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Full playlist by Gerald Dawe

10 February 2006 next playlist >>

:: Track 1

Great Lake Swimmers: Song for the angels (3mins)
Album: Bodies and Minds
Fargo
Web Link 1: http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?Band_Id=11087
Web Link 2: http://www.greatlakeswimmers.com/

:: Track 2

Great Lake Swimmers: When it flows (3mins)
Album: Bodies and Minds
Fargo
Web Link 1: http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?Band_Id=11087
Web Link 2: http://www.greatlakeswimmers.com/

:: Track 3

Great Lake Swimmers: Various Stages (3mins)
Album: Bodies and Minds
Fargo
Web Link 1: http://www.newmusiccanada.com/genres/artist.cfm?Band_Id=11087
Web Link 2: http://www.greatlakeswimmers.com/


BACKGROUND
GLS are simply wonderful. If you play even one of these tracks it would be great, though these three fit together well. Understated and haunting music from Canada. Their first album was recorded in an abandoned grain silo (crickets in the background as an accompaniment!), the second, 'Bodies and Minds' was recorded in a (wooden) church. To me, there is a spiritual element which comes through. 'Various Stages' is appropriately melancholic, and about manic depression. Underlying everything, however, is a sort of joy and feeling of redemption.
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