Eternal Sunday presents Come To My World, the first single taken from the upcoming Canal Pop album, featuring singer, actress and model Josefina Aufranc.
The album will be an homage to the early electro disco music that
started with Donna Summer’s “I Feel Love”, produced by Giorgio Moroder
in 1977.
The single contains the title track and a killer remix by Fr3ak. Both of them are instantly recognizable as Canal Pop songs, respecting the formula of releasing very catchy electropop songs with carefully produced vocal arrangements. Josefina Aufranc provides crystal- clear powerful vocals.
“I want Canal Pop to sound like a mix of Daft Punk and Abba”,
said Emiliano Canal, the man behind Canal Pop. “I want a modern sound,
but I also love the early electro sound, the old Hi-NRG and Italo disco
sound. These were fantastic styles of music, much more original that
rock. That’s why we covered ‘I Feel Love’, Giorgio Moroder started a
revolution and music was changed forever. But no one took this
electronic music seriously when it started”.
Several years ago Canal Pop recorded with singer Gaby Laguzzi a cover version of Electric Light Orcherstra’s 1979 hit “Don’t Bring Me Down”. This version was only available in the deluxe CD version of the EP + remixes We Never Play Live In Buenos Aires. Now, Eternal Sunday finally releases it digitally as a single.
Incidentally this is the only Canal Pop song to this date that features guitars, played by Valerio Rinaldi in his first collaboration with Canal Pop/ Eternal Sunday.
ES 2234 Canal Pop – High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys EP
Catchy electropop with ironic lyrics and carefully crafted vocal arrangements. That is, more or less, the definition of Canal Pop's music given by Emiliano Canal, the man behind the project. And the 4-tracks EP High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys is the proof that the definition still applies.
"Contrary to what people may think, catchy pop music is very difficult to make, because you have to combine a few very effective elements in a very little time, and everything has to fit perfectly. Anyone can make an experimental 15 minutes ode full of chords and strange noises, the difficult think is to make people dance in 3 minutes", says Emiliano about his songs. Maybe he knows what he talks about, since he's the owner/ director of Eternal Sunday, a label specialized in releasing Argentinean artists who sing in English, and that job forces him to listen dozens of new bands and songs every week.
"I love to own a label but the cons are that it takes time away from my own musical projects like Canal Pop. The label forces you to think and work in a different way, especially about marketing and airplay, and it becomes difficult to sit at the studio to mix a song or to simply try new music ideas at the keyboard. It's like owning a football team and wanting to go to kick a corner shot at the same time, it is not very practical." Maybe because of this High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys is a 4-tracks EP. "To record and finish a complete album was taking too much time for me, and it's not that important nowadays since people consumes music in a different way. I think it's better to have an EP with four solid songs and not a 15-tracks album with ten fillers".
After a first listen, the four songs in High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys seem to be solid enough. "Two Of A Kind" opens, a story with a somehow erotic innuendo and sexy plays of words ("we're two of a kind, 'cause you've got a sexy body and I have a dirty mind")."A Place" follows, based on a true story, a song that describes a confused girl who doesn't know if she likes girls or boys. "I went out with some friends and a pretty girl came to say hi and when asked how was everything she said not very good, because I don't know if I like girls or boys", Emiliano remembers. This song has a lot of fans, and I suppose it is because it's about being young, not knowing what you want, being afraid of showing yourself the way you are, wanting to go far away, and all the issues of sexual ambiguity, of not matching a certain social ideal. The third song is "Electricity", a song that was chosen in 2011 (among thousands) to be part of the Face The Beat compilation, released by the portal/ magazine Side Line, from Belgium, property of the owners of Alfa Matrix, the most important electro/ industrial/ EBM label in the world. "All the classic electropop band have a song called 'Electricity' and I didn't want to be exception", explains Emiliano. "Of course I tried to give it a sexier connotation ('plug your love into me') because I like to make those plays of words. I think it worked, because the people from Side Line liked it and they have more than a thousand tracks to choose from for their compilation". The EP closes with "For Falling (In Love)", a song that Canal Pop recorded a few times before but was never released. "The chorus simply came to my head. I was in my apartment and heard on my head the 'Oh eh oh, this is a night for falling in love'. I sat at the keyboard and noticed that the musical phrase had a 2/4 bar that complicated everything, but the melody was so catchy that I wrote the rest of the song. I needed to record several versions to be satisfied, when you have a very catchy idea everything you add on top of it tends to interfere".
As Canal Pop, Emiliano Canal works alone ("I deal with enough musicians as a label owner"), so all the keyboards, the production and the arrangements are his. The exception are the voices, Canal Pop has collaborated with very interesting female singers like Gaby Laguzzi (We Never Play Live In Buenos Aires,2007), Bea Conenna, born in New York (Ecstatic Days single, 2008), sexy Lara Sambert who later appeared on prime time Argentinean TV show Cantando Por Un Sueño, the equivalent of Singing With The Stars, and who toured Greek and Turkey) (An Electro Tribute To Oasis, 2010) and this time Paula Varela AKA Polette, one of Buenos Aires' top singers and sessionist who shared stages with Shakira, Deep Purple and countless other local stars. "Polette is, by far, the best singer I worked with. It is not only about singing nice, but about understanding what the producer and the song need, and Polette has an unique quality, she sings my songs in a nasal, Kylie Minogue way, after that she goes to a jazz club to sing jazz or funk like a diva and then she records a jingle for a canned soup, and she does everything right. That's why everyone calls her, it is an honor to work with her". As in every Canal Pop release, the vocal arrangements are very precise and elaborated, with crystal clear backing vocals coming and going, with little delays and echoes here and there (only noticed with headphones and the traditional robot-like vocoder and lo fi vocals. Canal Pop is back.
Canal Pop feat. Polette - High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys
Artist: Canal Pop (feat. Polette) Release: High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys EP Release date: Enero 23, 2012 Genre: Pop, Electropop, Dance Pop, Europop, Label: Eternal Sunday Catalog #: ES 2234
Tracklist
01. Two Of A Kind
02. A Place
03. Electricity
04. For Falling (In Love)
All songs written by Emiliano Canal. Published by Eternal Sunday/ Universal Music Publishing.
ES 2234 Canal Pop – High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys EP
Electropop pegadizo con letras irónicas (en inglés) y arreglos vocales cuidados. Palabras más o menos esa es la definición de la música de Canal Pop que da Emiliano Canal, el hombre detrás del proyecto. Y el EP de 4 temas High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys es una prueba de que la fórmula sigue vigente.
"Contrariamente a lo que la gente puede pensar, la música pop pegadiza es la más difícil de hacer, porque hay que combinar elementos muy efectivos en muy poco tiempo y todo tiene que funcionar perfectamente. Cualquiera hace una oda experimental llena de acordes y de ruidos raros que dure 15 minutos, lo difícil es hacer bailar a la gente en 3", comenta Emiliano cuando habla de sus canciones. Quizás sepa de lo que habla, ya que su actividad paralela (¿principal?) es la de ser el dueño/ director del sello Eternal Sunday, sello especializado en lanzar artistas argentinos con material en inglés, oficio que le demanda escuchar docenas de bandas y canciones nuevas por semana.
"Tener un sello me encanta pero tiene la contra de que le resta mucho tiempo y energías a mis propios proyectos puramente musicales como Canal Pop. El sello te obliga a trabajar y a pensar de otra forma, sobre todo en las cuestiones de márketing y difusión, y cuesta ponerse a terminar una mezcla o a probar ideas en el teclado. Tener un sello y querer ser artista es como ser directivo de un club y querer ir a cabecear un córner, es poco práctico". Quizás por eso High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys es un EP de 4 tracks. "Grabar y terminar un álbum completo me estaba llevando demasiado tiempo, y hoy la gente consume música de otra manera, es preferible tener un EP de cuatro canciones sólidas y no un álbum de quince tracks de los cuales diez son relleno".
A primera escucha, las cuatro canciones de High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys parecen ser suficientemente sólidas. Abre "Two Of A Kind", una historia con insinuaciones eróticas y juegos de palabras sexys ("we're two of a kind, 'cause you've got a sexy body and I have a dirty mind"/ somos tal para cual, porque tenés un cuerpo sexy y yo tengo una mente sucia). Sigue "A Place", una historia basada en un hecho real, que describe a una chica confundida que no sabe si le gustan los chicos o las chicas. "Salí con un grupo de amigos y una chica bastante linda vino a saludar alguien y cuando le preguntaron cómo estaba dijo mal, porque no sé si me gustan los chicos o las chicas", recuerda Emiliano Canal. "Esta canción siempre gustó, supongo que porque habla de cosas como el de ser joven, no tener claro lo que se quiere, tener miedo de mostrarse como uno es, de querer irte lejos y toda la cuestión de la ambigüedad sexual, de no encajar en un molde social predeterminado". El tercer tema es "Electricity", canción que fue elegida (entre miles de postulantes) en 2011 para ser parte de la compilación Face The Beat lanzada por la revista/ portal Side Line, de Bélgica, de los dueños de Alfa Matrix, el sello electro/ industrial/ EBM más importante del mundo. "Todas las bandas electropop clásicas tienen un tema llamado 'Electricity' y no quise ser la excepción", explica Emiliano. "Por supuesto, me tomé el atrevimiento de darle una connotación más sexy en la letra ('plug your love into me', enchufame tu amor) porque es lo que me gusta hacer, tomar un tema cualquiera y darle un doble sentido. Creo que quedó bien, porque a la gente de Side Line les gustó, y tenían miles de canciones de todo el mundo para elegir para la compilación". El EP cierra con la híper pegadiza "For Falling (In Love)", una canción que Canal Pop ya había grabado pero nunca lanzado. "El estribillo me vino de repente, estaba en mi departamento un día y escuché en mi cabeza el 'Oh eh oh, this is a night for falling in love'. Me senté al teclado y noté que la frase tenía un compás de 2/4 que complicaba todo, pero la melodía era tan pegadiza que compuse el resto del tema. Tuve que grabar varias versiones para estar medianamente satisfecho, cuando aparece una idea muy pegadiza y muy sólida todo lo que uno tiende a meter la ensucia".
Como Canal Pop, Emiliano Canal trabaja solo ("ya trato con suficientes músicos como dueño de un sello"), por lo que todos los teclados, la producción y los arreglos son suyos. La excepción son las voces. Canal Pop ha colaborado con cantantes (femeninas) muy interesantes como Gaby Laguzzi (We Never Play Live In Buenos Aires, 2007), Bea Conenna, nacida en Nueva York (Ecstatic Days single,2008), la sensual Lara Sambert (luego participante del programa de TV Cantando Por Un Sueño y con giras a Grecia y Turquía) (An Electro Tribute To Oasis, 2010) y esta vez es el turno de Paula Varela AKA Polette, multifacética cantante y sesionista de Buenos Aires que ha compartido escenarios con Shakira, Deep Purple e incontables estrellas locales. "Polette es la mejor cantante con la que he trabajado, por lejos. No se trata sólo de tener una bonita voz sino de interpretar lo que el productor y la canción están pidiendo, y Polette tiene una ductilidad única, canta mis temas con una voz algo nasal a lo Kylie Minogue y después sale y va a un club a cantar jazz y funk como una diva y después termina el día grabando un jingle de sopas instantáneas, y hace todo bien. Por algo trabaja con los mejores y la llaman siempre. Es un honor grabar con ella", confiesa Emiliano. Como en todos los lanzamientos de Canal Pop, los arreglos vocales son elaborados, prolijos, con coros cristalinos entrando y saliendo todo el tiempo, con pequeños ecos y delays que se aprecian sólo con auriculares, y no faltan ni los ocasionales vocoders robotizados ni las voces low fi. Canal Pop está de regreso.
Artista: Canal Pop (feat. Polette) Álbum: High Class Girls & Lo Fi Boys EP Fecha de lanzamiento: Enero 23, 2012 Género: Pop, Electropop, Dance Pop, Europop, Sello: Eternal Sunday Número de catalogo: ES 2234
Tracklist
01. Two Of A Kind
02. A Place
03. Electricity
04. For Falling (In Love)
Todos los temas escritos por Emiliano Canal. Editados por Eternal Sunday/ Universal Music Publishing.
The album by Canal Pop feat. Lara Sambert An Electro Tribute To Oasiswas reviewed at (Belgium's) Side Line, the most important synthpop/ electropop/ industrial magazine in the world.
They say that the production sounds like Erasure and that Lara Sambert's voice range is "alluring"... Not bad.
Canal Pop feat. Lara Sambert - An Electro Tribute To Oasis will be for sale on May 24, 2010 at the most important digital stores worldwide. The CD version will follow soon.
Eternal Sunday presents Southern Electro Originals, the ultimate compilation of electropop from Argentina with vocals in English.
Since its beginnings in 2006 the label Eternal Sunday had the objective of developing (and then exporting to the world) artists that are part of the Argentinean pop scene with songs in English. This local scene exists, and many of its artists are extremely talented, they write, perform and record great songs of a superb quality, that can sound next to any international hit.
To prove this Eternal Sunday releases Southern Electro Originals, The ultimate compilation of electropop from Argentina. The album has 13 killer tracks that go from the ultra catchy uptempo electropop (KooLTURE, Canal Pop), move to the darker side adding industrial sounds (LastraX, Electrofreek), flirt with house music (Mr Charles Deluxe, Alfredo Norese) and reach a killer disco hymn climax (Polette).
The name of the artists may not be familiar to most people, but this doesn't mean they're newcomers: Electrofreek, who's hit "Hear The Music" opens the album, is the project of the legend of rock nacional Tito Losavio, who was a half of the sucessful duo Man Ray during the 90's. He had played with Charly García, Andrés Calamaro, Los Twists, etc. etc.
KooLTURE has made dozens of dance digital releases and is well known in the international underground electropop scene, having remixed and produced artists from around the world. The same happens to Demarco Electronic Project, the techno twins, who appear on a regular basis on the charts at Beatport.com, the most important dance/ electronic music store in the world. They've made all kind of records, from cutting edge electronic music to electronic tango to hard rock.
Polette is the legendary singer Paula Varela who uses to sing dozens of radio and TV jingles each year and had sung next to international stars like Deep Purple and Shakira.
Alfredo Norese is another known producer, ex member of Macaferri & Asociados, a successful 90's band from Argentina and author of many house tracks sold around the world. Auxiliar Channel and LastraX are very well know to fans of gothic/ industrial/ EBM music around the world. Its producer, Tecnoman SF, produces and records regularly European artists for labels from around the world.
A special mention goes to "Ecstatic Days", the collaboration between Canal Pop and Bea. Canal Pop is the project of Emiliano Canal, a producer from Argentina specialized in pop music with vocals in English and Bea is Bea Conenna, singer from New York City who leads Bea Ba, a North American band that makes rock en español. During a visit of Bea to Buenos Aires they got together and recorded this hit, released as a single by Eternal Sunday. They also made a music video that it’s the official music video for this compilation.
Southern Electro Originals was born to show the world the quality of the Argentinean pop music with vocals in English scene. This was a scene who had almost no support from labels till, Eternal Sunday appeared.
Southern electro Originals is an exclusive digital release. A CD edition will be released soon.
Eternal Sunday announces the release of the music video for "Ecstatic Days", the catchy electropop song perfomed by Canal Pop featuring Bea.
The video will be the official music video for the compilation Southern Electro Originals: The ultimate compilation of the best electropop from Argentina, which is being released by Eternal Sunday.
Eternal Sunday presents "Argentina's Pop For Export", the new podcast about pop music made in Argentina.
Entirely in English and narrated by Emiliano Canal, episode 01 presents the preview of four songs, and three of them are part of Eternal Sunday's catalog: KooLTURE – Stupid SuperStar (Sgoliat mix), Cosaquitos En Globo – A Different Colour, Canal Pop feat. Gaby Laguzzi – Cool In Japan, and the yet unreleased "Don't You Know" by Angelini Music.
We keep our promise to dedicate ourselves to make the music of our artists known in the rest of the world, gaining access to new markets.
We're proud to announce that the EP We Never Play live In Buenos Aires by Canal Pop featuring Gaby Laguzzi is finally for sale at iTunes and other major digital stores.
We Never Play Live In Buenos Aires is an Eternal Sunday release.
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