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Kid Wezel
Kid Wezel is the name Louise Peacock likes to use for the songwriting side of her personality. Louise is an internet music promotor/publicist, a webmaster, professional garden designer and singer/songwriter. She is located in the west end of the City of Toronto, in Ontario.
Brought up in Portugal with their folk music which is the Fado, Kid Wezel developed a love of all types of music at an early age. Her parents took her to every music event they could find: opera, symphony, Fado nights, Latin American trios at seaside cafes....As a teen, the guitar really grabbed her attention. She was constantly listening to pop music on the short wave radio or on jukeboxes. Elvis, Beachboys, Les Paul and the like were her heroes.
In the early 60’s, she went to London, England. There she spent many hours sitting around on cold floors in unheated apartments with her scruffy beatnik pals and their guitars, singing the songs of Lenny Cohen til the wee hours and picking up musical influences.
In 1965 Kid Wezel came to Canada."Coming to Canada opened up my whole life" she says. She found that she could earn a decent living and start doing all the things she had dreamed of. She hung out at all the folk music places she could find. She got involved with a small weekly paper which allowed her to write music and theatre reviews and began reviewing plays in Stratford and music in Toronto. She used to drive up to Stratford with a car-load of hippy friends and after she’d done the play thing, they’d all go to the Black Swan and listen to Cedric Smith and Richard Keelan who were then The Perth County Conspiracy.
In the early 1970’s Kid Wezel began to write her own songs. However, hampered by her lack of playing ability she did nothing with this material until May 2001. Thanks to musician friends Tim Johns, David Norris-Elye, Alfred Gertler, Nonie Crete and Eugene Rea, Kid Wezel now has a number of songs up on the internet where they are receiving really excellent reviews. She just completed a four-song Professional Demo backed by FACTOR
The songwriting continues and Kid Wezel decided to put together a preview CD called “10 Weezy Pieces” which has the 4 songs from the demo plus 6 others.
In early 2002 Kid Wezel joined AcidPlanet.com and became part of the very lively AcidPlanet community. She began to do music collaborations with some of the diverse musicians found at this site. These collaborations were carried out entirely via the internet, thus creating a vast musical "jam".
As a result of these various collaborations, Kid Wezel was invited to become involved with the Blues Foundry project.
The Blues Foundry is a unique project involving a group of AcidPlanet blues musicians, which results in a blues compilation CD being created. Each musician contributing a special flavour to the compilation by the collaborations on each track. Kid Wezel 's contribution to the project was two songs "Cry Cry Cry" and "Mornings".
"Mornings" was an existing track on AcidPlanet, originally recorded at Rea Studios in guelph, Ontario. This track was stripped down for the purpose of the project, so that the original Bass (Alfred Gertler), Sax (Patricia Wheeler) and Vocal (Nonie Crete)were retained, but Blue Attitude added in rhythm and lead guitar to spice it up.
"Cry Cry Cry" was also on AcidPlanet and was originally recorded at Rea Studios. The Sax (Patricia Wheeler), Piano (Ron Davis), and Bass (Alfred Gertler) were fine but Kid Wezel was unhappy with her vocal. Since Blue Attitude was going to add some lead guitar, Kid re-recorded her vocal (they re-did the vocal several times before she was happy with it) and Blue Attitude laid down the lead guitar tracks.
The tracks were then remixed and mastered by Blue Attitude to make them ready for the compilation CD.
A perfect collaboration and a great example of how Blues Foundry works!
Kid Wezel says that if this is all she ever does with her music,
she'll die happy because the Blues Foundry was the nicest thing that ever happened!
Visit the websites
New songs and collaborations - http://www.acidplanet.com/wezel
Buy the CD - http://www.cdbaby.com/kidwezel
Homepage - http://www.wezel.com/wezel
Contact Kid Wezel at
ONYXCanada
Phone (416) 233-3989 ext. 2
email: onyxcan@wezel.com
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