TORONTO, CANADA (Top40 Charts/ Imaginary Cities Official Website) - Imaginary Cities have scored three NXNE showcases in Toronto June 14 - 20, 2010 which they will use prepare the release their debut album Temporary Resident.
These concerts will mark the Toronto debut for the band who were formed in late 2009 by Rusty Matyas (from Singer/Guitarist The Waking Eyes) and Matrti Sarbit (vocalist, the Solutions) in Winnipeg Manitoba. The debut live performance this past month was sold out with the audience singing and clapping along to songs only having heard them on the internet.
The duo has just completed recording full album in May and have put together a band made of some of Winnipeg's best musicians. As of early 2010 Imaginary Cities are managed by The Weakerthans Stephen Carroll. "I was passed the Imaginary Cities demos while on tour with The Weakerthans in the fall of 2009, and got hooked right away - great songs, amazing vocals, and creative arrangements,' says Stephen.
While recording over the last year, the duo often spent 12 hours straight writing and working on a song. As Rusty attests, 'If it was going well after a few hours, we would stay until we had a finished song to take home. There's an energy and excitement on the day you're writing and recording a new song that will almost guaranteed be absent if you come back to it another day.'
'Rusty basically did all of the producing,' explains Marti. 'He also played all of the instruments and had a very clear idea of the kind of sound we were going for.' Say You is the song that really got things started, and Hummingbird stands out as a key song on the album. 'The day we started working on Hummingbird we actually didn't have a song in mind. Rusty just started playing a few chords and I realized that I had a song that sort of fit with it.'
Almost a year to the day that the two recorded Say You they have a completed an 11 song record that they're very proud of . They went into Prairie Recording Company with engineers Cam Loeppky and Shawn Dealy to re-record what needed to be, all the while being careful not to strip the songs of that original excitement. Imaginary Cities are looking very forward to touring and going wherever this album takes them.
"People have been really responding to this band,' says Carroll. 'They are a great combo, Rusty is a prodigious musical talent, playing pretty much every instrument, and Marti is one of the cities best singers and with terrific ear for melody. I am stoked to be involved."
'I can't wait to play the showcases at NXNE since it's my first time doing anything like it,' says Marti, I'm extra excited to be playing our songs with a great set of musicians."
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NXNE Showcases:
Tuesday June 15 - 8:30pm @ The Horseshoe Tavern (Edge Nu Music Nite)
Thursday June 17 - 7pm @ Mod Club Theatre
Saturday June 19 - 11pm @ C'est What (Manitoba Showcase)
Winnipeg:
June 7 @ The Pyramid Cabaret
June 11 @ The Royal Albert Arms
