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Featured New Tracks

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Featured New Tracks

By FYI Staff

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J. Mann is a folk-accented Toronto singer/songwriter who recently released Ten Animals, his first solo album in a decade. It was recorded in Toronto, Barcelona and Buenos Aires, and it features extensive contributions from Grammy award-winning engineer, producer and musician Inaam Haq. The first single is “Help Us Get It Right." 

Peter Druckeris an emerging indie pop singer/songwriter from Montreal. He has just released a new track, "Telescope" (below), and is now working on a second EP, “Good. Morning." 

Trope is a Vancouver based Alt meets prog rock band that has recorded a debut album, Eleutheromania. It was engineered by Mike Fraser (AC/DC, Metallica) and mixed by David Bottrill (Tool, Peter Gabriel) mixing. Here's a video for the debut single, "Lambs." 

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Katie McBride is a Toronto based synth-pop artist and producer. Her new single, 'N.B.S.L.', has just been released by UK label Limited Health and will appear on an EP coming out on July 27th. Assisting in the recording and mixing are Matty of Babadnotgood and Joe Manzoli of Ginla.

Eclecticus is a five-piece rock band from Toronto, Canada, fronted by singer-songwriters Gar Reid and Tiina LeMay. A new album, So Illogical, was produced, mixed, and mastered by Jono Grant. 

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Charles Officer
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Charles Officer

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Award-Winning Canadian Director Charles Officer Has Died

The celebrated Toronto filmmaker and director of K’naan’s “Strugglin'” video died after an illness.

Canadian filmmaker Charles Officer, known for his work on CBC show The Porter and features like Akilla's Escape, died on Dec. 1 after an illness. He was 48. The director and writer was celebrated for his work in a range of forms, including scripted television, documentary, and even an early music video for Somali-Canadian artist K'naan. He directed four out of eight episodes of the acclaimed series The Porter, which tells the story of railway workers in the 1920s who formed North America’s first Black union. The Porter won ten Canadian Screen Awards this year, with Officer winning Best Direction.

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