CJLO's Promotions Director and host of The Neighbourhood, Josh, was lucky enough to catch up with Simone of Fiver (Also of One Hundred Dollars & The Highest Order) ahead of her upcoming Montreal performance this Saturday, Jan 13th at Petit Campus presented by Hello Darlin'. They had a great conversation which touched on concepts of delusion, tacit beliefs, colonialism and more...
Her latest album Audible Songs from Rockwood is a series of eleven fictional field recordings, gathered from case files of patients at the Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane between 1854-1881. Simone pored over the asylum's primary documents for 2 years, spinning her findings into historical fiction and, from there, into song.
The interview airs Wednesday, January 10th between 5-6pm alongside a live interview with Mappe Of.