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Its been a a while since I have sent out a news letter in fact Its beena
very long time I think. A lot of things has happened in the mean time.
I have recently in the last few months put out 3 new releases.
2 for noise factory records: a full length cd titled city saturate, and a
12 inch ep titled the binary route ep. you can find out more information
about the release and where to purchese it on link
The 3rd release has just recently come available on the digital label
sentient sound and can be downloaded at
link
You can find out more information about the release on the labels
website: link (see below for reviews of releases on both
labels)
In the department of naw live shows well for the next little while they
will be few and far between (I will explain why later on in this message)
Back in Feb of this year I was invited to participate in an online
project which was a collaberation between the mutek music festival in Montreal,
Radio Canada (the french language version of CBC) and 36 participating
artists accross canada. The project was and is called cafe eletronika
where radio canada and mutek festival has invited artists from accross
canada to perform live via a high speed internet connection to one of the
many stages during the first 3 days of the festival. I have been asked to
perform a 40 min live set from my studio for the project on May 31st
starting at 138pm (give or take a few moments) if your at the festival in
Montreal you can drop by the hotel godin and hear the live stream in the
lounge area of the hotel and if your some place else in canada at the time
just hop on to the internet and go to: link
to catch thhe performance live. It will also be archived on the radio
canada, bandeapart website for one full yeah and enjoy repeat broadcasts
on other cbc and affliate station in europe and on satellite radio
networks like sirius.
There might be some other naw live shows over the next 6 to 8 months but
they will be few and far between and unfortunatly only local shows.
There is plans for a naw tour both in north america and europe but not
the first part of next year at the earliest.
now I bet your asking why is naw playing so few shows and is not touring
untill early next year, or why has naw not been updating his website
recently, etc etc... well unfortunatly after dealing with some health
issues over the last year, in march I was diagnosed with having stage IIIb
hodgkin's lymphoma. I began treatment for my cancer in may 2007 and will
continue my treatment for a total of 6 to 8 months. I wont bore you all
with a sob story but if your interested in follwing my progress you can so
via a photoblog I have set up link.com
to document my progress though my battle with cancer. Dont worry I plan to
make a full recovery and be declared cured by the end of it all and be
back out playing regular shows as I was before all this began.
in the mean time thanks for all you continued support of my music and I
hope you enjoy some of the new music I have recently released and some of
the up comming material that will come out over the next 10 months or so.
Thanks again and take care, reviews of the recent releases can be found
below.
neil
aka naw
link
from:
the montreal mirror
link/2007/041907/disc.html
NAW
City Saturate (Noise Factory)
Former Montrealer Neil Wiernik, now a Torontonian, continues his
excursions into dub techno with his latest release. In fact, he
goes beyond the echo-chambered minimal house of his previous efforts
under the naw moniker, confidently dropping the plodding rhythmic template
and exploring more deeply the possibilities of tone and texture. What
certainly does carry over, however, is his perfect evocation of that
transitional time of half-light, both comforting and alienating, that
blooms briefly at dawn each day
thats where and when he seems happiest. 7.5/10 (Rupert Bottenberg)
from:
XLR8R magazine, singles of the week colum
link/topstories/2007/05/this_week_in_singles.php
Fans of Basic Channel and Plus 8 should definitely check out the recent
output of Sentient Sound. Its latest release, NAWs Cracked Lines and
Broken Signals EP, sums up the labels subtle techno modus operandi.
Gentle melodies, rubbery bass, and echoed keys penetrate four solid
tunes. NAW is the work of Canadian ex-pat Neil Wiernik. Also recommended,
Sentient singles catalog number eight and seven from Myers Briggs and
Roberto Bardini, respectively.
(note I still live and Canada and always will
for a recent interview check out
link/interviews/show/93/NAW
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05/30/07
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jdg
my fav side effect has been that terrible acne!
now i dont have to worry about girls all over me anymore
05/31/07
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naw
hahaha yeah the acne is great!!! made my day when I walked in to the oncologists office and he said oh your looking like a 17 year old... great way to cut the seriousness of the visit with "oh by the way we are going to do a bone marrow bioposy now"... not sure if you had one does but F**K its one of the most painfull things I have had done to me ever!!! hurt so bad I think i wiped a good chunk of the pain out of my memory...there are still marks on the wall I was facing in the doctors office were I was clawing the wall begging the doctor to stop...NOT FUN!!! but like I said befor its all done so that I can get better in the end... so you do what you gotta do... as Im sure you know from your own experince...
05/31/07
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vveerrgg
reading this thread has been intense... Neil. I'll be in Montreal when you're performing. I'll be sure to host a toast to you during your set.
06/01/07
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naw
well unfortunatly cancer like any other cronic/critical desease/illness is intense...
but with a will to survive that intense time makes you stronger and a better person out of it...
thats how I feel all about it...
06/25/07
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oxymoron
Hey naw, just checking in. I hope the course of treatments is working and that you are firmly on the long road to recovery (and feeling better).
All the best,
oxy
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