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Tuesday September 7, 2010

Event Details

  • unionevents.com presents

  • Basia Bulat

  • With: Katie Stelmanis
  • Date: Wednesday March 3, 2010
  • Door Time: 8:00 PM
  • Show Time: 9:00 PM
  • Venue: The Starlite Room
  • City: Edmonton, AB
  • Tickets (presale): $15.00
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BASIA BULAT TO RELEASE HEART OF MY OWN
Secret City Records is thrilled to announce the sophomore album from Basia Bulat, entitled Heart Of My Own, to be released on January 26, 2010. And for those fans that cant wait until the new year, Basias first single, Gold Rush, is currently available digitally on iTunes.

Basias 2007 debut, Oh, My Darling, was a success both at home and on the international scene. It garnered a Polaris Prize nomination, and praise from outlets like NPR, who labeled In the Night as one of 2008s great singles, citing Bulats graceful effervescence and innate understanding of momentum. Breathless, thirsty, and dislodged from dreary nostalgia, Oh My Darling was the spark that set Basia Bulat apart from the raft of typical singer-songwriters.

Like its predecessor, Heart of My Own was produced by Howard Bilerman at Hotel2Tango in Montreal. However, its a decidedly more eclectic record in terms of the songwriting and instrumentation. I think it is at times extremely sparse and, well, spacious, with big choirs singing, Bulat says, and then it gets really dense with really spirited and rolling drums.

Nearly all the songs on Heart of My Own were written while on the road: traveling between cities, crossing the Canadian prairies, searching for a place to stop in the Nevada desert, trailing through the Smoky Mountains, standing in the bright dusk of a summer night in the Yukon. Perhaps most surprising was the strong influence her short time in the Yukon had on this album. Basia spent five days and nights in Dawson City, where for the first time she experienced true silence. “I felt my mind was overwhelmed with ideas. It had been a long-time dream of mine to make it to the Yukon, so to finally accomplish that, and for it to be possible because of my music, was also a very overwhelming thing.”

Basia Bulat will be touring our great nation once again in the new year, making a stop at Edmontons Starlite Room on Wednesday, March 3, 2010. This is a show you do not want to miss!