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DESCRIPTION:Patrick Watson composes\, performs\, and records his albums wit
 h his long-time bandmate and collaborator and multi-instrumentalists Mishk
 a Stein and Olivier Fairfield. The Canadian artist reached gold and platin
 um status in over multiple countries (including five certified gold albums
  in Canada)\, and his shows sell out around the world. Over the course of 
 his career\, Patrick has retained the uncanny ability to coexist in mainst
 ream pop-culture spaces and on the avant-garde fringes. Patrick’s songs 
 have been featured in primetime crowd-pleasers like Grey’s Anatomy and T
 his Is Us\, as well as in multiple arthouse films from Denis Villeneuve (P
 olytechnique)\, Wim Wenders (Perfect Days) \,and Philippe Falardeau (C’e
 st pas moi\, je le jure!) and more. He’s an artist who’s as comfortabl
 e performing impromptu pop-up shows on the train tracks in a Quebec mining
  town as he is leading the BBC Orchestra at London’s prestigious Barbica
 n. He’s an in-demand composer with over 15 film scores under his belt. H
 e was awarded the prestigious inaugural Impact Award at the 2024 Canadian 
 Sync Awards. Watson’s viral single “Je te laisserai des mots” became
  the first French song to accumulate 1 billion streams on Spotify.\n\nBut 
 whether you discovered Patrick Watson through your local indie record shop
 \, a movie soundtrack\, a social-media video\, a European music festival\,
  his hit collaboration with Cinematic Orchestra (2007’s “To Build a Ho
 me”)\, or through his appearance alongside Patti Smith and Michael Stipe
  at the 2021 Pathway to Paris all-star benefit concert\, his music has a s
 imilar effect on all who enter his kaleidoscopic sound-world. The songs of
  Patrick Watson transform your everyday surroundings into your own imagina
 ry wonderland\, translating stress and sorrow into joy\, and helping you f
 ind peace within the chaos of modern life.\n\nAbout Uh Oh album\n\nWhat is
  life but an endless series of “uh oh”s? From our earliest childhood a
 ccidents to our most overwhelming adult anxieties\, it’s a little phrase
  that looms large throughout our existence. En route to making his new alb
 um\, Montreal indie-pop maestro Patrick Watson was faced with the biggest 
 “uh oh” a professional singer could endure.\n\nOne morning in the wint
 er of 2023\, Patrick woke up to discover that his voice—the angelic inst
 rument that propelled 2006’s carnivalesque art-rock opus Close to Paradi
 se to the Polaris Music Prize winner’s podium and turned his piano lulla
 by “Je te laisserai des mots” into the first Francophone track ever to
  surpass a billion streams on Spotify—had gone completely kaputt.\n\n“
 Obviously\, I like singing for people\, but I was really enjoying my Modul
 ar [synth] and diving into instrumental music”—a natural inclination f
 or Patrick\, who’s composed over 15 film scores to date. “But then I w
 as like\, ‘Oh\, it’d be cool to write songs for all these different si
 ngers that I really want to hear sing—I’ll find my way out of this sit
 uation that way.’ Because my voice wasn’t supposed to come back. And w
 hen it did\, I just thought having all these other singers featured was st
 ill a cooler idea for a record than me singing alone.
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SUMMARY:Patrick Watson | Uh Oh Tour
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