Wind Whistles blow in from Canada

On Thursday, August 7 indie folk duo, Wind Whistles, all the way from Vancouver, Canada, will play The Stables, Mullingar, accompanied by Sing Song and Resurrection Fern.Highly recommended and respected, talk of their debut album, Window Sills, goes something like this:On more than one occasion, Tom Prilesky, one half of the Vancouver-based duo that makes up the Wind Whistles, croons and weaves words eerily like Decemberists frontman, Colin Meloy. This isn"t too strange, seeing as their debut album, Window Sills, is a positively folksy affair. Prilesky drops lyrics like 'sail my ship to Africa', 'I"ll meet you out on the train', and similarly vagabond-like vocals that echo themes in many a Decemberist song. Where these folktale similarities end, Prilesky and fellow-Wind Whistle Liza Moser branch out on a risky limb, take some friends along for the ride, and hold on tight.Window Sills is a veritable jam session as the Wind Whistles invite various talents to sing along, compose and strum, resulting in a compilation of simple songs that sound like friends making music in somebody"s basement. Scratch that: Friends making music in a rustic cabin, on an island, surrounded by wild deer and a wooded glen. When night falls, they all keep jamming, a melancholy ballad emerges here and there (the captivating 'River'), and in the morning friendships are stronger and good prospers over evil ('Good friends won"t rip you off' is so feel-good it hurts).The reality is that the disc was mixed and recorded in a local studio, but you can hear the rich fantasies behind the tunes. These are songs that tell stories - solid harmonies with a diversity that could only be achieved by having eighteen performers rally together on twelve tight tracks.- Katie Nanton - Discorder Magazine Feb. 2008 issue.Sing Song are a minimalist electro folk duo from Dublin and accompany Wind Whistles on their Irish tour, while Resurrection Fern is a new project to see where a non percussive band might take the songs based loosely around Athlone native, Bean. Joined by a collective of musicians on any given night they were recently seen in The Stables supporting Walkperson and El Scamperino.For more information on the night, or the bands, check out www.myspace.com/thewindwhistles, www.myspace.com/meandthehoneybees, and www.myspace.com/resurrectionfern