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We’re releasing our third album on September 21, 2010! In addition to the regular seven members, it also features guests Mats Gustafsson and Sandro Perri, and was recorded in an underground chamber made entirely of cork, held together with wombat saliva.

We will be on tour in mid-Eastern Canada from September 15th til 25th.

Sept 15th - Casa Del Popolo - Montreal, QC w/Marathon
Sept 16th - Ebar - Guelph, ON w/Born Ruffians
Sept 17th - FM Lounge - Windsor, ON w/What Seas, What Shores
Sept 18th - LOLA Festival - Main Stage, Victoria Park - London, ON
Sept 21st - Casbah - Hamilton, ON
Sept 24th - The Garrison - Toronto, ON w/Minotaurs

Above photo from our July 3rd, 2010 Commodore show. Photo by Craig Sinclair.

We’ll be playing with the wonderful Deerhoof on Saturday, July 3rd at the Commodore, as part of the 2010 Vancouver International Jazz Fest.

Some info here

We’re really looking forward to playing this festival on Friday, November 20th at the Railway Club in Vancouver. Excellent bands and more over the two days, with proceeds going to The Food Bank and The Downtown Eastside Women’s Shelter (raffle prizes generously donated by Sled Island Music Festival, Red Cat Records, Drip Audio, and more).

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Writer Alex Molotkow cobbled together a great feature story out of the convoluted ravings of the group:

“Vancouver septet Fond of Tigers is famously difficult to categorize: to rock fans they sound like free jazz, and to experimental listeners they sound like rock ‘n’ roll. But genre is the least of the band’s concerns. The band members are connected by chemistry, a dynamic approach to playing music, and not by taste—their songs come together intuitively, without prior planning or the mediation of musical conventions. Despite their disavowal of genre, Fond of Tigers are very enthusiastic about experimental music as an approach rather than a label. All are active members of Vancouver’s “creative music” scene, with Lyons and Zubot acting as organizers for a community which often finds itself encroached upon by authorities, according to some reports. Their musical activity has allowed them to make connections with a wide variety of bands playing in multiple styles, and cross-pollination has resulted, much to the band’s delight—call them B.C.’s ambassadors of “creative” music.”

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The Vancouverian septet’s follow-up to the impressive debut A Thing to Live With takes their compositional skills and energy one step further: Release the Saviours is pure RIO dynamite. The playing is tighter, the tracks more complex, the music more exciting than on the first release — which wasn’t a bad run for your money to start with! Stephen Lyons and company (including the four-handed, four-footed drumming monster formed by the pairing of Dan Gaucher and Skye Brooks) are in top form here, blending influences from the fields of Rock in Opposition, avant-prog, free jazz, Americana, punk, and modern West Coast jazz.

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Here’s an article by Alexander Varty in the September 18th issue of the Georgia Straight

The theme of this year’s New Forms Festival, which takes place at various Vancouver venues from tonight to September 27, is mosaics. And when event organizers asked Fond of Tigers bandleader Stephen Lyons to curate an evening of music, he nearly responded with flippant perversity.

“I thought about it for a while and almost did a tribute to Moses,” he reports, interviewed by telephone from his Vancouver home. “But I figured that wasn’t the best way to go.”

Granted, if any local band could pull off an art-rock opera about the Ten Commandments, it would be Fond of Tigers: the all-instrumental septet’s ability to morph between twittering electronic soundscapes and bent, brassy anthems could be put to good use behind various poetic meditations or ranting discourses on greed, sloth, covetousness, and lust. Lyons might well want to revisit that original impulse.

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Here’s a recent article from Soundproof Magazine, by Cheryl Stornelli

As music lovers we’ve become too accustomed to constantly attempting to decipher lyrics and the hidden messages within an artist’s song. The real secret is that most songs aren’t meant to instill the same feelings the lyricist had at the time of writing. Most songs are simply meant to be felt and self-interpreted, which is exactly how Vancouver’s Fond of Tigers have so far intended it.
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We’re really looking forward to the WORLD PREMIERE of two pieces of music which were written based on the co-mingling of the most recent Fond of Tigers and Secret Mommy albums. The show is at Open Studios in Vancouver and features, appropriately enough, Fond of Tigers and Secret Mommy.

Click here for more details from the New Forms Festival Website.

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Here’s a couple of shots after our show opening for the Grande Mothers at Vancouver’s Commodore Ballroom (where they give artists brown towels).