Artist.......: Kevin Parent
Album........: Fangless Wolf Facing Winter
Label........: Audiogram
Genre........: Folk-Rock
Catnr........: ADCD 10205
source.......: CDDA
rip.date.....: Jul-23-2007
str.date.....: May-00-2007
quality......: VBR/44,1Hz/Joint-Stereo
Url..........: www.kevinparent.com/
track title time
01. every now and then 04:23
02. come with me 03:54
03. so hard to get 03:11
04. rivers so cold 04:39
05. 26th of december 03:50
06. cant stand this loneliness 03:24
07. kyoto 04:43
08. down in mexico 03:54
09. wongkytong 03:27
10. there she goes 03:19
11. open house blues 04:05
12. jazz on the rocks 04:05
Runtime 46:54 min
Size 61,4 MB
Release Notes:
With the release of his first English album,
Fangless Wolf Facing Winter, Kevin Parent is
fulfilling a natural artistic phase. Twelve years
after the release of his first album, "Pigeon
d'argile", Parent felt he could finally express
what he calls his 'duality' of growing up in the
the gaspesian bilingual area of Baie-des chaleurs
(border of northern New Brunswick) surrounded by
the language of "Dylan" as much as the one of
"Ferland". Far from abandoning his French-language
roots, Fangless Wolf Facing Winter represents a new
stage, and is intended by Kevin to be sincere
offering-- one he is making to himself and to the
public.
Kevin Parent has always understood the value of
being surrounded by the right people. On Fangless
Wolf Facing Winter we find him side by side with
Rob Heaney and Manuel Marie on sound and mix, as
well as musicians Dominique Messier, Tony Levin,
Jeff Smallwood, Jocelyn Tellier, Dan Georgesco,
Daniel BΘlanger, Paul Picard, Rick Haworth,
Catherine Ledoux, Sheila Hannigan and John Webster.
Dan Georgesco is a collaborator on one of his songs
(There She Goes), and the composer of Down in
Mexico. In addition, Blue RodeoÆs Jim Cuddy appears
on one song (Every Now And Then, co-written with
Malcolm Burn), and the voice of Damhnait Doyle is
subtle but undeniably present on the album's title
track.
Fangless Wolf Facing Winter, which is being
released by Audiogram, features twelve deeply
introspective, personal tracks. On every song, we
find a warm and familiar voice, easy to distinguish
from thousands of others. Though Kevin is best
known as a French-speaking artist, the first songs
he ever wrote were in English, so this musical
evolution is a natural one. The release of
Fangless Wolf Facing Winter gives a public voice to
a little-known part of him, an opportunity to know
and understand one of QuebecÆs (and all of
CanadaÆs) most respected singer/songwriters.
Discovered in 1993 when he participated in a
songwriting competition, Kevin Parent signed to
Tacca Musique shortly thereafter. His first album,
ôPigeon d'argileö sold over 360,000 copies, making
it one of the greatest Quebecois successes of the
decade. With hits like ôNomade sedentaireö,
ôSeigneurö and ôBoomerangö, Kevin quickly became
one of the biggest names in Quebec music in the
æ90s, earning the respect of peers and critics
alike, along with numerous Felix Awards in the
province and tour dates on both sides of the
Atlantic. Two years later, Kevin released ôGrand
Parleur, Petit Faiseurö, which also sold more than
350,000 copies and earned Kevin the Felix Award for
Rock Album of the Year in 1998. His follow up
albums, Les Vents ont changΘ (2001) and
Retrouvailles (2003), which featured collaborations
with Claire Pelletier, Catherine Durand, among
others, both achieved multi-platinum status and
earned him numerous Juno Award nominations
(including a win for the best selling Francophone
album of 2002) and Felix Awards.
Awards
Juno Award
2002 Best Selling Francophone Album for Les vents
ont changΘ
àAnd 4 other nominations
Adisq
1996 Song of the Year for Seigneur
1996 Male artist of the Year
1996 Concert of the Year
1997 Song of the Year for Father On the Go
1998 Song of the Year for FrΘquenter lÆoubli
1998 Male artist of the Year
1999 Album Pop-Rock of the Year for Grand parleur,
petit faiseur
àAnd 26 other nominations and industry-related
prizes