artist Songs for Sadie

Brand spanking new 4-track demo released January 11/2011! You can hear it on Myspace or CBC Radio 3 (radio3.cbc.ca) and available for purchase shortly (for a very small fee :).

"Something sad, always something sad. The packages that came; untying the string was the ecstacy. The thing in the package was never quite-" -Steinbeck

Inspired by the wartime tales of his grandmothers and fostered by the works of John Steinbeck, Jack London and other influential writers and poets, Quinn Harper developed Songs for Sadie as a musical project to explore the battles in the lives of the half of humanity that didn’t leave for war.

Growing up in a household where the stereo was always on, the walls were decorated with family artwork and his father’s instruments lay around, it was natural that art and music would become acute interests.

Fast-forward to 2010 and the setting may be changed, but the passion remains.

A long way from rural northern British Columbia, a niche has been found in Vancouver, BC. Among bouts of study in Simon Fraser University’s Earth Sciences, travel and summer work as a forest fire fighter, Quinn spends all his spare time playing and writing music.

Recently released recordings include a collaboration with vocalist Josefin Almers in song-writing as well as Martin Kratky (cello), Annette Dominik (violin, viola), Adam Buchanan (percussion) and Kyle Hayes (bass).

Recorded at Perry’s Sound Studio in Kamloops, BC and mastered by Noah Mintz at Lacquer Channel, SofS’s recent recordings were something put together “relatively haphazardly, through very little planning with a great group of people.” It was certainly a learning experience, considering Row Away was written and arranged (arranged?) in the studio during a recording session. “I had a lot of ideas with no knowledge of how to put any of it together, so I just thought I’d put some great musicians in a tight space on a schedule, and see what happens.”