The Guest List
Thursday February 13th, 2025 with Joe Reilly
A full 60 minute feature on Aysanabee and the amazing music of this Oji-Cree artist who is appearing at the 27 Club on Wednesday, Feb. 19th

The Guest List is sponsored by Spaceman Music, located at 388 Gladstone Avenue, just west of Bank. Visit Spaceman for all of your music making needs and don't forget they have a great repair shop and offer music lessons. Check out Spaceman online at: https://www.spacemanmusic.com/ Today we take a deep dive with the amazing Aysanabee. Aysanabee is a multi-instrumentalist, producer and singer songwriter currently based in Toronto. He is Oji-Cree, Sucker Clan of the Sandy Lake First Nation a remote fly-in community in the far reaches of Northwestern Ontario. We first had him on the Guest List back in 2021 when he emerged with his debut singles and played at CityFolk and we checked in with him in 2022 prior to the release of his debut album. So we had a lot of catching up to do on the show today. His debut album, Watin is named after his grandfather, and includes 10 songs with nine interludes featuring the voice of his grandfather: it is both music and journalism, artistry and expression. We talk about how he put this stunning recording together and what it meant to him to bring his grandfather's life story to the world in song. He also tells us about his follow up EP Here and Now and his latest single Edge of the Earth. He is gracious, generous with his time and quite funny. He tells us that he will be performing with a full band and doing some solo songs at his concert at the 27 Club next Wednesday, February 19th as part of his first headlining tour of Canada. He is a fantastic guitar player and well worth seeing in concert. For more information about Aysanabee and to access more of his music, use these links: https://www.aysanabee.com/ https://aysanabee.bandcamp.com/ For tickets to see Aysanabee at the 27 Club on Wednesday, February 19th use this link: https://www.aysanabee.com/tour Thanks for listening to the Guest List today and tuning into community radio! Get out and see some live music this week and support independent music in any way that you can! Take care out there.