Manitoulin Tapes, by Playdate

Manitoulin Tapes

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1.	Tape VII Am 06:04	buy track
2.	Tape X PM 01:25	buy track
3.	Tape II AM 03:59	buy track
4.	Tape III PM 02:27	buy track
5.	Tape IX PM 02:42	buy track
6.	Tape VIII AM 01:31	buy track
7.	Tape VI Night 02:50	buy track
8.	Tape V Night 03:46	buy track
9.	Tape XII Night 04:17	buy track
10.	Tape IV PM 02:36	buy track
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12.	Tape VII AM (reprise) 03:30	buy track

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Matthew Bailey and Carl Schilde play fully improvised music oscillating somewhere between bingo hall Casio suites and kosmische dreamscapes. The duo perform under the name Playdate, and are sometimes accompanied by 90s instructional videos, larger than life amateur dancers, and outdated light shows.

Last summer, they travelled to a remote cabin on Manitoulin Island and recorded their debut album in two days, improvised live onto stereo cassette tape. They ceremoniously recorded two 30 minute tape sides each morning, afternoon and night, surrounded by insect drones, forest breezes and lapping waves. Manitoulin Tapes is the distillation of that bucolic experience. Like the mutable remote island environment, the recordings are sometimes warm and pastoral, like an Algonquin Cluster, at other times somber and brooding, like Sympathy Nervous, Pan Sonic or Cabaret Voltaire inspired by the Group of Seven rather than Dada.

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released June 7, 2019

Written and performed by: Matthew Bailey and Carl Schilde
Mastered by: Brandon Hocura
Designed by: Alan Briand

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Playdate Toronto, Ontario

Matthew Bailey, Carl Schilde & Scott Harper play fully improvised music with an ever changing palette of instruments. Sometimes they are accompanied by 90s instructional videos, sometimes larger than life amateur dancers and sometimes outdated light shows. ... more

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