After releasing his fifth album More or Less, Dan Mangan has definitely been doing more.
The JUNO Award winning, Vancouver-based musician has been touring and cranking out complex folk-rock hits, over and over again in his 15 year career.
He has created upbeat tunes with deep lyrics that contradict the foot tapping music they have been put to.
Now the musician find he is torn between two colliding worlds91裸聊视频� domesticity, now being a husband and a father to two children and career musician.
91裸聊视频淭here91裸聊视频檚 an element of me that is being investigated (in the album). Me as an artist and 91裸聊视频� me as a dad and me as a husband. What does me look like now that I am both of those things?91裸聊视频� said Mangan. 91裸聊视频淚 don91裸聊视频檛 want to just be one of them91裸聊视频� When you become a parent it91裸聊视频檚 like you dive into a swimming pool and you are immersed in water and everything feels different and you hear sounds from above the water and it feels as if you are not a part of it and after a couple years, when your kids are old enough you can rise to surface and have your head above water.91裸聊视频�
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More or Less, which was released in November, is an exploration in finding the balance to still be a great musician and a successful and present father. Witnessing the birth of his children changed Mangan and the way he saw humans.
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Scheduling time to be creative has been the key to his work life balance. Finding the time to be creative and write the narrative stories that come to fruition through his songs, where no two are similar. This album he says he dug deeper into himself to create a more personal album where all his songs are in first person and not assuming a character.
91裸聊视频淚 am digging into a more personal flow of my work. It91裸聊视频檚 more personal, it91裸聊视频檚 me, first person. I am not assuming a character of any kind and writing about my life. In the past hid behind metaphors and purposely vague lyrics and they were just different and there is a part of me that just needed to try this,91裸聊视频� he said.
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Performing has become a drug to Mangan that he cannot get enough of, and as he embarks on his next tour in the new year, he hopes to connect with his audience a little more.
91裸聊视频淏eing a creator of any kind there is a desire for connection at the heart of existing and everyone has own way of getting to that place,91裸聊视频� said Mangan. 91裸聊视频淲hat is the intangible thing in life to experience some magic and sometimes my shows get to that pace where it feels otherworldly and its just happening and its all sort of beyond us. That91裸聊视频檚 ideal not every show can get there.91裸聊视频�
Mangan will perform at the Kelowna Community Theatre Feb. 13 tickets are available at
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