Category: Updates

Earlier this summer, while visiting Sly at his new house, he showed me his plans for the studio he expects to start building this fall, the successor to GreenGrove Studio. Still in the planning stages, he walked me through the layout, desk placement, acoustic treatments and workflow. It may eventually give us a second location, alongside SoundQuest, where we can record several musicians playing together. Exciting stuff… A Network of Rooms Each SixFootStilts studio plays…

It’s been a tough spring. It started when Sly decided to sell his house, closing down Green Grove Studio. Shortly after, my step mother-in-law became ill and, while recovering, decided it was time to move into a retirement home. Needless to say, life’s interventions had taken the focus away from SixFootStilts’ latest project, WooWoo & VooDoo. Progress was still being made, albeit more slowly than on our previous projects, and by mid-May we had only…

If this winter has taught us anything, it’s how to shovel. We’ve had a record-breaking amount of snow this season — the kind where you clear the driveway and by morning it looks like you never touched it. And just when it feels like we might be turning a corner, there’s another storm forecast for mid-March. Classic. March is supposed to signal the shift toward spring. Instead, we’re still digging out. And in a funny…

January has a way of forcing reflection. Short days. Long nights. Enough quiet to hear what’s actually been building. This month we are releasing Manifestation—an album that now feels less like a destination and more like a turning point. Manifestation was written and recorded in late 2022 and early 2023, when we were still operating under the name Return to Zero. Somewhere in that process during the writing, recording, listening back we realizing what we were no…

As the year draws to a close, we want to take a moment to extend a simple, heartfelt thank you from Sly, Lote, and myself JawnyB. December naturally invites both celebration and reflection. It’s a time when we pause to enjoy moments with family, friends and community, to celebrate and just be together. Wherever you find yourself this season, we hope it brings connection, warmth, and some space to appreciate the rhythms of your own year….

November brought a meaningful upgrade to the SixFootStilts website. Not just a sleeker look, but a smarter way for listeners to dive into our catalogue. The highlight of the refresh is the brand-new Featured Song section on the homepage. This rotating spotlight lets us showcase one track at a time from anywhere in our discography, paired with a short write-up on how it came to be, the theme behind it, the story that sparked it,…

We rolled into the Highlands late morning, the sun still clinging to the tree line as if reluctant to rise. By noon, a chill had already settled in. The kind of northern cold that hints the season’s about to turn for good. Fox’s Den stood quiet on the lake’s edge, its reflection rippling in the grey water like something watching itself dream.Sly was already there, gear dialed in, the studio warmed by the wood burning…

Let me start out by saying that I am not against the use of A.I. It has multiple uses in the real world. What I am opposed to is the use of it in the arts. And not simply because musicians and writers will be out of work, but because our humanity is defined by the art we produce. Great art is born from struggle and tragedy. A life altering experience that creates emotions unique…

🎭 Velvet Sundown: A Band That Isn’t a Band? AI continues to shake up the creative world… and not just in theory. Recently, a band called Velvet Sundown made headlines. With over 1.5 million Spotify listeners and a polished aesthetic, it looked like a breakout indie band. But here’s the twist: it’s fully AI-generated. Music, vocals, visuals… the whole thing. Launched as a self-described “art hoax,” the project was designed to question authorship, identity, and…

We just wrapped another Six Foot Stilts summit at Fox’s Den Studio in the Algonquin Highlands—our home base for album finalizations, bad coffee, and great ideas. This time, the focus wasn’t just on music.Sure, we did the usual: Reviewed every track on Occult Renaissance Made final arrangement tweaks Let Sly work his magic on the mixes (and fire off demo copies to Lote and me) But the real conversation we had?It wasn’t about tempo, tuning,…