Paper Sun is a collection of 11 songs written in my house on Water Street. I called it Paper Sun because right before I released it, I moved into a different house, and left behind a cut-out piece of yellow paper that my daughter had taped to the ceiling one winter so she could pretend she was in Mexico. I meant to bring the paper sun with us when we moved, but I forgot it. It seemed appropriate to name this album after it since the songs mark a time when we lived in that house.
Most of the songs began as poems, and two of them are from a series of songs I’ve penned about what love letters between my grandmother and grandfather might have looked like during World War II; they’re based on the details I know about their life together, but are mostly fictional.
Paper Sun was produced by Colin Linden and recorded by John Whynot at Hipposonic Studios (previously the legendary Mushroom Studios) in Vancouver in July 2011. We recorded it live off-the-floor in three-and-a-half days using various guitars, vintage microphones, and an old warm-toned grand piano.
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“It’s letters in the mail, a garden in bloom, kids asleep in the back seat during a long car ride. It’s memories and emotions and the stuff that our subconscious takes in and turns to echos of something in our head that we just can’t put a finger on.
The words are poetry. The tunes that accompany them simple and light. They have a way of sounding like something we’ve heard before, a long time ago, even when we’re hearing them for the first time. It might have something to do with those echoes in our heads.”
-Lori-Anne Poirier, Kelowna Daily Courier