The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer and Portage and Main - Wake Up

The PEAK Performance Project is in year 4 of a 7 year $5.2 million artist development program funded through Canadian Content Development funding from 102.7 The PEAK (Pattison Broadcast Group) and administered by Music BC Industry Association. This award winning program takes 20 emerging artists per year and challenges them to become better songwriters, performers, business people and marketers. All artists start with $4000 in development funding. Next, over 80 musicians descend on RockRidge Canyon, Princeton for a seven day intense Boot Camp. From there, each artist performs at the Red Room in Vancouver and carries out a number of career enhancing challenges. The use of their initial proceeds, the judged live performance, their challenges and public online voting accumulate points for the final adjudication committee to consider in ranking the Top 20. The top 5 artists share in $242,700, the grand prize being 102.7 thousand dollars awarded at the Commodore Ballroom, Vancouver grand finale concert.

One of the key starting points for any recording artist is writing a great song. Songwriting is a skill that is constantly being developed. This year, we matched the artists into writing teams to co-write 10 songs using the theme of “Love & Bravery”. Producers Warne Livesey, Jeff Dawson, Shawn Cole, Winston Hauschild and Alex (“Condor”) Aligizakis produced, recorded and mixed the songs in 4 temporary studios built in a day at RockRidge Canyon. This could not have been possible without the Nimbus School of Recording Arts (nimbusrecording.com) crew: Studio Assistants Oliver Hart, Brendan Stookey, Isaac Min, Evan Clarke, Joshua Field, Kevin Shuttleworth, and Studio Managers Nygel Asselin and Paul Boechler.

The Boot Camp Studios were built with recording equipment provided by our production sponsors NIMBUS, Long & McQuade, Simply.ca, Apple Computers, Roland Systems, Roland Music Canada and Sennheiser Canada.

CD manufacturing was sponsored by Pressing Media and SOCAN.

All Songs Mastered by Brock McFarlane at CPS Mastering (cpsmastering.com)

Credits

1. Get Where Your Heart Is – Headwater & Dominique Fricot
℗ 2012 Headwater & Dominique Fricot
© 2012 Music and Lyrics by Matt Bryant, Jonas Shandel, Dominique Fricot
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Winston Hauschild
Assisted By: Kevin Shuttleworth
2. All I Wanna Know – Dear Rouge & Alexandria Maillot
℗ 2012 Alexandria Maillot & Dear Rouge
© 2012 Music and Lyrics by Andrew McTaggart, Danielle McTaggart, Alexandria Maillot, Shawn Cole, Winston Hauschild, Adam Stewart
Produced and Mixed By: Shawn Cole
Engineered By: Nygel Asselin
Assisted By: Joshua Field

3. A Silent Sphere – Jordan Klassen & Facts
℗ 2012 Jordan Klassen & Facts
© 2012 Music and Lyrics by Jordan Klassen, Sean Bletcher, Michael Doull, Hugh Macdonald, Sean Bayntun, Indiana Avent, Simon Bridgefoot, Garth Covernton, Andrew Koole, Jocelyn Price
Produced and Mixed By: Warne Livesey
Engineered By: Warne Livesey, Nygel Asselin and Paul Boechler
Assisted By: Evan Clarke

4. Our Friends Say – beekeeper & Ali Milner
℗ 2012 Ali Milner & beekeeper
© 2012 Music and Lyrics by Devon Lougheed, Ali Milner, Luke Cyca, Erik Nielsen, Brandi Sidoryk
Produced, Engineered and Mixed by: Alex (“Condor”) Aligizakis
Assistant Engineer: Isaac Min

5. Rusted Heart – Mike Edel & The Fugitives
℗ 2012 Mike Edel & The Fugitives
© 2012 Music and Lyrics by Mike Edel, Adrian Glynn McMorran, Brendan McLeod, Nigel Barry, Kiana Brasset, Colin McTaggart, Sjoerd Meyer
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Jeff Dawson
Assistant Engineer: Brendan Stookey

6. Wake Up – The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer & Portage and Main
℗ 2012 The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer & Portage and Main
© 2012 Music and Lyrics by Shawn Hall, Matthew Rogers, Harold Donnelly, John Sponarski
Produced and Mixed By: Warne Livesey
Engineered By: Warne Livesey and Paul Boechler
Assisted By: Evan Clarke
7. Stand Your Ground – Redgy Blackout & T.Nile
℗ 2012 Redgy Blackout & T.Nile
© 2012 Music and Lyrics by Jeremy Breaks, Scott Perrie, Tamara Nile, Ryan Hauschild
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Winston Hauschild
Assisted By: Kevin Shuttleworth

8. Night Eyes – Maurice & Tough Lovers
℗ 2012 Maurice & Tough Lovers
© 2012 Music and Lyrics by JP Maurice, Nick Mcrae, Evan Konrad, Graham Madden, Jamie Smail, Ryan Stephenson, Dane Stevens
Produced, Engineered and Mixed By: Jeff Dawson
Assistant Engineer: Brendan Stookey

9. Make It – The Gay Nineties & Georgia Murray
℗ 2012 The Gay Nineties & Georgia Murray
© 2012 Music and Lyrics by Georgia Murray, Tony Day, Parker Bossley, Malcolm Holt, Daniel Knowlton, Bruce Ledingham, Jesse Manason, David Parfit
Produced and Mixed By: Shawn Cole
Engineered By: Nygel Asselin
Assisted By: Joshua Field

10. Separate Ways (One for the Road) – The River and the Road & Fields of Green
℗ 2012 The River and the Road & Fields of Green
© 2012 Music and Lyrics by Alex Aligizakis, Andrew Phelan, Keenan Lawlor, John Hayes, Cole George, Kyle Tubbs, Kevin Dreger, Connor Tkach, Johnny Jansen
Produced and Mixed by: Alex (“Condor”) Aligizakis
Engineered by: Alex (“Condor”) Aligizakis and Paul Boechler
Assistant Engineer: Isaac Min