Wonderland, by Playdate

Wonderland

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Copies 1-100 are pressed on clear vinyl and stored in a 3mil HDPE inner sleeves. The jackets are 405gsm craft board casewrapped with G.F. Smith Colorplan Ebony 135gsm. The inserts are printed on the same stock in silver metallic ink. Each piece is packaged in a 1.5mil resealable plastic sleeve.

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1.	Wonderland 06:24	buy track
2.	You Are Here 02:59	buy track
3.	Duck Pond 01:49	buy track
4.	Triple Dare 03:29	buy track
5.	Brain Freeze 02:39	buy track
6.	Insert Quarter(s) 02:53	buy track
7.	Carpoolin’ 02:21	buy track
8.	Season Pass 04:19	buy track

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Matthew Bailey, Carl Schilde, and Scott Harper play improvised music oscillating somewhere between bingo hall Casio suites and kosmische dreamscapes. Performing under the name Playdate, the trio is sometimes accompanied by ‘90s instructional videos, larger than life amateur dancers, and outdated light shows.

Their sophomore album “Wonderland” is sourced from a monthly residency in a sports bar basement and a one-off show at a now-defunct cassette duplication facility. Each night they were joined by one of Toronto’s more adventurous musicians: no warm-ups, no practice sessions, no pre-game huddles. Every track is an artifact of performers discovering each other in real time, with clarinets, vibraphones, and pedal steel grounding and offsetting Playdate’s synthesized romps. The guests - Christine Bougie, Michael Davidson, Michael Eckert, Karen Ng, and Daniel Pencer - are all pillars of Toronto’s improv/jazz community.

Playdate’s first release “Manitoulin Tapes” (Séance Centre) was described as a “blissed out lo-fi ambient gem” by The Wire magazine. Matthew Bailey is a prolific musician and producer whose “curious mind conjures enthralling animated soundscapes for wired daydreamers” (Music Works). Over the last decade, Carl Schilde’s solo music slowly evolved from a single-note vinyl record (“The whole concept makes me upset” - Vice) to full blown late-‘70s AOR. Scott Harper, aka Knobs, recently ventured beyond niche YouTube stardom into the real world with his debut album “Stipple”.

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released June 16, 2023

Playdate are Matthew Bailey, Carl Schilde & Scott Harper: synthesizers. With Karen Ng & Daniel Pencer: clarinets, Michael Eckert: pedal steel, Christine Bougie: lap steel, Michael Davidson: vibraphone. Written by Matthew Bailey (1-8), Carl Schilde (1-8), Scott Harper (1, 3-7), Karen Ng (1, 5), Daniel Pencer (1, 5), Michael Eckert (2, 8), Christine Bougie (3, 6) & Michael Davidson (4, 7) [SOCAN]. Recorded live in 2019 during a monthly residency in a sports bar basement and a one-off show at a now-defunct cassette duplication facility. Photograph by Matthew Bailey. Mixed by Matthew Bailey (1-6, 8) and Scott Harper (7). Mastered by Harris Newman.

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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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