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Canvas
Since setting up shop in Austin, Texas in 1999 after a few years of grass roots Southwest and West Coast touring ventures, the electrically organic, mystical and Eastern edged, tribally grooving Canvas has become a regional indie phenomenon with the release of its stunningly popular 2001 debut Invocation, on Desert Tide Records. The disc’s two singles, “In These Walls” and “Sirens”, were added into regular rotation at KLBJ-FM Austin and climbed to #1 Most Requested and Top 5 Phones within a week, and stayed at the top for two months. The band received significant airplay at ten influential stations throughout the state, and its consistent array of live shows—which blend Joseph King’s poetic vocals, edgy yet mystical guitars and exotic tribal rhythms with fire spinning visuals—and internet marketing helped the recording sell in excess of 3,000 units. Four Days Awake, Canvas’ long awaited new recording, is notable not only for eleven emotionally searing new songs, but its crisp, cutting edge production by veteran studio wizard Stuart Sullivan, one of those mile long resume cats whose credits include Sublime, The Butthole Surfers, Willie Nelson, The Meat Puppets and Jimmie Vaughn. Sullivan loved the first demo he heard of the new material, and worked with the band in two blocks of 4-5 songs apiece, a few months apart—the first sessions to establish a working relationship and refining the vision, the second to build on that trust and experiment so as to put art over strictly commercial considerations. “I first caught them at a KLBJ live broadcast gig, and saw that they really had their act together and knew what they were about,” says Sullivan, a longtime champion of indie artists and deserving up and comers. “They had great presence and good songs with strong parts and arrangements. Their music and vibe was clearly defined and made an immediate emotional impression on me. Joseph’s lyrics on the new album are all about an intense spiritual search within the parameters of a personal relationship. He addresses human frailties on an individual level while the music expands beautifully to incorporate a sense of global consciousness and universal themes.”King says the emotional thrust of Four Days Awake was his soul searching reflections over a personal relationship gone bad: “The key is that all the stories are true - less than beautiful whisky and meditation based spirituality. It’s about separation and the way our crazed lifestyle had the potential to mess up something beautiful. So there’s some self-loathing, but then that’s balanced by more whimsical pieces that are sketches of color and daydream. The Four Days refers to the wide awake feeling I had on this weekend after a big blowup, the stream of emotions, the avoidance and confrontation with feelings of guilt and failure in a relationship which gave way to eventual catharsis.”The opening instrumental track “Kamala’s Garden” seduces us slowly into the tribal-primal, percussive and mystical Canvas experience, a true reflection of the band’s live performance style. “Break” is along the lines of self-destruction while “Intertwined” is on the lighter side, a fantasy reconciling conversation between King and an ex lover. The dreamy, laid back “All About You” shows King’s gifts for sardonic satire before “Strange Hello” conveys the desire for a fantastical lover that will offer a natural redemption. After the raw rock energy of the title track (listed on the credits as “FDA”), “Jezebel” (a song written during King and Rada’s Bay Area days) is about an exotic dancer King dreamed up during his time hanging in North Beach. With its Hindu chant and lyrics about an obsession with a dark goddess, “Om/Inside of You” explores the band’s spiritual side and includes some spoken poetry, a la Jim Morrison. The trippy moodswinging continues with “There is No Light” (about the psychological condition of listlessness defined as “Anhedonia”), while “Lessons from Underneath the Katchina Woman’s Skirt” was written during a spiritually healing pilgrimage by King to Sedona, Arizona (and named after a tall spire on Cathedral Rock). The closing track, “Carousel,” is a searing social commentary on the pseudo-depth of the alt rock lifestyle, played and sung with biting humor.“Four Days Awake paints a juxtaposition that all of us face, between our self-destructive natures and that constant thirst for spiritual progress,” says King. “A lot of my thoughts and approach for this album have been shaped by this internal tugging, and the idea is that the band is constantly striving to create some sort of sacred space in between. The new songs are a continuation of the vision Ben and I had in the beginning, when we were sitting around the opium den in Pacifica and pondering over band names. Ben looked up at the ceiling and said, ‘this is our canvas.’ And I suppose it still is.”
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