Niagara Falls, Canada's THUNDERCLAP Releases Sing-Along Halloween Single - Out Now
BOUT THUNDERCLAP!
Niagara Falls muti-media performance artist THUNDERCLAP uses honesty and humility to develop an almost magical report with “every” audience he performs for. His songwriting structure is challenging yet accessible and although the song content is thought provoking; the content is very often boiling over with shock & humour.
A live THUNDERCLAP show often reminds one of the traditional arch of story telling. The original songs are randomly sprinkled with a few choice covers, spoken word pieces, stories that make connections between the songs relevance and contemporary issues (if only the issues of THUNDERCLAP’s personal life), and improvisational banter with the audience.
When THUNDERCLAP spins his craft, and a craft it truly is; it generally leaves spectators in a sense of delighted awe, as if they’ve possibly just witnessed a magic trick that might never happen again. And this description is not just fancy word play, Its a “brave” performance, and it’s never the same twice!
He’s recently released his 2nd LP ‘Strange Songs For Strange Times’ featuring acclaimed ‘Coast to Coast AM’ radio host George Noory; & it’s currently being played on over 50+ non-commercial Stations across North America & the UK… Mr.Clap is now proudly shlepping his new Halloween sing-a-long (with corresponding music video), The Littlest Monster.
ABOUT THE SONG: “The Littlest Monster” – OUT NOW!
“I wrote the nuts & bolts of this song on Halloween 5 years ago in the deep woods of Quebec with the celebrated writer Leigh Kotsilidis. On the fly I took some friends out last Halloween to guerrilla film a night of trick or treating knowing that I was going to release it the following year, sooo it was only 3 weeks ago that I finished the song, recorded a demo, edited the video, got my animator collaborator to do his part, recorded the final version (with Matt Keighan) and abracadabra!
But my most strategic tool for this particular project: a hard deadline, baby…
I toiled for the perfect lyrics although they came relatively fast. I wanted the song to give kids the type of willies that MJ’s Thriller gave me when I was a lad; as well as the spazzy fun of the Monster Mash & I feel I achieved that. It all turned out to have a vaudevillian feel which I didn’t plan for but certainly gives it it’s own finger print.
Aside from the song’s framework being based around one night alone with the Littlest Monster, we have to ask ourselves, what’s all this dressing up about? Where did it come from? Well, beyond the actual historical sources, we all just want to be someone else once in awhile, don’t we?! For all sorts of personal reasons – whether it be shallow or profound, we all have our reasons. So if only for one night, for most it’s Halloween night, lets be someone else. ”
– Thunderclap!
