Our Youtube Series! "How Did You Write That?"
Our Youtube Series! "How Did You Write That?"

Hi everyone! Hope you are staying safe and healthy during this time. We started recording this song back in December and after a long process of recording, mixing and mastering, we are excited to finally announce that we will be releasing Morse Code on JUNE 26th.

To celebrate and get you guys ready for the single, we thought we would make a series called, How Did You Write That?

We actually put off releasing this video for a while because of all that has been going on in our world. It didn’t feel right to start promoting our music so soon after George Floyd’s death and we wanted to pay our respects and educate ourselves on the BLM movement prior to releasing anything music related.

We have been planning this for a long time and the release date is coming up so here is Part 1 of “Morse Code”s section of the How Did You Write That? series. We hope you enjoy getting an insight of our writing process and the story behind the song! We had lots of fun making it :)

Remember to create, express yourself, and please be vulnerable.

Love,

Fontstheduo

Daniel Rosales
“Oreo Cakes and Macaroons” Release Party!
“Oreo Cakes and Macaroons” Release Party!

A successful and fun single release party. Accompanied by talented musicians; Seth Allison, Marlene Cruz and James Veale. We had two incredible opening acts by Alexandra Sullivan and Justin Perron. Thank you to everyone who showed their support!! We can’t wait for the next one. Enjoy looking through photos of the night :)

All photos taken by Gabriel Rosales and Jonathan Waldman

Daniel Rosales
Toronto’s Canadian Music Week Festival
 

Being apart of Canadian Music Week (CMW) was so much fun! It was our first show in Toronto and we performed in Stackt Studios on May 8th.

The venue was beautiful and crowded with people. It was wonderful to see many of our friends come to support the event.

Below are some photos at CMW!

Scroll right on the slideshow for more images!

 
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Marvest Fest Ottawa

Marvest Festival is associated with City Folk Festival, giving many local artists the opportunity to showcase their music. We got the opportunity to play at Marvest Fest for two consecutive years.

 
 
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Releasing our second EP, "Rest Your Weary Eyes"
 

The writing/recording process for “Rest Your Weary Eyes” began the Spring of 2017, and was finished and released on Oct 2017. The EP featured more harmonies and stronger vocals from the duo (Daniel sang a lot more in this one). It was strongly influenced by John Frusciante’s ‘The Empyrean’, Death Cab For Cutie ‘Kintsugi’ , City and Colour’s ‘Bring me your Love’, and Oh Wonders self-titled album. The entire EP was recorded in the duo’s basement using Shure sm7b for vocals, and an Audix microphone for acoustic guitar and electric guitar on the Fender Mustang IV Amp. Only “Lament” drums were recorded with a variety of mics, at our drummer James’ house.

‘Rest Your Weary Eyes’ was a big turning point for the duo, and touched upon deeper themes. “Faint” touched upon the current situation in their home country in Venezuela, and was inspired by latin rhythms, funk and alternative music. “Lament” delved deeper into understanding mental health, and songs like “Run” and “Night Owl” touched more upon our personal relationships and how the duo interpreted them. It seemed as if the sound was moving towards a more alternative direction, with the exception of “Like Pirates” (A City and Colour inspired folk tune).

The entire EP was recorded and produced using Cubase 5. It was the first DAW that Daniel had used to record, and he took their second EP as an opportunity to learn how to use the tool and learn about EQ, compression, reverb etc. The artwork for the EP cover was done by Meagan Malixi @madebymalixi.



 
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