Draft:Simone Schmidt

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Biography[edit]

Simone Schmidt (born 1984) is a singer, songwriter, guitarist, producer and composer from Toronto, Canada. Schmidt has helmed One Hundred Dollars (2007-11), psych-rock outfit The Highest Order (2011-?), and solo project Fiver (2012-present). Throughout their career, from project to project, Schmidt has experimented and grown in their vocal capacities earning widespread recognition for their singing.[1][2][3]

Collaborations[edit]

Schmidt has worked in varying capacities with musicians hailing from diverse musical traditions such writing with hardcore punk band Fucked Up, as singer, songwriter and guitarist with bluegrass veteran Chris Coole[4][5][6]; producing for singer songwriter Ansley Simpson[7] and creating their latest full length with improvisational unit The Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition (Bianca Palmer, Jeremy Costello and Nick Dourado).

Critical Acclaim and Nominations[edit]

Schmidt's work has obtained widespread critical acclaim. In 2017, Slate magazine named Audibles Sounds from Rockwood as one of the best albums of the year.[8] Their 2021 release, Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition was lauded by the Guardian newspaper as one the best albums of the year[9] and received positive reviews from Pitchfork Magazine.[10]

Featuring Schmidt on the cover, the Summer 2023 issue of Music Works magazine, described their work:

Simone Schmidt is a visionary artist who consistently finds new possibilities for the country song form. In the Toronto psychedelic country bands One Hundred Dollars and The Highest Order and as Fiver, Schmidt has created some of the most original and vibrant music of the last decade.[11]

They have been nominated for the Polaris Music Prize in 2009 for One Hundred Dollars- Forest of Tears[12]; in 2011 for One Hundred Dollars- Songs Of Man[13]; in 2017 for Fiver- Audible Songs From Rockwood[14] and 2021 for Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition.[15]

Audible Sounds of Rockwood[edit]

Fiver's Audible Songs From Rockwood (2017) is research-based album based on archival case records from the Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane.[16] Schmidt spent three years delving into primary sources like patient case files, superintendents’ diaries, newspaper articles and secondary historical sources to write from the perspective of women incarcerated at the Rockwood Asylum for the Criminally Insane in Kingston during the nineteenth century.[17][18] The songs are performed under the pseudonym Fiver Fines, who interprets the songs “found” by another alias, fictional ethnomusicologist named Simone Carver.[19][20] The album was recorded by Fiver with the Lonesome Ace String Band. Referencing Smithsonian Folkways Archives, the album is accompanied by extensive liner notes written in the voice of Simone Carver, who frames the historical, colonial and institutional contexts for these "found" songs.[21]

In 2019, Schmidt worked with theatre director Frank Cox-O’Connell to tell the stories of the Rockwood inmates on stage as part of Summerworks Performance Festival.[22][23]

The research and the form of Audible Songs from Rockwood has been the subject of academic interest.[24][25]

Covers[edit]

Throughout their career, Schmidt's song writing has received positive recognition for weaving complex, relatable stories and narratives.[26][27][28] Their songs have been admired and covered by other musicians in a variety of genres: in 2018 their song Rage of Plastics [from Fiver- Lost the Plot (2013)] was popularized by U.S. Girls,[29] and in 2020, their song Juice and Sage [One Hundred Dollars- Forest of Tears (2008)] was covered by Stripmall Ballads.[30]

Schmidt is no stranger to the art of covering. In 2020, as Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition, they released You Wanted Country?! Vol 1 which featured them lending their voice to the words of Willie Nelson, Gene Clark, and Johnny Paycheck.

Soundtracks[edit]

Land of Destiny (dir. Brett Story, 2010)

Gerontophilia (dir. Bruce La Bruce, 2013)[31]

World Famous Gopher Hole Museum (dir. Chelsea McMullan + Douglas Nayler, 2015)

Circle of Steel (dir Gillian McKercher, 2018) [32]

The Joe Wallace Mixtape: Soundtrack to A More Radiant Sphere (dir. Sarah Wylie, 2022)[33]

Discography[edit]

LSDoubleDcup (2008)

One Hundred Dollar[edit]

Hold it Together (2007)

Forest of Tears (2008)

"Fourteenth Floor" Regional 7" Part 1 (2009)

My Father's House" - Regional 7" Part 2 (2010)

Songs of Man (2011)

The Highest Order[edit]

If It’s Real (2013)

Rainbow of Blues B/W The Crying Game (2013)

Still Holding (2016)

Fiver[edit]

Two Songs From Fiver (2012)

Home Wreckordings: Running Through A Twin (2012)

Lost the Plot (2013)

Audible Songs From Rockwood (2017)

You Wanted Country? Vol.1 (2020)

Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition (2021)

Splitter[edit]

What Do You Want To Hear? (Digital Release, 2023)

References[edit]

  1. ^ Nast, Condé. "Fiver: Fiver With the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  2. ^ Star, Ben Rayner Special to the (2013-12-20). "Simone Schmidt: the haunting voice behind two of 2013's best albums". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  3. ^ Boles, Benjamin (2016-06-01). ">>> Album of the week: The Highest Order - NOW Magazine". NOW Toronto. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  4. ^ "The Tumbling River". chriscoole.com. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  5. ^ "Reuben's Train by Chris Coole". chriscoole.com. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  6. ^ "Stone Walls and Steel Bars by Chris Coole". chriscoole.com. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  7. ^ "Ansley Simpson Announces New Album 'She Fell from the Sky' | Exclaim!". Ansley Simpson Announces New Album 'She Fell from the Sky' | Exclaim!. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  8. ^ Wilson, Carl (2017-12-26). "The best albums of the year". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  9. ^ Beaumont-Thomas, Ben; Petridis, Alexis; Snapes, Laura (2021-06-14). "The best albums of 2021 so far". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  10. ^ Nast, Condé. "Fiver: Fiver With the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition". Pitchfork. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  11. ^ "What's Inside Musicworks 145 | Musicworks magazine". www.musicworks.ca. Retrieved 2024-02-01.
  12. ^ "2009 Nominees - Polaris Music Prize". Polaris Music Prize -. 2014-06-11. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  13. ^ "Songs Of Man - Polaris Music Prize". Polaris Music Prize -. 2014-06-11. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  14. ^ Brophy, Aaron (2017-06-13). "The 2017 Polaris Music Prize Long List Is Here - Polaris Music Prize". Polaris Music Prize -. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  15. ^ "Fiver with the Atlantic School of Spontaneous Composition - Polaris Music Prize". Polaris Music Prize -. 2021-04-26. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  16. ^ "A Songwriter Gives Voice To The Silenced Women Of Rockwood Asylum". NPR.
  17. ^ Greene, Sarah (2017-05-24). "Local hero: Simone Schmidt brings Fiver's Audible Songs From Rockwood to three Toronto venues - NOW Magazine". NOW Toronto. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  18. ^ Critic, Ben Rayner Pop Music (2017-05-25). "New Fiver album speaks for long-dead female inmates in Victorian-era asylum". Toronto Star. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  19. ^ "Toronto musician Simone Schmidt's new album a meditation on mental health". The Globe and Mail. 2017-04-13. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  20. ^ Schmidt, Simone E. "Songs from Rockwood Asylum". Canadian Art. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  21. ^ "The New Historian | The Walrus". 2017-08-02. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  22. ^ "Audible Songs from Rockwood | SummerWorks". Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  23. ^ "Fiver Turn 'Audible Songs From Rockwood' Into a Theatrical Production | Exclaim!". Fiver Turn 'Audible Songs From Rockwood' Into a Theatrical Production | Exclaim!. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  24. ^ online.ucpress.edu https://online.ucpress.edu/jpms/article/32/2/178/110776/New-Life-into-Old-SoundsListening-to-Simone. Retrieved 2024-02-02. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  25. ^ "Free School 2023: Against the Grain". Toronto Metropolitan University. Retrieved 2024-02-02.
  26. ^ "Fiver | Exclaim!". Fiver | Exclaim!. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  27. ^ Toronto, Ty Trumbull for Streets Of (2012-03-29). "Band of the Week: One Hundred Dollars". Streets Of Toronto. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  28. ^ "Fiver | Exclaim!". Fiver | Exclaim!. Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  29. ^ Hsu, Hua (2018-02-26). "U.S. Girls' Collection of Characters". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  30. ^ Harry (2020-06-05). "Stripmall Ballads - Distant". Bluestown Music (in Dutch). Retrieved 2024-01-30.
  31. ^ Gerontophilia (2013) - Soundtracks - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-05-05 – via www.imdb.com.
  32. ^ Circle of Steel (2018) - IMDb. Retrieved 2024-05-05 – via www.imdb.com.
  33. ^ http://tryl.es. "On Mediocrity, risk, and proletarian realism in Sara Wylie's A More Radiant Sphere". ReIssue. Retrieved 2024-05-05. {{cite web}}: External link in |last= (help)
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