16 —- North Shore News — Friday, September 29, 2000

NV musician
Durns Bright

Craig Wilson releases demo

dan-Christian Sorensen

News Reporter
porenscn@nusnews.com

I first met Craig
Wilson at a raucous
North Vancouver
weekend house party,
the events of which I
recall with varying
degrees of clarity.

The 36-vear-old graphic
designer and musician, along

: With - two ‘other compatriots, -

was the evening’s main source
of entertainment.

;. And-the one thing worth

remembering about the event.

:.-. Jammed into the confined,

* candlelit living room, the band

..-fipped its way through a:selec-

tion of original and cover tunes

and kept the party keved-up
and marching steadily toward
the early-morning hours.

The band’s formula was
simple, but essential for the
success of any good house
band: druins, guitar and bass.
Boiled down to its core, raw
and loud rock-n’-roll.

Wilson’s recently-released,
self-produced demo CD has
that same rootsy, baked-in
basement house party sound.
It's a catchy collection of eight
honest and original wacks that
serves as a solid introduction to
Wilson's vocal and songwriting
talents.

He cut the CD during a
guernilla-recording session in a
makeshift studio in the base-
ment of his North Vancouver
home — where he also runs an
at-home design business called
Real Time Graphics.

He enlisted the help of a
pair of local musicians —
bassist Don Binns and drum-

saner Don Short, the same ovo

that teamed with Wilson at the
house party — and thus, the
Craig Wilson band was struck,

» albeit if only for the life of the

recording session.

“I just sort of borrowed the
guys for the album. They did-
n't ever say ‘Hey, I'm into
(forming) a band’,” - said

n.
“They basically played the

investors
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NEWS photo Terry Peters

NORTH Vancouver singer and songwriter Craig Wilson cut his self-produced demo CD in a makeshift record-_ -
ing studio in the basement of his home. ; : :

role of studio musicians, They
came in and did their part, and
put on a pretty strong pertor-
mance.”

Wilson initially burned close
to a hundred CDs and is plan-
ning on making another pro-
duction run in the not-too-dis-
tant future.

One of the highlights of the
album is the first track,
“Paradise”, 2 slow-moving,
harmonic ode that Wilson
penned for his wife Misha.

While it’s Wilson’s first solo

See Wilson Page 17

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