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Song and Dance Man’s Collett coming to Key City
Jason Collett, of Broken Social Scene, will be performing at Cranbrook’s Key City Theatre on Friday, April 29.
Collett is a Toronto-based Canadian singer-songwriter. He has released four solo albums, and is a member of Broken Social Scene. His latest album, Song and Dance Man, was released in February. Jason will be cranking off selections from his songbook with members of Zeus. The opening slot is being handled by fellow roots-flecked Ontarian Kalle Mattson.
Song And Dance Man, the title track from Jason Collett’s sixth full-length album, finds the iconic singer-songwriter back at centre stage, with three-minutes-and-change and a story to sing. Featuring the bright production touch of Bahamas’ Afie Jurvanen, Song And Dance Man covers the trials and triumphs of the modern musician with poignant poetry: “If you can tweet something brilliant, you got a marketing plan.”
Song And Dance Man’s 13 songs bear the wit and melody of classic Jason Collett: contemplative reflections on getting older, backed with an affinity for free wheeling ‘70s dance music. The album’s conspiring themes of love and loneliness, sun and shadows, are buoyed by its soaring sound. Each song rises into an easy, spacious groove, lead by Jason’s languid melodies and Afie’s sun-drunk bass.
“There’s a cool economy to Afie’s approach that lets the record breathe and allows it to say more with less, something I worked hard at hardly working at in writing strolling the songs,” says Collett. “Keeping a light touch, keeping it short.”
Having spent the years since 2012’s Reckon finding himself further engaged in the growing success of his Basement Revue concert series – a cross-pollinating musical & literary mash-up of Canada’s premiere contemporary artists – the Toronto indie-troubadour describes this record as a liberating process distilled in long stretch of domestic reverie.
“I like writing songs and for the first time in my life I felt no rush to hustle them or myself out the door,” says Collett. “I let some dust settle, some weeds grow, puttered about at home.”
The result is a dynamic addition to a strong body of work. Song And Dance Man may be Jason Collett’s finest effort yet – back in the spotlight, more comfortable than ever in the guise of entertainer: You got to do what you can when you’re a Song And Dance Man.
Song And Dance Man was recorded in spring 2015 with long-time collaborators drummer/engineer Don Kerr (at his Rooster Studio), Christine Bougie on guitar & lap steel, Zeus’ Neil Quinn on backing vocals, and Afie holding it down on the bass, sometimes two.
Don’t miss this intimate evening with Jason Collett backed by Zeus, with guest Kalle Matson. Lounge-style seating and bar service – you can even get up and dance to the groove!
Tickets are available at the Key City Theatre Box Office 250-426-7006
and online at www.keycitytheatre.com.
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