Leif Vollebekk

About Leif Vollebekk:

Leif Vollebekk is a Montreal adopted singer-songwriter. He will release his highly anticipated fourth full-length album New Ways on November 1st, the follow-up to his breakthrough Polaris Music Prize finalist, Juno nominated record Twin Solitude. The record is now at over 22 million streams and was critically acclaimed by Uncut, NPR Music, The Fader, The Sunday Times Culture, The Line of Best Fit, Paste, Brooklyn Vegan, WXPN, KCRW and Exclaim! to only name a few. During his career Leif has shared stages with Shakey Graves, Gregory Alan Isakov, Angie McMahon, Daniel Lanois, Patrick Watson, Natalia Lafourcade, Mandolin Orange, Beth Orton, Sinéad O’Connor and countless others. He sold-out much of his latest North-American headlining tour during the Twin Solitude campaign.

New Ways is the sound of desire in its unfolding — whereas Twin Solitude was about self-reflection, New Ways is about engaging and changing, touching and being touched. It’s a physical record, with louder and tighter grooves, and the rawest lyrics the musician has ever recorded—tenderness and violence, sex and rebirth, Plato and Julie Delpy. There’s the heat of the night and the cool blue of morning, hints of Prince and Bill Withers.

About Dosh: 

Martin Dosh has been making independent music out of his basement in Minneapolis, and around the world, for 20 years.  He first came to acclaim with his self titled debut on Anticon in 2003.  As he continued making Dosh records, of which there are many,  he also joined forces with Andrew Bird,  whom he played and recorded with from 2005-2014.  His live performances are often solo, combining drums, samplers, synths and Rhodes.  One of the earliest pioneers of live looping, he continues to record and perform, layering melodies and drones over acoustic and electronic beats.  His latest LP, Tomorrow 1972, features Jeff Parker, and Dan Bitney (Tortoise),  Bird, Mike Lewis (Bon Iver), Tobacco, and many others.  He has opened shows for the likes of Sylvan Esso, Tune-Yards, Black Moth Super Rainbow, to name just a few.  HIs music is hard to pin down: a genre-less, percussive hybrid of electronic, hip-hop and jazz.