Goodnight Streetlight is an experimental electronic pop project based in Vancouver, British Columbia, mostly concocted by me (raoul fernandes) with occasional help from friends. It has evolved from a playful low-fi jumble to a more assured, melodic and layered sound.  Influences range from Aphex Twin to Sparklehorse to some of Radiohead’s more laptop-y stuff; yet remains in a distinct world of its own. File it under dreamy electronica as long as those dreams also include the fever dreams of waking up as an insect, or being chased by geometrical shapes through a meadow.

brief history

Things in 1999 when I was basically having fun with some  computer software and a microphone, mushing up sounds and loops in my bedroom. A low-fi cut & paste assortment of odd glitchy noises, disembodied voices, guitar noodling & pots&pan percussion, formed.  I decided to share the early material with friends and strangers under the title of 'Mr. Tinkerton's Toy Repair Shop.' (1999)

Enthusiasm for that gave me confidence to make 'Post-Meltdown Friend' (2001) a more "song-friendly" album. It featured, among other things, a toy casio keyboard, muddled guitar loops and spoken/singing voices that were sent by friends on the internet. (Thankyou Anna, Amie, Helen, & Teri!) More copies were made and scattered around the globe.

Some time later a couple of darling independent labels asked me to send them music to be part of a series of monthly EP releases. I created "The Great Invention of the Wheel"(2003) for Piehead Records in Toronto (now defunct) and "Arithmetic with Tigers" (2004) for Duotone Records in Japan. The songs were playful little virtual-instrument compositions with occasional found sounds. 

Over the last two years i've been working on a lot of new music for a full length that aims to be the uh, definitive album for Goodnight Streetlight. It draws on some of my earlier experimentations with found-sounds, spoken voices, and guitar loops, but in somewhat darker and more complex arrangements. The title ‘The Curfew Bell’ while signifying a call to retreat inside, suggests more of what comes out into the night after darkness falls.
-raoul @ goodnightstreetlight.com