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Prism Prize Video: Lydia Ainsworth - Can You Find Her Place

The 2019 Prism Prize for Best Canadian Music Video was awarded to Kevan Funk, for his clip for Belle Game’s Low. We will continue to profile prominent Canadian videos, including this one from a Juno-nominated composer, producer and singer based in Toronto.

Prism Prize Video: Lydia Ainsworth - Can You Find Her Place

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The 2019 Prism Prize for Best Canadian Music Video was awarded to Kevan Funk, for his clip for Belle Game’s Low. We will continue to profile prominent Canadian videos, including this one from a Juno-nominated composer, producer and singer based in Toronto.


Lydia Ainsworth - Can You Find Her Place

The beautiful visual for Lydia Ainsworth’s Can You Find Her Place is heavily inspired by Boticelli’s painting Primavera, a mythological allegory of the fertility of the earth. Throughout the video, characters resembling the Greek gods of the painting dancing as they surround the singer. The video is light and colourful, which perfectly accompany Ainsworth’s vocals. 

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The song touches on the idea of all of the places you can find strength in the face of humanity's hubris and sings from a unique POV,  "In my song Can You Find Her Place I am singing from the perspective of a Greek choir, setting the stage for Mother Nature’s reveal.”
 

Credits:

Directed by Abby Ainsworth

Produced by Abby Ainsworth and Lydia Ainsworth

Choreographed by Elizabeth Kalashnikova

Cast: Lydia Ainsworth, Armando Biasi, Izumi Ishikawa, Devin Chin-Cheong, Nigel Church, Cynthia Smithers, Rena Seeger

DP: Diego Guijjaro

Stylist: Nelly Akbari 

Makeup and hair: Caroline Levin

Set Designer: Caitlin Doherty

Gaffer: Alexander Poutiainen

Key Grip: Andrea Hernandez

Line Producer: Lindsay Kutner

Edited by Dustin Muenchow

Colour by Clinton Homuth

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Executive of the Week: Justin West of Secret City Records on the Secrets of Independent Music Success​
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Executive of the Week: Justin West of Secret City Records on the Secrets of Independent Music Success​

The man behind one of Canada's most successful indie labels talks about the late-blooming success of French-language streaming record-holder Patrick Watson, why he builds long-term relationships with artists, and why it's important for the indie sector to work together.

Justin West is a leader and advocate in Canada’s independent music scene, but he didn’t plan it out that way. When he started his record label Secret City Records in Montreal in the mid-2000s, it was out of necessity. He had met an artist he loved and wanted to build a career with, and the label was a means to do it. That artist was Patrick Watson, and 20 years later he — and Secret City — are more successful than ever.

West — a multiple time Billboard Canada Power Player – leads one of the biggest indie labels in Canada while also advocating for the sector on multiple boards both locally and internationally. When we speak to him for this Executive of the Week interview, he’s just returned from Banff for the National Summit on Artificial Intelligence and Culture, and is a central figure in discussions around the Online Streaming Act and collective negotiations with online streaming platforms.

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