Idée Fixe Records

01/05/2025

Excited to announce a most excellent new adventure. Idée Fixe and Whitney K have joined forces to present the band across the Dominion in partnership with the fine fine peeps who are spreading the word worldwide. We are smashing the champagne with the band’s brand new single Rosy, an up-tempo travelogue that blossoms into a euphoric Smog-like haze while detailing an intriguing underworld populated by passing strangers and half heard conversations.

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Whitney K is the musical vehicle for Canadian born songwriter Konner Whitney. He is known for his agile lyricism, unpolished yet luminously resonant recordings, and a gritty baritone that balances cool detachment with profound emotional undercurrents. For years, Whitney K existed as an amorphous moving target, as restless as the man behind it. After a string of cassette releases, the band focused its vision on their highly praised 12” debut, Two Years (2020; Maple Death Records), a pivotal period during which band-member Josh Boguski’s role solidified as primary collaborator and producer. Together with multi-talented musicians Avalon Tassonyi and Michael Halls, their synergy has since yielded two more acclaimed albums on Maple Death: Hard to be a God (2022), an immersive orchestral EP, and Vivi! (2023), a frenetic live album preserving their first international tour. Now the group have returned to Boguski/Halls’ studio in Montreal to craft their upcoming album. Stripping back and pushing forward, the band is conjuring their most raw yet refined work to date—an honest, sonically paradoxical collection that finds fresh possibilities in the familiar shapes of rock, pop, and folk with the same unfiltered energy and poetic gravity Whitney K fans have come to expect.

Also announcing tour dates for the UK this Sept. courtesy of and Montreal make sure to hit L’Escogriffe tomorrow night where Whitney K open for Nap Eyes’ tour send off. Much more to come.

Past praise for Whitney K

“Remarkably sophisticated musical blend... Inventing exciting new directions for roots music all along the way.” ★★★★ MOJO

“Nomadic Canadian channelling magical realism, country rock and Lou Reed” Uncut

12/04/2024

Hey British Colombia and are coming your way in May.

May 10 - Masset Playhouse - Haida Gwaii
May 11 - Skidegate Heights House Show - Haida Gwaii
May 13 - Cowpuccinos - Prince Rupert, BC
May 14 - Smithers Legion - Smithers, BC
May 15 - SARRAS - Wells, BC
May 16 - The Vault - Nanaimo, BC
May 17 - Cassette Cafe and Dive Bar - Saltspring Island, BC
May 19 - Lucky Bar - Victoria, BC
May 22 - Speakeasy - West Kelowna, BC
May 23 - Lana Lou’s - Vancouver, BC
May 24 - Comox Valley Curling Centre - Cumberland, BC
May 25 - Oxeye - Galiano Island, BC

17/01/2024

We are particularly delighted to announce our first release of 2024 is the self-titled release from Shabason, Krgovich, Sage. We are offering a variety of formats In which to experience this aural treasure all to be found at link where you can pre-order/listen.

https://ideefixe.ffm.to/gloria

Joseph Shabason, Matthew Sage, and Nicholas Krgovich form a pretty perfect triangle, musically and geographically. Based out of Toronto, Colorado, and Vancouver respectively, the three convened at Sage’s converted barn studio at the foot of the Rockies to diagram their kindred ability to extract grandeur from the most passable of life’s daily details. On his own, saxophonist Joseph Shabason warps late 80s adult-contemporary and smooth jazz aesthetics into tidepools of fourth-worldly sound design that are infinitely more self-aware and emotionally honest than any of their distant reference points. M. Sage, in a parallel sense, blends his skills as an instrumentalist with synthesis and field recordings to create auditory reflections of the natural world that are as whimsical as they are profound. Sitting cozily between these two heartfelt experimentalists is singer Nicholas Krgovich, whose observational slice-of-life poetics paint a relatable face onto his collaborators’ calm expressionism, both guiding and highlighting its deep sense of affect. The resulting album, prosaically titled Shabason, Krgovich, Sage warmly invites sound artist Matthew Sage into the world of wry and melancholy micro-miracles that Shabason and Krgovich established on 2020’s Philadelphia, and 2022’s At Scaramouche.

03/11/2023

Bry Webb’s Run With Me is here! Gentle reminder it is Friday so a good day for buying.

It takes a village and there is no doubt a village came together to help Bry create this amazing record. Here we go in order of appearance.

Andy Magoffin (horns)
Olivier Fairfield (drums, percussion)
Anna Ruddick (upright bass)
Rich Burnett (lap steel, guitar)
Thomas Hammerton (piano, hammond organ, strings)
Jenny Mitchell (bass)
Julie Doiron (vocals)
Aaron Goldstein (pedal steel)
Jonas Bonetta (percussion)
Daniel Romano (vocals)
Will Kidman (guitar)
Dallas Wehrle (bass)
Doug MacGregor (drums, claps)
Jennifer Castle (vocals)
Addy Kulakowsky (drums)
Ella Kulakowsky (drums)
Steph Yates (vocals)
Ben Grossman (hurdy gurdy)
Nathan Lawr (drums)
Cherie Pyne (guitar)
Michael Feuerstack (lap steel)
Patrick Conan (drums)
Stephen Evans (bass)
Asa Fletcher Webb (doppler percussion).

10 track album

18/10/2023

Outbound Only, No Return is the third and final preview of Bry Webb’s Run With Me before the album's release on Nov. 3rd. An acoustic garage jammer, Outbound features Olivier Fairfield on kit, Jonas Bonnetta on percussion and thee Daniel Romano on some sweet stacked harmonies. Bry continues to add dates and hit towns across Ontario and Quebec and the next five days is replete with shows. We have records and so does Bry (who will be selling off stage as of now) and we will get these out early next week to all who have pre-ordered. If you haven’t taken the plunge please do by visiting the link.

https://ideefixe.ffm.to/outbound

Shows!

Oct 18 - Kingston, ON - Hotel Wolfe Island w/ Cots
Oct 19 - Peterborough, ON - Jethro’s w/ Cots
Oct 20 - Uxbridge, ON - Second Wedge w/ Cots
Oct 21 - Sharbot Lake, ON - Belong w/ Cots
Oct 22 - Alcove, QC - Magasin Général La Pêche w/ Cots
Nov 3 - Brantford, ON - Coachhouse at Glenhurst Art Gallery w/ Cots
Nov 4 - Guelph, ON - Album Release Show! Royal City Church w Cots
Jan 19 - St. Catherines, ON - Niagara Artists Centre w/ Cots
Jan 20 - Barrie, ON - Common Good

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