Feist - Open Season & New Music from Amy Millan of Stars

After the success of 2004's Let it Die, Leslie Feist has become a very recognizable name in Canada and The US. Feist won Junos in 2005 for New Artist Of The Year, and Let It Die as Alternative Album Of The Year. Inside And Out was nominated for this year Single of The Year, but lost to Home by Michael Bublé. While we wait for a new Feist album, she has given us a collection of remixes and collabs (sic) to keep us happy. How very Sarah McLachlan of her. Chart Magazine has a brief interview with Feist about the next album. She's looking to create more of a live sound, with "a lot more guitar". We should see the album in early 2007.

Open Season contains four different mixes of Mushaboom, and two versions of One Evening and Gatekeeper. For your listening pleasure I'm posting a solo piano version of One Evening performed by the song's co-writer Gonzales, a stripped-down version of Inside + Out "unmixed" by Julian Brown of Apostle Of Hustle, a nice remix of Gatekeeper, and an unreleased song, Tout Doucement.

• One Evening (Gonzales Solo Piano)
• Inside + Out (Apostle of Hustle UnMix)
• Gatekeeper (One Room One Hour Mix)
• Tout Doucement

Good Weather For Airstrikes has the four Mushaboom remixes.

rbally has a Feist show recorded in Chicago this January, definitely worth a listen.

As a bonus, Arts & Crafts were giving away a two song sampler from the forthcoming Amy Millan solo album. My bonus is your bonus.

• Skinny Boy
• Baby I