Live Video: Basia Bulat on Q

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Gold Rush



Heart of My Own

Live Video: Basia Bulat - Run (QTV)

Via QTV

Basia Bulat at Canadian Interviews

Basia Bulat who is currently touring her new album Heart of My Own is the latest Canadian musician to sit down with Canadian Interviews:

"CI: I thought that one of your best pieces of writing on the album came at the end of the last song, ‘If It Rains’, which struck me as having a gospel feel, and that line: ‘You can leave your friends where you found them/ For your soul is still a mountain/ And you can tell them not to worry if it rains’. There is a little bit of spiritual questioning in these songs. How do you view the presence of that spiritual element in your lyrics?

BB: Well, it’s kind of funny because I love gospel music, and I think that I was actually really afraid – there was something in me that was afraid to record that song, to put it out. I don’t know what it was that made me think ‘oh, I can’t have all these people singing at the end’ – and maybe I couldn’t pull it off. You know what I mean? I think that, for me, music is the way that I find peace and find meaning for myself. Not just my own music, but in terms of all kinds of music from all over the world, from all different singers, different voices, different writers. It’s not necessarily a spiritual questioning, so to speak. It’s more that just music in general is kind of like that for me. I’m glad that people like it. I always felt a little bit shy maybe about that song, but now that I’ve been performing it live I feel as though, okay, it’s a good song to have under my belt, to be able to sing out.

CI: From what I understand from recent articles that I have read about you, your experience of silence when you were up in the Yukon had a great impact on your mind. The photography on the album jacket gives a sense of the vast open space of the Canadian North. Most of the time I imagine that you find yourself, like most people, in urban settings, and I wonder, have you ever found a space in a city that offers a silence that you find stimulating artistically? Or is it just something that struck you particularly in the North?

BB: I think it was just being up there. It had a profound impact on me, and it’s been in my imagination ever since – before and since! It is hard to explain. Sometimes things are inexplicable, like why you end up writing songs or reading books, all these different things. It is an inexplicable feeling just thinking that I got to go up there, and what I felt like when I was up there. I guess it’s a bit of an obsession!"

Read the full interview at http://www.canadianinterviews.com/interviews/index.php?ID=195 and if you're in the US or Western Canada go see Basia Live at:
Feb 23 - Chicago, IL - Schubas
Feb 24 - Minneapolis, MN - Cedar Cultural Centre
Feb 25 - Winnipeg, MB - West End Cultural Centre
Feb 27 - Saskatoon, SK - Amigo's

March 2 - Calgary, AB - Central United Church
March 3 - Edmonton, AB - Starlite Room
March 5 - Vancouver, BC - St. James Hall
March 7 - Seattle, WA - Tractor Tavern
March 8 - Portland, OR - Mississippi Studios
March 10 - San Francisco, CA - Hotel Utah
March 17 - Austin, TX - SXSW
March 18 - Austin, TX - SXSW
March 19 - Austin, TX - SXSW
March 20 - Austin, TX - SXSW
March 23 - Arlington, VA - IOTA
March 24 - Philadelphia, PA - First Unitarian Chapel
March 25 - Northampton, MA - Iron Horse Music Hall
March 26 - Cambridge, MA - TT the Bears

Live Video: Basia Bulat on Go (CBC Radio 1)

From Bret Banbury's CBC Radio 1 show Go (Saturdays at 10:30 a.m. (11 NT)) video via DirkFimbob

Basia Bulat interview with Side B

Via andpop.com's side B:

Live Video: Basia Bulat - Gold Rush

From Moveablestage, Basia Bulat performs "Gold Rush" from her new album Heart of My Own at Trinity St. Paul Church in Toronto.

Amanda Ash Interviews Basia Bulat about New Album

Amanda Ash who is working on the Canadian Music Wiki for Radio 3 has an interview up with Basia Bulat on her exceelent blog the Indie Files. Basia talks about her new album Heart of My Own which is due out on January 26.

Visit http://theindiefiles.wordpress.com/2010/01/08/basia-bulat-discusses-her-new-record-heart-of-my-own/ to listen.

CBC Radio 3 Sessions: Basia Bulat at the 2009 Vancouver Folk Festival

On this week's CBC Radio 3 Sessions Podcast it's Basia Bulat at the 2009 Vancouver Folk Festival. Basia's sophomore follow up to her Polaris Music Prize shortlisted "Oh, My Darling" will be out in late January (Jan 25 in Europe, Jan 26 in North America) so hopefully this will tide you over until then.

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