Ep. 5 - Merival, Jennifer Alicia Murrin, and Richard Trapunski

Discoveries include: the usefulness of the term
singer/songwriter, Merival's origins in Guelph, preferable fonts
to Chiller, Toronto's relationship with anxiety, the continuing
closure of local music venues, the power of writing from your own
perspective, the problem with comparisons to Joni Mitchell, why I
can't base anything off of one conversation I had one time, the
catharsis of creation, Jennifer Alicia's process of gathering
stories and family histories, the tradition of tall tales, the
delight of Vesuvio pizza (RIP, unfortunately), the sound of
Toronto right now, where the writers are writing, Richard's
circuitous route through Martini Boys, how Channel Zero owns
channel 11, how to game a record review, how the music scene got
here from the Broken Social Scene era, and more.


We also play Been There Dundas, the inaugural edition of Bests,
and a special bands edition of Truth Or Folly.


Richard estimated that this would come out a month down the line.
So.. 3 months. Not bad, huh? Not bad.


(Music: "Sinner" by Merival)


Listen to Merival aka Anna Horvath (and download her new EP)
here: https://merival.bandcamp.com/


Follow Jenifer Alicia on Instagram, and visit her webiste:
https://www.instagram.com/eastcoastjam
https://www.jenniferalicia.com/


Read Richard's NOW output here:
https://nowtoronto.com/topics/richard-trapunski/


And here's the 2020 edition of the Sound of Toronto feature that
we talked about:
https://nowtoronto.com/music/features/toronto-music-2020-sound/