Two Koreas Release Radio Sessions

05/28/08 4:30pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Toronto rockers The Two Koreas will make some radio recordings available in a more permanent manner when their Sessions EP hits stores through Unfamiliar Records on June 12.

Singer Stuart Berman, guitarist Kieran Grant, organist Jason Anderson, drummer David Gee and bassist Ian Worang recorded two sessions at XM Satellite Radio's The Verge in Toronto last June, which is the basis for the record. The seven-track EP will be released digitally and on vinyl. It features favourites from their two previous albums and new track "Withering Heights," which will appear on an upcoming EP of the same name. Four songs from Sessions EP can be previewed on The Two Koreas' MySpace page.

Berman, Grant and Anderson all write for Toronto's Eye Weekly, and they formed The Two Koreas as a joke with Gee and Worang in 2003. They became a "serious band" and their self-released Main Plates & Classic Pies debut came out in 2005. Altruists followed two years later. Worang also plays with Toronto bands Uncut and The Diableros.

You can hear The Two Koreas play some of the tracks from Sessions in a non-radio live format when they play Toronto's Beaver on June 12 and the El Mocambo two nights later as part of the North By Northeast Music Festival.

Here are the tracks on Sessions EP:

"Withering Heights"
"54 Is The New 27"
"Steely Can"
"Boy Teen Oslo"
"Hotel Christiania"
"Cloth Coat Revolution"
"A Neu Ing/No More Drinking With Estonians"