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About Me

Stimulated by boyhood dreams and the prospect of ‘musical enlightment’ four friends from the Dutch coutryside pick up the guitars and drumsticks somewhere in 2001. On free afternoons and in weekends strings are stirred and drums are beaten in a small room, and quickly a musical unity is formed, which is complemented with an additional guitar player. A band is born.

At first the lion’s share of the repertoire consists of covers, but quickly also self written songs ring through the halls. After 3 years the band decides to split up and the band members part. But not for long. Soon they meet again, and the former members play together regularly on several occasions with several casts.

Early 2006 the plan is made to start a recording project where several musical ideas are developed. But soon the framework of being a studio act proves to be too small for the trio meanwhile, and they decide to start performing live as well. The result is Canadian Sunset…

The boys don’t feel bound to a specific style of music, but their work is a musical palette of emo/indie rock, pop and a touch of New wave. Their clear distinguished sound is characterised by compelling melodies, lead by fierce guitar sounds.

Contact us at: [email protected]

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Music:

Member Since: 10/27/2006
Band Members: Maurits Nienhuis Vocals & guitar Daniel Weststeyn Lead guitar & backing vocals Lennard Veldwijk Drums & moral support Henk-Jan Sleijster Live bassguitar & living statue
Influences: this beautiful mess, lionheart brothers, little things that kill, lampshade, sattelite7, blindside, the killers, the spirit that guides us, the violet burning, as cities burn, the glorious unseen
Sounds Like: Venues: "het Vliegende Paard" & "Eureka"
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Download "The Masquerade" here!

Here!
Posted by canadian sunset on Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:17:00 PST

The Masquerade downloadable March 9th !!

hi there,Hope you're doing well! We have just uploaded a new tune called "The Masquerade" and it will be downloadable in a few days! Sunday the 9th of March we will post the link to the download page!...
Posted by canadian sunset on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:57:00 PST

Bass player H-J

Hi all!It's been a while since we posted some news on this page. Here we go.Let us introduce you to Henk-Jan Sleijster, our new live bassist! He will be playing with us for the coming period. Jesse, t...
Posted by canadian sunset on Sun, 30 Dec 2007 05:19:00 PST

Photo journey!.. Visiting Daniel...

Hi there!We added some photo's of our journey to Madrid... We hung out with Daniel for a couple of days... Good fun!.. Check them out here and leave as many comments as you can!..Cheers,Canadian Sunse...
Posted by canadian sunset on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 05:25:00 PST

New recordings this month!..

We're happy to say we'll be recording new stuff this month!.. Daniel got back last weekend and we're back in business!.. Later this week we'll be posting a photo journey of our visit to Daniel in Madr...
Posted by canadian sunset on Wed, 13 Jun 2007 04:07:00 PST

Daniel left us...

for 4 months to continue his studies in Madrid... It was horible to see him go!.. We miss you Dan! But... In the meantime we will be working on new noise... So when Daniel gets back we can continue to...
Posted by canadian sunset on Sat, 10 Feb 2007 12:01:00 PST

Too bad!..

Canadian Sunset didn't make it to the final round! We were so close!.. We finished 4th out of 12 bands... The closest call ever!.. They mentioned Canadian Sunset besides the top-3 bands as a band with...
Posted by canadian sunset on Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:11:00 PST

Thanks!...

to all of you who left their homes to visit our first gig at "Art In Motion" last thursday night! It was good!..  Thanks for all the great reactions we've had! It was overwhelming!...
Posted by canadian sunset on Mon, 20 Nov 2006 02:38:00 PST