{"id":17001,"date":"2019-01-23T09:00:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T17:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=17001"},"modified":"2019-10-24T10:40:46","modified_gmt":"2019-10-24T17:40:46","slug":"mother-mother-remind-us-that-it-only-hurts-because-it-didnt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2019\/01\/23\/mother-mother-remind-us-that-it-only-hurts-because-it-didnt\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Mother remind us that it only hurts because it didn\u2019t"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n

Joy is the essence of pain. Mother Mother guitarist\/vocalist Ryan Guldemond wrote the band\u2019s seventh studio album, Dance and Cry<\/em>,with this philosophy in mind. Guldemond argues that although the two emotions seem to be opposites, they depend upon each other.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cHopefully the title and the album bring to light how maybe these things aren\u2019t in polarity with each other,\u201d says Guldemond. \u201cThey\u2019re actually quite synonymous or intrinsic to each other\u2026 That which makes you joyful, should it be taken away, is devastating. It\u2019s a bit different with happiness because you can be happy about all sorts of stuff, and, should it disappear, you kind of move on quickly. Like if your ice cream cone falls to the ground, it\u2019s a drag, but, you know, you can kind of move on; but if you lose a child or you get your heart broken, well, that\u2019s the entrance into great pain, and it\u2019s via joy.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

In Dance and Cry<\/em>, Guldemond embraces the strength in his vulnerabilities. Letting go of the pressure to be constantly charismatic, he is able to access a new level of honesty.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI\u2019ve discovered that there\u2019s a real potent power in shyness and introversion and sensitivity,\u201d says Guldemond, \u201cbecause you really feel things in between the cracks and a little deeper than when you\u2019re just barrelling forth in the grip of extroversion. I guess you can get into the nuance of your feelings a bit better when you tap into your shy guy or your shy girl, because we all have one.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

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Indie rockers Mother Mother recently released their seventh studio album, Dance and Cry<\/em> (photo provided).<\/figcaption>\r\n<\/figure>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

While on tour for their new album, the band aim to take audiences to a chapel of their own emotions. As he embraces his new discovery of self and channels it into his latest work, Guldemond hopes listeners will find ways to connect their own experiences and find a release at the live shows.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cThe record is very much about finding the avenue for healing through pain,\u201d says Guldemond. \u201cFacing the shadow in order to, you know, find the light; all that kind of stuff. I think it\u2019s probably what we\u2019re all going through, to some extent, on a daily basis. When you write songs that centre around that, that your fanbase connects with, and learns, and knows how to sing along, and then you all get together in a room, I guess it almost becomes like a church-like experience. So I guess I just hope people get some therapy out of that, and people can sing out, sweat out, and smile out, or cry out some of their grief, in whichever venue, to a soundtrack that means something to them, by performers that are giving it 110 percent.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Through working as a mentor and motivational speaker to aspiring musicians and other creative types, Guldemond has solidified his faith in people\u2019s need for truth and meaning in their creativity.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

\u201cI think what I\u2019ve learned through these talks or whatnot is just how hungry people are to just feel inspired,\u201d says Guldemond. \u201cThat is where the thirst lives\u2014it\u2019s not for success, it\u2019s not for achievement, it\u2019s to imbue their life with more meaning, and purpose, and creativity, and magic, and it\u2019s reaffirming because those are the things that matter to me. I live my days with a sense of wonder, and what I invest in is for the purpose of infiltrating that wonder; it\u2019s not for acquisition. So that\u2019s been really inspiring, that common need in people for magic in life.\u201d<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n

Mother Mother
8 pm Monday, January 28 and Tuesday, January 29
$57 and up, Royal Theatre
rmts.bc.ca<\/a><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joy is the essence of pain. Mother Mother guitarist\/vocalist Ryan Guldemond wrote the band\u2019s seventh studio album, Dance and Cry,with this philosophy in mind. Guldemond argues that although the two emotions seem to be opposites, they depend upon each other. \u201cHopefully the title and the album bring to light how maybe these things aren\u2019t in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17002,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts","category-january-23-2019"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17001"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18474,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17001\/revisions\/18474"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}