L.A. Beat

Edmonton folk/ indie rock trio F & M will continue to explore their fascination with Portugal when they return to the Owl Acoustic Lounge, Sept. 5.

 Unfortunately they are competing with fellow Edmontonians Jr. Gone Wild who are playing the Slice the same night.
“ We’re going to see if we can play early, so we can go to see Jr. Gone Wild too,” said  vocalist/ guitarist Ryan Anderson, who is joined by his wife  Rebecca on vocals and piano plus  multi-instrumentalist Bryan Reichert.

“Mike (McDonald, Jr. Gone Wild frontman) has been incredibly supportive of us. He runs a record store which is going out of business,” Anderson said.

“ It’ll be like South By Southwest in Lethbridge, so come and see us first, then  see Jr. Gone Wild,” he enthused.
 The Andersons were inspired by their most recent  trip to Portugal in March and took a lot of video footage of some of their favourite Portugal moments.

 They are releasing  a series of video snippets to support their CD “ At sunset We Sing,” which was inspired by Portugal.

“ We’ve been touring a lot in support of it, so we’re a little tighter,” he said.

“ We went back to Portugal in March and we  shot  a lot of  video,” he said adding they filmed some of the scenes which spoke to the duo.
“It was amazing  some of our most wonderful material was when we were wandering around after a few drinks when the streets were abandoned,” he said, adding the music on the album, which was released on Nov. 4 was inspired by his reflections on his first solo visit to Portugal several years ago.

“ We have many, many hours of footage,” he said.
“ It’s I and Rebecca’s Portugal. So it’s our take on it,” he continued.

 

 

 They will release a  full length video later on.

 But they are already focusing on new music.
“ I get antsy to play the new music.  It will be more rocky, though not metal. Though I love metal, he said adding they are working with a full band, which adds bassist Tom Murray and drummer Chad Andrivowski to the line-up, though they won’t be joining them in Lethbridge.
“If we can can get into the Slice, we’d love to have a full drum kit,” he continued.
 He said Portugal has subtly influenced the new music.
“There’s a little bit of an influence, but it’s subtle. Our fans tell us  they prefer subtly. We were also listening to a lot of Nick Cave so there is that influence too,”  he said.

There is no cover for the show, which begins at 9 p.m. Sept. 5 at the Owl Acoustic Lounge