Oceans, by Wintermitts

Oceans

by Wintermitts

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1.	Le Paradis 04:08	buy track
2.	Sharks 03:30	buy track
3.	Springtime 03:50	buy track
4.	Birds 04:08	buy track
5.	I Saw A Ghost 05:41	buy track
6.	Oceans Apart 04:34	buy track
7.	People Of The Eternal Sun 03:57	buy track
8.	Careful 03:51	buy track
9.	Basquiat 06:54	buy track
10.	A La Fraîche 02:27	buy track

about

Oceans is a lesson in dazzling orchestral pop. Part chanson d’amour française, part delirious waltz and part naturalist manifesto, it’s as rollicking as a mid-sea canoe ride. It’s as warm as Grandma's home-knit sweater. It's an expression of wonderment in the face of love, of nature, of art itself. It's about pushing past the dark moments to find that, yeah, life's actually worth grooving on. Oceans is a world all its own – a world that only six friends, living in the rain-soaked left hand corner of Canada with a pile of string and brass instruments, could have made - and they'd like to welcome you into it.

credits

released February 28, 2012

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Produced by Kees Dekker (Plants and Animals, Rah Rah) Engineered by Shawn Penner (Mother Mother, Hannah Georgas)

Recorded at Hipposonic Studios (Formerly Mushroom Studios), Vancouver, BC - hippsosonic.ca, District 4 Studios, Vancouver, BC - myspace.com/districtfourrecordings, and in our basement. Mastered at Grey Market Mastering, Montreal, Quebec - greymarketmastering.com

Additional Instrumentation:

Adam Greenholtz - Violin and String Compositions
Alice Hamilton - Alto Saxophone
Catherine Hiltz - Cello
Julian Haddon - Baritone and Tenor Saxophone
Stephanie Chatman - Violin

All songs written and performed by Wintermitts - except "A La Fraiche", a french folk song

Thanks to:

Kees Dekker (Kees Dekker Recording), Shawn Penner (District 4), Shawn Cole, Rob Darch (Hipposonic), Adam Greenholtz, Grant Baldwin, Joshua Wells, Catherine Hiltz, Stephanie Chatman, Christine Turner, Sarah Cobb, Brock McFarlane, Jack LaTour (band mascot), Jobojobonophone Player, Jody Glenham, Mel Nieva, David Thomas Manzl, Alice Hamilton, Julian Haddon, Sarah Levine, the French Cultural Centre/Centre Culturel Francophone, Girl's Rock Camp Vancouver, the focus group, all our friends, family and all the people who have supported us - we love you.

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Wintermitts Vancouver, British Columbia

Please meet Wintermitts, a genre-bending six-piece from Canada’s rain-soaked left hand corner, Vancouver. They sing in French and English. They rock trumpets and accordions. They waltz when they need to and they’re as absorbing (and comforting!) as you’d hope a winter mitten would be. ... more

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