Free Chad VanGaalen EP Available

09/15/09 4:19pm

by Kate Harper (CHARTattack)

Chad VanGaalen has released a free EP of B-sides from the Polaris Music Prize short listed Soft Airplane.

VanGaalen is offering the EP to fans as a "companion EP," and a press release states many of its tracks cover the same themes (birth, love, death, environmental destruction) VanGaalen wrote about on Soft Airplane. The EP is available for download at softairplane.com.

VanGaalen will spend September and October on the road in support of Soft Airplane, and just released his Snow Blindness Is Crystal Antz debut album as electronic side project Black Mold. You can see the video for that disc's "Metal Spiderwebs" in our media section.

VanGaalen will play these dates:

Sept. 19 Toronto, ON @ Church Of The Redeemer w/ Castlemusic
Sept. 21 Toronto, ON @ The Concert Hall at the Masonic Temple (Polaris Music Prize gala)
Sept. 25 Calgary, AB @ Ironwood w/ The Wet Secrets
Oct. 8 Regina, SK @ The Exchange w/ Castlemusic
Oct. 9 Winnipeg, MB @ The Park Theatre w/ Castlemusic
Oct. 10 Saskatoon, SK @ Broadway Theatre w/ Castlemusic
Oct. 14 Victoria, BC @ Alix Goolden Hall w/ Castlemusic
Oct. 15 Vancouver, BC @ The Rio Theatre w/ Castlemusic
Oct. 16 Kelowna, BC @ Habitat w/ Castlemusic
Oct. 18 Edmonton, AB @ Myer Horowitz Theatre w/ Castlemusic

Here are the tracks on the Soft Airplane B-Sides EP:

"Stuffed Animal"
"Are You Sleeping?"
"Microscopic World"
"Soak In Visions"
"Pyramids Float"
"Twisting Magic Up"
"Did You Find Peace?"
"I Wish I Was A Dog" (with Julie D. and Fred S.)
"Corvette"