Thank You!

Soundscapes will be closing permanently on September 30th, 2021.

Open every day between Spetember 22nd-30th

We'd like to thank all of our loyal customers over the years, you have made it all worthwhile! The last 20 years have seen a golden age in access to the world's recorded music history both in physical media and online. We were happy to be a part of sharing our knowledge of some of that great music with you. We hope you enjoyed most of what we sold & recommended to you over the years and hope you will continue to seek out the music that matters.

In the meantime we'll be selling our remaining inventory, including thousands of play copies, many of which are rare and/or out-of-print, never to be seen again. Over the next few weeks the discounts will increase and the price of play copies will decrease. Here are the details:

New CDs, LPs, DVDs, Blu-ray, Books 60% off 15% off

Rare & out-of-print new CDs 60% off 50% off

Rare/Premium/Out-of-print play copies $4.99 $14.99

Other play copies $2.99 $8.99

Magazine back issues $1 $2/each or 10 for $5 $15

Adjusted Hours & Ticket Refunds

We will be resuming our closing sale beginning Friday, June 11. Our hours will be as follows:

Wednesday-Saturday 12pm-7pm
Sunday 11am-6pm

Open every day between September 22nd-30th

We will no longer be providing ticket refunds for tickets purchased from the shop, however, you will be able to obtain refunds directly from the promoters of the shows. Please refer to the top of your ticket to determine the promoter. Here is the contact info for the promoters:

Collective Concerts/Horseshoe Tavern Presents/Lee's Palace Presents: shows@collectiveconcerts.com
Embrace Presents: info@embracepresents.com
MRG Concerts: ticketing@themrggroup.com
Live Nation: infotoronto@livenation.com
Venus Fest: venusfesttoronto@gmail.com

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. Thank you for your understanding.

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Thursday
Dec032009

NICK CAVE & WARREN ELLIS - White Lunar

Vicious, tongue-in-cheek and crotch-driven, the Grinderman album was half-helmed by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis—a pair of other-side-of-forty Aussies who clearly revelled in the winking depravity of it all. But anyone who has followed these two closely knows that, together or alone, these musicians are also as contemplative and thoughtful as they come, none more so than when they do soundtracks. They first linked up in this way to score Cave's screenplay for the western The Proposition, which played a little like a toes-getting-wet affair, complete with sections lifted and respun from Ellis' main act, The Dirty Three. But following that, their confidence has grown with each project, culminating in scoring this month's film adaption of Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Despite the near-simultaneous release of that film's soundtrack, White Lunar is a two-disc collection of the best moments of these several projects, plus some odds-and-sods. Mainly using their primary instruments of Cave's piano and Ellis' peerless violin (although also flavoured by hits of keys, spoken-word and jarring samples), these soundtracks present a uniform sense of tense ambiance—like someone trying to enjoy a massage while in a straitjacket. This clearly suits the subject matter it's meant to complement, but if you're thinking that nearly two hours of it can get a little monotonous, I'm not going to tell you you're wrong. Like The Bad Seeds and Dirty Three itself, much of your appreciation of this music depends on patience and open listening. Despite having no real standout moment, White Lunar is ugly, beautiful and, in the end, highly compelling stuff.

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