Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Silencing Canadian music: artists affected by cut of Specialized Music Recording Program

The federal government would like Canadian citizens to believe that the only people being affected by the cut of the Specialized Music Recording Program is weird, fringe, freak music that "Canadian tax payers shouldn't pay for." The truth is that all sorts of musicians who play stuff you want to hear will be silenced: community gamelan, your regional orchestra, that kick-ass folk band, or your favourite alternative indie band. It seems that your federal government is only interested in music that defines success by market share, and we know that means big records companies only.

PetitionOnline.com/a6y3L9eR/petition.html

Below is a partial list of those Canadian recording artists in your community who will likely be silenced by the demise of this program. The list comes from grant recipients from 2007 (from public information available from The Canada Council for the Arts web site – which I'll update when I can). Google any of these names to find a mix of all sorts of music from First Nations, to folk, to classical, to jazz and improvised, and indie rock & alternative. (If you see an error, please contact me or comment.)

MUSICIANS and COMPOSERS
Sinfonia Toronto
Amanda Tosoff Quartet
Michelle Boudreau
Jane Bunnett
BW Musique
Chamber Players of Canada
Annabelle Chvostek
Robert Clutton
Common Thread
Christa Couture
Dark Blue World
Katenen Dioubaté
Dirty Beat
Brandi Disterheft
Dominique Reynolds & The Saboteurs
Dream Algebra
Ryan Driver
Guy Donis
Elephant Island
Karyn Ellis
Ensemble Montréal Tango
Ensemble Stadaconé
Michael Essoudry
Evergreen Club - Contemporary Gamelan
Colin Fisher
Gallery Players of Niagara
Michel Gonneville
Haida Gwaii Singers
Yoko Hirota
Viviane Houle
Inhabitants
Ion Zoo
John Southworth and the South Seas
Bradley Keller
Pierre Labbé
LaL Group
Wayne Lavallee
Le vent du nord
Lina Allemano Four
Nicole Lizée
Brenda MacIntyre
Reza Manbachi
Amanda Martinez
Bruce Mather
Essaïd Mesnaoui
Lisa Miller
Moon Circus
Miranda Mulholland
Musique Multi-Montréal
New Orchestra Workshop Society
Nouvel Ensemble Moderne (NEM)
Farangis Nurulla-Khoja
Oktoecho
ORAL
Orchid Ensemble
Achilla Orru
Paul Read Orchestra
Peggy Lee Band
Tamara Persyko
Joseph Petric
Quasar quatuor de saxophones
Quatuor Bozzini
Radical 3
Dieudonné Rakotomamonjy
Random Access
Red Chamber
Redshift Music Society
Skeena Reece
Tony Reif
Yannick Rieu
Roam
Sambacana
Anne-Marie Schaefer
Simon Fisk Trio
Sinfonia Toronto
Steppe
Jayme Stone
Tasa
The Justin Haynes Group
The Marigolds
Theresa Transistor
Thom Gossage Other Voices
Triska
Ugly Beauties
Vancouver Chamber Choir
Viper Central

LABELS
Songlines Recordings
earsay records
Spool Records
Avatar
Canadian Music Centre
Diffusion i média

The following information provided to me by Daniel Heikalo of Montreal on 2009-09-20. His comment:

"We are faced with a government with a gag agenda on artists who dare to innovate. Time for canadians to stop being sooo canadian, so polite and self-deprecatingly sheepish, and to rise-up and scream their indignation at the assassination of their culture by a bunch of "minority" fascist, in power with the help of all the other parties who support them to gain political points while our society and culture crumbles, behind walls, behind the headlines. They want to silence us, lets speak out!"

Daniel Heïkalo, guitarist-composer-improviser (Montreal and Nova Scotia)

LABELS & DISTRIBUTORS
Ambiances Magnétiques
DAME
Ohm
Effendi
Analekta,
Electrocd

CANADIAN & INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS EFFECTED

Daniel Heïkalo, Arthur Bull, John Heward, Paul Dutton, John Oswald, Jean Derome, Joan Hétu, Malcolm Goldstein, René Lussier, Ganesh Anandan, Pierre Tanguay, Pierre Cartier, Bernard Falaise, Normand Guilbeault, André Duchesne, Michel F. Côté, Tom Wlash, Jean René, Danielle P. Roger, La Fanfare Pourpour, Martin Tétrault, Guillaume Dostaler, Trio Fibonacci, Rainer Wiens, Ziya Tabassian, Fred Frith, Joëlle Léandre, Antoine Berthiaume, Marie-Soleil Bélanger, Mélanie Aiclair, Chantal Dumas, Diane Labrosse, Robert marcel Lepage, Alexandre Saintonge, Nicloas Caloïa, Michel Chion

NOTE THAT FAMOUS COMPOSERS & PERFORMERS FROM USA, UK & FRANCE are also effected by these cuts!

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