CHERYL SIM has been active in the Montreal
music scene with Tulip, Olive and most recently with Gazelle.
While
completing a jazz project, CHERYL SIM started to record a
demo of original
songs, which has now become a full length CD entitled HEAVY PETAL. All the songs
on this CD were written on piano during the summer of 2001 after Gazelle decided
to go on hiatus. By the fall Cheryl approached Iain Booth to engineer and record
demo versions of these songs, and asked Aras Bukauskas (aka dj aerosol) if he
would be interested in producing. After two years of trading ideas, building
them up, breaking them down and building them up again, this debut CD of solo
material finally gave bloom.
HEAVY PETAL was recorded and produced using entirely
digital means (but cultivated by humans!). These pop songs are driven by jazzy
vocals and influenced by r&b,
break beats and a bit of old school production. Its ideas are engaged with feminine
paradoxes like fragile gravity and wrathful patience --- simply put, it’s
soft but it’s strong.
Joining Cheryl for the live show are Aras Bukauskas
(nordlead, turntables, keyboard), G.W. Brazier (electric bass), Dan Philippi
(drums), Fern D’Anghera (percussion),
Iain Booth (guitar synth) and Natasha Hall (back-up vox). |
