MICHAEL FEUERSTACK

Dear everyone,

I am a little late getting this one up, but here you go. Laurel ‘Little Scream‘ Sprengelmeyer tears up your heart and patches it back up with her take on this number. Enjoy. This is the last one to be posted before the record comes out for real on Saturday!

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Record Store Day is imminent. I’ll be celebrating by spending a lot of money on records. I’ll also do a little performance at 6pm at my neighbourhood store Phonopolis. Come out if you are in the Montreal area.

Incidentally, you can hear me sing a couple songs from ‘Singer Songer’ (as well as a very old song from the very first Snailhouse record). Check out the session!

xoMF

For more info on the record, or if you live in the sticks and you need to order it or something, please visit Forward Music and/or Headless Owl.

Hi all,

Here is the latest “Singer Songer” track to be made public. It features my friend and yours, the basin voiced Mathias Kom (AKA The Burning Hell). I wrote this song knowing exactly how it would sound on him, but it didn’t make it any less magic when I finally heard the man himself sing it. I hope you enjoy it too…

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If you want to know more about the project, just read down the previous posts. It comes out really soon on LP and you’ll be able to either buy or order it.

xo MF

Hi

This time we’ve got “Stories”, featuring The Luyas‘ Jessie Stein. There are also some sweet background vocals in there courtesy of Wren Kitz and yours truly. Enjoy!

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Singer Songer is a collaborative record of songs I wrote and recorded for other people to sing. It comes out on limited edition blue vinyl on Record Store Day 2014 through Headless Owl and Forward Music. It also features a few other great musicians: Peter X, Jeremy Gara, Pietro Amato, Mathieu Charbonneau.

Check back soon,
xo MF

April 19th is coming – Singer Songer will finally be available…
For now, we’re just teasing them out one at a time.
Here’s “Did I?”, which features Bry Webb on vocals. I alwasy think of this stylistically as a tiny bit of a nod to JJ Cale who we lost last year. Bry delivered it exactly as I’d hoped he would. Enjoy!

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For those of you just tuning in, Singer Songer is an album I made – a collection of songs that I wrote and produced for other people to sing. The album is chock-full of guests who rule.
It comes out on limited edition blue vinyl on Record Store Day 2014 through Headless Owl and Forward Music.

xo MF

Hi

Another song from Singer Songer has been made available to listen to in advance of the record’s release in April through Forward Music and Headless Owl.

Singer Songer is an album I made of songs for other singers to sing. The newest posting features Devon Sproule.

Enjoy!
xo MF

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PS – You can also hear Devon as the guest on episode 2 of my Mind Parade podcast.

Exciting things are afoot. Singer Songer was announced this week. Due out on Record Store Day – (April 19), it’s an album on which I wrote a bunch of songs for some of my friends to sing. These songs are all now compiled on one limited edition record, thanks to my friends at Headless Owl and Forward Music. LPs will be available on Record Store Day, and CDs and digital sales will begin the following week. I am stoked for you all to hear this. I recorded and mixed it myself, with some singers recording here at my home or sending their own home recorded vocal takes through the air. For the most part, I wrote these songs with these singers in mind, and I feel immensely lucky that everyone I asked was game to jump in and give it a shot. I couldn’t be more proud.

Here’s the first track we’ve decided to share, featuring John K Samson.

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In other news – I began rehearsals of new material for a new MF recording! We begin tracking on March 1, so it won’t be too long before there is even more new MF music. It’s great to be busy. For now, I won’t confuse the issue. Enjoy Singer Songer.

xo
MF

Hi everyone,

Thanks for checking in. Just a little update so you don’t get antsy.

I have been hard at work on turning sketches into songs. This is because I am going into the studio at the very beginning of March to lay down the true foundation for what will be the next MF record. I’ve got some amazing musicians lined up and ready to rock. I’ve got a lot of raw material, and I have an idea of how I want it all to sound. That’s it, right? I just need to decide what’s ok raw, and what still needs to go back on the fire for a while. My plan is to turn this thing around quickly. For the moment though, that’s all the album news that’s fit to share.

However, Singer Songer is in production and will be coming your way in the Spring, along with some shows here and there.

Meanwhile, the Luyas are working on new stuff too, and I get to be involved in that. Also, the Bent By Elephants record I’ve been producing with them is coming together really nicely, with mixing sessions going down at The Treatment Room Studios with my pal Gilles Castilloux. Hopefully all will be sharable soon.

In the meantime, I’m enjoying being home – cooking meals and sleeping tight.

xoMF

Hello again

Since returning from tour, I’ve been enjoying some downtime. I’ll fire up the engines again after the holiday break with all the plans I’ve been making.

TOUR REPORT:

It’s been a very busy autumn of shows. I want to send a huge thanks you to all the people who helped out with the last tours.

The Paper Beat Scissors dates were a treat. It was lovely to travel with such a sweet crew of people, and it’s been a pleasure to collaborate on an ongoing basis with such kindred spirits.

The solo shows ran the gamut – there were some high highs and some low lows. Touring is always a gamble, and I guess I’ve inadvertently become kind of seasoned at the game, if not good at it. I’ve been thinking a lot about music in its environment – it doesn’t happen in a vacuum. I don’t wish to change or control the spaces where I perform, but I do want to put even more attention into placing the music where it belongs. This has been a longtime goal, but I think I may have had some serious breakthroughs recently. Enough said.

SINGER SONGER UPDATE

Singer Songer – a record that I’ve made for a host of guest vocalists – has been mastered and we await the test pressings now as while we finalize the artwork and other such details. We are looking to release it pretty soon, by the standards of such things. It’s going to be a beauty and I can’t wait until you all have the chance to hear it. To read more and find out who the guests are, look at this older post.

WHAT’S NEXT?

Well, surprise surprise: I have begun early work on a new recording. Right now, the main job is to sort through sketches of songs and match them up with the sonic ideas that I have in mind-sack. I’m hoping to get started in earnest in February and work through March… We’ll see how it pans out with all the collaborators and studios etc.

Oh yeah, I’ll be on Luyas tour for a couple weeks in January.

I send you all love and good vibes for the new year. I’ll see you then!
xo
MF

PS – here’s a link to a holiday-themed song that I made a few years ago for The Line of Best Fit’s annual holiday compilation
(They made a great one this year too, by the way).