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Jason Collett is a Canadian singer-songwriter. A member of Broken Social Scene, he also tours and records on his own.
The best songs don’t just tell a story set to music – they capture a moment, encapsulate a feeling and draw in the listener, in a way that’s at once singularly personal and completely universal. When Toronto singer-songwriter Jason Collett was mulling over titles for his new album, the by-turns effervescent and elegiac Here’s To Being Here, he stumbled across a line in an anthology of poetry by his friend Emily Haines’ (Metric) late father Paul, a well-known avant-garde jazz poet.
“I really love the simple sentiment of the title. I think of it as a toast, a raising of the glass to the notion of being present to the moment. Recording this record was all about that for me. Capturing the bits of spontaneous magic in the studio that are just the happy accidents of the day. For me there’s a kind of unadorned celebratory ring to the phrase ‘here’s to being here’. There’s no irony in it, and lord knows we’ve all had enough of that for a while. I really like Haines’ playful writing. It’s like Dylan, almost Dada-esque; it doesn’t take itself too seriously. I really relate to that era of writing… Ginsberg, that pre-’60s moveme...
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Top 10 Jason Collett Songs
Love Is a Dirty Word
We All Lose One Another
Hangover Days
Out Of Time
Roll On Oblivion
Fire
I'll Bring the Sun
Long May You Love
Lake Superior
Bitch City
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Idols of Exile
Rat a Tat Tat
Here's To Being Here
Motor Motel Love Songs
Pony Tricks
To Wit To Woo
Prodigals
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