Ryan Driver is this unstoppable quietly torrential flow of music, that has been coming out of Toronto, Ontario for a number of years now. He's been a key member of a number of the most interesting ensembles in the city. He's worked with Sandro Perri , Eric Chenaux and Jennifer Castle and he has his own mutant jazz standards group. He plays guitar and sings, but while he's recognised as an accomplished improviser he has also just made the greatest soul record of the decade.

'Who's Breathing?' - released by FIRE records in May 2011, is the follow up to 2009s incredibly promising debut "Feeler Of Pure Joy " ("Remarkable" 4/5 UNCUT). Sounding like JJ Cale, Joao Gilberto and John Martyn its soft, powerful and precise. It's achingly fleeting, poignant and underpinned by incredible song writing.

"A formidable songwriter" UNCUT

"Don't Want To Leave You Without You" (R.Driver) | FIRE RECORDS



MATHEW SAWYER & THE GHOSTS

The enigmatic Mathew Sawyer is a man with many facets. He is an internationally respected visual artist, he played drums for the influential post-punk band the Television Personalities, and he is the lead singer and songwriter with his own musical collective, Mathew Sawyer And The Ghosts.

Mathew Sawyer website