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Seasons Festival, BlueprintLIVE and Celebrities Present // BEAR MOUNTAIN // www.mybearmountain.com www.facebook.com/mybearmountain www.instagram.com/mybearmountain W/ SABOTA & CHERSEA CELEBRITIES NIGHTCLUB Doors at 7:30PM - Curfew at 11PM Set time at 10PM TICKETS ON SALE FOR ALL #SEASONS2015 EVENTS VIA WWW.SEASONSFESTIVAL.COM The debut full-length album from Vancouver's Bear Mountain, XO, is an exuberant whirlwind of an album that strikes a balance between long-form instrumental techno and soulful, vocal-driven dance club anthems. Centered around the duo of singer/songwriter Ian Bevis and guitarist Kyle Statham, Bear Mountain also includes Ian's twin brother, drummer Greg Bevis, and Creative Director Kenji Rodriguez. The band build its densely layered dance music by mixing live and sampled drums, '80s-sounding keyboards, and Statham's arpeggiated, delay pedal-drenched guitar lines. Soaring on top of all of this is Ian's soulful tenor croon, often tackling the hook that, in a house track, would ordinarily be provided by a sample. This combination of electronic meets electric instrumentation gives Bear Mountain's largely dance-oriented music an organic, somewhat psychedelic, improvisational quality, as if they were playing and mixing the tracks live. Over half the songs on XO are instrumental; they're woozy, often dizzying, but each still has a melodic through-line to keep your attention, even amid disparate swirls of abstract sound. Bear Mountain's influences are definitely hard to pin down, spanning genres like R&B, jazz, Latin, orchestral pop, dance-rock, and house. Tracks like "Congo," "Faded," and "Sing" are uplifting, infectious club-ready cuts that move both your soul and your feet. WWW.SEASONSFESTIVAL.COM WWW.CELEBRITIESNIGHTCLUB.COM WWW.THISISBLUEPRINT.COM WWW.BPLIVE.CA // LIKE // FOLLOW // VIA: http://facebook.com/blueprintLIVE http://facebook.com/seasonsfest http://facebook.com/celebritiesnightclub http://instagram.com/blueprintLIVE http://instagram.com/seasonsfest http://instagram.com/celebrities_van #SEASONS2015