HALLOWEEN-THEMED "MIXTAPE" FROM WINNIPEG DUO AVAILABLE TO STREAM OR DOWNLOAD
Sc Mira, a musical act from Winnipeg made up of Sc (Stephanie Catherine) and Tyler Wagar, released a Halloween-themed mixtape last month made up of three songs, including two Paul Williams-penned numbers from Brian De Palma's Phantom Of The Paradise: "Somebody Super Like You" and "Life at Last." You can listen to the mixtap, titled Candy Apples and Razor Blades, via the YouTube video embedded below. The third song is a cover of the Misfits' "Halloween."Sc Mira received some attention this year for its single, "On My Own," and have an EP (Waiting Room Baby) all ready to go for next year that was mixed by Arcade Fire producer Howard Bilerman, according to MetroNews' jrockarolla. In that same article, Sc tells jrockarolla that she grew up watching Phantom Of The Paradise. "I’ve seen that movie so many times," she tells jrockarolla. "My dad showed it to me and my siblings as kids, and I remember thinking it was so scary." Wagar then adds, "Winslow’s mask still freaks me out."
Last month, the members of Sc Mira discussed their love of Phantom Of The Paradise with Sam Tweedle at Confessions of a Pop Culture Addict:
Sam: So this is a gem you’re sitting on. Now I read you have a Halloween project in the works.Tyler: Yeah. We just had a Halloween EP released about a half an hour ago. We recorded a couple of our favorite Halloween tunes.
Sc: Yeah. It’s free on-line as a Sound Cloud stream, but Exclaim! did an article on it. We did it as a free release to get some content out there because we are sitting on the EP. Its three songs. Two are covers from the soundtrack of The Phantom of the Paradise.
Tyler: Oh yeah.
Sam: Phantom of the Paradise is one of my top three all-time favorite films!
Sc: Nobody usually knows what it is.
Sam: What songs did you do?
Sc: We did
Life at Last and Somebody Super Like You because the themes are very Halloweeny. The last song we did is Halloween by the Misfits.
Sam: Now it’s Winnipeg that has that strange Phantom of the Paradise cult following, right?
Tyler: That’s defiantly Winnipeg.
Sam: Yeah – that film was a hit in Winnipeg and nobody else in the world.
Sc: Yeah. I grew up watching Phantom of the Paradise. I’ve seen it so many times. My Dad would show it to us and my siblings. I guess Tyler watched it as a kid too.
Tyler. Yeah. It was also my Dad’s favorite musical film.
Sc: So it just seemed natural because Phantom of the Paradise is common ground for both of us. We both already knew the songs. I listen to the record year round.
Sam: So do I. I have it on my computer in my office. It’s one of my all-time favorite film soundtracks.
Tyler: When we were working on the EP in Montreal last year we ended up in a vintage store and ended up finding the record just lying around.
Sc: I had been looking for that record for a long time. We found it for three dollars in some shop that we went into. We both went in and thought I might find something worth taking home and I found it at the very back of the stack.
Updated: Wednesday, November 12, 2014 9:28 PM CST
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