Scattered Bodies: Exclusive 3 Song Preview! Legendary Toronto Punk (Andy Meyers) & Award Winning Writer (Brian Brett) Team Up For Mind Bending Fun

This goes to show you what a little imagination, and some talented musicianship, can do for you. Toronto's Andy Meyers, leader of The Scenics (1976-82), has done something special here & I think its worth checking out.

Along with award winning poet/writer Brian Brett, and composer Susheela Dawne, he took some of the Scenics old tapes, combined them with drum loops (by Mark Perkell) drawn from a Scenics comeback recording (Dead Man Walks Down Bayview), and along with some added vocals & lyrics by Brett, and vocals & music by Dawne, has come up with an extremely enticing mix that recalls the Doors-ie side of Television...a rhythmic, eccentric, and almost jazz-like adventure. The result is Talking Songs by Scattered Bodies. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

As Jack Rabid of Big Takeover magazine said in a recent review, "...it’s a skin-crawling, subtley menacing mash..."

Buy the album direct from Dream Tower Records, 

and get more info on the band at their website, and on Facebook. 

The Scenics - rare Toronto punk

Longtime reader Ramesh sent this in a while back & I owe him a huge apology for not posting it sooner...it's for his old band, The Scenics. A part of the little celebrated Toronto punk scene of the late 70's - even less celebrated than Vancouver!

The Scenics, were together from 1976-82, and have since reunited in 2008. Hardly anybody knew about them, but a small minority loved them. Their two albums (recorded 1977-80) are available as free downloads here. Jack Rabid of Big Takeover magazine called them Canada's answer to The Velvet Underground.

Visit the band's facebook page here, and take a walking tour of Toronto punk here.

Also, here's a segment of a documentary that focuses on Canada, in particular Toronto: