The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra is a collection of musicians, linked by common sonic journeys and familial ties. It doesn’t matter much how they got here, but rather that they are traveling with each other.
The group’s long-awaited new album, Love, comes out Aug. 21, followed by over 25 dates on their western Canadian tour, which brings them to the Snoring Sasquatch on Aug. 24.
Love is an album about that much-storied sentiment that is certainly no stranger to a song. What makes the Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra’s nine new love songs unique is that it collects differing experiences into one harmonized narrative, tearing apart the layers and revealing how hard good people work to be good to each other. It’s an album that speaks to the consequences of love in its many forms, seeing it as both sugar and lemons, suggesting that to have one without the other would make the recipe incomplete.
“The creation of Love was a family affair, which is a feeling our group has always embraced,” said Kurt Loewen (vocal, guitar, keyboard). “Our dear friends not only provided the space for the making of the record, designed the set for the front cover and had a hand in the naming of the album, but Emily, my wife, produced it and was the graphic designer.”
Tickets are $15 in advance at Buffalo Trails, and $18 at the door, which opens at 7 p.m.; the show begins at 8.
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