Adam & The Amethysts is an ongoing Montreal-based popular musical project headed by Adam Waito, former member of Miracle Fortress and Telefauna. In June, 2008, the first Adam & The Amethysts full-length album, called Amethyst Amulet, was released on Pome records. Now it is under the care of You’ve Changed Records and distributed by Outside Music. The album was a lo-fi homage to Adam’s hometown of Thunder Bay, and was called “a beautiful piece of contemporary Canadiana” [NOW Magazine] that “resembles the precarious balance between innocence and sophistication that Brian Wilson and Van Dyke Parks have been known to strike” [Toronto Star].
Since then, Adam and his ever-revolving cast of talented players (including members of other Canadian bands like Miracle Fortress, The Luyas, Mussaver & The Coal Choir, The Acorn, Attack in Black, and Code Pie) have shared stages with bands like Eric’s Trip, Calvin Johnson, Loney Dear, Attack in Black, and Miracle Fortress.
Adam & The Amethysts are currently working away on a second full-length album to be released in 2010.
