BarKanada airing SAT March 14th, 11am EST on www.Tonkuhle.de

Wichtig: Unbedingt schon mal Romi Mayes vormerken, live in der Bluesgarage in Hannover LGH am 26. April 2009 - she down and dirty, u name it. She good!

Ein froehliches Fruehlingshallo allen Besucherinnen und Besuchern der BarKanada im Maerz - waehrend es hier gerade wieder geschneit hat, ticken die Uhren schon nach Sommerzeit - auch schoen, wenn man das Ende der kalten Jahreszeit wie die meisten hier nicht abwarten kann :{)

Happy Birthday 2 Scott - a stinking Aquarius, a creative whirlwind that can never seem 2 be on the same field 4 more than 2 seconds in a row and charms with the intuition of a bosom ... so in the March edition we're trying 2 talk 2 each other, playing unpublished material of previous band Freesouls, offering some more of the Blues Summit live delicacies as well as music from Ross Neilson, Scott McCord, Sloan, Sam Roberts, sprechen ueber die Juno Awards und die Indie-Music Week in Toronto und vieles Unsinniges und Unnoetiges mehr.

.... das Foto zeigt Scott vor zweieinhalb Jahren, seine 40 Jahre alte Gibson reparierend.

Scott Arena repairing his 40 year old Gibson

playlist

Shake It Upside Down - Steve Marriner GOIN' UP

Believe In Me - Sloan PARALLEL PLAY

Detroit '67 - Sam Roberts LOVE AT THE END OF THE WORLD (2008)

Down On The River Road - (Scott Arena) Freesouls CHANCES WE TAKE

Stainless Steel - (Scott Arena) Freesouls CHANCES WE TAKE

Who Put The Blame On Who - Peacework CHOICES

Have It All - Peacework live @ Mesquites, Montreal

I ain't buyin' - Steve Rowe FIVE

Emily - Scott McCord BLUES FOR SUNSHINE

Call Me Gone - Ross Neilson EARLY GRAVE

Cried Like Baby - Shakura S'Aida BLUEPRINT

Mercy On Me - Romy Mayes ACHIN IN YER BONES

Shake It Upside Down - Steve Marriner GOIN' UP

BarKanada 2.edition airs SAT, Jan 3rd 2009, 11am EST, @ tonkuhle.de

Hello again, and a very happy (and, hmmmmh, what would be most spectacular - more reasonable?) new year -

I'd like to update u a little bit:

1.
The second edition of BarKanada is scheduled to air
SAT, 3rd of January 2009, 11am-12pm EST - tune in live on the internet @

tonkuhle. de (click on "Livestream" in the right menu column)

2. I found out, that Tonkuhle artists should be receiving royalties because of German GEMA paying out entitlement depending on how much played on Tonkuhle via fm - all they need is the playlist, and that I provide... for now u can look up those details here:
rideauguide. blogspot. com

Wer hat, der kann:

Part D und E sind der schoenste Teil der Sendung. Das Lied veraenderte voellig seinen Charakter waehrend sich diese Violine hineinschleicht, absolut zeitgleich mit Lovelace, seinen Dank sagend fuer die zahlreichen Briefe ins Gefaengnis und wie die Unterstuetzung seinen Geist erheiterte.

Ich haette das nicht geplant: das Klangstueck von Tanya Tagak Gillis (vermutlich schlimme Ausprache ihres Namens) verlieh meiner Lovelace Quote eine Dynamik, die mich an einigen Stellen staunen liess. Schwierig, sich als Autor zu sehen. Fuehlt sich eher an als waere ich in der Ausfuehrung taetig, ziemlich krank ... :)

Zur Hoelle mit den Manuskripten - es lebe die Intuition!

Alright, I know this is Canada:

D and E are the most beautiful parts of this' month's edition. The song changed completely as soon as this violin (or viola?) was sneaking in, on the same split second as Lovelace is saying his thanx for all the letters to prison and how they uplift his spirit.

I couldn't have planned it: Tanya Tagak (probably overwhelmed with the pronunciation of that name) Gillis' sound piece gave my quote some dynamics that stunned me at times. Impossible to think I authored that. Feels more like I'm channeling something, pretty sick ...

2 hell with the manuscripts - long live intuition!

Thanx 4 reading and try listening 2 it - cinema for your mind is a fascinating thing ...

In terms of time management for this year I'd have only one comment:
All we're still debating is, how 2 soften up the changes. If we act now, maybe they're gonna be easier 2 survive.

New nukes will be a disaster for an economically fragile period not to speak of the relatively irreversible and permanent damage and its "bonus" features which come with the highly radioactive and hot waste, vising its capabilities as potential material for A-bombs, and, actually at the beginning of that most decadent way of getting wasted, the mining of Uranium.

Show the government where ever u can: Profit has its reasonable and crucial limits.

Oh what a wonderful place this could be, if we made it one.

Ok, back 2 work!
Thanx 4 letting me waste ur time

Maren Molthan
barKanada@gmail.com
tonkuhle. de
rideauguide. blogspot. com

playlist
Steve Marriner Shake It Upside Down (total about 2 min) Going Up 2007
Meredith Luce Great Lake Swimmers Neck Of The Woods 2008
Black Cats (about 2 min) October 2007
Snow Country (live) Neck Of The Woods 2008
Chickadee (live) Neck Of The Woods 2008
Neck Of The Woods (live) Neck Of The Woods 2008
Terry Tufts Awake Ye Drowsie Sleeper The Better Fight 2005
Tanya Tagaq Gillis Fire Ikuma with Mike Patton AUK/BLOOD 2008
Terry Tufts Embracing The Addiction The Better Fight 2005
Jack De Keyzer That's The Only Time Blues Thing 2007
PEACEWORK Takes My Blues Away Choices 2007
Blue Rodeo Try Greatest Hits 2001
Molly Johnson Rain Lucky 2008
Steve Marriner Shake It Upside Down Going Up 2007

Internet:
http://www.thebranchrestaurant.ca/
http://baldachin.com

PEACEWORK release - a lot of fun!

PEACEWORK and Bova Sound - good vibrations!

fltr:
Phillip Shaw Bova
Scott Arena
Philip Victor Bova
Maren Molthan


PEACEWORK - all together now!

fltr:
Tanya Barkhouse
Peter Woods
Phillip Shaw Bova
Scott Arena
Philip Victor Bova
Maren Molthan
Eric Hasnick (hiding)
Gale Edmunds


SHINE!

vltr:
Tanya Barkhouse
Gale Edmunds


all photos by Gord Glaze (www.commeleon.com) - he went home to get the camera and shot tons of fantastic photos, thanx so much, Gord!!!

PEACEWORK - choices: program details

this is what it looks like when a chocolate bar packaging falls in love with an e-string... nothing like a g-string but nonetheless pretty tempting, isn't it?! :)

By the way, this exact diy cd booklet took me about ten minutes to make (it all starts with an empty Kleenex Box, but I hope to have a movie on myspace soon ?)) - wonder what the exact definition of that word is).

I donated it to CASE, and I know for a fact that one of our fans bid $ 50 on it during their fundraiser last week on Saturday 10th - he confirmed now that the organizers notified him, that he was the winning guy.

Anyway, everybody who followed our invitation, thank you very much for your involvement and donations - what a magic night we had - no greater feeling than people coming together and celebrating within the same spirit - I know you won't let us down tomorrow! PEACE!


PEACEWORK cd release "choices"

SAT NOV 17th
baldachin inn ballroom (www.baldachin.com)
111 st lawrence @ main
merrickville
613 269 4223



approximate program:

8 pm doors open

"12strings2bodies" - the acoustic set

"live saver" - co2-neutral diy cd packaging and why we still want the whole f...ing bakery

"choices" - the full band set



complete line-up:
lead and back vocals, rhythm and lead guitar: Maren Molthan & Scott Arena
bass, backvocals: Phillip Victor Bova (bova sound)
drums: Philip Shaw Bova (Hilotrons)
keyboard: Erik Hasnick (Jimi Knox And The Group)
saxophone: Peter Woods (jazz duo with Brian Browne)
back vocals: Gayle Edmunds and Tanya Barkhouse (Uncommon Ground)

PEACEWORK: Independent soul formation releases debut CD in Merrickville

Are you ready? Love and Peace Maren & Scott


myspace.com/peacework maren@peaceworkband.ca scott@peaceworkband.ca


Press release:

PEACEWORK: Independent soul formation releases debut CD in Merrickville

SAT 17th November 2007
doors open 8 pm

baldachin inn ballroom (www.baldachin.com)
111 st lawrence @ main
merrickville
613 269 4223

tickets @ harry mclean's pub (same address) or from the band $ 20 includes admission and cd at door

There are ten songs on the album "choices" - containing brand new material, Scott points out: "Just To Be With You" is a song that I wrote for Maren, when we were visiting her family in Germany earlier this year. It was awesome to present it only three days later on a huge Berlin outdoor stage where one of her friends put us up to play for the Green Party on a worker's day celebration (bits and pieces of that experience soon on myspace). There were easily 10 000 people

PEACEWORK Marianenplatz, Berlin, Germany

gathering - it is then when you realize that people can make a difference every day, with your choices where to shop, how to travel or commute, how to work, what to eat - everything is connected. And that is how we got our band motto, every step counts!"

Maren Molthan and Scott Arena founded the band PEACEWORK three years ago. They both play guitar and sing. The CD contains entirely original material, groovy songs with a message. "Have It All", first on the cd, is a typical example, explains Maren: "I was listening to CBC when George W got reelected, and just felt devastated, he would have another four years to ruin the country some more... so many people left the government that day, and I remember all those applications for Canadian residency or even citizenship coming in from down there - three hours and a heated discussion later, the song was basically written - we have too much at stake to let foolish marionettes in politics carry out the monstrous ways of unsustainable neo-economics. To write that song was our way to speak out against the arrogance!"



In addition to the ten audio files that can be played on cd players, the artists threw in two movies, all songs in mp3 format and the lyrics of the songs in pdf - included on the data part of the cd - a part that windows and mac computers will be able to read. "It was kind of important for both of us, to have something physical like a cd, but we sure are fascinated with the digital market - maybe we'll do the next album on a USB-drive, like the Barenaked Ladies. We like the idea of reusing things and giving the consumer a "choice" ... that word is just everywhere", smile the musicians.

Very proud are the two song writers to have the Phils from Bova Sound, Ottawa, play drums and bass. They are a father and son team and also produced the PEACEWORK cd (and Scott's first with his former band Free Souls). Phillip Victor Bova (bass) and Philip Shaw Bova (drums) are also known for their superb analog guitar and mic preamps, regularly sold from their company Sage to the band members of Tom Petty and other successful Rock'n Rollers.

Furthermore will the band receive reinforcement in form of hot and holy back vocals by two local female singers known from gigs in the area with the formation Uncommon Ground.


A message from the band:
Yo!

we've got two songs up from our brand new cd (check CD Baby and itunes etc. after the release) -

Listen for free and come out to the release in Merrickville - nice break from the big city, as there are tons of lovely b&b's right in town, and with the various arts and artisan stores you might get some x-mas shopping done at the same time.

Think twice: Your dollar is going to make a big difference in a Canadian community instead of going to a big corporation!

PEACE OUT, everybody!

Our soul energy

Now it all seems to come together, even here, out in the boonies, like my friend Marge jokes about the quietude, peace and the feeling of being totally cut-off in this area - even if standard offers won't be more than barely half a loonie per kilowatt hour for electricity produced by solar panels and communities still waste their money in paying off the dept of monopolistic and outdated energy suppliers - at least the media are now reporting on successful renovation and restructuring of a former almost monopolistic energy market - you guessed it, I am - once more - going to refer to my country of origin (I swear, when I left that place, I would have lol just thinking on how many times I would point it out as a role model in terms of change - now that thought will amuse many of my old-world friends), Germany. The CBC has just started to poke around, and I recommend their articles as a very good outlook from a Canadian point of view.

If you wanted to feel the heat as it comes up, you gotta move closer, though - this is my #1 Canadian change blog, Clean Break, refreshingly down to earth and non-ideological. Good ideas, ready for the market or not, as well as clear words addressing the political dimension of this game, every day. Click now and you will know what house you want to build, even if you never felt that you wanted one at all.

In case the Canadian public manages to be outraged enough (which is pretty unlikely but possible if you get the Irish going in the right direction), the uranium drilling nonsense north west of Perth and the completely over-projected 30 new nukes for Ontario may just be a catalyst for a quicker and more consequent move towards renewables, like wind, solar and so forth. Nuclear is not an option any more, as it never has and will never be affordable by its way of eradicating our natural supply once and for all and having the taxpayer foot the bill for incompetence or worse, in case of so many political representatives, ignorance, who really could have avoided the mess and still can, for instance by updating the mining legislation and giving home owners control over their land - not just its surface (how schizophrenic can the law get, or was somebody on the board of, let me guess, a mining company?)

The purpose of nuclear energy never seems to have been an abundant supply for everybody, just for the powerful few, who, in Germany, invested all that tax free reserve money dedicated to the safe deposit of nuclear waste (which is now leaking into a salt stock end dump in Gorleben, established at the time by incredibly ignorant politicians against better knowledge expressed in numerous geological discussions and street fighting resistance of the entire republic) - we're talking billions here - in the creation of cell phone companies - It seems in that way, much rather to resemble fascism: The accumulation of money and power in order to control everybody else. Good thing, that people are not that complacent any more.

Call it personal vanity, but I thought I'd share something else with you guys. This is from the home page of my band. I wrote that passage about 18 month ago, and with this nuclear discussion going on, it seems so right to have a close look at how renewables are about to avalanche into transforming society in a dimension, that may just well up tears in any freedom fighter's eyes. Only now, my fellow Ontarians, is the time to SPEAK UP. You are so close to catching up to the real deal, don't let anybody burden you with this supply panic. You have watched the sun beat down on even the coldest, driest January day - THAT is the only reliable source of energy on earth.

How about attending this fall's vote in Ontario (agencies open with the 27th of August, more info is here and here) and actually voting for a more proportional voting system (is it dawning on you now, that there is the referendum vote in a addition to the provincial polls)? The alternate voting system favors a second count of all votes together, so that small parties like the green party, who never have won any direct mandate, could still work in a parliamentary coalition - you will not be surprised to have me refer to Germany one more time here: Because that is exactly the way, how these ideas, which now account for the outlook of Germany being entirely powered by renewables by 2040, got introduced into the working committees of the German democracy.... and trust me, that used to be one resilient, slow grinding apparatus over there.

Got your Mojo running? Have fun reading some more then.

Modern technologies have incorporated the energy-efficiency demonstrated by mother nature. Renewable energy beats the fossils (good word, ain't it? ;) ) in many ways. Now is the time to educate the skilled trades to apply these life saving technologies. WHY? The least perceived is probably the fact, that THEY ARE ALL MORE EFFICIENT than the oldsters. The most political is, however, that THEY DECENTRALIZE THE CREATION OF ENERGY.

Now that is some powerful stuff. And the powerful realize that. It is quite immanent in human nature to see them fight their grounds. We just have to see it for what it is (doesn't the entire-oil-coal-nuclear-lobbyists-and-oh-so- willing-political-counter-parts-complex look like a dying dragon-dinosaur, which refuses to follow the flow of an ever changing evolution without condemning anybody and anything that came after it to die with it?). After all those years, still, we can't get no satisfaction from the bull crap that you call life, when after all, it's your life and that of the other corporations that is sucked right out of us.

It's been right from the sixties on to stand up for a better world. Now we know that THAT will be the only way to SAVE THIS PLANET for future generations. Looking at it, there's one thing to note about this second generation of hippies:

WE STILL WANT THE WHOLE F...ING BAKERY!"

Remember - I can't vote here. So many others can't either. You can. The right to vote is a privilege - exercise it!