DeSouza coming home

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Marq DeSouza is coming home again. For a week anyway. DeSouza, who moved from Lethbridge to Vancouver in the mid-’90s to be a musician, has released two CDs with popular Vancouver band Solarbaby and three solo CDs including his latest “… And All His Boyish Charms.”Marq De Souza and Shane Love .
He will be spending this week in Lethbridge writing with  his old friend  Shane Love and will cap off his visit  with a  gig at Henotic , Nov. 9.
“Last time I was here  ( a few months ago) I was on tour and  I didn’t have as much time as I wanted to visit with people I knew,” DeSouza said. Love will be playing double bass on stage with him.
“Two times ago when I played here, I had a full band with me, last time it was more acoustic. This time  it will be even more stripped down,” DeSouza said adding he is hoping  lots of people he hasn’t seen for a while will come out even though it is a Monday night show.
“(the different line ups)  keep me from being boring and  it keeps it fresh for the audience,” he continued.
He has not only released a New CD this year, but has also  re-released his first solo CD, “Temporary Redemption,” which he is giving away for free on his website www.marqdesouza.com.
“It’s exactly 10 years since I put it out. When you look at things you did in the past, there are always  things you want to improve,” he said.
“It took some work because I had to transfer  it from actual tape that I recorded on a four track. I basically redid a lot of vocals and did some touching up,” he said adding there also CD versions of the project which he has available at live shows.
 He is just as proud of the new CD which has evolved since he began playing.
“It’s a little bit different. It has some nice variety on it,” he said. He has added a bit of a dance feel to some of the tracks which complements his classic rock and roll feel.
“This CD is a little fuller. I played all of the instruments myself, drums , guitar, and vocals, but on a couple of them I had a cast of thousands, my touring band and  lots of  guests,” he said adding he worked with producer Marty Ballentyne on the latest project.
“Between the two of us we had a really fully  sounding record,” he continued adding response has been positive.
“ On this one I didn’t really care what people thought of it, I wanted to make something I really liked,” he said adding the previous CD was designed with getting radio airplay.
As always, De Souza’s lyrics are pretty poetic.
“I get asked that a lot. I do have  a notebook  I carry to write ideas down in , but I really have no idea what I was going through when I wrote the CD,” he said adding he is looking forward to his first gig at Henotic— he usually plays the Slice. But Henotic had time available this time.
“It’s an early show, so hopefully I’ll have a crowd,” said De Souza who graduated from LCI in the early ’90s and moved to Vancouver soon after.
— By Richard Amery L.A. Beat  editor
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