Winter Equinox
| Company type | Band |
|---|---|
| Industry | Music |
| Founded | May 2004 |
| Defunct | March 2006 |
| Headquarters | Dundas and Waterloo, Ontario , Canada |
| Products | Music albums, live performances |
Winter Equinox was an experimental and post-rock ensemble originating from Dundas and Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, established in May 2004.
This predominantly instrumental four-piece blended elements of post-rock, electronic music, glitch, and experimental sounds through intricate layering to produce immersive auditory experiences punctuated by occasional melodic bass lines and vocal passages. The members possessed classical training alongside influences from jazz and rock genres.
Their instrumentation featured keyboards, guitar, bass, drums, percussion, flute, clarinet, melodica, and sequenced rhythms. Their musical inspirations included Tortoise, Do Make Say Think, Mogwai, Caribou, Sigur Rós, Explosions in the Sky, The Notwist, M83, and Boards of Canada.
Winter Equinox toured extensively throughout southern Ontario, frequently incorporating synchronized video projections created by the band themselves. They appeared in Wavelength Magazine's Music Series and shared stages with artists such as Caribou, The Organ, Matt Pond PA, and Holy Fuck. In the summer of 2005, they independently recorded and produced their first album, Safe and Sound, which was released through Crony Records in August 2005. The record garnered praise as "one of the great unnoticed albums of 2005." After the album's release, the group toured across Quebec, Eastern Canada, and Ontario.
The band dissolved in March 2006; their concluding performance took place on December 11, 2005 at The Casbah in Hamilton, Ontario, alongside Caribou and Holy Fuck. Following the breakup, Brad Weber pursued solo projects under the name Solitary Extraction, while Lauren Yakiwchuk continued performing as part of the duo Knife-Like Objects.
Their composition "Two Eyes" appeared in the fourth episode of season two of the Canadian drama series Whistler during fall 2007.
Discography
- Safe and Sound – August 2005
- Demo 02 EP – January 2005
- Demo 01 EP – August 2004
External links
- Winter Equinox on Myspace
- Crony Records
- Short description with empty Wikidata description
- Canadian post-rock groups
- Canadian experimental musical groups
- Musical groups from the Regional Municipality of Waterloo
- Musical groups established in 2004
- Musical groups disestablished in 2006
- 2004 establishments in Ontario
- 2006 disestablishments in Ontario