Amber & Zebulun
As co-founders of Coincident Time Arts, music teachers, and talented multi-instrumentalists, Amber & Zebulun have been creating music together for more than a decade. Now, they are releasing their first, self-produced album, South of North, East of West - a celebration of relationships, creativity, and the paradox of “here and now”.
Amber & Zebulun’s video for Cognitive Dissonance, the opening track of South of North, East of West.
South of North, East of West
“We’ve been wanting to create this album for ten years and it took a year of being at home to finally make it happen.”
This album is about relationships.
South of North, East of West is about who you are, as defined by where you are. Where you’re from (an Ontarian, Michigander, Chicagoan, Torontonian) or your National or religious origin is an identity that is usually assigned, rarely earned or chosen. To be from “The North” means different things to different people. Unless we mean the absolute point of the North Pole on the planet, there is wiggle room for “The North”. We need a point that is “south” to make sense of it. We know if we go “south” from “north”, eventually we return to the point where our trip began. This is, of course, the same with our other two established directions, “east” and “west”.
The meaning of each of these four directions is defined by its opposite, its relationship to the others. If we remove the meaning of our origin, of our destination, we are either lost or exactly where we should be.
Read David Olds of WholeNote’s review of South of North, East of West below!
Where to Listen to South of North, East of West
Streaming Services
South of North, East of West officially launched on June 22nd - the Summer Solstice, and the brightest day of the year. You can find it on your favourite streaming services including Spotify, Apple Music, iTunes, Amazon Music, Pandora, Youtube Music, Tidal, iHeartRadio, and more.
Buy the Album on Bandcamp
Buy the album today on Bandcamp!
About Amber & Zebulun
“Often when people meet Amber and I they will exclaim, "Oh, that's nice that you have music in common." However, it isn't that simple so we smile and wink. We both take music seriously but from very different perspectives.”
-Zebulun
Both Amber and Zebulun were born in places where they lived for only a short time; Zebulun in Marquette, Michigan and Amber in Yellowknife, NT. Soon after, Zebulun's family moved to the suburbs of Chicago. Amber's family was living in Pelly Bay, NT (now Kugaaruk, NU) before they moved to Marysville, ON. Unlike many people who “grow up” in or near the town where they were born, Amber and Zebulun were moved to a new place and challenged to redefine their individual identities. Ironically, this would happen to them both many times during their childhoods.
Fast forward to 2009, when for a myriad of reasons both Amber and Zebulun happened to be in Chicago. For an even more complicated series of reasons they happened to meet. As they were (and are) Musicians, they began to play concerts together (with Zebulun as leader of a Tom Waits cover band and Amber on cello!). As destiny would have it, soon they were in love and happily married. Now, they are creating together.