ARCTIC’s song “You Coming Down” was chosen by Music BC to represent British Columbia artists on a compilation CD, which will be available at MIDEM 2008 in Cannes, France, and at various Canadian Consulates. Other artists selected for the compilation include TV Heart Attack, Immaculate Machine, and John Mann (of Spirit of the West).
ambientARCTIC has just released its first full-length CD: Explorer, an instrumental album from Marcus Martin and Kirsten Starcher of ARCTIC. The album is available both on CD and as digital downloads through Amie Street, and can be heard in its entirety at www.ambientarctic.com. 
Upcoming solo shows by ARCTIC members:
Marcus Martin / ARCTIC Solo Expeditions:
Tuesday, Nov 13 at Cafe Deux Soleils, 8:00 pm, $2. Also Hemant Rao and Nat Jay.
Saturday, Nov 17 at Wired Monk, 8:30 pm, $5. With Adam Gibbs.
http://www.projectarctic.com
Kirsten Bole, solo bass:
Friday, Nov 16 at Wired Monk, 8:30pm, $5. With Rob Fillo & Ross Fairbairn.
Saturday, Dec 1 at Lugz Coffee, 2525 Main Street, 8:00 pm, by donation. With Land of Deborah.
http://www.treehorse.ca
On Saturday, September 22, 2007 Punchface Propaganda Machine presents Make the Lion, ARCTIC, and Orchid Highway at Hoko’s (362 Powell Street, Vancouver). Doors open at 8pm, cover is $5. All ages!
Make the Lion: “Make the Lion’s versatile and engaging mix of post Radiohead prog-psychadelia and the raw energy of bands such as nirvana and sonic youth has recently been described by Nerve magazine as ‘intelligent rock for the thinking soul, […] one of Vancouver’s more impressive young bands.’ Rounded off by a live performance that includes interactive visuals and a rotating cast of guest musicians playing electronics, brass, percussion and guitar, audiences are drawn into a unique and dynamic listening experience.”
ARCTIC: “A haunting moodiness evocative of a cold Northern landscape. Always seeking contrast, ARCTIC is still sometimes a solo project, sometimes a full band, never exactly the same from one show to the next. In either form it combines diverse influences in unexpected ways: progressive rock, jazz, industrial rock merge with ambient textures and acoustic singer/songwriter melodies to create something fresh, unconventional and intriguing.”
Orchid Highway: “The Orchid Highway is one of Vancouver’s longest-running bands, and their dogged die-hard attitude is more than justified by the quality of the music they write. Trousers-deep in a rapturously ongoing obsession with mid-60s Britpop and psychedelia… imaginatively melodic arrangements that would knock Brian Wilson out of his housecoat and on his fat ass in his piano-equipped sandbox.”
ARCTIC’s second album is now available for pre-order. Today Brought Me Here was written and recorded by Marcus Martin, and produced by Marcus Martin and Kirsten Bole, at Environment One in Vancouver. The album expands on the moody, atmosphere soundscapes of Music for Rain, featuring Martin’s intertwined vocals and guitar in a series of observations on facing change and rediscovering yourself alone in a new town.
Pre-ordered CDs will be signed and numbered, and your order will entitle you to download the entire album as mp3s before the printed CDs are available in mid-September. To pre-order the new album, simply sign up to the ARCTIC mailing list. When you confirm your subscription, you’ll see a link that takes you to a special page where you can listen to the album, customize your own CD cover, see artwork and read lyrics, and order your own copy. An order of 3 or more CDs will include a free t-shirt. Pre-ordering will end on September 9, and CDs ordered after that time will no longer be signed and numbered.
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