Devon Sproule

sideways through sound

doing this radio show on 2ser was a highlight of my two days in sydney last month. and here’s a video from the session:

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australia in september

my first trip down under, woah!  more dates announced next week…

11/9/14 Brisbane – Black Bear Lodge (Bigsound)
14/9/14 Mullumbimby – Courthouse Hotel (afternoon show)
16/9/14 Sydney – Newtown SC – (TICKETS)
17/9/14 Canberra – Smiths
20/9/14 Kyneton – Major Tom’s w/ Ben Salter
21/9/14 Melbourne – Northcote SC – (TICKETS)



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mellow sunday at the lake. last night, me & my dad gordon made a playlist of songs we sang together way back when. 

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doing some serious quebec chillin / jetlaggin up here at my fave lake tremblant. like: canoe steering, squirrel proofing, whatever the equivalent of dumpster diving is along the shore of a body of water (today’s find: three unopened cans of bitburger). next friday (aug 29), i’m chickadee dee deeing down to town to play a show with my silly-good songwriting pal michael feuerstack. got montrealers?

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me talking and playing some ear wormy songs. happy summer!

(I’m a Mindless Idiot – Meat Puppets)
Looking for the Magic – Dwight Twilley
(Fury in My Eyes/revenge (feat. Thea) – The Rza)
Man on the Moon – Moses Sumney
Ooh Baby (Make Me Feel So Young) – Terry Reid
(Night Bird – Deep Forest)
How Will I? (Sing Leaf Remix) – Sandro Perri
Right Down the Line – Gerry Rafferty
(An Arc of Doves – Harold Budd & Brian Eno)
Make it Safe – Devon Sproule
One Hand, One Heart – Lloyd & Joan Whittaker



make it safe

Here’s a little bonus to the WNYC session, a video of me and the members of Bernice playing a new song of mine, ‘Make it Safe.’ You can hear the whole radio session in the post below. And here are some videos from Bernice’s session on Spinning on Air (so good).

wnyc’s spinning on air

While I was on tour w/ Bernice, we did a session at the WNYC studios in New York and then visited host David Garland at his place upstate the next day for popsicles and beer and bird watching.  Here’s a picture of me there, having a nice time, and our 1-hour radio session in the streamy box below that.

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POSTED BY  JULY 16, 2014

At the end of 2009, a friend of mine who lives in the Bay Area mailed a mix of his favorite songs of the year to a bunch of people—a muso’s gesture of holiday good will. While listening to it for the first time, I heard a song that made me turn around and stare at the computer, as if it could explain to me what I was hearing. Who was this? It wasn’t a revolutionary sound—it amazed me because it was great. An acoustic guitar, and then a young woman’s voice, warm, confident, gentle, singing, “It’s good to get out of the house.” There was no barrier between it and me—I loved it immediately… (read more)