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Artist
Jon Epworth
12+ albums
alt-rockCanadiantorontoProgressive rockpost-rock
about
I have been performing/recording/writing/producing music throughout the Atlantic provinces for over a decade; most recently with Jon Epworth & the Improvements, out of Halifax, NS. I sing and play drums, guitar, bass, and a little piano. I have produced albums for several bands and have recorded and engineered four albums of my own material. Having undergone some major life changes over the past year, my recent material reflects my coming to terms with a life lived complacently and somewhat thoughtlessly. Although this might be a fairly common story, “alcoholic artist sobers up and gains clarity,” I'm trying to examine my place in the world, and how what I say, consume, wear, discard. etc... have affected, and still affect, my environs and their denizens. If I want to create art with integrity, then I must also live with integrity. I have been slogging it out in the maritimes with various outfits for over a decade, and took a year or two off from playing live shows in order to compose a commission from the Canada Council for the Arts. I will most likely have said piece - at the very least - recorded by the end of the spring/summer of 2009. It will be much different than the music I have been associated with thus far. That being said, I am still a "rock" songwriter, and like some wrestler probably said, "you can't stop the rock". You can, however, tone it down, refine it, reflect upon it, avoid pitfalls previously succumbed to and generally add this thing called "dynamics".
