About Me
Jonathan "Beaver" Sheppard born Newfoundland, CANADA now calls Montreal home.His early musical incarnations began in grade 7 with a band called WEED. Through the use of made-up percussion instruments (i.e. pots and pans)... the band produced such smash hits like.. "Kill Me Or I'll Kill You", "DRUGS", and "Constipated".Known simply around town as BEAVER, he now makes low-fi bedroom 4-track songs with his guitar and pieces of drum kit lying around his apartment. Occasionally he'll tamper with sounds on his MPC2000 and fruity loops. Live performances are epic, intimate, heart-warming and sincere. His spastic strumming, garbled and personal lyrics, and sometimes wailing vocals can be compared to that of Daniel Johnston.Fruitfully involved in numerous side projects and collaborations, Beaver has participated in everything from Igloo to Brain Deer to singing in Think About Life and to going on tour with Wolf Parade and Sunset Rubdown. These projects are a means for him to keep himself entertained and involved with the friends that he truly loves and admires.Accompanying his music, Beaver's illustrations and drawings speak through manic landscapes and hybrid creatures. His images are often elated with eroticism and touches of fantasmal colours, lines, curves, and scribbles that suggest life and being. Travelling between minimal, with floating bodies and vacant spaces, and the complex, with furrowed forms amassed into dense stuctures, his images teeters to extremes.Beaver exists through his broadscale friendships and relationships he has with everyone and everything in his immediate surroundings. Slightly adverse to the Internet, he exists supremely in the 'real' world with the love of fine foods, good company, spontaneity, people/laughter, lust, entertainment/party, and adventure. From the trusted forests of rural NFLD to the bustling hi profile music community of Montreal, Beaver finds peace within and between both worlds.Beaver has shared the stage with: Sunset Rubdown, Billy Childish, Xiu Xiu, Frog Eyes, Ris Paul Rick (Q and not U), Think About Life and many others.....previous projects:
WEED (1992/93), Honey Grin (1996/97), Momma Loves Daddy, Blane Runner (2002/03), Tilton (2002/03)current projects:
igloo, Beaver/POSTMASTER, TheYenChenKU, Braindeer............future projects / releases:
My Yellow Fall (early recordings - internet B-side) 2003
You Can Only Control Instincts When They Come - ehse records (BALTIMORE) 2006/07
The Lonely Coast - pavilion projects (MTL) 2006/07
The ashwongs - A-minor misdemeanor album
