Great Lake Swimmers Albums - Lost Channels, Ongiara, Bodies and Minds, Great Lake Swimmers, the Legion Sessions, Hands in Dirty Ground (Paperback)

Commentary (music and lyrics not included). Chapters: Lost Channels, Ongiara, Bodies and Minds, Great Lake Swimmers, the Legion Sessions, Hands in Dirty Ground. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Lost Channels is the fourth studio album by Canadian folk rock band Great Lake Swimmers, released on March 31, 2009. Recorded in the Thousand Islands area near the New YorkOntario border, the album features several guest appearances by artists including Serena Ryder, Bob Egan (of Blue Rodeo), Erin Aurich (of A Northern Chorus) and Paul Aucoin (of Hylozoists). Great Lake Swimmers, who are "notorious" for their unconventional recording locations, recorded Lost Channels in a variety of locations in and around the Thousand Islands, including Singer Castle near Hammond, New York. The band was originally invited to the Thousand Islands area by Ian Coristine, a historian and aerial photographer from the area, after he heard the band on Stuart McLean's radio program The Vinyl Cafe. When Dekker and the band were prepared to record a new album, they accepted Coristine's invitation and asked him if there were any "interesting spaces in the area"; one of these suggested locations was Singer Castle. Despite a tight schedule and what Dekker called a "very limited amount of time and limited resources," part of the band managed to travel to the castle by boat and record the vocals and acoustic instruments for several tracks. Though most of the songs were already written by then, Dekker tried to "incorporate the mood and the imagery of the surroundings" and "capture a little bit of the energy of the place" into his songs; the track "Singer Castle Bells" actually consists entirely of the castle's hourly chimes. This incorporation was noted by Sarah Liss of the CBC, who wrote t...http: //booksllc.net/?id=21436177