Ford Pier
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Ford Pier

From ANDRAS JONES: We draw to the close of our Pop Oracle session with FORD PIER peering into the oracle of his own songs for the answer to his question, inspired by the Marcel Proust questionnaire. The day before we recorded this session in Vancouver, the city of Toronto experienced a random act of violence […]

Andras Jones
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Ford Pier

From ANDRAS JONES: I recently spent a week in Vancouver, BC recording episodes with three great Canadian songwriters; Sarah Wheeler, Geoff Berner and this week’s guest FORD PIER. Ford and I go way back into the last millenium when he was touring with Veda Hille and I was touring with my own band, The Previous, […]

Sheldon Gomberg
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Ford Pier

From ANDRAS JONES: SHELDON GOMBERG and FORD PIERĀ  are collaborators through me, on the “All You Get” record we discuss in this Pop Oracle session. Sheldon is mixing the record in LA in the present. Ford recorded most of it in Vancouver in early 2002. The interim feels like the eye of a tornado. I’ve […]

Ford Pier
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Andras Jones

From ANDRAS JONES: A lot of people contributed to making my new record “All You Get”. None more so than FORD PIER who joins this session with out guest host MATT BROUSSEAU of the Profiles in Eccentricity podcast. You can hear Ford’s own episode as the musical guest HERE. Ford has refused to be credited […]

“Silent” Sheldon Zaharko
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Ford Pier

From ANDRAS JONES: Sometimes we come up one guest short. When this happens I generally ask the engineer of the session if they want to ask a question. Usually they don’t. SHELDON ZAHARKO was no exception but be didn’t mind me asking a question about him. FORD PIER, being the compassionate cat he is, was […]

Selina Martin
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Ford Pier

From ANDRAS JONES: SELINA MARTIN joins us from France (Cannes to be exact) for a musical divination with her old friend and musical collaborator FORD PIER. I remember Selina from the mid 90’s when she was part of Bob Wiseman & The Binder Specialists and my band The Previous toured Canada and the US with […]

Sarah Wheeler
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Ford Pier

From ANDRAS JONES: Singer-songwriter-multi-intrumentalist SARAH WHEELER joins us to dip a toe in the well of synchronicity with FORD PIER. This was just a few days before she was to be our musical guest and my first time meeting her. Sarah’s question is one which will inform the rest of the Vancouver sessions so pay […]

Tom Antona
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Ford Pier

From ANDRAS JONES: The first of FORD PIER‘s invited guests to join our Pop Oracle session is TOM ANTONA of the band Alice Donut. I can’t say too much about this one without revealing some fun synchronicities to come. All I can really say is you should try and listen better than I did when […]

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