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Leah Magnan\u2019s debut EP as Earth Angel, Blue Hour, is being launched tonight.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt produces a really cool, deep synth bass sound, and so we used it on House on Fire, which is probably the most produced song on the album: that was the only one we didn\u2019t do live-off-the-floor,\u201d says Magnan, a music therapist who works with Artists in Healthcare.<\/p>\n
That EP\u2019s final song got its title from an astrological app called Co-Star \u2014 launched in 2017 as the \u201cfirst-ever AI-powered\u201d astrology app, per Vanity Fair \u2014 that delivers daily affirmations and guidances based on the user\u2019s birth chart.<\/p>\n
\u201cEvery day they give you a little line, and the line it gave me once was, \u201cYour heart is a house on fire,\u201d and I was like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m going to write a song with that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
At the studio, Magnan says, producer Will Grierson built the track from a beat machine, which was then layered with vocal harmonies from Taylor Jackson, with guitar by Kieran Bjornson and percussion by Brodie Hovanessian, who\u2019s collaborated with local groups like Jamboree and Compost.<\/p>\n
The track, like the whole 19-minute EP, burns slow and bright like a handrolled cigarette lit during a solar eclipse.<\/p>\n
Written in the three years since Magnan moved to Winnipeg from Vancouver, Blue Hour was inspired at its start by the glow of an Osborne Village apartment filled with sunlight, incense and boisterous laughter.<\/p>\n
Magnan\u2019s partner had just left on tour, \u201cand it got to that time of day after the sun set, but it isn\u2019t dark yet, just indigo blue,\u201d she says. \u201cThat\u2019s when I found it hardest to be by myself. But then, the more I thought about it, I knew there was an ending to it. It\u2019s not like I was stuck in it, exactly.\u201d<\/p>\n
The album\u2019s title track \u2014 \u201clike all my songs do\u201d \u2014 started as a voice memo on Magnan\u2019s phone.<\/p>\n
\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t \n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t \u201cIt was really soft, just acoustic, and then Brodie and I first started jamming together. We kind of fleshed it out as something with an increased tempo, a strong drum beat, a nice bass line. <\/p>\n \u201cWe brought in Dylan MacDonald (Field Guide) to play lead guitar,\u201d says the artist, whose song of the summer is Vancouver Island artist Ora Cogan\u2019s Honey.<\/p>\n Earth Angel\u2019s EP release show is tonight at the Times Change(d) High and Lonesome Club (234 Main St.) at 8 p.m., with support from Merin and with a cyanotype workshop by artist Seraphine Crowe. <\/p>\n Tickets are available for the Blue Hour release show for $23 on 3common.com. More show information is available on Magnan\u2019s Instagram, @earthangel.4ever.<\/p>\n winnipegfreepress.com<\/p>\n \n \t\t\t\t\t\tIf you value coverage of Manitoba\u2019s arts scene, help us do more. \t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t Ben Waldman Ben Waldman is a National Newspaper Award-nominated reporter on the Arts & Life desk at the Free Press. Born and raised in Winnipeg, Ben completed three internships with the Free Press while earning his degree at Ryerson University\u2019s (now Toronto Metropolitan University\u2019s) School of Journalism before joining the newsroom full-time in 2019. Read more about Ben<\/a>.<\/p>\n Every piece of reporting Ben produces is reviewed by an editing team before it is posted online or published in print \u2014 part of the Free Press\u2018s tradition, since 1872, of producing reliable independent journalism. Read more about Free Press\u2019s history and mandate<\/a>, and learn how our newsroom operates<\/a>.<\/p>\n
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