These Days Are Over

Hello friends!
I have just completed my brand new EP “These Days Are Over”, with my folk project Butterbones. You can listen to it on my bandcamp page HERE.
Enjoy,
Jordan

‘JAVA BLEND’ Out Now!!

Hey gang, sorry for the horrible delay in posting. But the new Chief Thundercloud album is out and it’s a doozy. 6 tracks spanning across varying noise terrains. We hope you all listen and buy 2 copies…cause you know, it’s good.

Derek

JAVA BLEND


Hello again internets. I am very pleased to finally announce the debut chief thundercloud album on crystal country!

The album is titled “Java Blend” and will be available on august 12th!

While you wait for the new noises to arrive, i highly recommend checking out his back catalogue. It’s a great listen.

ttyl jk.

-Derek

Butterbones – Blues

“Blues” is the album I’ve been writing and recording for the past 6-7 months, and I’m excited to finally have it released on our home recording label, Crystal Country. The album, 12 songs long in diameter, accommodates sounds ranging from bontempi organ/choir oohs ambience to Norwegian black death drumming to grandpa guitar folk strummin to face brutalizing accordion-grinding. Hope ya’ll like it!

Jordan Soles – Acoustic instruments/electric instruments

Clapping hands for:
Derek Janzen – Drums/percussion, trumpet, art
Jenell Pierson – Vocals on 2,4, and 12
Jenni Walker – Vocals on 11
Cody Flynn – The recording of sounds on all drum tracks/Jenell vox

You can listen to the album in its entirety at bandcamp.

Thanks for listening!
Jordan

Secret Hymn music video

Hey, earlier this year me and my friends made a stop-motion music video for my song ‘Secret Hymn’ off my last album ‘Black Beach’. It took about 1400 photos and quite a few hours of patience testing creativity but in the end i’m really happy how it turned out. Please give it a watch.

FIRST NATIONS – Secret Hymn from Derek James Janzen on Vimeo.

-Derek

Blues

Hi everybody! The last few months I’ve been recording a new Butterbones album set to release on June 11th. It will be titled “Blues”. You can listen in on a couple tunes On my bandcamp site.

Jordan


CLOAK

Hello everyone,

Derek Janzen of First Nations/Machinery and Magnus VonTiesenhausen of Park Canada/Machinery have started a new ‘real’ project (on purpose). It’s called CLOAK, please check it out!

Black Beach review from Herohill


The melodies are bound tight; sinewy and powerful. The casio melodies and guitar are soft and billowy, but the kick drum threatens to break through the protective cage around your heart and expose the beating organ to the world. Black Beach, the new LP from Victoria based First Nations, is a one-man revolution.

Tribal drums fuel our march but it’s Derek’s yelpy vocals that bring the loners and miscreants out from the dark basements and away from the glow of the screen with his own understated take on those infamous words, “can you dig it?”

Over the last three records, Derek’s bedroom creations have become more fleshed out, thicker and more accessible, but they’ve never lost the heart and energy that propelled his words. He still executes restrained builds – the opener, “Your Waves, They Grow”, proves that – and booming triumphs (the guitar, banjo laced “Mt. St. Helens) but he seems more and more inspired by slower moving scenes. “Swimmers” is as touching a song as he’s put to tape so far, his tone is gentle but the percussion beefs up the tender piano and twinkling textures helping the listener settle into a reserved, reflective second half that starts with the delicate piano ballad “I Sang On Your Heart I” and ends with the sprawling, inspiring 9-minute title track.

It might be quiet enough that you barely hear him, but First Nations is letting everyone know, “we got the streets suckas.”

-Bryan Acker, Herohill

You can check out the review from the site here as well as another awesome review by Joe Gurba at ArgueJob here!

Weird Canada review of Wand

Aaron Levin, the godfather of the awesome music blog Weird Canada, has graciously reviewed my last album Wand. Go check it out HERE!

-derek

Wand review on Herohill!


Hey guys,

Just thought i’d stop by to say that my new album,
Wand, was just reviewed on the mighty Herohill blog!
Go check it out HERE

-derek

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