"Her hilarious lyrics are paired with theatrical vocal delivery, ranging from her high, squeaky, little-girl voice to a low, throaty growl. It's territory not commonly explored by female singers"

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An Adventure of FARTS (FUSED ARTS)

Artwork: Nava Waxman Photo: Saúl Lederman.

Artwork: Nava Waxman Photo: Saúl Lederman.

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Ronley Teper's Lipliners

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Children at heart who love comedic, poetic, theatric, yet at times provocative storytelling alongside truly magical music and visuals, should prepare themselves for the surprising world of... Ronley Teper's Lipliners began as a monthly residency at the legendary Tranzac club in Toronto. Teper invited a rotating roster of some of Toronto's finest musicians, animators, and video artists to publicly improvise around her songs and storytelling. This process has developed a body of work that touches on a wide range of stylistic influences from folk, funk, jazz, cinematic, theatric comedy and pop music and that listeners compare to artists like Tom Waits, Mary Margaret O'Hara, Frank Zappa, and Kate Bush.

Ronley was born in South Africa and grew up in Toronto. A musician and performance artist, she has been an active member in the arts scene for almost two decades. Over this time, she has recorded 5 independent LP's; composed, and performed works for puppet theatre in both Summerworks and Fringe Festivals in Toronto and Montreal; she has had musical placements in television, documentary films, advertising, and a few video games. In early 2010, she was invited as a guest speaker at the first TEDx talks in Bangkok, Thailand, and took the opportunity to organize vocal improvisation music workshops for middle school children in International Schools and to perform throughout the country. Since then Teper has participated in a variety of collaborations and artist's residencies from Reykjavik, Iceland, to Guadalajara, Mexico both performing and exhibiting works.

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Timing (feat: Mary Margaret O'Hara)

Based on a live recorded song, “Lucky and Finnegan” is a surreal animated film narrating an adventure of mystical creatures racing toward a new world of self-discovery within a shamanic experience. Directed by Davide Di Saro in collaboration with Ronley Teper, a colourful vision of a surreal voyage through enchanted forests, gloomy haunted houses, monstrous magical towers, giant walking volcanoes, and vertiginous space-time warps.

Prism Prize Nominated for Canadian best music video.

Premiered at: bigtakeover

Live at Hughe's Room, A Man Called Wrycraft Presents A Tom Waits Tribute

The Game

Faith, 1st of the Trilogy of works in collaboration with Animator/Director/Musician Davide Di Saro.

Thanks @Chartattack for the Premiere!

Pointy Petals (Rose) 2nd animation collaboration with Davide Di Saro

Vegetarian (Oh No! I'm going to Hell!) Meataholic

Live Improvised Musical Storytelling.

Nothing like making up songs about Batman, rain, the truth and current events on the fly.

"Emancipate" Live.

"Cornered In The Alley" live on the Dundas Streetcar, Toronto

video: Graeme Phillips for NOW Magazine

Happy Matzah eating to all those celebrating this week! Here's a comedic and modern version of the Ma Nishtana - translated as The Four Questions. The tradition of the passover seder and the reading of the Hagadah is a universal Jewish tradition. This song is usually sung by the youngest child - however a galactic piece of matzah poses the questions in this modern interpretation. Bon appetite!

"The Painted Lady" Live performance art music series Part IV

Dundas West Fest

ArtWord, Hamilton

"Mr. Pigeon" Animated Video by A Cardboard Reality Production - cardboardreality.ca

Directed & Animated by bekky O'Neil - bekky.ca

Animated & Composited by Keith Del Principe - keithdelprincipe.com IV

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Duo with Jaron Freeman Fox
@ Capital Bar, 973 King St E, Hamilton, ON
Friday, January 18th

9pm - 12am

Lipliners February Wednesday Residency

@ The Cameron House, 408 Queen St W, Toronto

3 sets, 10pm -1am PWYC.

Weds, Feb 6th, 13th, 20th, & 27th

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The Game

Officially released Feb 23rd, 2018. The Game is the latest Ronley Teper and The Lipliners LP. Recorded live at The Piston in Toronto. Produced by Ronley Teper and Steve Major.

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Over the last 8 years, Teper and Animator Davide Di Saro have collaborated creating a triptic of animated short films based on Teper's compositions. Here you can get all three works together. Released 2016.

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Lipliners Live Recordings Recorded over 2 nights last September at the Piston: Over the past 4 years The Lipliners improvised shows were the drive behind Ronley's most recent compositions.

Known as a live band experience, it made sense to finally do a live recording.

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Ronley Teper's Lipliners

CD Release: Ronley Teper's Lipliners March 19th 2009 @ The Tranzac Main Hall, Toronto.

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Cornered In The Alley

Sexy, Eclectic, Musical Art Storytelling. Combining elements of jazz, world, folk, blues and electronic with unique and sometimes satirical vocals.

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Stories From the Tray

"Musically Eclectic Art Storytelling". A mish mash of styles mixing elements of folk, roots, jazz, blues, pop, world and electronic with unique vocals and witty lyrics.

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"Performance is the key to understanding Ronley Teper. A multidisciplinary artist who's bounced around the Toronto scene since the early oughts, live performance, often improvised, is the tie that binds her many phases and iterations."

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"Her hilarious lyrics are paired with theatrical vocal delivery, ranging from her high, squeaky, little-girl voice to a low, throaty growl. It's territory not commonly explored by female singers"

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Live In Limbo VIDEO PREMIERE : "Timing" by Ronley Teper and The Lipliners

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“The Game” is about the BS the patriarchy puts all of us through. Ronley Teper & The Lipliners wrote the track two years ago but it’s seeing the light of day for the first time on their upcoming EP as the title track (slated for release on Feb. 23rd). With the themes of the song and video being laser-focused on the power imbalance of the entertainment industry – it’s an absolute slam in the face of those that force people to play “the game.”

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Canadian Beats Interview – Ronley Teper & The Lipliners

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FYI News "Provocative Toronto songstress Ronley Teper releases her fifth independent album, The Game"

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"Rockin Ronley with Luxuriant Lipliners"

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She Does The City "15 Minutes With Ronley Teper"

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"In der Beschreibung vom Waggon, wo das spätere Konzert stattfand, wurde von einer tollen, impulsiven Frontfrau geschrieben, die „etwas

ausgeflippt“ ist…. Das konnte ich mir dann leider in meinen Aufschrieben erst halb durchlesen, während die Sendung schon lief. Manchmal ist zwischen den ganzen Pressejobs nicht genügend Zeit, um sich angemessen intensiv mit der jeweiligen Thematik zu beschäftigen. Auf der anderen Seite wird man dadurch auch immer wieder interessant überrascht."

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Radio interview and live performance

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An interview with Ronley Teper on Surrealism and Collaboration.

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Three Astonishing Videos By Ronley Teper & Davide Di Saro.

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“The One and Ronley. Canadian Indie-singer/songwriter Ronley Teper has a unique sound that defies comparison with anyone, just saying she's got some freaky stuff happening melodically and sings like a wild thing, doesn't really prepare you for what you are about to hear".

Kathryn Nikolaychuk, Calgary Herald's Swerve Magazine

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Prism Prize Names Top 20 Canadian Music Videos of the year 2017.

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"Calling this Ronley Teper tune eclectic would be a bit of an understatement — it's kind of like I'm hearing a female Tom Waits."

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New Video Released by Ronley Teper.

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In collaboration with prolific director and mixed media animator, Davide Di Saro, Ronley Teper releases her latest video “Lucky and Finnegan” exclusively on The Big Takeover.

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“Ronley is a superfreak...I really like her music and her overall vibe."
Jaymz Bee - Jazz FM

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The first of three in a video trilogy, the pure concept for “Faith” is simply awesome!

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Goldmine Sacks - Week In Pop

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Ronley Teper and the Lipliners

"Pointy Pedals (Rose)" (video)

Exclusive Premiere.

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It's hard to listen to “Faith” without feeling some very mixed emotions, for better or worse, which signifies a work of outstanding artistry.

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Something to watch.

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“Very few artists have the artistic fortitude displayed by Ronley. In fact, dare I say, no one rivals her style as it is all her own. A visionary with stories to tell and the ability to leave your jaw agape."

Derek Downham (producer, mulit-instrumentalist)

This track from Ronley Teper's Lipliners is just one huge ascending cavalcade of sound.

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Episode Twenty - Ronley Teper.

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Another incredible Ronley Teper Video.

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“The Lipliners is not so much a static entity, but an ever-morphing wagon wheel of musicians and artists that revolves around Ronley Teper."

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"Endearingly hypnotic"

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Interview: Ronley Teper

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“And the Juno for best alternate universe goes to....Ronley Teper. Brilliant. Fantastic"
Bob Wiseman (producer, composer, musician)

"a lovely song"

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"A magical fairy princess vocal that innocently winds its way into the subconscious"

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PREMIERE: Ronley Teper's Lipliners debut the first in a trilogy of animated dreamscapes"

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“An Almost Childlike fascination for experimentation"

Steve Baylin, Ottawa Citizen

"Watching Ronley Teper is a reminder that life is an exercise in improvisation."

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"If Joanna Newsom gave birth to Tom Waits' illegitimate daughter and then refused to breastfeed her, the girl might grow up sounding a lot like Toronto's Ronley Teper."

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TEDxBKK

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"The Stitching of Teper's Ronster. An Adventure into Ronley Teper's Laboratory of FARTS (FUSED ARTS)"

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Ronley’s dynamic voice to give us a song that sounded a bit like Bjork but also something totally unique

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