Polycanard, by Area Resident

Polycanard

by Area Resident

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1.	Riverside (live) 03:06	buy track
2.	I Save Cigarette Butts 03:01	buy track
3.	Two Hours To Go (Slow Century version) 03:48	buy track
4.	Viscount I 03:37	buy track
5.	How To Skate (demo) 02:19	buy track
6.	The Prize (demo) 01:42	buy track
7.	Pigs On The Wing 03:44	buy track
8.	Ugly Business (demo) 03:56	buy track
9.	What A Farce It Is (Was) (demo) 03:14	buy track
10.	Quasar 04:44	buy track
11.	Getting Stuck (demo) 03:29	buy track
12.	In Convulsions (demo) 01:57	buy track
13.	Hunkered Down In A Government Town 02:16	buy track
14.	Canopy (live) 05:53	buy track

about

Polycanard gets its name from a nonsense word coined by myself and Jordon Zadorozny during highschool French immersion classes. We would constantly ask the same teacher -- "Monsieur, qu'est-ce que c'est un Polycanard?" because we loved his reaction and animated, annoyed dismissal.

The cover art is inspired by the word, and created by Chelle Lorenzen in the style of famed Hipgnosis illustrator and graphic designer George Hardie, whom we love. I love them both.

Most of these songs are unreleased demos, recorded on a red, basttery-powered Fostex digital 8-track which used compact flash cards for storage. Once completed, songs had to be exported and deleted so another could be made. Therefore, remixing and overdubbing on these was not possible.
So, these songs show a novice home-recording hobbyist developing his sound, style and craft.
This is how I work -- I don't write songs before I record them. I create demos and then decide if it's good enough to tweak and release, or re-record, tweak and release. Between 2003 and now, there are more than 200 of these demos.

The two live tracks on Polycanard are sound system line-out mixes from the Area Resident set at Barnstorm 2018 in Finch, Ont.

released July 29, 2022

All tracks mastered by Jordon Zadorozny.
Non-demo material produced and mixed by Jordon Zadorozny as well.
Artwork by Chelle Lorenzen -- heychelle.com

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released September 13, 2022

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