JULIET
A MIRROR WITHOUT
I'M SO GLAD
A GOOD ENOUGH DAY FOR ROYAL WOOD
On Jan 30th 2007,
Royal Wood and
Dead Daisy Records/Outside Music unleashed
A Good Enough Day to rave reviews;
“"An excellent showcase ... an immaculately produced record" –
EYE MAGAZINE““A Good Enough Day is a pop delight, an old-fashioned train-car stocked with alternating riffs on love and heartache. Musically and lyrically well-written, this album is more than good enough.†–
THE COASTCarefully writing, performing and producing the effort, Royal decided to have a few guest musicians sit in, including well-known Toronto musicians
Hawksley Workman, Kurt Swinghammer, Harmony Trowbridge and
Kevin Fox.
With the new record out to critical praise, his music in the hands of fans, successful performances at major festivals and venues, including a tour with Canadian songstress
Sarah Harmer, Royal Wood is an artist whose time is at hand to be heard.
Royal’s music has been featured on several TV and movie soundtracks; including the HBO series
Regenisis, the CBC series
This is Wonderland, the CTV movie
Playing House, the film
The End of Silence starring
Sarah Harmer, and the Warner Music Canada soundtrack to the Food Network’s
The Surreal Gourmet (with other artists including
Feist, Tom Waits, The Flaming Lips, Moby, Aretha Franklin) and more.
His self-written, performed and produced releases
The Milkweed EP (2003) and
Tall Tales (2004) have garnered critical praise:
The album (Tall Tales) drifts from sad pastoral laments to capering piano pop jubilance with an effortlessness that is truly staggering. Vocally and lyrically, Wood comes surprisingly close to Aimee Mann's stomping grounds, with glancing blows at Ron Sexsmith's tenebrous pipes and brand of song craft. But Wood is his own man, his own voice, and the sincerity of his words can't be blamed on anyone but him. NOW MAGAZINE “Wood is on his way to establishing himself alongside the Canadian royalty of artists such as Sexsmith and Wainwright. “ –
EXCLAIM MAGAZINE
Beginning on the piano at the age of four, Royal became a multi-instrumentalist by his early teens. In fact, any instrument he could get his hands on was explored and devoured. His school's music program had a sign-out policy for any instrument smaller than the tympani - and they all found their way home to his bedroom. Even the drums came home for the summer months.
Fast-forward to today, and you will find Royal performing major events like
Hillside Music Festival, Canadian Music Week, North by Northeast, Halifax Pop Explosion, Bluebird North and more; as well as sharing the stage with the likes of
Sarah Harmer, My Morning Jacket, Sarah Slean, Peter Elkas, Danny Michel, Serena Ryder, Dan Bern, Justin Rutledge, Lindy, Jill and Matt Barber, Emm Gryner, Erin McKowen and more.
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Shauna de Cartier
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Helen Britton
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