1980 Housekeeping LISTENING POST DISCOVERY
by Brian Kushnir
Falcon
Walk Into The Mirror
Genre: Proggy Power Pop
Rating: 4 out of 5
Highlights:
Los Alvarez
Thinking About You
Walk into the Mirror
Dance Dance Dance
1982
Listen to the Marc Maron WTF interview with Daniel Lanois when you get a chance. He talks about all sorts of interesting legendary producer things including his origin story recording local musicians in his Grant Avenue studio in Hamilton, Ontario.
“Walk Into The Mirror” was recorded at Grant Avenue and before Eno delivered U2 and punched his ticket Dan Lanois was engineering stuff like this and it is pretty sweet and unexpected. Kudos to the Listening Post Sleuths who will stop at nothing including spelunking to unearth all the records, including digging up this one in the Museum of Canadian Music, where apparently I need to be spending more of my free time.
Falcon is a project of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist virtuoso Glen Foster. He cruises effortlessly from genre to genre (proggy new wave, rockabilly swing, surf, country, space-fi rock, etc...) keeping everything tight and earnest.
For me there’s a lot to cheer about here. Something different around each corner. Great singing and vocal harmonies throughout. There’s brilliance in the playing all over the place in all different musical styles from metal, blues, flamenco, pedal steel, with lots of tasty licks and interesting things happening when listening on headphones from flute, claves, and a distorted Hammond B3, and found sounds.
“Los Alvarez” opens side 2 and is about as perfect an homage to Jackson Browne and the Eagles as you could write and record, even more impressive is that it comes from a guy from Hamilton Ontario which is closer to the Northern Lights than ‘The Border.’
Soon after releasing this Glen Foster decamped for the Canadian west where he spent years working in a music store selling, teaching, and repairing instruments, releasing 9 original albums and all the while continuing to play live around Vancouver in pubs and beyond. Sounds like a good life.
http://www.citizenfreak.com/titles/278432-falcon-walk-into-the-mirror
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