Reveries for the laziest day of the week
23 March 2025
Artist: THUNDERCLAP!
Who: A Niagara Falls performance artist who uses honesty and humility
to develop an almost magical rapport with “every” audience he performs
for. He has released 2 albums so far.
Track: FORCED TO WALKING
Thunderclap: “The song came about one winter years ago when I was walking around in the back parking lot of a mall in Niagara Falls, Ontario. I was feeling lonely & thinking about my life. The cloudy melancholy sunset was coloured in very peculiar hues of browns, bronzes, and greys (as mentioned in the song).
Right there & then I was compelled enough to scribble down the moment… hours later I found myself walking around on some back roads further contemplating what these feelings were all about… walking and thinking, thinking and walking.
It was only a month after I wrote the song where I assembled the proper musicians and
studio engineer to record in my personal workshop on Queen Street in Niagara Falls. It all
came together pretty quickly, and it was the first time I worked with a standup bass player, violinist and even a French horn player that I recently met during that time while she was working in a local Shoppers Drug Mart.”
TUTV: Forced To Walking is an emotive musing orchestrated mainly with acoustic guitar, weeping violins, smooth bass and Thunderclap!’s spellbinding vocals. Also notable for
its intriguing, multi-voiced finale. Overall I hear echoes of Conor Oberst & Bright Eyes.
Compelling composition.
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