Formerly a bedroom-bound recording project for local sax-man-for-hire Joseph Shabason, Everything All the Time has — like so many Toronto recording projects before it — expanded, into a six-headed synth-funk armada. Over email Shabason tells us a little bit about Everything.

Describe your sound to someone who’s never heard music before.
I’d ask them to recall their favourite memory, multiply it by infinity and add a huge chorus hook.

Joseph, you are a man of many bands (The Best, Josh Reichmann Oracle Band to name but two). Why this one?
In the other bands I play in, I get to write and play horn parts and do a bit of arranging, but in EATT I get to write entire songs. That said, the songs that we have really wouldn’t be half of what they are without the rest of the band. I usually bring a rough song demo into rehearsal, but it’s everyone else that makes them sound so amazing.

You recently recruited Alanna Stuart from Bonjay as your singer. How did you lure her in?
A balaclava, chloroform and a yard of nylon rope. Seriously, when I saw her with Bonjay I was so blown away I dragged her to our band practice. Now she lives at the rehearsal space chained to the stage. She hasn’t seen her family in a year.

Have you been confronted by angry beardos who thought you were a Band of Horses tribute band?
We haven’t. I wish I had a more interesting answer than that.

Of all the bands playing CMW, why should people go see you?
We’ve combined the teaching of Siddhartha, Jesus, Buddha, and the Torah and distilled them down into songs. If you come to our show you’re pretty much guaranteed spiritual enlightenment.