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  • Handsome Furs: The Band Is No More

    Handsome Furs: The Band Is No More

    Montreal band, Handsome Furs just announced on their Facebook page that they are ‘no more’, ending their musical collaboration.

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    Nessymon.com has a little bit of a soft spot for Dan Boeckner and Alexei Perry. We interviewed Dan shortly before the duo’s gig in Whelans in Dublin last year where, at the gig,  Dan said his interview with Nessymon.com was one of his favourite interviews ever.

    Dan was also a member of well known Canadian band Wolf Parade and also Atlas Strategic while Alexei is a writer in her own right.

    Nessymon.com wishes the husband/wife team the best of luck for the future.

  • Interview: The Jon Cohen Experimental

    JCEX-PRESSPIC-Jon Cohen of The Jon Cohen Experimental (ex-The Dears) has just started a European tour which will take in The Grand Social tonight, Friday 20th January. Jon answered a couple of questions via email after his flight across the Atlantic.

    Nessy: You’re on tour in support of your album “Behold”, how do you think that you have progressed as a solo artist?

    Jon Cohen: I definitely have come a long way. There are new ways I’m doing things now, new approaches to music, new philosophies on how to play it how to record it and write it. I have a lot more care in my approach now because this album is my project. My baby, so we’ll see what happens when this baby grows up!

    This tour is a solo tour but you still manage to play a number of instruments to reflect each song you play. Do you play them all at the same time or how does that work out?

    I use looper pedals, I use triggers, drum pads, mini korgs, theremins, basses and voice amongst many percusive interuments and pan flutes. It’s quite a feat. Each instrument represents more of a modd than a song, it’s quite fiun to play this way cause you have to be really concentrated and yet let go at some point and let the thing drive itself. (more…)