Graham Wright is from Ontario, Canada, and is the keyboard player for Tokyo Police Club. This is his first solo EP, The Lakes of Alberta, released in November of 2008. This is a "pay what you want"/free to download if you're cheap and can be found here: http://grahamwright.bandcamp.com/album/the-lakes-of-alberta. The folk and indie pop music is kind of a combination of an edit polished Irish ballade and a rawer more upbeat acoustic sound with clapping and tambourine. Interestingly, the track listing has the song, "The Lakes of Alberta Pt. II" before Pt. I; both of which are dominated by simplified broken chordal harmonies on the guitar.
Since then, he has written a single track album called Crooked Moon, which came out in October of 2009--also a free download at: http://grahamwright.bandcamp.com/album/crooked-moon. Up and coming sometime soon (hopefully) in 2010 is his Shirts and Skins EP.
Other stuff Graham has been involved in is a January 2009 album called Novels, in which him and a bunch of friends got together to write, produce and record an album in 24 hours. A limited number of CDs were made, but not sold in stores or online, instead they were wrapped up and left around in various places and given to random people for anyone to enjoy. They now have a downloadable copy on their website: http://www.okaynovels.com/download.html. They encourage people to burn it and do the same, leave it around and give it to people. The site also includes a sharing blog, on which people who have given out copies can take pictures, submit them and have them put on the blog telling the story of where and to who Novels was given.
Finally, Graham is going to be touring this year with his group, The Good Times Band.
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