular in the early 1980s. In 1983, they won Group of the Year at the U-Know awards. Their most popular songs include "Romantic Traffic", "Nova Heart", "Old Emotions" and "Tell No Lies".
History
Spoons were formed in Burlington, Ontario in 1979. The band initially consisted of Gordon Deppe (lead vocals and guitar), Sandy Horne (vocals and bass), Brett Wickens (keyboards, synths) and Peter Shepherd (drums). All four attended Aldershot High School, and Deppe and Horne (the only constant members of the band) were high school sweethearts.
In late 1979, Shepherd left the band and was replaced by Derrick Ross on drums. Spoons then released an independent single, "After the Institution", in 1980. Shortly thereafter, Wickens left the band, to pursue a career as a graphic artist. He was replaced by keyboardist Rob Preuss, who was only sixteen when he joined Spoons.
The band's first album, Stick Figure Neighbourhood, was released in 1981, and is notable for being one of the earliest New Wave albums engineered by Daniel Lanois.
The following year, Spoons released their breakthrough album Arias & Symphonies. This album spawned three Top 40 hits in Canada: "Nova Heart", "Arias & Symphonies", and "Smiling in Winter". All were dance-oriented New Wave hits.
Around this time, Spoons' higher profile allowed them to become the opening act for bands such as Culture Club, Simple Minds, and The Police.
Spoons' 1983 album, Talkback was produced by Nile Rodgers and included the hit "Old Emotions". Following that, the band expanded their sound somewhat, releasing a two-sided hit in 1984 with "Tell No Lies" b/w "Romantic Traffic". The upbeat "Tell No Lies" featured a more mainstream pop sound than was customary for Spoons, while "Romantic Traffic" was a downtempo song with adult contemporary leanings that would become the group's most enduring hit.
Both "Tell No Lies" and "Romantic Traffic" later found their way onto the soundtrack for the film Listen to the City, in which Horne was featured in a supporting role. However, Listen to the City was not an official Spoons album, as it consisted largely of instrumental music and was credited solely to Gordon Deppe.
In 1985 both Preuss and Ross left Spoons, and were replaced by Scott MacDonald (keyboards) and Steve Kendry (drums), respectively. The band also switched from New Wave imprint Ready Records, which had folded after the release of Listen to the City, to the more rock-oriented Anthem Records label. Accordingly, Spoons' 1986 single "Bridges Over Borders" marked a departure from their characteristic sound and showcased a harder rock orientation, as did later single "Rodeo".
The new Spoons line-up released the album Bridges Over Borders in 1986, but it did not chart in the Canadian Top 100, nor did any of the three singles pulled from the LP. The follow-up LP Vertigo Tango reunited the band with Arias & Symphonies producer John Punter, and was a partial return to the band's New Wave roots. The album featured the band's final hit single, "Waterline" (1989), a languid, introspective ballad.
Spoons broke up at the end of the 1980s, but Deppe and Horne, along with various other players, got back together for several Spoons reunion gigs in the 1990s and into the next decade. In 2007, Spoons released Unexpected Guest at a Cancelled Party, a collection of previously unreleased material recorded between 1982 and 1985 by the Deppe, Horne, Preuss, Ross line-up.
Post-Spoons careers * At present, Gordon Deppe is an 80s music programmer for Galaxie, and he has a new pop rock trio called Five Star Fall. * Sandy Horne now performs and tours with Coast Tsimshian Singer/Songwriter, Storyteller, Recording Artist, Shannon Thunderbird, a First Nations Artist originally from Northern British Columbia. * Rob Preuss went on to play with Honeymoon Suite on their Racing After Midnight album. He is currently the Associate Musical Director for Mamma Mia! at the Wintergarden Theater in New York City. * Brett Wickens stayed involved in music, collaborating with Andy McCluskey of OMD, amongst others, but is probably most well-known for his design work with Peter Saville Associates. * Derek Ross was working with a subsidiary record label owned by EMI Music Canada
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We're Off You Know by Klaatu from their second Album Hope
Words By: John Woloschuk
Lead Vocal: John Woloschuk
Instrumentation:
John: Electric pianos, b...
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We're Off You Know by Klaatu from their second Album Hope
Words By: John Woloschuk
Lead Vocal: John Woloschuk
Instrumentation:
John: Electric pianos, bass guitar, synthesizer
Dee: Electric guitars, electric sitar, harmonica
Terry: Drums, percussion
Recorded At: Toronto Sound Studios and Olympic Sound Studios
Recording Period: September 1976 to April 1977 (mixed in May 1977) Initial
Release Date:
September 1977 ("Hope" album)
Remarks:
In keeping with the nautical theme of this track, producer Terry Brown borrowed an authentic ship's bell from a local yacht club and it was overdubbed onto the 24-track master tape at Toronto Sound Studios in early 1977.
The trumpets and flugel horn on this track were performed by Guido Basso, a prominent jazz musician and prolific session player from Toronto.
The orchestral strings which can be heard in the opening of this track were recorded at Olympic Sound Studios in London, England in January 1977. All other string parts were recorded at Toronto Sound Studios in February 1977 and were performed by a viola duet.
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