You can't romanticize iron ore and wheat
You can't romanticize iron ore and wheat, an album
of sea shanties about the St. Lawrence Seaway. Vocals
were recorded under the Bloor Viaduct onto a
microcassette I found on the ground that had recordings
from a church meeting on it. Instruments: optical
theremin played with a rainbow LED light gun and an
ultraviolet flashlight refracted through uranium
glass, and a MIDI keyboard. Samples include: me smashing
a uranium glass wine glass and moving the pieces around
over a tree stump, the barrel of a gun I found in
the St. Lawrence River rubbed over a microphone, the
skull of a small animal being crushed, a toy xylophone
getting smashed. Album artwork photo Skinny dipping
at the Mille Roches Quarry c. 1940 courtesy of the Lost
Villages Historical Society archives.
of sea shanties about the St. Lawrence Seaway. Vocals
were recorded under the Bloor Viaduct onto a
microcassette I found on the ground that had recordings
from a church meeting on it. Instruments: optical
theremin played with a rainbow LED light gun and an
ultraviolet flashlight refracted through uranium
glass, and a MIDI keyboard. Samples include: me smashing
a uranium glass wine glass and moving the pieces around
over a tree stump, the barrel of a gun I found in
the St. Lawrence River rubbed over a microphone, the
skull of a small animal being crushed, a toy xylophone
getting smashed. Album artwork photo Skinny dipping
at the Mille Roches Quarry c. 1940 courtesy of the Lost
Villages Historical Society archives.
Track 1
Inundation dayTrack 2
That's what was said about itTrack 3
Money, men and the mechanical monsters they commandTrack 4
Did you know they just flooded over the cemeteriesTrack 5
No smokingTrack 6
This next one's a coverTrack 7
Scent of violets in the cold rainTrack 8
Died in infancy, hydro's promise of fair treatmentTrack 9
A floating prisonTrack 10
Howard Vincent of Aultsville, he used to rob graves back thenTrack 11
Picture of an old woman and her cat taken beside the river
