Miracle Fortress

0:03Where are you right now? How was last night's show? It was great. It was really fun. Yeah, you're almost you're almost done the tour, right? Wow Sort of I mean we're almost on this leg I kind of drive we're gonna drive back and do a Toronto show and a Montreal and Quebec City show and then an American Right, how is it working with shad because they're they're fairly different types of music I would think for the crowd So far it's been yeah, it's been a success. It's been really A lot of fun to see him and and with the beat to it and yeah, it's not completely removed from

0:49Is it the same band as the five roses tour? Are you playing with the same again? Actually a duo right now that yeah doing a lot of looping. Oh, that's crazy. Yeah What instruments are you playing then? What are you is it all done on keys or do you play other stuff too? No, I do I play lots of guitar and loop their keyboard and some of them. That's a different way of doing it That's cool. That must be something cool for the crowd to watch. Yeah, I mean I just yeah, you know, it's enjoyable for me to you know I'd be fun for me to be juggling all the stuff kind of in a similar way to How I'm making the music in the studio?

1:36So yeah, it's a good way to be able to bring fun. What instrument came first for you? Well, I started playing this It's like, you know, I think I've learned something about it so What's the craziest instrument you've put on a record? craziest instrument. Yeah, I Don't know. I mean, you know, I don't play like I don't really play any exotic Traditionally exotic instruments I kind of use sampling and

2:22Recording is an instrumental out of the time on this record There's a lot of sounds from the building actually that I made the record in an industrial building and Oh, no way and use a lot of the Tacos yeah, the free tune on your website the one that people can download for free at miracle fortress calm has a lot of A lot of room sound on the vocals especially Yeah, I mean, yeah, I definitely mess around with You know, it almost feels like it's two records this new one. There's that there's the darker tunes like Tracers which kind of has like a new order feel and a really cool baseline actually that I dig and then then there's

3:13I guess the stuff that I would expect from you as well. How come yeah the diversity I mean, that's I kind of always been with me that I've Had a few sides to the things that I work on and I'm just it can want so different sounds and Sometimes I try you know sometimes I'm making an effort to really blend a few things together Another probably made efforts to have more fluid more between them and yeah

4:06You mentioned take not not taking things too far from its natural state is that why you decide to do everything yourself? You don't want any outside input. I mean it's hard to call it a decision really I mean I it is but I I more just as a person I the musician I kind of just Spend lots of time on my own kind of naturally like any any artist experimenting and kind of trying to discover new things that I can do kind of doesn't make We do something on the show called five questions five quick questions one word answers. Yeah, yeah road or studio

5:12Landon or McCartney McCartney most important thing in a song lyrics melody or rhythm. Oh I don't think I can do that one All right Some you've written your most proud of cool day that some people can download for free online and in one word miracle fortress I don't know I guess that's it. Oh good. I'll work I don't know Good I'm glad I could be the one to do it then before I let you go Do you think I could get like a quick storytellers clip on hold your secrets to your heart?

6:00That's how I kind of came out of just getting really into a really positive place and feeling of you know I feel like a really simple kind of groove that there's this one afternoon where I kind of made it and It was really sunny in the studio. I was working in there was a big just a really Kind of opportune moment to start piling major chords on top of each other I just I started writing lyrics and letting try to let that vibe into the lyrics as well and up with the you know a repeating figure and Ended up kind of repeating figure become a rat it's like

6:57And listening out that it wasn't quite a song