Original Princess
Thursday, Dec. 3rd at 7:30pm. Advance tickets on sale online [1] ($20) and at the door ($25).
"...it's always a treat when Scott Merritt emerges from his self-imposed performing exile... remarkable, inspirational songs." Echo Magazine.
Scott Merritt [2], recording artist / music producer and "one of Canada's most original voices" (Jason Schneider), has returned 12 years after his last release with a new album, simply titled -Of - and it is quite unlike any other Scott Merritt album.
While often critically cited as one of the great unsung singer-songwriters of Canada, Merritt has released only six albums since beginning his career in the late 70's back in his hometown of Brantford, Ontario. He is perhaps better known these days as a producer and engineer.
Working out of his studio, the Cottage, in Guelph, Ontario, fellow songwriters such as Fred Eaglesmith, Stephen Fearing and Garnet Rogers are familiar faces though his door. Slowly but surely, though, he gathers his own songs and when the time is right we get a new album. And so now we have 'Of.'
It is the type of album that comes along once in a very long time - in fact it's taken Merritt about 12 years.
About 'Of': "...For the price of a CD, aspiring entertainers and established artists alike will be treated to a crash course in how to write interesting, evocative words, how to frame them in complex, dramatic arrangements, and how to make the whole package sound so good that anyone who hears it will end up playing it over and over...fresh subtleties every time they’re heard and nuanced, layered accompaniment full of real imagination..." - The Georgia Straight
Special thanks to concert sponsor, Artefacts [3].
Read Rob Reid's latest blog on Scott Merritt, "Taking a Detour Home." [4]
". . . an act of surrealistic time-defying creative affirmation. . . Merritt’s music is firmly grounded in acoustic instrumentation, but veers off into the techno stratosphere. It’s openly experimental, but it’s never experimentation for experimentation’s sake. . . poetic lyrics, eschewing narrative, he relies on image, metaphor and allegory to evoke dreamy (sometimes nightmarish) atmospheres simultaneously familiar and unfamiliar, ordinary and extraordinary, mundane and strange... [his music] is exotic because of the imaginative detours Merritt takes."